A Parents' Guide for Children's Questions

By Benito Casados

Children by nature are curious about the world and people around them. As they grow older their level of awareness increases and questions begin to pour from their inquiring minds. Their questions maybe motivated by what they hear and see in their surroundings, what they see on television or what they are trying to learn in school. In most cases the burden of answering these questions falls on the parents. Parents are busy people. Children want the answers right now. This guide will provide answers for many questions traditionally asked by children between the ages of eight and sixteen. This guide is published in E-Book format only and is intended to reside in your e-book reader so the information is easily accessed whether at home or on the road.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jul 16, 2010
• ISBN: 9781453517215

Benito Casados

Ben Casados was born in Park View, NM a rural mountain community in Northern New Mexico. He attended New Mexico State University where he earned a BS degree in Biology. He taught Biology at Northern New Mexico College. He continued his graduate studies at Michigan State University, under the auspices of the National Science Foundation. He earned an M.S. Degree in Physical Science. Ben has been involved in Science education his entire professional life. In 1964 he was one of 50 science trained people employed by NASA as Space Science Specialists and held this position concurrently with a professor status at Oklahoma State University. In this capacity Ben traveled throughout the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico and South America speaking to over a hundred thousands of students and adults about space science and conducting workshops and seminars for teachers on how to incorporate the space science topics across the curriculum. Currently he serves as the Chairman of the California Virtual Education Partnership, a non-profit entity which operates five virtual 6-12 grades high schools in California

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CONTENTS

ABOUT A PARENTS’ GUIDE FOR CHILDREN’S QUESTIONS

CHAPTER 16

CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE ELECTRON?

WHEN DID JAPAN SEND ITS FAMOUS CHERRY TREES?

HOW IS CHARCOAL MADE?

WHERE DID THE EUCALYPTUS ORIGINATE?

ARE THERE MANY ELEMENTS?

WHAT IS A CIVET?

WHERE WAS THE WORLD’S FIRST CIVILIZATION?

HOW LARGE IS WASHINGTON, D. C. ?

HOW LONG IS LONG ISLAND?

CAN THE CHIPMUNK MAKE A GOOD PET?

WHO WAS ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE?

WHEN DID JOHNNY APPLESEED LIVE?

WHO WERE THE VANDALS?

WHEN DID TAOISM ORIGINATE?

CAN YOU TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT TALLEYRAND?

WHAT WAS THE VILLANOVAN CULTURE?

HOW DO WE MAKE TAR?

WHO WAS FIRST TO PRACTICE VENTRILOQUISM?

WHO WAS ROGER BACON?

WHAT IS A TAILORBIRD?

HOW LONG DID THE VIETNAM WAR LAST?

WHO WAS KING TANTALUS?

WHAT IS THE BAHA’I FAITH?

WHICH STATES ARE THE LARGEST AND SMALLEST?

WHICH RIVER IS CANADA’S LONGEST?

HOW IS LITMUS PAPER MADE?

WHO NAMED LOUISIANA?

WHEN DID JACK LONDON LIVE?

HOW DO YOU CATCH LOBSTERS?

WHO NAMED THE LOCOWEED?

HAS MALARIA BEEN ELIMINATED?

WHO WROTE THE SONG ‘O PROMISE ME’?

WHICH NOVEL DID CHARLES DICKENS WRITE FIRST?

WHO WAS ANTHONY VAN LEEUWENHOEK?

WHERE DO WE FIND MAGNESIUM?

WHO WAS MASSASOIT?

WHY DOES EASTER SUNDAY’S DATE CHANGE?

HOW TALL DOES A HICKORY TREE GROW?

WHAT DID BENJAMIN DISRAELI DO?

HOW DID THE DAY LILY GET ITS NAME?

WHEN WAS WALES UNITED WITH ENGLAND?

WHAT IS AN ACHILLES HEEL?

WHERE WAS THE FIRST ZOO?

HOW DID THE ADJUTANT BIRD RECEIVE ITS NAME?

HOW IS NYLON MADE?

IS THE BARRACUDA A LARGE FISH?

WHEN WAS YUGOSLAVIA FORMED?

HOW DOES A WART FORM?

ARE THERE MANY KINDS OF WEASELS?

WHO WAS BOOKER T. WASHINGTON?

WHERE IS ACADIA?

WHAT CAUSES AN ABSCESS?

WHICH RIVER IS THE WORLD’S LONGEST?

JUST WHAT IS NEURITIS?

IS THE OLIVE A TALL TREE?

WHAT DOES THE NEWT EAT?

HOW DID MARYLAND RECEIVE ITS NAME?

HOW LARGE IS THE NORTH SEA?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST NURSERY RHYME WRITTEN?

WHAT IS AN ICHNEUMON FLY?

WHERE IS NEW GUINEA?

IS THE OLEANDER POISONOUS?

WHAT CAUSES INFLUENZA?

HOW HIGH CAN AN IMPALA JUMP?

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT CARDINAL RICHELIEU?

HOW MANY BALEARIC ISLANDS ARE THERE?

WHO WAS BALZAC?

HOW LONG IS THE RED SEA?

DOES SILK REALLY COME FROM WORMS?

DOES A RHUBARB PLANT LAST SEVERAL YEARS?

WHEN DID BANGLADESH BECOME INDEPENDENT?

ARE THERE DIFFERENT KINDS OF BARNACLES?

WHO OWNS THE SAMOA ISLANDS?

WHERE DID THE RADISH COME FROM?

HOW DOES A BAROMETER WORK ON WEATHER PREDICTIONS?

WHO WAS HAYM SALOMON?

HAS THE HOG BEEN DOMESTICATED LONG?

WHO WAS HENRY THE NAVIGATOR?

WHAT MAKES THE HEART BEAT?

HOW WAS THE PASSIONFLOWER NAMED?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST SYSTEM OF LAWS ESTABLISHED?

WHERE IS THE PANCREAS AND WHAT DOES IT DO?

WHERE IS THOMAS PAINE’S PLACE IN HISTORY?

WHO WAS HELEN OF TROY?

HOW DO WE HEAR?

WHY IS THE FLOWER CALLED THE LADY’S-SLIPPER?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST U. S. PATENT ISSUED?

WHO WAS PANDORA?

CHAPTER 17

WHEN WAS THE FIRST DIORAMA MADE?

WHICH CONTINENT IS THE LARGEST?

WHO SAID ‘GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH’?

WHAT IS THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES?

HOW DOES HEREDITY WORK?

DOES A HERRING LAY MANY EGGS?

WHO WERE THE ETRUSCANS?

WHAT IS COAL TAR?

HOW LONG IS THE SIERRA NEVADA RANGE?

WHERE DO WE GET WHITE PEPPER?

ARE THERE MANY KINDS OF PARROTS?

DOES GINSENG HAVE SPECIAL POWERS?

WHICH BIRD FAMILY IS THE LARGEST?

IS THE FERRET A LARGE ANIMAL?

HOW LARGE IS ARGENTINA’S PAMPAS?

CAN YOU EXPLAIN QUICKSAND?

WHAT IS USED TO MAKE GLASS?

WHAT IS PEGASUS?

HOW LARGE IS THE GIANT PANDA?

WHAT IS A FOUCAULT PENDULUM?

WHEN WAS THE TALMUD WRITTEN?

WHERE DOES THE SABLE LIVE?

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO VAUDEVILLE?

HOW MANY SINUSES DO WE HAVE?

WHERE DID TENNIS ORIGINATE?

HOW LONG WILL THE GILA MONSTER GROW TO BE?

HOW WAS THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZED?

JUST WHAT IS BAKING POWDER?

WHEN WAS TELEVISION INVENTED?

WHY DO WE CALL IT A DRAGONFLY?

IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SHRIMP AND A PRAWN?

WHEN WAS THE TAJ MAHAL BUILT?

HOW OLD IS THE SECRET SERVICE?

WHERE IS THE ISLE OF RHODES?

WHEN DID WE START USING REFRIGERATION?

WHERE DO WE GET SANDALWOOD?

WHERE IS THE BALKAN PENINSULA?

IS THE RHEA AN OSTRICH?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST RAILROAD BUILT?

WHO WAS SAMSON?

HOW OLD IS THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA?

WHAT CAUSES RICKETS?

HAS MAN BEEN DEEP-SEA DIVING LONG?

WHAT DOES THE RAVEN EAT?

HOW LONG HAVE CHILDREN BEEN PLAYING WITH DOLLS?

WHY DO WE CALL THEM EGGPLANTS?

DO ALL ESKIMOS SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE?

WHERE DID WE GET DOMINOES?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST BELL MADE?

WHAT CAUSES DEW?

HOW DO YOU EAT AN ARTICHOKE?

HOW LARGE DOES THE BANYAN TREE GROW?

CAN YOU EXPLAIN ETCHING?

WHO WERE DAEDALUS AND ICARUS?

HAS ENAMEL ART BEING AROUND LONG?

WHO WAS DIOGENES?

WHAT CONTROLS YOUR DIAPHRAGM?

HOW MANY EGGS WILL A DIPPER LAY?

WHERE IS THE LARGEST VOLCANO?

WHAT IS MONKEY BREAD?

HOW CAN WE PREVENT SOIL EROSION?

JUST WHAT DOES DECIDUOUS MEAN?

HOW DID DELAWARE RECEIVE ITS NAME?

WHERE DO WE GET GELATIN?

JUST WHAT IS AN ABRASIVE?

WHAT IS EUGENICS?

WHERE DO WE GET IVORY?

WHO WAS ‘THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY?’

WHAT HAPPENS DURING AN ANIMAL’S HIBERNATION?

WHEN WAS JACKS FIRST PLAYED?

HOW MANY ISLANDS ARE THERE IN JAPAN?

WHO BUILT THE FIRST ZOO?

WHEN WAS THE IRON AGE?

HOW IS IODINE MADE?

HOW WAS THE HARP INVENTED?

CAN YOU EXPLAIN DADAISM?

WHERE IS THE GREAT AMERICAN HALL OF FAME?

WHO OWNS THE IONIAN ISLANDS?

WHERE DO WE GET OATMEAL?

WHAT IS HEATH?

WHEN WAS HAWAII FIRST SETTLED?

WHAT IS IN METHANE GAS?

IS NEPAL AN OLD COUNTRY?

IS THE FIVE-CENT PIECE MADE OF NICKEL?

WHEN WAS AN ORCHESTRA FIRST USED?

WHEN DID NEWFOUNDLAND BECOME A CANADIAN PROVINCE?

HOW OLD WAS NOAH?

HOW MANY LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES WERE HELD?

WHERE DO WE GET HEMP?

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A PUPPET AND MARIONETTE?

ARE THERE REALLY FLYING FISH?

IS FINLAND AN OLD COUNTRY?

WHERE DO WE GET GINGER?

WHAT DO GLANDS DO?

WHO WAS ENRICO FERMI?

WHEN WERE FIREWORKS FIRST USED?

WHO WAS HENRY GEORGE?

HOW DO WE GET FLAX FABRICS?

WHAT WAS THE LONGEST SENATE FILIBUSTER?

WHEN WAS GLUE FIRST USED?

WHAT IS IN MARGARINE?

WHEN WERE ANIMALS FIRST DOMESTICATED?

WHY DO WE HAVE LEAP YEAR?

CHAPTER 18

WHAT WAS THE INTERNATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL YEAR?

HOW LARGE IS THE MANATEE?

HOW LONG IS THE GANGES RIVER?

WHERE ARE THE MADEIRA ISLANDS?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST WINDMILL USED?

IS THE WOLVERINE A LARGE ANIMAL?

HOW OLD IS MANCHURIA?

IS THE GINKGO REALLY AN OLD TREE?

WHO FIRST EXPLORED THE AMERICAN CONTINENT?

WHAT WAS A GIBSON GIRL?

WHEN WAS THE ICE AGE?

WHAT IS GLYCERIN?

JUST WHAT IS ROCK?

HOW DO WE USE FENNEL?

WHO STARTED THE GIRL SCOUTS?

WHAT IS A FALL LINE?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST FAIR HELD?

WHO WAS GERONIMO?

WHEN WAS EMBROIDERY FIRST USED?

WHO WAS HORATIO ALGER?

WHERE DO WE GET ALUMINUM?

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DODO BIRD?

HOW LARGE IS THE WOLF?

WHERE DO YOU FIND THE YAKS?

JUST WHAT IS NITROGEN?

WHY DOES A PERSON GET WHOOPING COUGH?

HOW DOES THE OCTOPUS SWIM?

WHERE ARE THE YAP ISLANDS?

ARE THERE MANY KINDS OF NEW WORLD VULTURES?

HOW DID THE WISTERIA GET ITS NAME?

WHEN WAS THE NEEDLE FIRST USED?

WHAT CAUSES A WHIRLPOOL?

WHEN WAS WIND MEASURED FOR THE FIRST TIME?

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF THE OKAPI?

WHO WAS MICHAEL FARADAY?

HOW LARGE IS THE GANNET?

HOW LONG IS THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN RANGE?

CAN THE RHEA FLY FAST?

HOW DOES THE SENSE OF SMELL WORK?

WHO INVENTED THE SNOWMOBILE?

WHAT IS ORGANIC AND INORGANIC ACID?

WHY DO WE REMEMBER ABIGAIL ADAMS?

IS THE SPONGE REALLY AN ANIMAL?

ARE THERE DIFFERENT KINDS OF SOPRANOS?

WHO FIRST SETTLED NEW YORK?

WHAT CAUSES ACNE?

IS THERE ONE MAIN AFRICAN LANGUAGE?

WHERE DOES THE SLOTH LIVE?

WHEN WAS SOCCER FIRST PLAYED?

WHERE ARE THE ADRENAL GLANDS?

HOW LARGE ARE HUMAN LUNGS?

IS THE LOBOTOMY STILL USED?

WHAT IS EPICUREANISM?

HOW DID MONTANA GET ITS NAME?

WAS SIR GALAHAD A REAL PERSON?

HOW DOES AN ELECTRIC FISH GET ITS POWER?

WHERE THE GARTER SNAKE’S NAME COME FROM?

WHAT HAPPENS IN THE U. N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY?

WHO DISCOVERED ANTISEPTICS?

WHEN DID MODERN MEDICINE START?

HOW LARGE IS THE GAUR?

HOW DID OHIO RECEIVE ITS NAME?

WHEN WAS THE EPA ESTABLISHED?

WHY DO WE HAVE EARTHQUAKES?

WHO WAS VIRGINIA DARE?

HOW DOES TUBERCULOSIS ENTER THE BODY?

HOW MANY DARTS ARE USED ON A DART BOARD?

ARE THERE MANY KINDS OF OWLS?

WHAT CAUSES A THROMBUS?

WHEN WAS ENGLAND’S EDWARDIAN AGE?

WHAT IS DDT?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST DOG RACE HELD?

WHO WROTE THE FIRST EPIGRAM?

CHAPTER 19

WHAT IS THE ‘PENNY’ OF A NAIL?

WHERE DID OKRA COME FROM ORIGINALLY?

HOW DO PEANUTS GROW?

WHAT IS WAMPUM?

WHEN WAS THE OLD TESTAMENT WRITTEN?

WHAT IS A WART HOG?

HOW LARGE WILL A LION GROW TO BE?

ARE THERE MANY KINDS OF STINGING NETTLES?

WHERE IS THE SARGASSO SEA?

WHO WAS NOSTRADAMUS?

WHAT DOES BRITAIN’S HOUSE OF COMMONS DO?

WHY DO SOME PEOPLE GET ACNE?

HOW MANY GALAXIES ARE THERE?

WHAT DOES UNESCO DO?

WHAT WAS TAMMANY HALL?

WHERE IS YOUR GALL BLADDER?

WHEN DID TAXATION START?

WHEN DID THE ENGLISH TAKE OVER 78E FALKLAND ISLANDS?

WHERE IS THE GAMBIA?

WHO WAS EDNA FERBER?

WHAT CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?

JUST WHAT IS THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION?

WHO WAS THE FIRST FAMOUS AMERICAN VANDERBILT?

HOW LARGE IS A TAPIR?

WHAT IS FERMENTATION?

WHO WAS THE FIRST MAN IN SPACE?

WHEN WERE THE FIRST OLYMPIC GAMES HELD?

WHO DESIGNED NEW YORK’S CENTRAL PARK?

WHO WAS CHARLES LINDBERG?

WHERE DO WE GET NUTMEG?

HOW DID NEBRASKA GET ITS NAME?

WHEN DID LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL START?

HOW IS LINEN MADE?

WAS THERE A REAL ANNIE OAKLEY?

WHEN WAS NEW ZEALAND DISCOVERED?

WHO WAS LI FO?

HOW DOES A FOSSIL FORM?

WHAT IS THE NORTH STAR?

WHEN WILL PANAMA GET THE PANAMA CANAL?

HOW DO FLEAS MULTIPLY?

ARE NUTS NUTRITIOUS?

WHO WAS THE FIRST U. S. CATHOLIC SAINT?

WHEN WAS THE PARACHUTE INVENTED?

ARE THERE MANY KINDS OF FLAMINGOES?

WHICH PART OF THE U. S. HAS THE LARGEST POPULATION?

WHO WAS JOHN C. FREMONT?

WHO WAS SATCHEL PAIGE?

WHERE IS DENMARK LOCATED?

WHICH GREAT LAKE IS THE SHALLOWEST?

WHICH PRESIDENT SERVED THE SHORTEST TIME?

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A DIKE AND A LEVEE?

HOW DID ALABAMA RECEIVE ITS NAME?

HOW MANY KINDS OF EUCALYPTUS ARE THERE?

WHERE IS ESTONIA?

ARE THERE MANY KINDS OF EARTH-MOVING MACHINES?

WHO WAS CLAUDE DEBUSSY?

HOW MANY EGGS DOES A HADDOCK LAY?

WHAT CAUSES A RIVER’S DELTA?

WHO WAS RICHARD HENRY DANA?

WHO WAS MARCONI?

HOW LONG IS THE URAL MOUNTAIN RANGE?

HOW LARGE IS CHESAPEAKE BAY?

WHAT CAUSES THE MANGE?

WHERE IS MACEDONIA?

WHO DISCOVERED THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS?

DOES URUGUAY HAVE COWBOYS?

JUST WHAT IS A MARSUPIAL?

WHEN WAS THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY FORMED?

HOW LONG IS THE COLORADO RIVER?

WHO WAS THE FATHER OF THE U. S. CONSTITUTION?

WHERE DO WE GET MALT?

HOW IS TIN PROCESSED?

WHY WAS LOU GEHRIG CALLED THE ‘IRON HORSE?’

HOW IS CHOCOLATE MANUFACTURED?

WAS JAMES GARFIELD A GOOD U. S. PRESIDENT?

HOW LARGE IS THE CHIHUAHUA DOG?

IS TAIWAN PART OF CHINA?

JUST WHAT IS A GEISHA?

IS CHINA’S CIVILIZATION THE WORLD’S OLDEST?

DOES ITALY HAVE A LARGE LAKE?

WHEN WAS TEXAS DISCOVERED?

HOW IS CHEWING GUM MADE?

WHAT WAS THE HANSA LEAGUE?

IS THE NECTARINE REALLY A PEACH?

CAN YOU EXPLAIN NAVIGATION?

WHO WAS ADMIRAL NIMITZ?

WREN WAS THE PIPE ORGAN INVENTED?

WHEN WAS THE HARMONICA INVENTED?

ARE THERE MANY KINDS OF OILS?

WHO WAS FIRST TO SIGN THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE?

HOW DOES ALEXANDER HAMILTON FIT INTO HISTORY?

WHO WAS THE GOD NEPTUNE?

HOW LARGE IS THE HUMAN HEART?

JUST WHAT IS NEOLITHIC ART?

WHAT IS ETHNOLOGY?

DID THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION START THE CIVIL WAR?

HOW LONG DID THE RENAISSANCE LAST?

WHEN WERE DICE FIRST USED?

HOW DOES THE EAR WORK?

WhAT KIND OF BIRD IS THE RAIL?

WHEN WERE MEDICAL DRUGS FIRST USED?

HOW MANY GAMES DID KNUTE ROCKNE’S TEAMS WIN?

WHERE DO WE FIND RADIUM?

WHAT ARE SCOURING RUSHES PLANTS?

WHAT CAUSES AN ECLIPSE?

DID PAUL REVERE RIDE ALONE?

WAS WASHINGTON IRVING A GREAT WRITER?

ARE THERE MANY KINDS OF LILAC:?

WHERE DOES LIME AND LIMESTONE COME FROM?

IS THERE AN ARTIFICIAL INDIGO?

WHAT IS THE IONOSPHERE?

WHEN WAS INCENSE FIRST USED?

WHEN WAS KYOTU IN JAPAN FOUNDED?

WHO WAS THE SWEDISH NIGHTINGALE?

WHEN WAS IRRIGATION FIRST USED?

WHERE ARE THE LEEWARD ISLANDS?

WHY WAS HE CALLED ‘STONEWALL’ JACKSON?

HOW LONG IS THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY?

CHAPTER 20

WHERE WAS INSURANCE FIRST ISSUED?

WHO FORMULATED COULOMB’S LAW?

HOW IS FLAX USED?

WHAT IS A KARAKUL?

HOW DOES A JET ENGINE PRODUCE POWER?

WHAT CAUSES RINGWORM?

WHAT IS COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY?

WHERE DOES THE JAGUAR LIVE?

WHO WROTE THE FIRST DICTIONARY?

WHAT IS A TRAPPIST?

WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE PUT IN QUARANTINE?

HOW DOES A COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE WORK?

WHAT DOES UNESCO DO?

HOW MANY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS DID CASEY STENGEL WIN?

WHAT CAUSES OCEAN TIDES?

HOW HIGH IS HOOVER DAM?

WHERE IS THE PITUITARY GLAND?

WHAT IS THE SHROUD OF TURIN?

HOW IS RAINFALL MEASURED?

HOW IS YOGURT MADE?

WHAT DOES BLOOD PLASMA DO?

WHO WAS THE OLDEST U. S. VICE PRESIDENT?

WHO FIRST USED TEA?

IS THERE SUCH A PLACE AS UTOPIA?

WHEN DID INTERNATIONAL LAW START?

WHAT IS A HORNBOOK?

HOW IS THE GAME OF CURLING PLAYED?

WHAT EXACTLY IS AN EPIDEMIC?

WHAT IS AN ENZYME?

HOW IS VENEER MADE?

HOW DOES GRAVITY WORK?

WHAT IS CAVIAR?

WHAT IS GLUCOSE?

WHAT KIND OF BIRD IS THE MONGOOSE?

DO WOODCHUCKS REALLY EAT WOOD?

WHERE DID DOGS ORIGINATE?

WHAT IS AN ONAGER?

WHERE IS THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE?

WHAT EXACTLY IS AN IQ?

JUST WHAT IS THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER?

HOW IS A CARTOON ANIMATED?

WHAT CAUSES A TIDAL WAVE?

WHY DO WE HAVE PROBLEMS WITH OUR MEMORY?

WHAT ARE DIODES?

HOW IS LEAD OBTAINED?

WHAT IS USED TO MAKE SOAP?

WHAT IS PARANOIA SCHIZOPHRENIA?

WHAT IS TUNGSTEN?

WHO INVENTED CRIBBAGE?

WHO INVENTED THE TELEGRAPH?

DO FISH SLEEP?

WHAT IS A GOOGOL?

WHICH COUNTRY HAD THE FIRST FLAG?

WHAT CAUSES WIND?

WHERE DO COCONUTS GROW?

HOW DOES A TAXIDERMIST PRESERVE AN ANIMAL?

WHEN DID WE START TO USE ROWBOATS?

HOW LARGE WILL A SQUID GROW?

WHEN DID THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION START IN THE U. S.

CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE TERM MANDARIN?

IS THE CORAL SNAKE REALLY POISONOUS?

WHAT IS THE SEPTUAGINT?

JUST WHAT IS LAVA?

HOW DOES A QUASAR GENERATE SO MUCH POWER?

HOW ARE ICEBERGS FORMED?

WHERE DO WE GET INDIGO?

CHAPTER 21

HAS ITALY ALWAYS OWNED SICILY?

HOW IS A NEWT BORN?

WHEN DID TAOISM ORIGINATE?

HOW LARGE DOES A TILEFISH GROW?

DOES THE LOTUS GROW ONLY UNDER WATER?

WHEN WAS THE GAME OF QUOITS FIRST PLAYED?

HOW MANY KINDS OF OAK TREES ARE THERE?

DOES THE JUNE BUG CAUSE DAMAGE?

HOW DOES A CAR’S IGNITION WORK?

WHAT IS A KITCHEN MIDDEN?

HOW MANY BONES ARE IN THE LEG?

WHAT CAUSES RICKETS?

HOW DO YOU QUARRY STONE?

WHERE DOES THE LIMPET LIVE?

WHERE IS SODIUM FOUND?

WHAT EXACTLY IS WHITE LEAD?

HOW MUCH DID IT COST TO BUILD THE ERIE CANAL?

WHERE DOES THE WOLF FISH LIVE?

WHO OWNS TONGA?

HOW DID A PERSON BECOME A SAMURAI?

WHAT MAKES A FLASHBULB SO BRIGHT?

WHEN WAS THE RICKSHA FIRST USED?

HOW OLD IS THE CITY OF CALCUTTA?

WHAT CAUSES A JET’S CONTRAIL?

WHO NAMED THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS?

WHO GAVE THE FIRST VACCINATION?

WHAT EXACTLY IS JADE?

WHAT DID JOHN JAY DO?

WHERE IS HERCULANEUM?

WHO STARTED BIRLING?

HOW DID WE GET THE NAME `YANKEE’?

HOW LONG IS THE ANACONDA SNAKE?

WHAT IS MILDEW?

IS CAULIFLOWER REALLY GOOD FOR YOU?

ARE THERE MANY KINDS OF HOGS GROWN?

WHERE DO OCELOTS LIVE?

WHERE DID PLAYING CARDS ORIGINATE?

WHO INVENTED THE KAYAK?

HOW MANY KINDS OF ELECTRIC MOTORS ARE THERE?

HOW SMALL CAN AN OBJECT BE AND STILL BE SEEN BY AN ULTRAMICROSCOPE?

EXACTLY WHAT IS A SQUARE?

WHAT IS VISCOSITY?

WHAT CAUSES MENINGITIS?

WHAT IS A TORSION BAR?

HOW WAS GRANITE FORMED?

IN ASTRONOMY, WHAT IS A CORONA?

HOW DO YOU DEHYDRATE FOOD?

WHERE DOES LICORICE COME FROM?

HOW DOES NATURE PLANT SEEDS?

WHO WAS PAGANINI?

WHAT IS POLARIZED LIGHT?

CAN RHUBARB BE GROWN FROM SEEDS?

HOW DO DOCTORS TREAT DIVERTICULITIS?

WHEN DID WE GET THE 40-HOUR WEEK?

HOW ARE VALLEYS FORMED?

WHO WAS MEPHISTOPHELES?

HOW IS BLOOD PLASMA IMPORTANT?

HOW MANY KINDS OF ANIMALS ARE THERE?

WHAT EXACTLY IS HORSEPOWER?

WHEN WAS THE HELLENISTIC AGE?

ARE NUTS RICH IN FOOD VALUE?

WHERE IS THE JUGULAR VEIN?

WHAT IS AN AESOP FABLE?

WHO WAS JOHNNY INKSLINGER?

HOW IS FALLOUT PRODUCED?

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SABER-TOOTHED TIGER?

WHERE DID SHEEP ORIGINATE?

WHAT IS BORAZON?

WHAT IS ENTOMOLOGY?

WHAT IS THE MIDAS TOUCH?

WHY WAS PATRICK HENRY IMPORTANT?

HOW DOES AN EGG INCUBATOR WORK?

HOW LONG DID THE ICE AGE LAST?

HOW DID LIFE DEVELOP ON A VOLCANIC ISLAND?

WHAT IS THE THIRD WORLD?

WHAT IS A FOOT-POUND?

HOW DO WE SING?

HOW DID NOVEMBER RECEIVE ITS NAME?

HOW DOES A DIESEL ENGINE WORK?

WHERE ARE THE GRAND BANKS?

WHO WAS SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI?

HOW LARGE IS A WOLVERINE?

HOW DOES A STAR FORM?

WHO WAS KAMEHAMEA?

HOW IS MILK PASTEURIZED?

WHERE DO WE GET PERSIAN LAMB?

DOES THE FOX HAVE GOOD HEARING?

WHERE CAN YOU FIND ENCLAVES?

WHAT IS A PARTICLE ACCELERATOR?

WHEN WAS GOLD FIRST USED TO MAKE JEWELRY?

HOW IS GLUE MADE?

\WHAT WAS THE EARLIEST KNOWN CHINESE DYNASTY?

WHEN WERE THE FAMOUS CLIFF DWELLINGS BUILT?

JUST WHAT IS POLYESTER?

HOW DOES SAP MOVE IN A TREE?

HOW LONG DID LINDBERG’S ATLANTIC FLIGHT TAKE?

WHAT IS A PLANETARIUM?

WHERE DO WE GET VANILLA?

WHAT HAPPENS AT A BRITISH CORONATION?

\HOW FAST CAN AN IMPALA RUN?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST STOVE USED?

HOW DOES A STEREOSCOPE WORK?

WHO WERE THE ETRUSCANS?

HOW MUCH DOES A HIPPOPOTAMUS WEIGH?

WHO DISCOVERED THE PLANET NEPTUNE?

HOW DID OSAGE ORANGE RECEIVE ITS NAME?

HOW IS PORCELAIN ENAMEL MADE?

WHERE IS A PERSON’S GULLET?

DO ALL BIRDS HATCH FROM EGGS?

WHO WERE THE COSSACKS?

WHAT LANGUAGE IS SPOKEN IN INDIA?

WHERE DOES OKRA COME FROM?

WHAT IS STARCH?

WHO INVENTED THE YALE LOCK?

HOW TALL ARE THE ANDES MOUNTAINS?

WHERE DO WE GET MOLASSES?

HOW IS WHITE FLOUR MILLED?

WHAT IS A SEA COW?

IS THE BOA CONSTRICTOR POISONOUS?

WHAT IS A LEECHEE?

WHERE DO WE FIND THE BEST OPALS?

HOW DID THE STICKLEBACK GET ITS NAME?

CAN YOU EXPLAIN SHINTO?

WHEN WAS BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK ESTABLISHED?

CHAPTER 22

HOW MUCH AIR IS IN EACH BREATH WE TAKE?

WHO WERE THE TITANS?

IS LAPLAND A COUNTRY?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST DAGUERREOTYPE MADE?

HOW DOES A TELEVISION ANTENNA WORK?

WHAT CAUSES RHEUMATISM?

HOW ARE ASSAYING TESTS MADE?

WHAT IS THE WINGED VICTORY?

WHY DOES AN ONION MAKE ME CRY?

HOW DOES AN ABACUS WORK?

WHO ARE THE COSSACKS?

WHAT IS AN OMBUDSMAN?

IS THE CONDOR REALLY A VULTURE?

WHAT IS THE BLACK WATCH?

WHERE ARE THE BERMUDA ISLANDS?

WHAT IS IDEOLOGY?

WHY DO INSECTS ALWAYS SEEM TO SURVIVE?

WHAT CAUSES CONDENSATION?

WHO WAS HORATIO NELSON?

JUST WHAT IS INDIAN SUMMER?

HOW DO WE MEASURE THE SPEED OF LIGHT?

WHAT CAUSES CROUP?

WHO NAMED THE PACIFIC OCEAN?

WHERE DO WE GET NUTMEG?

WHERE ARE THE BALKANS?

WHY IS THE STEAMBOAT ‘CLERMONT’ IMPORTANT?

JUST WHAT IS SOOT?

HOW LONG DOES A HOUSEFLY LIVE?

HOW LONG IS A PERSON’S COLON?

WHAT IS BACTERIOLOGY?

WHAT CAUSES A HARELIP?

WHEN DID PEOPLE START CARVING ORNAMENTS?

HOW MANY STARS ARE THERE?

IS THE STARFISH REALLY A FISH?

WHEN DID BIG BROTHERS BECOME BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS?

WHAT EXACTLY IS OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY?

WAS GEORGE ELIOT A WOMAN?

HOW LONG IS THE APPALACHIAN HIKING TRAIL?

FOR HOW LONG WAS THERE A HOUSE OF BURGESSES?

WHEN WERE SULFA DRUGS DISCOVERED?

WHY DO WE HEAR AN ECHO?

HOW OLD IS LISBON, PORTUGAL?

WHERE DID THE HESSIAN FLY COME FROM?

HOW MANY PIPES ARE IN A PIPE ORGAN?

HOW LARGE IS THE LOON?

WHAT EQUIPMENT IS USED FOR SPEARFISHING?

WHERE DO WE GET EBONY WOOD?

WHAT DOES AN UNDERACTIVE THYROID DO?

WHERE DOES PIMENTO COME FROM?

DID THE U. S. ONCE OWN THE PHILIPPINES?

WHAT ARE RIPARIAN RIGHTS?

JUST WHAT IS BORAX?

WHEN WAS B’NAI B’RITH FOUNDED?

WHERE WAS CORN FIRST GROWN?

WHAT IS TUNDRA?

WHAT CAUSES ANEMIA?

WHAT IS GERRYMANDER?

WHAT CAUSES ASTHMA?

WHERE CAN YOU FIND A BRITTLE STAR?

DO INSECTS HAVE SENSES?

WHAT EXACTLY IS A CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE?

HOW OLD IS THE CITY OF DAMASCUS?

WHAT IS VISCOSITY?

WHY IS MAHOGANY SUCH GOOD WOOD?

WHO WAS THE INDIAN NAMED GALL?

WHY IS IODINE IMPORTANT?

HOW BIG DOES A KING CRAB GET TO BE?

WHEN WERE COSMETICS FIRST USED?

WHERE DID THE ARTICHOKE ORIGINATE?

WHO INVENTED THE SOFT DRINK?

WHAT KIND OF HORSE IS A GELDING?

CHAPTER 23

WHEN WAS THE FIRST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STARTED?

WHERE IS THE WORLD’S LARGEST METEORITE CRATER?

HOW MANY COCONUTS GROW ON ONE COCONUT PALM?

WHEN WAS THE AGE OF REASON?

HOW IS A TAPESTRY MADE?

WHAT IS A GRUNION?

DO MANY PEOPLE HAVE SPEECH DEFECTS?

WHERE IN EUROPE IS SAN MARINO?

WHO WAS OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES?

WHEN DID THE LAST MOA LIVE?

WHAT IS THE LARGEST AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBE?

WHAT IS STEUBEN GLASS?

WHO FIRST SETTLED THE PACIFIC ISLANDS?

WHAT IS THE CIVIL AIR PATROL?

WHAT CAUSES CATARACTS?

WHEN DID WE START USING STAGECOACHES?

WHEN WERE UNDERSEA CABLES FIRST USED?

HOW OLD IS CARLSBAD CAVERNS?

HOW LONG IS A PYTHON?

WHERE IS THE PITTI PALACE?

WHEN WERE STOCKINGS FIRST USED?

WHY IS ENEWETOK FAMOUS?

IS THE TERMITE LIKE AN ANT?

WAS THERE REALLY A WILLIAM TELL?

WHO MADE THE FIRST MICROSCOPE?

HOW LONG IS THE TRANS-CANADA HIGHWAY?

WHEN DID HORSE RACING START?

WHY IS THE INSIDE OF THE MOUTH ALWAYS WET?

IS A SPONGE A PLANT OR AN ANIMAL?

WHY DO WE REMEMBER ROBERTO CLEMENTE?

HOW DOES A BOAT’S SAIL WORK?

WHAT IS SOLAR WIND?

WHAT CAUSES FAMINE?

WHY IS THE GANGES RIVER IMPORTANT?

WHAT MADE ARCHIMEDES GREAT?

HOW DID BROOKLYN, N. Y., RECEIVE ITS NAME?

HOW DOES A LOOM WORK?

HOW BIG IS A CARIBOU?

WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO PLANT A LAWN?

WHEN WAS THE ROSETTA STONE FOUND?

WHEN DID THE FIRST FOREST DEVELOP?

WHAT IS A WOLVERINE?

WHEN WAS PING-PONG INVENTED?

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A SWEET POTATO AND A YAM?

CAN FLU BE PREVENTED?

HOW DOES A STEAM CONDENSER WORK?

WHAT WAS THE WAR OF 1812?

WHAT IS CYGNUS?

WHO WAS THE NATION’S YOUNGEST FIRST LADY?

WHERE DID THE OYSTER PLANT COME FROM?

ARE THERE MANY KINDS OF SCALE INSECTS?

WHO ARE THE COPTS?

CHAPTER 24

WHY DO PEOPLE PERSPIRE?

ARE MACADAMIA NUTS GROWN ON TREES OR BUSHES?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST ROCKET USED?

HOW MANY BONES ARE IN THE WRIST?

HOW DO BEES MAKE HONEY?

WHERE DO WE GET QUININE?

HOW MUCH DOES A GRAIN ELEVATOR HOLD?

HOW BIG DOES A KANGAROO RAT BECOME?

WHAT IS KEROSENE?

WHAT CAUSES INDIGESTION?

WHY DID GENERAL MacARTHUR SAY I SHALL RETURN?

WHY DO PEOPLE REMEMBER DOLLEY MADISON?

WHEN WAS THE MACHINE GUN INVENTED?

WHERE IS VALHALLA?

WHO WAS O. HENRY?

WHO WERE THE SONS OF LIBERTY?

IS HAVANA AN OLD CITY?

WHAT MAKES BLOOD RED?

HOW IS PETROLEUM REFINED?

HOW IS ANILINE USED?

ARE THERE MANY KINDS OF COCKROACHES?

WHEN DID WE START USING THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR?

WHERE DID THE PACIFIC ISLAND PEOPLE ORIGINATE?

WHAT EXACTLY WAS LEND LEASE?

WHAT IS HUMIDITY?

WHERE IS THE ORANGE RIVER?

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NEURALGIA AND NEURITIS?

WHERE DOES THE SPIDER MONKEY LIVE?

WHAT WAS THE FIRST SOUND RECORDED ON A PHONOGRAPH RECORD?

WHEN WAS THE OBOE INVENTED?

DO FOREIGN COUNTRIES HAVE NATIONAL PARKS?

CAN SAGEBRUSH BE USED FOR SEASONING FOOD?

WHEN DOES A PERSON REACH OLD AGE?

WHO MANAGES THE NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY?

WHEN WAS THE KORAN WRITTEN?

HOW BIG IS THE JUMPING MOUSE

WHAT CAUSES ANEMIA?

WHO WERE THE HOTTENTOTS?

HOW HOT IS THE SAHARA DESERT?

WHAT CAUSES SPASTIC PARALYSIS?

HOW DOES A PAPAYA GROW?

HOW MANY TIMES A MINUTE DOES THE HEART BEAT?

WHAT IS THE COPERNICAN PLANET THEORY?

HOW WAS THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS NAMED?

WHO INVENTED WALLPAPER?

WHERE IS THE KHYBER PASS?

WHEN DID THE FIRST AMERICAN CIRCUS OPEN?

WHEN WAS THE UNITED WAY STARTED?

WHEN WAS THE THERMOMETER INVENTED?

WHAT CAUSES A LUNAR ECLIPSE?

WHAT ARE SAVANNAS?

HOW LARGE DOES A LLAMA GROW?

IS FAT IN OUR DIET GOOD OR BAD FOR US?

WHEN DID THE SUEZ CANAL OPEN?

CHAPTER 25

WHEN WAS CHINA’S HAN DYNASTY?

WHO DISCOVERED OXYGEN?

WHAT IS THE STORY OF JOHN BROWN’S BODY?

JUST WHAT IS A COLLAGE?

DOES MEAT HAVE MUCH NUTRITIONAL VALUE?

WHAT IS A COELENTERATE?

WAS DENMARK ONCE UNITED WITH SWEDEN AND NORWAY?

DOES ATLANTIS EXIST?

WHO INVENTED THE PUPPET?

HOW DOES A CAT PURR?

WHAT IS A VIRUS?

CAN AN EMU FLY?

WHEN WAS GOLD FIRST DISCOVERED?

WHAT IS THE INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE?

WHAT DID SIR WALTER RALEIGH DO?

CAN TURTLES HIBERNATE UNDERWATER?

DOES AN APPLE TREE GROW FROM AN APPLE SEED?

HOW LONG MUST A CHICKEN EGG STAY IN AN INCUBATOR?

HOW ARE JAPANESE PRINTS MADE?

AFTER THE NILE AND AMAZON, WHICH RIVER IS LONGEST?

DOES THE MOLE EAT PLANTS?

WHAT IS GLAUCOMA?

WHAT EXACTLY IS HEAT?

WHEN WAS THE FLUTE INVENTED?

HOW DO WE GET GOOD NUTRITION?

WHY DO WE CELEBRATE ST. PATRICK’S DAY?

WHO NAMED THE ATLANTIC OCEAN?

WHAT IS A BLACK BELT IN JUDO?

HOW DOES THE COTTON GIN WORK?

HOW IS PARAFFIN MADE?

WHAT IS WINTER WHEAT?

WHAT DOES THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS DO?

WHERE CAN YOU FIND WILD ARMADILLOS?

WHERE IS THE YELLOW SEA?

WHO WAS LUTHER BURBANK?

WHAT IS PHRENOLOGY?

WHAT IS FEUDALISM?

WHO WAS PAN?

WHICH U. S. PRESIDENT SERVED THE SHORTEST TERM?

WHAT IS A JOULE?

WHAT IS IN LAVA?

HOW LARGE IS THE LARGEST STAR?

HOW LONG IS THE SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER?

WHY DO SOME TREES LOSE LEAVES?

HOW DO SPIDERS SPIN WEBS?

HOW LONG IS A MILE?

ARE THERE MANY CASTLES IN SPAIN?

WHAT IS RADIOSONDE?

WHEN DID WE DEVELOP MATHEMATICS?

HOW LONG DOES A GAR GROW TO BE?

CHAPTER 26

IS LENINGRAD A VERY OLD CITY?

WHAT IS A GNAT?

WHO WERE THE FIRST TO USE COAL?

WHAT EXACTLY IS LOESS?

DOES IT RAIN ON OTHER PLANETS?

HOW MANY KINDS OF ROSES ARE THERE?

ARE POISON OAK AND POISON IVY THE SAME THING?

WHAT IS SPHAGNUM MOSS?

HOW MANY KINDS OF SEA SNAILS ARE THERE?

CAN THE DRAGONFLY FLY FAST?

WHO WAS JOHN MARSHALL?

WHEN WAS WESTMINSTER ABBEY BUILT?

WHEN WERE TAPE RECORDERS FIRST USED?

WHO DISCOVERED COFFEE?

HOW WAS SHORTHAND INVENTED?

WHERE IS SAXONY?

WHERE DOES JUTE COME FROM?

DOES PARSLEY HAVE ANY FOOD VALUE?

HOW MANY KINDS OF SCORPIONS ARE THERE?

WHAT IS A HERTZ?

WHERE DID THE HORSE COME FROM?

WHEN WAS THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA BUILT?

WHAT IS A BLACK HOLE IN SPACE?

WHAT CAUSES COLIC?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST SCULPTURE MADE?

WHICH ARE THE FAR EAST COUNTRIES?

HOW DOES SONAR WORK?

HOW MANY KINDS OF OCTOPUSES ARE THERE?

WHEN DID DENTISTRY START?

HOW DO FISHERMEN CATCH POMPANO?

WHY DO I HAVE HAY FEVER?

WHERE WAS THE FIRST NATIONAL FOREST?

WHAT DOES THE TUNA EAT?

WHAT IS A WOODCHUCK?

WHAT DOES THE FOX EAT?

WHO ESTABLISHED THE FAHRENHEIT SCALE?

WHEN WERE KNOTS FIRST USED?

WHEN WAS THE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY STARTED?

HOW DOES A RIFLE WORK?

WHAT IS CLEOPATRA’S NEEDLE?

WHAT IS ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION?

WHAT IS A KETTLE HOLE?

FOR HOW LONG HAVE WE BEEN WEARING SHOES?

WHAT IS A NIGHTJAR?

HOW DOES FOOD SPOIL?

WHY DO WE CALL IT A CANVASBACK DUCK?

DOES PARIS, FRANCE, GO BACK TO ANCIENT TIMES?

WHY DOES VENUS LOOK SO BRIGHT?

WHAT IS METAL EXTRUSION?

WHO WAS CHESTER NIMITZ?

HOW DID MAY RECEIVE ITS NAME?

WHAT IS RUBELLA?

CHAPTER 27

WHERE DID WATERMELONS FIRST GROW?

WHO WAS ANDREW MELLON?

WHEN DID CONSERVATION EFFORTS START IN AMERICA?

WHERE DO KESTRELS NEST?

WHAT IS A GAMMA RAY?

WHAT IS A COACH DOG?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST DOLL MADE?

WHO WAS INIGO JONES?

WHAT CAUSES A STROKE?

WAS STONEWALL JACKSON HIS REAL NAME?

WHERE DO OTTERS LIVE?

WHO WAS BORIS KARLOFF?

WHEN WERE HOME APPLIANCES FIRST INTRODUCED?

JUST WHAT IS A CONSCIENCE?

HOW DEEP IS THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA?

WHAT IS A DEPRESSANT?

WHO WAS GEORGE BERNARD SHAW?

HOW IS ETHYLENE MADE?

IS SINGAPORE OWNED BY CHINA?

HOW LARGE AN AREA DOES THE EVERGLADES COVER?

WHO WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE IN HAWAII?

WHAT IS THE CODE OF HAMMURABI?

WHEN WAS GAS DISCOVERED?

HOW DID THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA GET ITS NAME?

WHEN DID WE START HAVING LAUNDRIES?

WHO WAS IVAN THE TERRIBLE?

HOW MANY SYMPHONIES DID TCHAIKOVSKY COMPOSE?

DOES THE RHEA LAY MANY EGGS?

HOW DID EASTER ISLAND GET ITS NAME?

HOW LARGE WILL A COWRIE GROW?

HOW LONG DID THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR LAST?

HOW MANY LETTERS GO TO THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE?

WHO WAS THE DOUGLAS IN THE LINCOLN DOUGLAS DEBATES?

WHO WAS DIZZY DEAN?

WHEN WAS THE LOCK AND KEY INVENTED?

WHAT IS TWILIGHT?

HOW MANY CALIFORNIA MISSIONS DID THE SPANISH BUILD?

HOW HEAVY IS THE DISCUS USED IN THE DISCUS THROW?

WHO WAS FRANCIS BACON?

ARE THERE MANY BREEDS OF RETRIEVERS?

JUST WHERE ARE THE DARDANELLES?

WHAT IS THE ORDER OF THE GARTER?

WHY WERE THEY CALLED THE GAY NINETIES?

WHERE IS DUNKERQUE?

WHO DEVELOPED RADAR?

WAS COCHISE A REAL INDIAN?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST BALLET PERFORMED?

HOW MANY TEETH DOES AN ELEPHANT HAVE?

WHAT EXACTLY IS COMBUSTION?

WHEN WAS THE SALVATION ARMY FOUNDED?

CHAPTER 28

WHAT IS AUTISM?

WHEN DID FALCONRY ORIGINATE?

WHEN WERE EYEGLASSES FIRST USED?

IS SKIN CANCER A COMMON PROBLEM?

WHY DO SOME ANIMALS HIBERNATE?

WHERE DID THE KEESHOND ORIGINATE?

WHO INVENTED THE TELESCOPE?

CAN DRAGONFLIES FLY FAST?

WHAT IS USED TO MAKE PAINT?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST KIBBUTZ ESTABLISHED IN ISRAEL?

WHEN WAS SURGERY FIRST PERFORMED?

HOW BIG IS A SQUID?

HOW DOES A KALEIDOSCOPE WORK?

WHERE DID THE GAELIC LANGUAGE COME FROM?

WHAT IS THE LIONS CLUB?

HOW MANY BONES ARE IN YOUR FACE?

WHY IS MARS CALLED THE ‘RED PLANET’?

WHAT ARE SNAPPING TURTLES?

WHAT CAUSES A TIDAL WAVE?

HOW LONG IS A COPPERHEAD SNAKE?

HOW SHOULD A BLISTER BE TREATED?

HOW MANY RIBS DOES A PERSON HAVE?

HOW MANY KINDS OF MOSQUITOS ARE THERE?

CHAPTER 29

WHAT VALUE DOES HAIR HAVE?

WHAT IS AN ANT BEAR?

HOW DOES A VOLCANO ERUPT?

WHAT ARE EGGSHELLS MADE OF?

ARE MEASLES AND GERMAN MEASLES THE SAME?

WHEN WAS REFRIGERATION FIRST USED?

WHAT ARE CANDLES MADE OF?

DO SUNSPOTS HAVE ANY EFFECT ON EARTH?

WHAT MAKES POPCORN BURST?

HOW MANY LAYERS OF SKIN DO WE HAVE?

WHAT IS THE TOWER OF BABEL?

WHAT IS A CORAL REEF?

WHERE DO GULLS LAY EGGS?

WHAT IS CAROB?

WHEN WERE BOATS INVENTED?

WHO WAS CRASSUS?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST SUBWAY BUILT?

WHAT EXACTLY IS INTAGLIO?

HOW DOES THE BRAIN WORK?

WHAT DOES THE SPLEEN DO?

WHERE DID THE AMERICAN INDIAN ORIGINATE?

HOW DOES AN OCTOPUS BREATHE?

HOW DID SCOTLAND YARD RECEIVE ITS NAME?

WHAT ARE FOSTER PARENTS?

WHAT CAUSES A BLIZZARD?

DOES A FOX BARK?

WHY DOES HAIR TURN GRAY?

WHAT IS A HERMIT CRAB?

HOW WAS FRENCH DRESSING NAMED?

WHAT IS THE FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM?

WHAT IS MOLD?

HOW FAR BACK CAN CHESS BE TRACED?

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF KOSHER?

CAN FROGS HEAR?

WHAT IS ELEPHANTIASIS?

CHAPTER 30

HOW FAST CAN INSECTS FLY?

WHY DO CATS HAVE WHISKERS?

IS THERE REALLY A CATBIRD?

WHY IS THE INSIDE OF THE EARTH SO HOT?

HOW IS SANDSTONE FORMED?

HOW MANGY WEATHER STATIONS HAS THE UNITED STATES?

WHAT IS THE LIGHTEST SUBSTANCE IN THE WORLD?

WHAT CAUSES BLOBS OF SPIT ON THE LEAVES?

WHAT EXACTLY ARE BELLBIRDS?

WHAT MAKES A STAR FALL?

WHAT PROCESS CHANGES A CATERPILLAR INTO A BUTTERFLY?

WHAT CAUSES A HEAT WAVE?

WHEN WERE THE FIRST MATCHES INVENTED?

HOW MANY POISONOUS SNAKES ARE THERE?

WHAT EXACTLY IS ELECTRICITY?

WHICH IS THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD?

HOW MANY DIFFERENT EAGLES ARE THERE?

WHAT KIND OF BIRD IS THE WHIPPOORWILL?

WHAT IS A CUMULONIMBUS CLOUD?

HOW MANY MILES OF BLOOD VESSELS ARE IN THE BODY?

IS THE FLYING FOX A MAMMAL?

WHICH WAS THE FIRST OF THE UNITED STATES?

IS THE DAY REALLY 24 HOURS LONG?

HOW CAN THE SUN TAN THE SKIN?

WHO FIRST SAILED AROUND THE WORLD?

WHO INVENTED OUR WAY OF TELLING TIME?

WHY IS A TORNADO HOLLOW IN THE MIDDLE?

IS IT TRUE THAT SNAKES CANNOT HEAR?

WHAT WERE THE FUNCTIONS OF SKYLAB?

WHAT CAUSES A HURRICANE?

HOW DOES AN ELECTRIC EEL GENERATE ELECTRICITY?

DO TREES BREATHE?

HOW DO WE SEE COLORS?

WHY DOES A BEAVER BUILD A DAM?

WHAT EXACTLY IS PLANKTON?

IS THE EARTH’S ORBIT PERFECT?

HOW DO WORMS MULTIPLY?

HOW. CAN A SPIDER WALK ON HER WEB?

WHY DOES DRAINING WATER SWIRL IN A CLOCKWISE DIRECTION?

WHAT EXACTLY IS A PUPA?

IS THERE AN ANIMAL CALLED THE KOBUGO?

WHERE DO BUTTERFLIES GO IN THE RAIN?

HOW OFTEN DOES A SNAKE SHED HIS SKIN?

DO TADPOLES REALLY BECOME FROGS?

HOW DOES THE BRAIN WORK?

DO FISH SLEEP WITH THEIR EYES CLOSED?

DID GALILEO INVENT THE OPTIC TUBE?

HOW MANY STARS ARE IN THE UNIVERSE?

WHAT EXACTLY IS A QUASAR?

IS THERE REALLY A PLANET BEYOND PLUTO?

WHAT PROCESSES PROPEL GLACIERS TO MOVE?

WHICH STAR IS CLOSEST TO THE SUN?

HOW ARE FISHES CLASSIFIED?

HOW COME THE DESERTS ARE SO DRY?

WHERE DOES THE BADGER MAKE HIS HOME?

IS THE KIWI EXTINCT?

WHICH WAY IS UP IN OUTER SPACE?

DO PIGEONS REALLY FEED MILK TO THEIR BABIES?

WHERE DO SILVERFISH COME FROM?

CAN TURTLES HEAR?

HOW DOES TELEVISION WORK?

WHY DOES A MOCKINGBIRD SING AT NIGHT?

WHAT IS BIOLUMINESCENCE?

WHAT REALLY CAUSED THE ICE AGE?

HOW CAN LIGHTNING SET THINGS ON FIRE?

DOES THE LOON BELONG TO THE GOOSE OR DUCK FAMILY?

HOW DO THEY GET WORD MEANINGS FOR A DICTIONARY?

HOW HIGH DO CLOUDS FORM ABOVE THE EARTH?

DOES THE CLAM HAVE A HEART?

WHAT ARE THE STARS MADE OF?

WHAT IS A MURRELET?

HOW DO ARCTIC FLOWERS GET POLLINATED?

WHAT DOES THE WEATHERMAN MEAN BY BAROMETRIC PRESSURE?

HOW DO DAMS MAKE ELECTRICITY?

WHY DOES MOLD FORM IN DAMP PLACES?

WHO FIRST WENT UP IN A BALLOON?

DID THE NORTH POLE EVER MOVE?

WHERE WAS ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA?

WERE THERE DINOSAURS AROUND WHEN THE CAVEMEN LIVED?

HOW IS CLAY FORMED?

HOW ARE WAVELENGTH, FREQUENCY AND VELOCITY RELATED?

WHERE DO THEY GET SEEDS FOR PLANTING CARROTS?

WHAT IS MOTHER OF PEARL?

ARE ATOMS BIGGER THAN MOLECULES?

HOW DID PEOPLE DOMESTICATE CHICKENS?

HOW DID MEXICO GET ITS NAME?

HOW DOES THE DEW POINT?

WHAT MAKES SEA TASTE SO SALTY?

NOW DO SHARKS MULTIPLY?

WHAT CAUSES AN OASIS?

HOW HOT AND COLD DOES IT GET IN THE SAHARA?

WHAT MAKES THE MOON LIGHT UP?

HOW DOES A QUICKSAND DRAW A PERSON DOWN?

IS IT TRUE THAT SEAWEED IS GOOD TO EAT?

IS IT COLDER AT THE NORTH OR THE SOUTH POLE?

HOW MANY GRASSES ARE THERE BESIDES BAMBOOS?

HOW MANY DIFFERENT ANIMALS ARE-THERE?

HOW DO A SNAKE’S FANGS WORK?

HOW DO FLOWERS GET THEIR SCENT?

IS IT TRUE THAT NEW OCEANS ARE FORMING?

WHAT ARE APACHE TEARS?

HOW CAN THEY MAKE GLASS FROM SAND?

HOW MANY DIFFERENT SNAILS ARE THERE?

WHY HASN’T EROSION HAD TIME TO LEVEL THE EARTH?

WHY CAN’T WE, SEE EVAPORATED WATER?

WHAT EXACTLY ARE SEA URCHINS?

WHY ARE ALL RAINBOWS THE SAME COLORS?

WHY DOES WIND DIRECTION CHANGE AT DIFFERENT ALTITUDES?

WHY DOES A LIZARD’S TAIL FALL OFF?

HOW BIG IS A REDWOOD SEED?

HOW DOES AN EARTHWORM TELL LIGHT?

IS IT TRUE THAT THE ATMOSPHERE IS IN LAYERS?

IS THE RHINOCEROS RELATED TO THE HORSE?

WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN WE RUN OUT OF PETROLEUM?

WHEN WAS THE FIRST NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN AMERICA?

ARE HUSKIES AND MALAMUTES REALLY MEMBERS OF THE DOG FAMILY?

WHY DOES MARS HAVE NORTH AND SOUTH POLAR CAPS?

WHAT CAUSES FLOODS?

WHICH IS THE SMALLEST MAMMAL?

WHY DO WHEAT AND BARLEY HAVE BEARDS?

WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE TO KILL EACH OTHER?

WHERE DOES THE PTARMIGAN ORIGINATE?

THERE ARE THE BANANA’S SEEDS?

WHAT IS THE GREEN COLOR IN PLANTS?

WHY ARE THERE SNAKES ON THE DOCTOR’S EMBLEM?

WHERE DOES THE SILVERSWORD GROW?

WHAT DO MERMAIDS LOOK LIKE?

IS IT TRUE THAT THE EARTH IS MORE THAN A MILLION YEARS OLD?

HOW MUCH CAN A BIG WHALE EAT?

IS IT TRUE THAT THE PREYING MANTIS IS POISONOUS?

‘THAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THE SUN BLEW UP?

WHAT IS MACHU PICCHU?

CAN THE SUN PULL DOWN THE EARTH?

WHY AREN’T PEOPLE BORN EDUCATED?

DO ALL SINKHOLES LEAD TO CAVES?

‘THAT ARE THE THREE MAIN ROCK TYPES?

DO ANTS HAVE MUSCLES?

HOW MANY BABIES DOES A SPIDER HAVE?

WHAT ARE CASSOWARIES?

IS THE IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER ALREADY EXTINCT?

HOW SHOULD WE CARE FOR BABY RABBITS?

HOW MANY DIFFERENT OCTOPUSES ARE IN THE WORLD?

HOW MUCH WATER IS IN THE AIR?

WHY DOES THUNDER MAKE SUCH A LOUD NOISE?

WHAT ARE THOSE LIGHT BEAMS IN THE WINTER SKY?

WHEN WAS SHORTHAND INVENTED?

WHAT TYPE OF ECLIPSE HAPPENS MOST OFTEN?

HOW WAS THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA FORMED?

WHY DOES HYDROGEN GIVE HEAT WHEN IT CHANGES TO HELIUM?

WHAT ARE FOXGLOVES AND FOX FIRES?

HOW DO THE ELEMENTS GET THEIR ATOMIC NUMBERS?

HOW BIG IS THE MOON?

WHO WAS LAVOISIER?

HOW DOES AN ATOM COMPARE WITH AN INCH?

CAN ANY ANIMAL HEAR ABOVE 80,000 CYCLES PER SECOND?

WHAT ARE ZEOLITES?

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CHAPTER 16

CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE ELECTRON?

An electron is a particle of negative electricity. It is one of the particles of which all atoms are made. Electrons can be found in the atmosphere, in any object or on any surface and they can also be found where there is no matter, as in a vacuum.

Electrons are all small, and they are the same size. Are you ready for a really big number? Well, an electron is so small that it will take 30,000 million million million million of them to weigh only one ounce.

An electron is the smallest known unit of electrical charge. A single hydrogen atom will weigh 1,836 times more than a single electron.

Yet despite its small size, the electron is a powerful servant for man. The electric current that is used in homes and in industry is made up of a flow of electrons through a copper wire, the conductor. A 50-watt light bulb has about 3 billion billion electrons passing through it every second.

Scientists tail us that the electron is one of the basic building blocks of the world. The atoms of all elements contain them.

A British scientist named G. Johnstone Stoney is the man who gave the electron its nave. He took it from elektron, the Greek word for amber, which can be rubbed to produce electricity.

In 1897 a British physicist named Sir Joseph Thompson discovered that electrons carry electrical current. He also discovered that they have a negative charge.

An American physicist named Robert Millikan in 1907 measured the electron’s charge. Ana in that same year, an American physicist named Clinton Daviason and a British physicist named George Thompson discovered independently that electrons sometimes behave like waves.

Electrons can be forced to move by an electromotive force. Moving electrons make an electric current. They carry telephone messages, light homes, and supply power to electric motors.

Movement of electrons through vacuum tubes and the circuits of radio transmitters and receivers makes broadcasting possible.

All matter is made up of atoms consisting of electrons around an atomic nucleus of positive particles, or protons, and neutral particles, or neutrons.

No one has ever seen one of these particles, but electrons and protons can be detected by the trails they leave in moist air.

Electrons rotate in orbits around the positive nucleus much as the Earth and other planets circle the sun. An atom is, therefore, a sort of small solar system.

Six basic sources of energy can be used to move electrons to make an electric current: friction, pressure, magnetism, heat, chemical action and light.

WHEN DID JAPAN SEND ITS FAMOUS CHERRY TREES?

In Washington, D. C., proudly planted in Potomac Park not far from the Washington Monument and around the Tidal Basin in front of the Jefferson Memorial are 2,000 flowering Japanese cherry trees that were a gift to the people of the United States from the people of Japan and delivered by the mayor of Tokyo in 1912.

Each spring the cherry trees present a display of beauty that thrills millions of visitors. The variety is a special one that features white and pink blossoms in great profusion.

To the Japanese, the cherry is sacred.

There are actually hundreds of varieties of garden cherries that are grown for their fruit in temperate climates in all parts of the world. They have all come from two basic types of fruit-bearing cherries: the sour cherry tree and the larger sweet cherry. A third type, the duke cherry, is a cross between the sweet and the sour.

HOW IS CHARCOAL MADE?

Charcoal is a spongy, black substance that is almost pure carbon. It is the product that is left when animal or vegetable material is partially burned. It can be made from wood or animal bones by heating or burning them in such a way that allows the water and gases to be driven off, leaving the solid material behind as charcoal.

There are two different ways in which charcoal can be made from wood.

The first method calls for the covering of a pile of wood with dirt. A fire is built at the bottom of the pile and the wood is allowed to burn slowly, or char. This method has been used for hundreds of years in northern Europe. it is wasteful because it doesn’t provide a use for the escaping gas.

The second method puts piles of wood into iron buggies that are then pushed by a locomotive into ovens called retorts. A hot fire is partially smothered by closing the draft. The wood slowly turns to charcoal and the escaping gases are collected in another chamber. Valuable substances are condensed from the gases, including wood alcohol, acetic acid and acetone.

Charcoal is a great fuss for backyard barbecue pits. It gives a nice, hot fire that doesn’t have a lot of smoke or high flames. It is ideal for cooking hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken, or fish. Charcoal adds a good taste.

Charcoal’s first important use came when it was called on to smelt iron ore. Coke has since been substituted for charcoal in the iron industry, but there are still many other uses for the material.

In 1812 charcoal was first used to clarify the syrup products of sugar refining, and it is still used for this purpose.

Wood charcoal was once used in making gunpowder, and it is still used in the manufacture of blasting powders.

Since charcoal is a poor conductor of heat, is used as an insulator.

Charcoal also is used to make some medicines, water filters, pencils, toothpastes and polishes.

Many artists for drawing and sketching use sticks of fine-grained charcoal, most of the time made from willow wood.

During World War I, An important need for wood charcoal was discovered. Scientists found that if charcoal was subjected to intense heat, its power of absorbing gases was increased greatly. After the charcoal was treated in this way, it was used in gas masks.

Charcoal used in the best gas masks is made from coconut shells.

Charcoal made by heating bones in a retort and allowing the gases to escape is called bona black. This material 1s very useful as a filtering agent because it absorbs impurities, coloring material and bad odors.

Lampblack and ivory black era used in printing inks and as a pigment in oil paints. Lampblack is soot taken burning resins, turpentine, tar, oil, or fats. Ivory black is wads from burning waste chips of ivory.

WHERE DID THE EUCALYPTUS ORIGINATE?

One of Australians gifts to the world is the eucalyptus tree. This shady, heavily leaved tree is a member of the myrtle family. Originally it could be found only in Australia but today its more than 250 varieties can be found growing in Europe, Algeria, Egypt, India, South America, and most of the Southern part of the United States. It adapts well.

Eucalyptus is an exceptionally fast-growing tree. A young tree can add as much as 13 feet to its height in a single year. Some varieties of the tree can reach 325 feet in height.

Eucalyptus trees like water and actually require a great deal of moisture in order to do wall. It has been discovered that they grow nicely in malarial areas. They help to draw water out of mosquito-infested swamps.

Long lines of eucalyptus tress are often planted to serve as windbreaks for fruit orchards.

The eucalyptus produces a camphor-like oil that has proven to be useful in the manufacture of certain medicines.

ARE THERE MANY ELEMENTS?

An element is a substance that is made up of only one kind of atom. We know that there are more than 100 elements.

Sometimes elements are found free, or non-combined, in nature. Oxygen in the air is an example of a free element, although oxygen can be mixed with nitrogen (which is also a free element) as well as with other gases.

Most of the time an element will be found in compounds with other elements. An example is found in water, a compound that is made up of the element oxygen combined chemically with the element hydrogen.

Carbon dioxide is a gas compound that is made up of the element oxygen combined chemically with the element carbon.

You can’t just mix two elements together and necessarily expect to come up with a compound. You can’t put oxygen and hydrogen together in a container at room temperature and expect to come up with water.

However, if a mixture of these two gases is heated, an explosion will occur and water will be formed. With the explosion comes a rapid chemical combination of the two elements in which two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen combine to form one molecule of water.

Through the years the list of natural elements grew to be about 90. But in recent years using nuclear reactors and cyclotrons has made new elements.

Oxygen was discovered in 1772 and hydrogen in 1766. Some of the elements that were known back in the days before the common era include carbon, iron, lead, mercury, gold, silver, tin, sulfur and zinc.

Because it is necessary to save time and space, all elements are given a type of chemical shorthand with symbols. Some have a single letter, such as H for hydrogen; 0 for oxygen; S for sulfur; and B for boron.

But many elements have a symbol that is a capital letter followed by one other letter in the name: He for helium; Zn for zinc; and Ra for radium.

Sometimes the element symbol comes from the Latin name: The Latin name for silver is argentum, and the element symbol is Ag; lead is plumbum and the chemical symbol is Pb.

There is never more than one capital letter in an element’s symbol. The language of the symbols was developed by a Swedish chemist named Jons Jakob Berzelius in 1811 and it is now used in all parts of the world.

The symbol for cobalt is written Co, not CO. CO means one molecule of carbon (C) and one molecule of oxygen (O).

Certain kinds of X-rays can show what elements are a substance. If a substance can be broken up or separated into two or more different substances that ware unlike the original substance, it is a compound. If there can be no further breaking up-of a substance, it is judged to be an element.

WHAT IS A CIVET?

A civet is a catlike meat-eating animal that is definitely not a member of the cat family. It is found in Africa and Asia. Since ancient times, the civet has provided a musky secretion that has been used as the bass of a rare perfume. The fatty yellow substance is found stored in pouches near the root of the civet’s tail.

The African civet is about two and a half feet long, not including a two-foot-long bushy tail. Thick gray fur is flecked with yellow and there are black spots and bands on the animal, too.

Civets is India and other Asian countries are smaller.

A civet lives in a hole in the ground and only comes out at night. It eats small animals, birds, and fruit.

There’s an animal called the American civet cat. It is not really a civet. It is actually a cacomistle, which is related to the raccoon. The American civet cat doesn’t have scent pouches and its fur is long and soft.

WHERE WAS THE WORLD’S FIRST CIVILIZATION?

The oldest civilization in the world is that of the Egyptians. The country’s written records go back more than 6,000 years. Also going back into ancient history are such fine monuments as the Sphinx and the Great Pyramids.

As far back as 4000 B. C., the Egyptians were coming up with such inventions as glassmaking, metal smelting, hieroglyphic writing sad shipbuilding. They also developed building methods sad knew how to measure the length of a year. And they could tell when the longest and shortest days of the year would arrive because they had mastered both astronomy and mathematics.

By about 3000 B. C., the first king of the first dynasty of rulers came to power. A dynasty was a family that ruled for a number of generations. There were 30 dynasties over the next 2,500 years or so, sack with a series of kings called Pharaohs.

The reign of Egypt’s last native Pharaoh came to an end in 526 B. C. when the Persians invaded the country. The King of Persia became the first of many foreign rulers over Egypt.

Alexander the Great visited Egypt in 332 B. C. and was immediately declared a son of the god Amon-Ra. At the mouth of the Nile River, Alexander founded a famous port that he named Alexandria, after himself.

After Alexander’s death, the Greek dynasty of the Ptolemies took over the rule of Egypt and they stayed in power until 30 B. C. When Cleopatra, the last member of this illustrious family, committed suicide, Egypt became part of the Roman Empire.

With Roman rule cams a rebirth of Egyptian prosperity and fame. The port city of Alexandria became one of the most important cities in the world. Christianity was brought into Egypt and by 300 A. D. the country had become a leading center of Christian teaching.

The Persians again conquered Egypt in A. D. 616, and in A. D. 640 the Arabs took over. The Arabs turned out to be great scientists and scholars. Cairo was established in A. D. 969 during the Arab rule.

During the Roman rule of Egypt, most of the citizens became Christians. The descendants of these early Egyptian Christens are called Copts.

Under Arab rule, most of the Egyptians took on the religion of Mohammedanism.

A famous center of Moslem teaching, the Mosque of Al-Azhar, was built in Cairo during the 10th Century. Al-Azhar is the world’s oldest university.

During the time of Arab rule, much of Egypt’s trade was lost.

Arab rule came to an end when the Turks conquered Egypt 1n 1517. The glory of Egypt wasn’t high during the time of the Turkish rule, but things did improve economically in 1798 when Napoleon Bonaparte conquered the country.

Hare’s how the next part of history was written: in 1801 the Turks again gained control of Egypt; in 1869 the Suez Canal opened; in 1882 an Egyptian revolt proved unsuccessful; Egypt became a British protectorate in 1914; and Egypt became independent in 1922.

HOW LARGE IS WASHINGTON, D. C. ?

A special piece of land, according to the Constitution of the United States, was to be chosen as a site for the national capital. At first the land was called the Territory of Columbia, and it covered 100 square miles on both banks of the Potomac River.

In 1846 a part of the territory, including Alexandria, was returned to Virginia. Since 1878 the city of Washington and the District of Columbia have covered the same area, about 69 square miles.

Washington, District of Columbia, is called Washington, D. C. It is the area set aside for the government of the United States.

This federal city was called Washington after the first President. It was built on a marshy portion of the District of Columbia between the Potomac and East Branch of the Anacostia rivers.

George Washington hired a French engineer named Pierre Charles L’Enfant to draw the original plan for the city’s physical layout.

HOW LONG IS LONG ISLAND?

The largest island of the continental United States Is Long Island, located in the southeastern part of the state of New York. The island, which ranges in width from 12 to 23 miles, is 118 miles in length.

Long Island, which is separated from the mainland by the water of Long Island Sound, has a total area of 1,723 square miles.

Back before the white settlers arrived, Long Island was the home of the Algonquin Indians.

An English explorer by the name of Henry Hudson discovered Long Island in 1609. But the land wasn’t settled until 1625 when a group of Dutch colonists arrived. They claimed the land and called it New Netherlands.

English and Dutch colonists quarreled about the ownership of the land for a number of years. Then in 1650 a treaty was signed, giving the Dutch the western part of the island and the English the eastern end.

The British were back in full force in 1664. They no longer wanted to just share the land. They captured Long Island and renamed it New York.

As part of the American Revolution, British forces defeated a troop of Americans in the Battle of Long Island in 1776.

Four counties make up Long Island: Kings, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk.

The New York City boroughs of Kings, or Brooklyn, and Queens make up the western end of Long Island. These boroughs are connected to Manhattan Island by a number of tunnels and bridges. The Triborough Bridge connects Queens with the Bronx, which is located on the mainland, as well as with Manhattan.

Nassau County is located east of the borough of Queens. This part of Long Island is made up of industrial sections and many residential areas.

At the far eastern end of the island is the country of Suffolk.

Long Island Sound is to the north of Long Island while the Atlantic Ocean is to the south. On the west are New York Bay and the Narrows.

Truck farming is an important Long Island industry. The land’s soil and climate benefit the region’s agricultural enterprises. There are many small farms.

Fishing and oyster farms are other important island industries.

Long Island took a large leap forward in 1844 with the completion of the-Long Island Railroad from Brooklyn to Greenport. This line made it easy to reach all parts of the island quickly. It was at this time that both Brooklyn and Queens became part of Now York City.

Long Island is a major resort area. There are many bathing beaches and other recreational facilities. Along the wooded northern shore are many summer homes where people enjoy sailing, swimming, and fishing. The southern shore is also popular as a vacation region with good bathing beaches set among the sandy bare and lagoons.

CAN THE CHIPMUNK MAKE A GOOD PET?

Chipmunks are very common in many parts of the United States. Also called ground squirrels, these six- to eight-inch animals can be seen scurrying along rock piles as they head for their underground tunnels and dens. They soon seem to become quite tame and are easy to approach. However, they do not make good pets. In captivity they can be sullen and disagreeable.

A chipmunk has fur that is either reddish-brown or dark gray. It has a white nose and yellowish-white and black stripes on its back. It also has a six-inch tail that does not curl up the way tails of other squirrels do.

A chipmunk’s underground den has many tunnels and chambers. The living quarters are lined with grass and leaves. Some rooms are used as storage locations. Here grains, seeds and nuts are kept until they are needed.

Chipmunks are famous for their loud and chattering sounds.

WHO WAS ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE?

Eleanor of Aquitaine is the name of a colorful member of European royalty from the Middle Ages. Two of her husbands were kings, making her a two-time queen consort, and two of her 10 children became kings.

Eleanor was born a duchess in southwestern France in 1122, the daughter of Duke William X of Aquitaine. As was the custom in those days, her father arranged for her to be married when she was just 15 years old. Her husband was a prince who became King Louis VII of France a month after the wedding.

Those were the days of the crusades. After one to the Holy Land by both the king and the queen that had been disappointing because it was poorly planned, the marriage was terminated with a divorce. Another factor in the split was that only two daughters had been born during the 15-year marriage, meaning the king did not have a male heir.

Very soon Eleanor married again. Her new husband was Henry Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, whom she had met in the French royal court. In 1554, two years after the wedding and when Eleanor was 32 years old, her husband was crowned King Henry II of England. He became the first of the Angevin kings of England.

There was a rebellion against King Henry in 1172 which Eleanor joined, along with her favorite of their eight children, Richard the Lion-Hearted. The revolt didn’t work, and as punishment for her part in the event, Eleanor was kept under guard by the king except when he wanted her to appear at public ceremonies.

Sixteen years later, Henry died and Richard the Lion-Hearted was crowned the king of England. Eleanor then ruled the country wisely for a time when Richard went on a new Holy Land crusade.

When King Richard was held captive by Leonard of Austria, Eleanor raised ransom money for his release. Later, when Richard died, Eleanor’s youngest son, John, was crowned King of England.

Eleanor helped her son John during a war that England fought against Arthur of Brittany.

In 1202, when she