Home > Primary Sources > History & Biography > Lewis & Clark > The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, October 31, 1804 TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Day 385 Day 387...
Home > Primary Sources > History & Biography > Lewis & Clark > The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, September 18, 1804 TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Day 283 Day 285...
Home > Primary Sources > History & Biography > Lewis & Clark > The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, September 18, 1805 TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Day 895 Day 897...
Home > History > U.S. > The Lewis & Clark Expedition TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales The expedition that uncovered the American West Related Links Lewis and Clark’s Expedition QuizLewis Clark ExpeditionLouisiana Purchase TreatyThe Journals of Lewis and ClarkLouisiana PurchaseMeriwether LewisWilliam ClarkSacajaweaThe Lewis and Clark expedition, 1803–1806, was a U....
Home > Culture & Entertainment > Film > The Man in the Iron Mask TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Director Randall Wallace’s (Braveheart) revival of an old swashbuckling favorite goes for drama instead of comic action....
Home > Geography > The Megacities of Africa TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales A melting pot of religions, languages, wildlife, and history make up the expansive continent of Africa. It indeed has small villages, and poverty does exist there as it does in many other parts of the world, but to only think of Africa in this way would be inaccurate....
Home > Math & Science > The National Medal of Science TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales The National Medal of Science, established by Congress in 1959, is administered by the National Science Foundation....
Home > Geography > The Seven Continents TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales What is a continent? A continent is defined as a large unbroken landmass completely surrounded by water, although in some cases continents are (or were in part) connected by land bridges....
Home > Math & Science > Biology > Plants & Animals > The Wombat TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales .com/science/animals/wombat.html Sources + Our Common Sources The largest burrowing mammal, the wombat is a naturally shy marsupial of Australia and Tasmania, related to the koala....
Have you ever heard the expression: “When you get married, you marry the whole family”? This means that you are making a commitment to your partner — while also knowing that their parents and siblings will be in your life for the long haul, too. This is even more true when you become parents. Many people have a challenging relationship with their in-laws when it comes to raising kids, but this Redditor decided to set a hard boundary....
Home > Culture & Entertainment > Holidays > Valentine’s Day by the Numbers TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales From the U.S. Census Bureau Find fun facts about Valentine’s Day—a holiday centuries old that celebrates love—from who sent the first valentine to how many Americans send love messages today....
Home > Primary Sources > Poetry > Walt Whitman > Walt Whitman: I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak GrowingI saw in Louisiana a live-oak growing, All alone stood it and the moss hung down from the branches, Without any companion it grew there uttering joyous of dark green, And its look, rude, unbending, lusty, made me think of myself, But I wonder’d how it could utter joyous leaves standing alone there without its friend near, for I knew I could not, And I broke off a twig with a certain number of leaves upon it and twined around it a little moss, And brought it away, and I have placed it in sight in my room, It is not needed to remind me as of my own dear friends, (For I believe lately I think of little else than of them,) Yet it remains to me a curious token, it makes me think of manly love; For all that, and though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide in a wide flat space, Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near, I know very well I could not....
Home > Primary Sources > Poetry > Walt Whitman > Walt Whitman: Passage to India, Part 8 TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Part 8O we can wait no longer, We too take ship O soul, Joyous we too launch out on trackless seas, Fearless for unknown shores on waves of ecstasy to sail, Amid the wafting winds, (thou pressing me to thee, I thee to me, O soul,) Caroling free, singing our song of God, Chanting our chant of pleasant exploration....
Home > Primary Sources > Poetry > Walt Whitman > Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 47 TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Part 47I am the teacher of athletes, He that by me spreads a wider breast than my own proves the width of my own, He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher....
Home > Primary Sources > Poetry > Walt Whitman > Walt Whitman: To You (“Whoever you are”) TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales To YouWhoever you are, I fear you are walking the walks of dreams, I fear these supposed realities are to melt from under your feet and hands, Even now your features, joys, speech, house, trade, manners, troubles, follies, costume, crimes, dissipate away from you, Your true soul and body appear before me....
We all know that kissing is pretty great (particularly when you’re kissing someone you’re really stoked to be kissing. And sure, a good make-out sesh feels amazing and is the ultimate form of foreplay, but it turns out kissing actually comes with some serious health benefits — as if you really needed another excuse to smooch. So, in on honor of International Kissing Day, find a whole new appreciation for kissing and read on about how the activity’s totally good for your mind, body and spirit....
Home > Math & Science > Health > Healthcare > What Poisons Kill the Most People Today? TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales Poisons, per the Center for Disease Control, are the leading cause of injury death (sudden death not by disease or deprivation) in the United States....
Home > Culture & Entertainment > Holidays > Why don’t Americans celebrate Boxing Day? TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales No Love for St. Stephen Boxing Day, also known as St. Stephen’s Day, is a holiday celebrated every year the day after Christmas....
Just as many health issues affect women more or more severely than men — breast cancer, death from heart attacks and osteoarthritis, to name a few — there are conditions and illnesses that plague women of color more regularly and harshly. These include diabetes, infertility and sickle cell disease. When it comes to pregnancy-related issues, Black mothers are also significantly more likely to experience traumatic births. While many factors influence this disparity, the most prominent and concerning are the lack of access to and understanding of health care resources....
Home > Primary Sources > Poetry > William Blake > William Blake: Songs of Experience, Nurse’s Song TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs? The Twelve Dancing Princesses Current Events This Week: January 2023 African Americans by the Numbers Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales by WilliamBlakeThe Chimney SweeperThe Sick RoseNurse’s Song When voices of children are heard on the green, And whisperings are in the dale, The days of my youth rise fresh in my mind, My face turns green and pale....
