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Vote for Your Favorite Dog Breed

Vote for your favorite dog breed on this list of 100 most popular dog breeds. Perennial winners are the Labrador retriever, golden retriever, German shepherd, poodle and beagle.

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About the Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster

On February 1, 2003 the Space Shuttle “Columbia” disintegrated over Texas during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. All seven crew members were killed and questions flooded the media. What happened? What went wrong? Why were they able to enter outer space and not return safely? Let’s take a closer look at the Columbia Space Shuttle [...]

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About Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell; renowned scientist and inventor and most widely known for his invention of the telephone. Both Bell’s mother and wife were deaf and profoundly influenced his life’s work. He did much research on hearing and speech which eventually led him to experiment with hearing devices and his greatest invention, the telephone. The Young [...]

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About Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German-born physicist best known for his theory of relativity; more specifically mass-energy equivalence. His contributions to physics were vast and diverse, some of which are: •Special theory of relativity•General theory of relativity (extending the principle of relativity and creating a new theory of gravitation)•Relativistic cosmology•Capillary action•Critical opalescence•Statistical mechanics•The quantum theory•An explanation [...]

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About Fossils

So you need to know a little bit about fossils? Well, the two most important things you should know about fossils is: 1.How they are formed and preserved2.What they are used for How are fossils formed? The process of fossil formation can sometimes be tricky. There are certain things that need to happen for a [...]

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About Bouyancy

Have you ever wondered why some things float and some things don’t? Ever asked why there are huge icebergs in the middle of the frozen sea that float? Have you wanted to know why your cookie comes back to the top if you drop it in your milk? Well you’ve come to the right place. [...]

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About Volcanoes

Volcanoes have long been a source of both fascination and fear. Mankind has long been drawn to the majesty and power of the volcano while those living within its reach often live in fear of its destructive forces. A volcano is defined as an opening, or rupture, in a planet’s surface or crust, which allows [...]

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About the Hubble Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is possibly the most famous telescope in orbit around the Earth. It is named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. The telescope’s position outside the Earth’s atmosphere provides significant advantages over ground-based telescopes. This is because its images are not blurred by the atmosphere and there is no background from light scattered [...]

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About Penguins

Whether you see them at the zoo or as one of those cute characters in several movies out today it may be surprising to learn that penguins have a long history. Scientists have theorized that penguins probably evolved from flying birds more than forty million years ago as the early ancestors of penguins became adapted [...]

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About Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton; a school boy, college graduate, mathematician, philosopher, theorist and inventor. He has had many titles and names given to him during his life, ones that we are all familiar with. Let’s take a more detailed look into the life of Isaac Newton. Early Years •Born on January 4th, 1642 in Wools Thorpe Lincolnshire [...]

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