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  Fungi cannot make their own food. They use food that was made by green plants. They get their food from the things on which they grow.   ...

Tunguska is a sparsely populated region of forests and swamps in central Siberia. On June 30, 1908, Tunguska was the scene of one of the mos...

In an artesian well, water springs from the ground by itself, without the need for a pump. The name comes from Artois, an area of France ...

 In the late 19th century, Sara Winchester moved to an ordinary home in San Jose, California . For some reason, the wealthy woman began...

The world faces a growing demand for water. In areas of scarce rainfall, such as the Near East, the natural water supply is insufficient. ...

An effective insulator is needed to maintain body temperature in an icy climate. Mammals have hair or fat that isolates their bodies, but hu...

   A means of controlling the temperature, moisture, movement and purity of air. Changes in these affect human comfort. They also affect...

    Hurricane "Flossie," in September, 1956, left 50 billion tons of water on the eastern coast in less than three days. Floo...

   Gaucho is the Argentine cowboy and folk hero. Most gauchos were mestizos, of mixed Indian and Spanish blood. They nourished on the pam...

   A fungicide is a chemical substance used to kill small primitive organisms called fungi. Fungi cause many plant diseases, such as whea...

Kissing the Blarney Stone    If a person says a great many pleasant things that he doesn't really mean, someone may say, "Oh, ...

   In design, functionalism is the concept that objects or buildings should be planned in accordance with their actual uses, rather than ...

   Fumigation is the use of gases, vapors, smoke, or fumes to drive out or kill harmful organisms. Fumigation is used to rid houses, offi...

   The Fountain of Youth is a fabled spring said to have the power of restoring health and youth. When the New World was discovered, popula...

    A century ago there were no western movies and television shows to watch. But when Buffalo Bill's (William F. Cody, 1846-1917) f...

   A fraternity is a society, usually at an American college or university. The word "fraternity" comes from the Latin frater (...

    Fortunetellers' are often dressed as gypsies. Sometimes they are real gypsies. For telling fortunes is one of the chief ways in ...

   Charles Francois Gounod, 1818-93, French composer, was born in Paris. His father was a painter, his mother a pianist, and from her he r...

   GAS is a substance which in physical properties is similar to AIR . Gases show little or no cohesive force and may be thus differentiat...

   Parthenogenesis is a type of reproduction in which a new organism develops from an egg which has not united with a sperm. In animals, it ...