Soap is a product for cleaning made from natural ingredients that may include both plant and animal products, including items as: animal fat, such as tallow or vegetable oil, such as castor, olive, or coconut oil. Soap supposedly got its name from Mount Sapo in Rome. The word sapo, Latin for soap, first appeared in[…]
Why A Day Like Sunday Hasn’t Been Seen In 900 Years Many people think 02-02-2020 is a lucky date. Maybe symmetry is inherently pleasing. Perhaps it is the whiff of cosmic clout. Or it could be that in our divided times, uniting over something as indisputable as the date is just the divertissement we[…]
Models suggest black holes can stretch devoured stars into long streamers. At the center of nearly every galaxy lies a monster, a giant black hole millions or even billions of times heavier than the Sun. Some, known as quasars or active galactic nuclei, shine brightly from across the universe as they continuously devour surrounding[…]
Fog is a cloud that touches the ground Fog is a cloud that touches the ground. Fog can be thin or thick, meaning people have difficulty seeing through it. In some conditions, fog can be so thick that it makes passing cars. Even monuments like London Bridge, in London, England, or the Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco, California, are[…]
Common name: laughing kookaburra Scientific name: dacelo novaeguineae Type: birds Diet: carnivore Average life span in captivity: up to 20 years Size: 15 to 18 inches Weight: 13 to 16 ounces The laughing kookaburra is well known both as a symbol of Australia’s birdlife and as the inspirational “merry, merry king of the bush”[…]
The Origins of the Mysterious Green Bean Casserole This mixture of canned soup, frozen green beans and fried onions has graced holiday buffets since the 1950s. But who came up with this trinity, and why has it become so famous? Holiday tables are often divided over these three little words–green bean casserole. This mixture[…]
You probably think of baking as a means to an end. The means is mixing sugar, flour and eggs into a bowl, and the end is cookies, a cake, or something else sweet. But in truth, baking is more complex than that. It’s essentially chemistry, and there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes.[…]
6 Differences Between Llamas and Alpacas At first glance, alpacas may resemble their larger camelid cousin the llama, but they are quite different. Their ears: Alpaca ears have short spear-shaped ears while llamas have much longer, banana-shaped ears. Their size: Alpacas generally weigh in at around 150 pounds while llamas can get[…]
“Green Eggs and Ham” was published by Random House in 1960. It was No. 4 on Publishers Weekly’s 2001 list of all-time best-selling children’s books. Dr. Seuss is a pen name: His real name is Theodor Seuss Geisel. “Green Eggs and Ham” uses only 50 different words. Seuss’s editor bet him after “The Cat in the[…]
The National League Came First Way back in the day – 1871 to be specific – the National League was born. They eventually organized annual games to play the rival American Association – before it tanked in 1891 – in an event known as the World’s Championship Series or the Championship of the United States.[…]