What Was the Age of the Dinosaurs?

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Travel back to the time when the mighty dinosaurs ruled the earth.The Age of Dinosaurs began about 250 million years ago. In the beginning they were quite small but over time they evolved into the...

Where Are the Galapagos Islands?

By Megan Stine

Armchair adventurers can set sail for the remote Galapagos Islands and learn about the strange and unique animals that live there. The Galapagos Islands are a chain of volcanic islands located on e...

Who Was Sally Ride?

By Ted Hammond, Who HQ, Megan Stine

In 1978, Sally Ride, a PhD candidate at Standford University, responded to a newspaper ad to join the US astronaut program. She was accepted and became the first American woman astronaut to fly in...

Who Was Sally Ride

By Megan Stine

Who Is Michelle Obama?

By Megan Stine

Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married another promising young lawyer and the rest, a...

Who Is Michelle Obama

By Nancy Harrison, John O Brien, Megan Stine

Who Was Ulysses S. Grant?

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Ulysses S. Grant certainly does not have the typical war hero “back story.” Although a graduate of West Point, he never wanted to be a soldier and was terrified when he first saw battle. However, d...

Who Was Marie Curie?

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Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There...

Where Is the White House?

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The history of the White House, first completed in 1799, reflects the history of America itself. It was the dream of George Washington to have an elegant "presidential mansion" in the capital city...

Who Was Michael Jackson

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