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Explains how icebergs are formed from glaciers, move into the ocean, create hazards to ships, and sometimes melt away.
Describes the various methods of nest-building used by many different birds.
Describes the water cycle, discusses water pollution, and examines what is being done to protect our essential water supply.
Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addressed by community members as "Professor." He kept copious notes and records throughout his career, documenting efforts to improve the education of blacks. Through conversations with Byas and access to his extensive archives on his principalship, Vanessa Siddle Walker finds that black principals were well positioned in the community to serve as conduits of ideas, knowledge, and tools to support black resistance to officially sanctioned regressive educational systems in the Jim Crow South. Walker explains that principals participated in local, regional...
Easy-to-read text explains the meaning of bird sounds.
At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day. Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct. The child of a poor family, Mary became a fossil hunter, inspiring the tongue-twister, "She Sells Sea Shells by the Seashore." She attracted the attention of fossil collectors and eventually the scientific world. Once news of the fossils reached the h...
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For the past three centuries, Redding has been a magnet for so many celebrated people. They have discovered Redding’s magical qualities that have consistently made Connecticut Magazine designate Redding as the Number One Small Town in Connecticut.