Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793305837
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57

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Author: E. Philip Brown
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1475989555
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Can you name the oldest street in Haverhill? Do you know what Haverhill-born surgeon went on to open a world-famous health clinic? Local history buffs will tell you the oldest street in the city is Mill Street and that Dr. Frank Lahey founded the Lahey Clinic. Now you, too, can be an expert in Haverhill's history with Haverhill, Massachusetts Trivia Book. Originally produced in 1988 by a Haverhill school teacher, this trivia guide has been reorganized and revised with help from Haverhill High School students. It's filled with fun facts about the city, ranging from historic properties to colorful characters. Trivia questions and answers ranging from the city's form of government and its geography to education and sports reveal surprising historical tidbits about this New England town. Also included are updated maps, such as the one showing the city's original boundaries and a 1795 map of Haverhill. In addition, activity sheets offer a fun way to learn about places like Winnekenni Castle, the old Boston & Maine Railway, and even the joys of local cuisine. Haverhill, Massachusetts Trivia Book is a great learning tool for young and old alike. It's time to rediscover your hometown.

Author: Terri Schlichenmeyer
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
ISBN: 1578598648
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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Entertaining, informative, and enlightening! Educational, eyebrow-raising, and profound. Science has never been this much fun! Take a weird and wonderful tour of the every branch of science with this treat of stories, trivia, and facts! From Earth’s weight gain thanks to the many tons of cosmic dust that falls on the planet each year to William A. Mitchell, the inventor of Tang, Cool Whip, and Pop Rocks candy, The Book of Facts and Trivia: Science combines the educational, profound, and trivial into a fascinating collection of science facts! You’ll learn about yourself and the world through hundreds of absorbing stories and interesting tidbits such as … Kissing burns up to six calories per minute. One teaspoon of neuron star weighs about 10 million tons. There are more than 2 million ants for every single person on Earth. That’s approximately 20 quadrillion ants! Neanderthals and Homo sapiens first mated tens of thousands of years ago. Under the right conditions, some dogs – the super-scenters – can smell you some 12 miles away. Nine out of 10 mothers of newborns, after having spent as little as 10 minutes with their babies, can identify their infant by smell. The body of Marie Curie (1867-1934), the physicist who discovered radium, is still radioactive. The first multiplication tables were used around 2000 B.C.E. by the Babylonians. Star Trek characters used devices that looked and acted quite a bit like cell phones—well before the technology came to market. Touchscreen computers too. And many more science facts! An absorbing guide to science answers, The Book of Facts and Trivia will treat you to a smorgasbord of stories, trivia, and facts!

Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793336848
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Author: Emily McAuliffe
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736822510
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Presents information about the state of Massachusetts and its nickname, motto, and emblems.

Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793305934
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: William Henry Pinkney Phyfe
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 842

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Author: United States. National Advisory Committee on Education
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: Charles Richson
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Author: Timothy J. LeCain
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 081354856X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

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The place: The steep mountains outside Salt Lake City. The time: The first decade of the twentieth century. The man: Daniel Jackling, a young metallurgical engineer. The goal: A bold new technology that could provide billions of pounds of cheap copper for a rapidly electrifying America. The result: Bingham's enormous "Glory Hole," the first large-scale open-pit copper mine, an enormous chasm in the earth and one of the largest humanmade artifacts on the planet. Mass Destruction is the compelling story of Jackling and the development of open-pit hard rock mining, its role in the wiring of an electrified America, as well its devastating environmental consequences. Mass destruction mining soon spread around the nation and the globe, providing raw materials essential to the mass production and mass consumption that increasingly defined the emerging "American way of life." At the dawn of the last century, Jackling's open pit replaced immense but constricted underground mines that probed nearly a mile beneath the earth, to become the ultimate symbol of the modern faith that science and technology could overcome all natural limits. A new culture of mass destruction emerged that promised nearly infinite supplies not only of copper, but also of coal, timber, fish, and other natural resources. But, what were the consequences? Timothy J. LeCain deftly analyzes how open-pit mining continues to affect the environment in its ongoing devastation of nature and commodification of the physical world. The nation's largest toxic Superfund site would be one effect, as well as other types of environmental dead zones around the globe. Yet today, as the world's population races toward American levels of resource consumption, truly viable alternatives to the technology of mass destruction have not yet emerged.