In one of his many memorable lines, Napoleon declared the liger “pretty much my favorite animal.” He didn’t mention the zorse, however, which is produced when a zebra and a horse mate. Ligers and Zorses, but no Ponkey Not all animals can be crossbred. You’ll never see a ponkey (pig and monkey). In general, the two animals must belong to the same genus and share the same number of chromosomes....
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Related Links Olympics Overview 2012Track and Field PreviewEncyclopedia: Track & Field The Second Coming of Jesse Owens But first Johnson’s record needs some background. Already labeled the second coming of Jesse Owens, Johnson was in position to win medals in the 200-meter race and the 4x400 relay at the Barcelona Games in 1992. And while he won a gold medal for his relay performance, a bout of food poisoning kept him out of the 200m finals....
A sparse corner of a packed country Related Links 2018 Winter OlympicsMemorable Olympic MomentsBirth of the Modern OlympicsEncyclopedia: Ancient Olympics Pyeongchang is a county in Gangwon Province. Despite South Korea being one of the world’s most densely populated countries (ranked 23rd, with over 50 million people in 40 thousand square miles) Pyeongchang county is very lightly populated. Roughly 50,000 people live in Pyeongchang, most of those in the county seat of Pyeongchang-eup....
In the Southern Hemisphere, the dates (and the seasons) are reversed. The summer solstice (still the longest day of the year) falls around December 21, and the winter solstice is around June 21. So when it’s summer in North America, it’s winter in South America (and vice versa). The spring equinox brings the start of spring, around March 21. At the equinox, day and night are of about equal length....
Competing warlords control most of the rest of the country, including several of Sierra Leone’s lucrative diamond mines. More than 50,000 people have died in the complicated and brutal war. Related Links President KabbahFoday SankohMajor Players in Sierra LeoneCountry Profile: Sierra LeoneMap: Sierra LeoneMap: Africaallafrica.com Several competing warlords leading their own armies control most of the rest of the country, including several of Sierra Leone’s lucrative diamond mines. More than 50,000 people have died in the complicated and brutal war....
Negativity Not a Recent Phenomenon In the 1800 election between President John Adams and his vice president, Thomas Jefferson, the candidates attacked each other mercilessly. In his campaign song, “Jefferson and Liberty,” Jefferson referred to the Alien and Seditions Acts, enacted under Adams, as the “reign of terror.” “Little Know Ye Who’s Coming,” the 1828 campaign song of incumbent John Quincy Adams, warned of all sorts of calamity if Andrew Jackson were elected....
Thomas Edison registered 1,903 patents. Thomas Edison received his first patent on June 1, 1869. It was for the electric vote recorder. When testing his phonograph, Thomas Edison recited the first stanza of the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Thomas Edison developed the world’s first central electric-light power plant, which provided electricity to New York City starting in 1882. Thomas Edison was almost completely deaf. Thomas Edison and William Dickson worked together to develop a motion picture camera, which they called the kinetoscope....
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