Childrens Illustrated Encyclopedia

59 Austria Vienna The Habsburg family ruled austria for several centuries, and Vienna was the capital of their empire. Vienna st ...

60 More than 700 years ago a civilization was born in what is now Mexico. the aztecs, founders of this civilization, were the la ...

61 Babylonians B Ruins of BaBylon about 55 miles (90 km) south of Baghdad, iraq, lie the ruins of ancient Babylon. although the ...

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63 Barbarians By the fourth century ce, the once great roman empire was in decline. A great threat came from tribal groups livin ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 64 The red cross flag has been a reassuring symbol of humanitarian aid i ...

65 Baseball first organiZed game the first organized baseball game to be played under the Cartwright rules was held in 1846 at t ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 66 The only major sporT that is completely american in origin, basketbal ...

67 WHEN MOST OTHEr crEaTurES return to their homes for the night, bats take to the air. Bats are the only mammals capable of pow ...

68 ALTHOUGH BEARS are often portrayed as cuddly, they are among the most dangerous of all creatures. There are eight kinds of be ...

69 Bees and wasps HONEYBEES, BUMBLEBEES, and common wasps are a familiar sight to many of us, but there are thousands more, such ...

70 Beetles Stag beetle Stag beetles take their name from their antlerlike mandibles (jaws). enlarged mandibles are found only on ...

71 The Kingdom of Benin lay in the niger River delta area of what is now southern nigeria. Benin began as a city-state in the 11 ...

72 The Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago BIG BANG NEarly 14 billioN yEars ago, the universe exploded out of virtually nothing. Th ...

73 Find out more Biology Botany the study of plants and flowers is called botany. It is one of the two main branches of biology. ...

74 Mandibles (beak) Crop Heart Gullet Pygostyle (tail bone) Skeleton of a pigeon The biggesT and Birds 74- The tiny bee hummingb ...

childrens_illustrated_encyclopedia_template_US_layer_v1 BIRDS 75 Find out more Macaw bill The huge, heavy macaw’s bill breaks up ...

76 Find out more The MediTerranean island of sicily was a terrifying place in 1347. everywhere people were dying of a mysterious ...

77 gravitational well if the gravity of empty space is like a flat plane, then a black hole’s gravity is like a funnel-shaped we ...

The brain and oTher parTs of the nervous system—the spinal cord and nerves—are made from billions of interconnected nerve cells ...