NASA has discovered the eighth planet of a star system, similar to our solar system. The star, Kepler-90 is over 2,500 light years away and larger and hotter than our sun. It is the first star known to have as many planets as our solar system. The Kepler-90 star system is much more compact than our […]
An amusement park is an outdoor area with games, rides and shows. They are spread over a large area, often many square kilometers. Young and old visitors can enjoy many types of attractions. They can ride on roller coasters, go high up in the air in a Ferris wheel or ride on carousels. Amusement parks […]
Switzerland is not only well-known for chocolate and its watch-making industry. It is also famous for its unique banking and financial system. Banks play an important role in Switzerland’s economy. Swiss banks have been considered to be the most secretive in the world for many centuries. About a third of all money held outside a […]
An atoll is a round coral reef that has a lagoon inside it. Atolls develop over a period of millions of years from sunken volcanic islands, when reefs build up around a crater. When these coral reefs emerge from the ocean, they form ring-shaped islands that can be many miles in diameter. Long areas of […]
Land and Water The main difference is that the Arctic region is a gigantic mass of floating ice surrounded by land. The Antarctic is a continent with mountain ranges and plateaus surrounded by an ocean. Ice The southernmost continent has 90% of the world’s ice .About three quarters of the world’s freshwater is locked up […]
The Beatles were one of the most famous rock and pop groups in history. The “Fab Four”, as the Beatles were called, came from Liverpool, England. Most of the songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. George Harrison played the lead guitar and Ringo Starr played drums. In the past 50 years the […]
Agatha Christie was one of England’s most famous writers. Her crime and detective stores became famous for their clever plots. Agatha Christie was often called the queen of crime. Agatha Christie was born in Devon, England in 1890 as the daughter of a British army captain. During the First World War she worked in a […]
Cloning occurs when you copy a living creature. Two clones have the same genes, small structures with information in them that tells them what the body of a living thing should look like and how it should behave. You get the genes from your parents. Many people think that cloning is only done by scientists […]
Amphibians are animals that live on land and in water. They were the ancestors of today’s reptiles and mammals and the first vertebrates to appear on land, about 350 million years ago. Over 4000 types of amphibians live in almost all regions of the world, especially in hot and humid areas. Among the most popular amphibians are frogs and salamanders. Physical Features Amphibians can grow to different sizes, smaller ones are only 1 […]
The World Trade Centre was built by the American architect Minoru Yamasaki in the late 1960s and early 1970s. At their opening in 1972 they were the world’s tallest buildings. They were over 400 metres tall and were made of 200,000 tons of steel. Each tower had 110 floors and 97 elevators. Skyscrapers of this […]