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Seven

The ancient Greeks thought of seven as a shape with seven sides and seven corners. Such a shape is called a heptagon, which means “seven corners.” Seven seemed like a special, magical number to…

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A Thousand Pails of Water

by Ronald Roy Yukio lived in a village where people fished and hunted whales to make their living. Yukio’s father, too, was a whale hunter. “Why do you kill the whales, Father?” Yukio asked….

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Hot and Cold

How hot is hot?

Which is hottest—ice cream, a glass of cool water, or a steaming-hot cup of chocolate? Of course, the chocolate is hottest. But it wouldn’t be quite right to say that the ice cream and the water…

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