Places to Know

QUEER, QUAINT, AND CURIOUS PLACES

Would you like to visit places that are really dif­ferent—places where you can see a tower that tips, or the oldest city in the world, or the world\’s long­est front porch? The next few pages will…

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Mathemagic

Four

If you think of four as four dots, you can show the dots as a square. And that’s how the ancient Greeks thought of four—as a shape with four sides and four corners. Four is an even number. It can…

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Seasons of Life

Settling down to sleep

By the end of summer the plants have done their work. They have made their seeds and sent them out to find new grow­ing places. For many plants, life is now over. But the trees and other plants that…

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