If the flag flies during the day, it means that they're meeting. But, if a red light shines at the top of the flagpole at night, it means they've gone home. Who are they? They are the lawmakers of...
NAMING THE WHITE HOUSE
George Washington chose the place where the house of the President of the United States was built in Washington, D.C. From time to time, this famous house has been repaired and rebuilt. Even though...
WHERE THEY RUN A COUNTRY
The club you may belong to has rules or laws. So do governments. But the people who run governments don't meet in a basement or a clubhouse the way your club might. Instead, they meet in special...
AN OCEAN OF SAND
You'd never expect to find skeletons of fish in the Sahara desert in Africa. But scientists have found them there. Long ago, the Sahara desert may have been an ocean of water. If that is true, the...
LAKE IN THE SKY
If you were an Uru, you'd be an Indian. And you'd live on an island---but not just any kind of an island. It would be an island that you, yourself, would make of bundles of reeds. You'd float your...
A GIANT OF A BUILDING
It reaches skyward like a mighty giant. It has 110 stories and is 1,454 feet (443 meters) high. This giant of a building is Sears Tower, in Chicago, Illinois. It is the tallest building in the world....
THE GREAT BARRIER REEF
Off the northeast coast of Australia, sparkling ocean waves crash on coral reefs. These reefs, lying just above or below the water, look like piles of stones. But the stones are alive with bright...
BACKYARD VOLCANO
"The ground is hot---almost hot enough to burn my feet! It's been getting hotter every day." That's what a farmer named Dionisio Pulido thought as he plowed his cornfield near Paricutin, Mexico. ...
THE SMOKE THAT THUNDERS
One of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world is on the Zambezi River in Africa. At the river's halfway point, between the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe, the water plunges over Victoria...
THE ROYAL GORGE WAR
Long ago, two railroad companies had a fight about a big ditch in the Rocky Mountains. The big ditch is in Colorado, and its name is the Royal Gorge. It used to be that the only way to get to the...