About Me

The outside of me

My skin is one of the organs of my body. Some waste products are carried out of my body through my skin when I sweat. And my skin helps keep my body at an even temperature. All skin is tough, but…

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How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?

Measuring temperature

For thousands of years, people judged the temperature by how they felt. To check the heat of an oven, cooks put a hand into the oven. If the weather felt cold, people put on more clothes. Long, long…

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August

The month of Augustus

August is the eighth month of the year. It has thirty-one days. In ancient Roman times, when the year began in March, August was the sixth month and had thirty days. This month was called Sextilis,…

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