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Water clocks and sand clocks

Measuring time by the sun or the stars is all very well, but people soon needed a better way. And this need led to the invention of the water clock. The first water clock was just a large clay or…

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The art of masks

Masks are one kind of art that we see all around us. Masks can be made of many different kinds of materials. Some masks are made of paper or papier-mache. Others are made of cloth, plastic, rubber,…

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Change or die!

Eohippus Scientists think the eohippus was the ancestor of the modern horse. The eohippus was a small animal that had toes instead of hoofs. Suppose that all the milkweed plants in the world…

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