About Animals

Trunks and tails

Wouldn’t it seem strange to have a hand on the end of your nose? But an elephant has a sort of hand on the end of its nose. The elephant’s trunk is its nose. And at the end of the trunk are one or…

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How Things Work

A machine that never stops?

For twenty-seven years Dr. Coatsworthy Mothbold has been building an automatic polka-dotting machine. It can paint polka dots on anything—walls and windows, shirts and socks, even pretzels and…

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Places to Know

YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT YOU’LL FIND

> These tourists to Venezuela get their first view of Angel Falls from a > dugout canoe on the Churun River. A little over fifty years ago, an aviator named Jimmy Angel flew over the rain forests…

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