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To understand what a virus is and what you can do about viruses, you must first learn about living cells that are invaded by viruses. This can help you prevent infections by viruses as well as stop th...

Veterans Day is a holiday observed every year on November 11th. It honors military soldiers who have served in the United States Armed Forces. Since 1775, the United States Armed Forces have played an...

I’m a baby groundhog living underground in a den. Snow is above me. Living in a cold place, I grow two coats of hair. One is gray-white and the other layer is thick brownish. I’m grown up now. My ...

Esau was born before Jacob. Jacob came out holding onto his older brother's heel. It seemed like Jacob was trying to pull Esau back into the womb so that he could be first born. What can you learn fro...

Because of movies and books, bats are misunderstood by many people. Some think that all bats fly into your hair, carry rabies, and are blind bloodsuckers. In fact, bats are smart, gentle animals. They...

Some historians refer to the USA 1990’s or Nineties as the “Prosperity and Conflict Decade”. It was a time with prosperity, a presidential scandal, signs of the conflicts to come with the first ...

Jesus is preaching to a crowd near the Sea of Galilee. Near the edge of the water, Jesus sees two boats. Jesus boards the boat belonging to Simon who will be later called Peter. Moving away from the s...

A  nation does not fall overnight. It happens quietly. One compromise at a time. When foreign powers begin exploiting Canada’s economic vulnerabilities, few people recognize the dange...

"Why did the chicken cross the road?”"To get to the other side."I loved that joke and retold it for years, as did millions of children who recall it as their first and archetypal riddle. We were per...

Donald Davis is running. Running from his life, his regrets, and the man he failed to be. When he turns his car onto an empty highway, the road itself begins to fight back. This is no ordinary road tr...

Children’s illustrator Shelley Dieterichs has created and illustrated this Fun ABC Flipbook – using her illustrated Boys, Girls, Dogs, Cats, Sports and Zoo Animal Alphabet letters.  This ador...

Rhymes can have meanings that are not the same for different people or rhymes can just be nonsense. Enjoy these many bedtime rhymes.