Because many of Australia’s marsupials, such as the koala, are cute and cuddly, as well as being biologically different than North American marsupials, they have attracted a lot of attention after their discovery in the 1700s.

Technically,“quicksand” is the term for sand that is so saturated with water as to acquire a liquid’s character.

In the 1940s popular magazines in the United States began to report on the private lives of persons from the entertainment industry, in despite of the fact that they previously had featured individuals in business and politics.

Over the past ten years cultivated sunflowers have become a major commercial crop,second only to soybeans as a source of vegetable oil.

Normally a bone becomes fossilized through the action of groundwater, which permeates the bone, washes away its organic components, and replaces them with minerals.

According to a recent study, retirees in the United States are four times more likely to give regular financial aid to their children as to receive it from them.

Thomas Mann’s novel Doctor Faustus offers an examination not only of how difficult it is to reconcile reason, will, and passion together in any art form, but also a skillfully navigated exploration of the major concerns of modernism.

The Commerce Department reported that the nation’s economy grew at a brisk annual pace of 3.7 percent in the second quarter, but that while businesses were expanding their production, unsold goods piled up on store shelves as consumer spending is slowed sharply.

To estimate the expansion rate of the universe is a notoriously difficult problem because there is a lack of a single yardstick that all distances can be measured by.

Because it regarded the environmentalists as members of an out-of-state organization,the city council voted that they are denied permission for participating in the parade.