What Is An Albino

Albino

An albino is a person without any color or pigmentation. All races have a certain amount of pigmentation, though some among the white race (especially the Scandinavian) have very little. What Causes Color, Or Pigmentation, In People? It is produced by certain substances in the body acting on each other. The Substances are color bases, … Read more

What Is Aluminium

Aluminium

Aluminum is a silvery-white, lustrous metal that is only about one-third as heavy as iron. It can be drawn out into wires that are finer than the finest hairs and hammered into sheets as thin as a sheet of newspaper. It may surprise you to learn that it is the most abundant of all the … Read more

What Is Air

Air

Air is everywhere about you. Every crack, hole, and space that is not already filled with something else is filled with air. Every time you breathe, your lungs are filled with air. Even though you cannot see air, nor taste it, nor feel it (unless the wind is blowing), the air is a “something”. It … Read more

What Is A Whig

Whig

“Whig” is a strange word. It comes from the old Scottish “Whiggamore”, the name given to hungry, discontented farmers who spasmodically fought against the English in Scotland. By the end of the reign of Charles Whig had become the name of the basically Protestant, anti-court party in Parliament. Up until 1660, when Charles II returned … Read more

What Is A Weevil

Weevil

The battle between man and the insect world is constantly going on all about us. Some insects are merely pests. Some spread disease. And some spend a lifetime destroying the things man tries to grow or create. If there is any family of insects that man could certainly do without,  it is the weevil. While … Read more

What Is A Virus

Virus

Viruses are very small particles that may cause disease in man, animals, and plants. That word “particles” seems a strange way to describe them, so let’s see why it is used Viruses are so small they will pass through the finest filters. They cannot be grown in sugar solutions but will grow and multiply in … Read more

What Is A Vacuum

Vacuum

Most people think a vacuum is a place where there is absolutely no matter, a place that contains absolutely nothing, According to scientists, however, such a thing is impossible. They believe there can be no region where there is not a single bit of any substance, not a molecule of a gas or the tiniest particle … Read more

What Is A Totem Pole

Totem Pole

The way we live in our society is to divide ourselves into families. Our immediate family and our relatives are our “group”. But there are many primitive groups of people who divide themselves differently. Among such people, there art “tribes”, and all members of a tribe are considered to be related. This relationship may be … Read more

What Is A Star Made Of?

Star

Every bright star is a sun, like our own sun. This means that stars are huge globes of glowing gas. They are so hot that if a piece of steel were placed there, it would disappear in a puff of gas! In many of the stars,  the gases are very thin. This is because the … Read more