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Last Updated on August 13, 2021 by If you had never seen a goldfish before and had to think up a name for it, what do you it would be? Perhaps you would look at its bright color in the sun and say it looks golden, so let’s call it “goldfish”? Well, many fish got … Read more

Leave a Comment / By QCity Editorial Stuff / January 7, 2021 Last Updated on August 13, 2021 by Today, “Hide and Seek” is played because it is fun. But the beginning of “Hide and Seek” really goes back a long, long time, when it had a different meaning to the people who played it. In fact, it used … Read more

Last Updated on August 13, 2021 by You may think that skiing is a modern sport, but it is actually one of the oldest forms of travel known to man! The word itself comes from the Icelandic word said, which means “snowshoe” or “piece of wood”. Some historians claim that skiing goes back to the … Read more

Leave a Comment / By QCity Editorial Stuff / January 8, 2021 Last Updated on August 16, 2021 by What comes to your mind when you think of a scientist? You think of someone who studies something in the world or about man, who makes observations and conducts experiments, and then who comes up with certain principles or rules. … Read more

Last Updated on August 13, 2021 by When we think of the millions of things that are held together by pins, we might wonder how maa ever got along without them. It is quiz likely that he never did; that pins made out of one material or another were in use from the very earliest … Read more

Last Updated on August 13, 2021 by Neil Mackengie Children in many parts of the world grow up chanting hundreds of jingles, verses, and rhymes which their great-great-grandparents chanted before them. For though the expression “nursery rhyme” was first used in 1824, such rhymes have existed for hundreds of years. Nursery rhymes have a great variety … Read more

Last Updated on August 3, 2021 by Every living and growing thing in the world. whether animal or plant. produces young of its own kind or species, and no other. This takes place because of heredity. However, the offspring of any two parents need not all be the same in their traits, such as looks, coloring, and physical and mental condition. Their differences also result from heredity. Hereditary … Read more

Last Updated on August 16, 2021 by Wherever man lives, “doing the laundry”   is a problem that must be coped with. The word “laundry”   has a  curious origin.  In the old days, when clothes were washed, lavender used to be put on fresh-washed linen to make it fragrant. The French word for lavender is lavender, and … Read more

Leave a Comment / By QCity Editorial Stuff / January 8, 2021 Last Updated on August 16, 2021 by Income includes just about everything a person earns: wages and salaries, interest on bonds and savings bank accounts, dividends on stock, and rents. It also includes the payments that are received by doctors, lawyers, authors,  inventors, and other professional persons. … Read more