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(Hi, I'm Eric Idle of Monty Python) One of our classic sketches featured a restaurant where almost every menu item included this meat product

In addition to helping commerce, these ocean winds bring pleasant weather to islands like Hawaii

Spanning about 35 degrees in the southern sky, the Gum Nebula is a large remnant of one of these explosions

"From the Big Bang to Black Holes" is the subtitle of this landmark book by physicist Stephen Hawking

Early 1800s:Catastrophism says big events, like the one in Genesis 7, shaped the Earth & its life

He finished sculpting "David" in 1504 but never completed his 12 apostles for Florence's cathedral

Once part of the Ottoman Empire, it became capital of Iraq in 1921

1751:Axel Cronstedt discovers this -- the element, in a mineral, not the coin in his pants pocket

A short essay, or the basic message students are asked to extract from a literary work

English portraitist Thomas Hudson was noted for painting this "Messiah" composer