Progressive for its time, Constantinople offered free medical services and care for a destitute.

A pack of wolfs can encircle and kill a moose.

Divers earn them living by retrieving money thrown into the river by pilgrims.

Conservationists hope that someday captive wildlife populations will be restablished in a wild.

The institute encouraged the participations of teachers by providing them with travel expenses and lodging.

Dogs that are trained to lead a blind must be loyal, intelligent, and calm.

The sale of a pet turtles was banned because because of the disease risk they posed to young child.

Inevitably scholars disagree on an authenticity of many objects whose origins are unknown.

Three species of the fruit bat have been found to have a primatelike visual systems.

Although Emily Dickinson wrote some of the most haunting lines in American poetry, only seven of her poems were published during their lifetime.

Many Chineses connect the word "happiness" with the symbols for white, silk, and tree.

Oil strikes on the North Slope in the Alaska provided the fuel to drive its economic growth.

Totem poles provide eloquent records of a tribe's lineage and his history.

The local hot springs now serve as a bathhouse for them tranquil little town.

Sitka was the capital of Russian America, and the town still holds a legacies of its Russian founders.

The scars of the earthquake remain in the naked rock, and stunted trees mark their fault line.

Special elastic ligament allow the whale's jaws to accommodate its wide-angle bites.

Barcelona was a stronghold of an anti-Franco Republican forces during the Spanish civil war.

When the limestone just below the ground surface dissolves, the lands collapses and forms ponds.

Small Australian fishes called galaxiids feed on algae and mosses that grow in the warm waters.

Solon H. Borglum's sculptures of horses show he to be one of the finest equestrian artists in the history of art.

Aeronautical historian have concluded that the Frenchman Clement Ader made a short leap but never a sustained flight.

Dr. August Raspet was a researcher and designer sailplanes and inventors of the flying bicycle.

As conscripted craftsman under Swedish rule, Finns introduced the log cabin to America.