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Continue reading →: Revered Mandarin DucksMandarin ducks breed in densely wooded areas near shallow lakes, marshes or ponds. They roost high in trees and nest in tree hollows found near bodies of water in eastern Siberia in Russia, China, and Japan. During the winter, they migrate to southern China and Japan. The male mandarin (also…
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Continue reading →: Musee d’Orsay ClockFor its Exposition Universelle of 1900, Paris hosted a record 50 million visitors who came to see its world’s fair. The fair was grand in size, featuring 76,000 exhibitors and covering 1.12 square kilometres (277 acres) of Paris. A number of Paris’s most noted structures were built for the Exposition,…
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Continue reading →: Writing: From Sharpened Stones to Quill PensOf course, the history of writing instruments started way before the quill pen – all the way back to the cavemen and perhaps cavewomen who used sharpened stones to scratch pictures onto the walls of their dwellings to represent major events such as hunting victories or the seasonal planting of…
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