Tuesday, August 24, 2010

The Animal World

C. familiaris, it has one of the largest size ranges, from a 2-pound Mexican variety to 200 pounders

dogs

Famous Names

DNA from Prince Philip helped prove that Anna Anderson-Manahan was not this woman, as she had claimed

Anastasia

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Religious Names

In commemoration of his predecessors, he was the first pope to choose a double name

John Paul I

Metals

Element No. 79, it's estimated that all of it ever mined would only make a cube about 50 feet across

gold

The Musical U.S.

In 1999 this state acquired the rights to use John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" to promote tourism

West Virginia

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Fictional People

After a 58-year flirtation, this woman called it off temporarily in issue No. 720

Lois Lane

Anatomy

The petrous temporal bone, the hardest in the body, encases the delicate structures of this organ

the ear

Animals

With a young one valued at $1.4 million, Guinness calls them the most costly zoo animals

Giant panda