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The following article is from the book Uncle John&...  ...For more than a century, Australians have been at war against what they call the “mouse plague.&r...  ...ly 10,000 years ago. And as human agriculture and civilization spread across the globe, the house mice spread to...  ...t true.(Image credit: Iw...

Over the years we’ve relied on talking sheep...  ...oversial. Some considered it akin to voodoo. But Americans had no such qualms: By 1860, 500 weather stations...  ...Washington.When that network crumbled during the Civil War , a frustrated astronomer named Cleveland Ab...

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The following article is from Uncle John’s F...  ...rsquo;s Factastic Bathroom Reader.During the U.S. Civil War , New York printer $am Upham crippled the Confeder...  ...o;s economy and hindered its ability to fight the war . Yet he was never officially honored, and is al...

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