In addition to their popularity as a delicacy and their fame in popular culture, lobsters lead fairly fascinating lives. Read on to learn more about this iconic marine creature. 01 of 10 Lobsters are Invertebrates Maine Lobster.Jeff Rotman/The Image Bank/Getty Images Lobsters are marineinvertebrate...
Slightly smaller than Maine, Austria includes much of the mountainous territory of the eastern Alps (about 75% of the area). The country contains many snowfields, glaciers, and snowcapped peaks, the highest being the Grossglockner (12,530 ft; 3,819 m). The Danube is the principal river....
New Hampshire is bordered by Massachusetts and Vermont to the south and west, respectively; Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east; and Quebec (Canada) to the north. The state is roughly 70 miles wide from east to west and extends approximately 190 miles from north to south. With a tot...
The money for the Statue of Liberty came from fundraising from auctions, a lottery, and boxing matches in Europe and the U.S. The Statue cost the French about $250,000, which today would be over $5.5 million dollars. Not all hamsters are small. Although some hamsters are as small as 2...
Around the 1860s, Peter purchased a bushel of apple seeds from a grower named Albert Emerson in Bangor, Maine. The apple seeds were planted, and years later, all the seedling trees had died except for one. The tree was initially thought to be of Siberian crab apple descent, but over ...
Mountainsthat run from Georgia to Maine. Connecticut’s Western Upland is also home to the state’s highest peak — Mount Frissell — which rises to more than 2,380 feet (725.42 meters) in northwestern Connecticut, although its summit is in neighboring Massachusetts.[1]...
Anothermovement for independencefrom Spanish rule was underway inCuba, meanwhile. In March 1898, following thedestruction of the USSMainein Havana a month earlier, the United States sent an ultimatum to Spain demanding it accept U.S. arbitration and eventually relinquish its control of Cuba. In pr...
MaineThe half-submerged battleship USSMainein the harbour of Havana, 1900. In the fall of 1897 a new Spanish ministry offeredconcessionsto the insurgents. It would recall General Weyler, abandon his reconcentration policy, and allowCubaan electedcortes(parliament) with limited powers of self-gover...
six days after the appearance of the Dupuy de Lôme letter, the American battleship USSMainesuddenly exploded and sank as it sat anchored inHavanaharbor, carrying 266 enlisted men and officers to their deaths. Although a mid-20th century investigation proved conclusively that theMainewas destroyed...
six days after the appearance of the Dupuy de Lôme letter, the American battleship USSMainesuddenly exploded and sank as it sat anchored inHavanaharbor, carrying 266 enlisted men and officers to their deaths. Although a mid-20th century investigation proved conclusively that theMainewas destroyed...