Since February, 1975, my life has been devoted to fulfilling the assignment given to me by Miss Margaret Sullivan, President of Raleigh County Association of Retired School Employees, to write a short history of Woodrow Wilson High School as part of a collection of similar writings to honor the...
The Age of Wood by Roland Ennos At Five Books, we love global history and that means we do have a weakness for books that take one element/material/thing and tell its story across time and space. Roland Ennos, a Professor of Biomechanics at the University of Hull, has focused on a...
(a source of fine wood for cabinetry and boatbuilding), as well as various types of ebony (Diospyros).Chinquapin(Castanopsis; related to chestnut) trees are common in the low montane regions, and, as the elevation increases, they give way first toNothofagus(falsebeech) forests and then to...
West Virginia, constituent state of the U.S. It was admitted as the 35th state of the union in 1863. It is bordered to the north by Pennsylvania, to the east by Maryland and Virginia, to the southwest by Kentucky, and to the northwest by Ohio. The state
Being back at Rickwood Field brought back painful memories for MLB Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, who detailed the racism he experienced there. 6 months ago Ancient fossil of crocodile-like reptile discovered in Brazil Parvosuchus aurelioi dates back 237 million years and is the first small, pr...
Based on the latest 2024 data from the US census, the current population of Vienna is 10,457. Vienna, West Virginia is the 3,068th largest city in the US. What county is Vienna, West Virginia in? Vienna is located entirely in Wood County. What is the size of Vienna, West Virgin...
Daly is said to have yelled, "Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?" to the men in his company prior to charging the Germans during the Battle of Belleau Wood in World War I. Major General Butler described Daly as, "The fightin'est Marine I ever knew!" Daly...
Gem: Petrified Wood (1975) Colors: Green and Gold (unofficial) Song: "Washington, My Home" (1959) Poem: "The Green Fields of the Mind" (unofficial) Grass: Bluebunch Wheatgrass (2011) Fossil: Columbian Mammoth (1998) Dinosaur: Suciasaurus rex (unofficial) Insect: Green Darner Dragonfly (...
The insect hordes moved into barns and houses. Besides devouring food in cupboards, barrels, and bins, they attacked anything made of wood. They particularly craved sweaty things, eating the handles of pitchforks and the leather harnesses of horses. ...
She remarked about the beauty of the blue spiderwort in full bloom, and of prairies being “perfectly level—a treeless expanse with groves like islands in the distance, and a line of wood on the verge.” As the seasons progressed, the grasses and broad-leafed plants comprising the prairie...