Remember back in grade school when you learned the planets of our solar system? The hint many people used was "My Very Excellent Mom Just Served us Nine Pizzas", for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. Today, we say "My Very Excellent Mom Just Served Us Nachos" because some astronomers argue that Pluto isn't a planet.

In 1940 the United States traded fifty mothballed WW1 Destroyers to England in exchange for land rights in areas of the British Empire. Were any of those fifty ships credited with sinking an Axis

The Tokyo National Museum (Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan) houses national treasures from Japan and around the Far East and Asia.Its archaeological finds range from Japanese artwork and archaeological pieces to artefacts from Egypt and India. It also has a collection known as the Horyuji Treasures, made up of over 300 pieces of Buddhist art.

Saltpeter is a common chemical, used for many products and science projects. Here's a look at what exactly saltpeter is. Saltpeter is the natural mineral source of the chemical potassium nitrate, KNO 3 . Depending on where you live, it may be spelled "saltpetre" rather than 'saltpeter'. Before systematic naming of chemicals, saltpeter was called nitrate of potash.

Para las leyes migratorias de Estados Unidos, un waiver , que se conoce también como perdón o permiso, consiste en la no aplicación de una regla general para un caso concreto. Es otras palabras, es una excepción. Al aplicarse la waiver el solicitante podría sacar una visa o una tarjeta de residencia u otros beneficios migratorios que sin dicho perdón no podría obtener.

Substitute teaching is one of the most difficult jobs in education. It is also one of the most important. It takes a remarkable person to be able to adapt effectively to all the situations that will be thrown at her as a substitute teacher. Substitute teachers are used in virtually every school across the country every day.