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 Jackson Pollack, (pg 27) – Painter; the father of American abstract expressionist
art; broke the rules by using house paints and large brushes.
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 Bob Dylan, (pg 83) – Singer/Songwriter; invented folk rock and captivated
the world with thought-provoking lyrics; perhaps the most known poet and
songwriter in the world.
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Yucatan Peninsula, (pg 14) – Jutting into the Gulf of Mexico, this Mexican
land mass hosts many archeological sites of ancient civilizations. Offshore
is a huge underwater crater left from the meteor impact that spawned the
end of the dinosaur era.
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Gene
Splicing, (pg 83) – DNA is the genetic code that uniquely defines
our bodies, and gene splicing involves the cutting and joining of different
codes to create a new DNA chain. Wow!
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 Tofu,
(pg 24) – Curd formed
and coagulated from soybean extract; high in protein; feeds a good portion
of the Asian world. Yummy!!!!!!!!!
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 Football, (pg 96) – Football rose into popularity after The Civil
War. On November 6, 1869, Rutgers and Princeton played the
first college football game. William “Pudge” Heffelfinger was the
first professional player.
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 Einstein, Albert, (pg 38) – The father of modern physics; redefined time
and space as we know it today. More than thirty years after his death, we
are still proving his theories true.
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 Mississippi
River, (pg 34) – The chief river of the United States, starting
in northern Minnesota and flowing about 2,350 miles (3,781 km) south to the
Gulf of Mexico through southeastern Louisiana.
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 Antarctica, (pg 55) – The continent is asymmetrically centered on the
South Pole. 95% is covered by an icecap averaging one mile in thickness!!!!
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 Robert
Scott, (pg 55) – A skilled and far-ranging explorer, Scott led
an ill-fated journey to the South Pole aboard the ship Discovery at
the dawn of the 20th Century. Brrrrrr!
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 Swamp, (pg 53) – What is a swamp? Technically, it’s a
seasonally flooded bottomland with more woody plants than a marsh and
better drainage than a bog. Huh?
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 Fossils, (pg 14) – Not just dinosaur bones, fossils are remnants
of a past geologic age, such as leaf imprints, embedded and preserved in
the earth's crust.
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 Woolly
Mammoth, (pg 83) – It looks like a big hairy elephant, but it was
actually one of the smallest of the mammoth species.
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 New Jersey, (pg 13) – The most densely populated state in the U.S.;
geographically ranging from crowded cities to sprawling wilderness; with
all those people and places, New Jersey is perhaps the least understood
state in the country.
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