It’s Your Move — Check Out These Chess Facts
It’s just about the oldest and most popular board game out there, enjoyed all over the world by people of all ages. Here’s the checkered history and some very moving facts about chess, the “game of kings.” • Historians think chess as we know it was first played in India in the 6th century C.E. Its […]
How Cold-Thriving Animals Stay Warm in the Cold, Cold Winter
Here’s how animals that are active in the winter stay warm and healthy in all that snow and ice.
The Wide World of Weird Winter Sports
The world has turned its attention to Milan and Cortina in Italy for the quadrennial Winter Olympics. The greatest skiers, curlers, ice skaters, lugers, hockey players, and other athletes compete for glory and gold medals. Not being contested: these very real, very odd, and very obscure winter sports. Yukigassen. First played in Japan, and now in […]
