The Mystery of the Dead Sea Scrolls

In 1947 on the western shores of the Dead Sea a young Bedouin boy known as Muhammed the Wolf was tending to his herd of goats. He was part of a band of hearty adventurers who were smuggling goats from Transjordan into Palestine…

How Washington D C was Chosen as Capital of the United States

The War of Independence had left the fledgling America free, but in turmoil. There was as yet no President and the country was a loose conglomeration of more or less independent states. Many soldiers who had fought in the war had yet to be paid for it and there was no official center of government to pay them…

The Magnificent Planet We Call Home

Our home planet Earth is the third planet out from the Sun and is the largest and densest of the four inner planets. Earth is also the first planet out from the Sun that has a Moon and is the only planet in our Solar System where liquid waters exists in large quantities on the surface…

The Second Planet from the Sun

Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is the sixth largest. It is the brightest object in the night sky except for the Moon. Venus orbits the Sun once every 224.7 Earth days and gets as close to the Sun as 107.476 million kilometers and as far away from the Sun as 108.942 million kilometers…

The Mysteries of the Planet Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun and is the sixth largest. It is the brightest object in the night sky except for the Moon. Venus orbits the Sun once every 224.7 Earth days and gets as close to the Sun as 107.476 million kilometers and as far away from the Sun as 108.942 million kilometers…

Origins of The Solar System

We live in a universe of almost unimaginable size. To give you an idea of the scale, we can only use optical and radio methods to observe objects out to about 13,000 million light years away and nobody knows what lies beyond that. Closer to us we can see clusters of galaxies at distances out to about 750 million light years…

The First Planet

The planet Mercury is the closest to the Sun and is now the smallest planet in our Solar System. The temperatures on Mercury range from 700 degrees Kelvin on the sunlight side to 90 degrees Kelvin on the night side. Mercury orbits the Sun once every 88 days and rotates on its axis once every 58 days…

The Star We Call The Sun

The Sun is called Sol in Latin and that is where the term Solar System comes from. It is a typical main-sequence star and is by far the largest and most massive object in our Solar System. The Sun contains 99.8 percent of all the matter in the Solar System with the planet Jupiter taking up most of the rest…

Forum Style Article Directory

As an article author and article marketing enthusiast I am sure you are aware of any number of great article directories to be found on the internet. They serve as repositories of knowledge by allowing authors to submit their articles for review by the editor for inclusion in the directory…