1. The Armory Show, held in New York in 1913, was a important exhibition of modern European art.
2. Ripe fruit is often stored in a place who contains much carbon dioxide so that the fruit will not decay too rapidly.
3. In 1852 Massachusetts passed a law requiring all children from four to eighteen years of old to attend school.
4. The main purpose of classifying animals is to show the most probable evolutionary relationship of the different species to each another.
5. Matthew C. Perry, a United States naval commander, gained fame not in war and through diplomacy.
6. One of the most impressive collections of nineteenth-century European paintings in the US can be found to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
7. Three of every four migrating water birds in North America visits the Gulf of Mexico's winter wetlands.
8. Charleston, West Virginia, was named for Charles Clendenin who son George acquired land at the junction of tile Elk and Kanawha rivers in 1787.
9. Financier Andrew Mellon donated most of his magnificent art collection to the National Gallery of Art, where it is now locating.
10. Soil temperatures in Death Valley, California, near the Nevada border, have been known to reach 90 of degrees Celsius.
11. When the Sun, Moon, and Earth are alignment and the Moon crosses the Earth's orbital plane, a solar eclipse occurs.
12. Mary Cassatt's paintings of mothers and children are known for its fine linear rhythm, simple modelings, and harmonies of clear color.
