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At least as far as remembering each other’s faces goes anyway.
A herd of elephants will look toward the matriarchfor her experience and social memory when they encounter an elephant which is not from their herd.  She will signal to the rest of the herd whether they’re in danger and if so, they will huddle together [...]

Father Time is an elderly, usually bearded man.  He is usually depicted as carrying a new born baby, a scythe and an hourglass.  Interestingly, the Grim Reaper is most commonly found to be carrying a scythe and an hourglass too.
The baby that Father Time carries is meant to represent the coming new year.  Interestingly, some [...]

In the traditional sense of the word anyway.  A grotto (or Italian grotta) is defined as any type of natural or artificial cave  and Santa has got one for real, in Bari, Italy.
The Christian origins of Santa mostly derive from a middle-eastern man, born in the forth century, in the Lycian port of Myra (now [...]

Ahh,..the purest form of uber-geekiness. Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. Try it now.

The name came about whilst George Lucas was mixing the soundtrack to American Graffiti.  The reels and dialogues were numbered and prefixed with an ‘R’ and ‘D’ respectively.
Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying “R2D2″. George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project [...]

In a more recent  survey of 23 American cities, completed in 2007,  the U.S. Conference of Mayors found that families with children comprised 23% of the homeless population (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2007). These proportions are likely to be higher in rural areas.
Research indicates that families, single mothers and children make up the largest group [...]

The story goes like this -
There once was a very poor widow who could not afford to buy her children any Christmas gifts.  So that her children wouldn’t be completely emotionally scarred , she chopped down a Christmas tree and decorated it with nuts, paper chains, fruit and the like.  But the widow went to [...]