Europe. (Vol. 27, p. 612, and Vol. 9, p. 907.)
If you looked at the moon all night every night, how soon would you have seen all its surface?
Never. Four-tenths of it can never be seen from the earth. (Vol. 18, p. 803.)
What was the great difference between the destruction of Pompeii and that of Herculaneum?
Pompeii was covered by ashes and Herculaneum by mud. (Vol. 22, p. 50, and Vol. 13, p. 342.)
Why do not high mountains, where more snow falls than melts, keep growing higher?
Because pressure forces the snow, changed into ice, to descend in the form of glaciers, as explained in the article Glacier.
Who wrote to George Washington, on behalf of a number of officers in the United States army, asking him to make himself king of the United States?
Col. Lewis Nicola. The article Washington, George, by Professor MacDonald of Brown University, gives you the words of Washington’s indignant reply.
How deep has anyone ever dived in diver’s dress?