Younger Readers Once upon a Banana, by Jennifer Armstrong; illustrated by David Small (Simon & Schuster and Paula Wiseman) My Cat, the Silliest Cat in the World, by Gilles Bachelet (Abrams) Keeper of Soles, by Teresa Bateman; illustrated by Yayo (Holiday House) Move Over, Rover!, by Karen Beaumont; illustrated by Jane Dyer (Harcourt) Cork & Fuzz: Short and Tall, by Dori Chaconas; illustrated by Lisa McCue (Viking) Best Best Friends, by Margaret Chodos-Irvine (Harcourt) Below, by Nina Crews (Holt) I Lost My Tooth in Africa, by Penda Diakité; illustrated by Baba Wagué Diakité (Scholastic) Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride, by Kate DiCamillo; illustrated by Chris Van Dusen (Candlewick) Wolves, by Emily Gravett (Simon & Schuster) The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon, by Mini Grey (Knopf) Lilly’s Big Day, by Kevin Henkes (Greenwillow) Duck & Goose, by Tad Hills (Random and Schwartz & Wade) Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building, by Deborah Hopkinson; illustrated by James E....

Whether you’re stitching flowers, animals, or more abstract designs, plan to devote many hours to these projects. Of course, the result will be well worth it. And if you’re not quite ready to tackle a project of this size yet, use these patterns as an inspiration to work towards as you improve your embroidery skills. Designer Chloe Redfern has many more patterns that are equally impressive, and you’re sure to find a design to jump into....

Some of these require a sewing machine (or a friend who has one), while others need only a few basic supplies to create an edge by hand. Choose the method that works best for the embroidery project you’re working on. Before edge-finishing your embroidery fabric, remember to cut away the selvage from the fabric. This self-hemmed fabric edge is thicker and can cause the embroidery hoop to not fit well, and the selvage has very little give....

The following is a list of various joinery methods that, when done properly, will securely fasten two boards together with no metal fasteners whatsoever—just a little know-how, some tools, and usually a bit of glue to secure the joint. Mortise-and-tenon joints can be cut by hand, using chisels, but most modern woodworkers employ a band saw or a tenoning jig on a table saw to safely form the tenon peg....

You might have noticed that when you copy text from a website, link of the source page gets automatically copied to the clipboard and when you paste it, source link gets pasted along with text on the target page. A number of themes provided by free blogging sites support this feature. But if your theme does not support it, you may want to know how to automatically add source link to the copied text using JavaScript....

Egypt and Rome, 1,000 B.C. Women and men both used rouge, lipstick, and nail polish.Black and green eye-shadow was used to protect the eyes from the desert sun.Women traced the veins in their skin with blue paint.Black kohl was used as mascara, eyebrow darkener, and eye-liner.Body moisturizers included sesame, olive, palm, and almond oils.Perfumes were made of musk, thyme, myrrh, and frankincense.Hair dyes were made from henna, the blood of black cows, and from crushed tadpoles in warm oil....

Common ingredients: seafood (especially squid), rice, sweet potatoes, coconuts, pineapple, onions, chili peppers, oranges, bananas, tomatoes, corn Popular dishes: stir-fried squid, steamed or fried rice with fish, roasted sunflower seeds, fish paste, fish sauces More Information:

Special Features Read about Fred Korematsu and other famous Asian Americans. Find out the history of the fortune cookie, chopsticks, tea, Feng Shui, manga, anime, and more. History & Timelines Find out about the origins of APA Heritage Month, view a timeline of Asian-American History, get information about Japanese relocation centers and famous firsts of Asian Americans, and more. Asian-American Enclaves As immigrants from Asia or the Pacific Islands arrived in the U....

History & Timelines Learn about famous firsts by Black Americans, read the history of Black history, and find information about milestones in Black history. Contemporary Issues & Facts Find out about recent developments in civil rights cases, milestones in affirmative action, population statistics regarding African Americans, and more. Biographies & Special Features Brush up on the Harlem Renaissance and Negro League Baseball, read biographies of famous African Americans, such as Martin Luther King Jr....

Face painting is a beloved mainstay of county fairs, school picnics, dress-up plays, and birthday parties. But as much as kids love it, they’re not always so enthusiastic about the feel of oily or cakey paints. Children are especially bothered by scrubbing that’s often needed to remove face paint and the fact that many paints seem to slip off and/or fade away quickly. Luckily, great face paint sets are out there without any of these discomforts—and we’re on the hunt to find them....

We all tend to plan our journey and book train tickets in advance. However, sometimes we can not foresee the circumstances and need to travel on emergency basis. Under the Tatkal (Hindi for Immediate) scheme Indian Railways allows you to get confirmed train tickets on short notice. There is a fixed number of Tatkal tickets available on various trains. You can book Tatkal tickets both over the counter as well as on the IRCTC website....

Sicilian Defense: Starting Position The Sicilian Defense allows Black to attack the d4 square and fight for the center without the symmetry that results from 1…e5. This generally leads to unbalanced positions and usually leaves black with a central pawn majority after trading his c-pawn for White’s d-pawn. Learn the common lines that arise with this strategy. Smith-Morra Gambit The Smith-Morra Gambit (1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3) is popular at club levels and is played at least occasionally by even some masters....

This morning, while speaking with one of my team members, I once again remembered this classic compiler vs. interpreter comparison and I immediately decided to write a small piece about it. This article will be useful for all the programmers wannabes. First of all you need to understand that computers and humans speak different languages. While humans speak languages like English, French, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic etc.; computers speak only one language i....