How Long Does It Take For the Earth To Orbit the Sun?

The time required for the earth to orbit the sun, that is, the length of an earth year, increases by about .04 seconds each century.

Georgia, with an area of 58,073 square miles, most nearly approaches the average size of the 48 conterminous states.

Good Things Come in Small Packages

Mrs. Pemberton, a 16th-century painting by Hans Holbein, brought $30,000 in a 1935 auction.

The round portrait is only two inches in diameter.

The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra was Greek by ancestry and had not a drop of Egyptian blood in her veins.

The famed Queen of the Nile was descended from a line of brother-sister marriages, and she herself married two of her own brothers.

In the Book of Esther, it is stated that when the candidates for the Persian queenship were assembled by King Ahasuerus, they were brought to the royal harem and there treated for "six months with balm and six months with spices."

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