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Children learn most new words without anyone formally teaching them

Children acquire vocabulary far faster than adults could teach every word individually. They use context, familiar sentence patterns, gestures and repeated encounters to infer what unfamiliar words mean. Direct instruction helps, but much language learning happens during ordinary conversation and observation. Children are constantly solving small puzzles about meaning.

Hooke argued fossils came from living things

Robert Hooke compared fossil wood under a microscope with ordinary wood and saw that they looked alike. He used this to argue that fossil wood and shells were remains of living things, and proposed that some came from species that had died out.

The French Revolution helped create America's first party divide

Americans disagreed so strongly about the French Revolution that the argument helped form the United States' first party system. A revolution across the Atlantic became part of a fight over what kind of republic America itself should be.

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Children learn most new words without anyone formally teaching them

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