From the Stanford Solar Center, this website shares an interesting array of folklore and beliefs about the Sun.

Leaf through the pages of this cleverly constructed World War II Overseas Scrapbook. The American Red Cross assembled this scrapbook of World War II era memorabilia and images to document the experiences of American Red Cross Recreation Workers.

Have you ever heard the howl of a wolf? This archived Wild Wolves website from PBS-Nova contains brief audio clips of the following distinctive wolf howls: Lonesome Howl, Pup Howl, Confrontational Howl, and my favorite--the Chorus Howl.

This Food Dictionary from Epicurious contains over 4,000 culinary terms from abalone to zwieback. Yummmm!

Frozen fries are "fresh" vegetables? This short article published on June 15, 2004 by the Los Angeles Times tells the strange but true story about how the USDA recently classified frozen fries as "fresh" vegetables.

Have you ever heard that Daddy-longlegs are highly poisonous spiders but due to short fangs cannot bite humans? This website from the UC-Riverside Department of Entomology challenges this myth and provides some background information about Daddy-longlegs spiders and another arachnid considered the true Daddy-longlegs.

The question posed by this website might qualify as one of those questions you always wanted to know the answer to, but were afraid to ask. Featured in the Annals of Improbable Research, Wendy Cooper of Australian National University summarizes research on mating porcupines.

Check out this nice explanation for that question you've always asked yourself...