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Isaac Newton Facts for Kids
Isaac Newton facts for kids: how one rule explains falling apples and orbiting planets, how he split white…
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Roberto Clemente Facts for Kids
Roberto Clemente was a Puerto Rican baseball player who spent all 18 of his major league seasons with…
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Albert Einstein Facts for Kids
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a German-born physicist who developed the theories of relativity, which changed how we understand…
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Abraham Lincoln Facts for Kids
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, from 1861 to 1865. Born in a log cabin in Kentucky in…
Albert Einstein Facts for Kids
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was a German-born physicist who developed the theories of relativity, which changed how we understand space, time and gravity.…
Alexander Graham Bell Facts for Kids
Alexander Graham Bell (1847 to 1922) was a Scottish-born inventor and teacher of deaf people, best known for inventing the telephone. He…
Amanda Gorman Facts for Kids
Amanda Gorman facts for kids: the youngest inaugural poet, the letter she could not say for years, and how she practised her…
Barack Obama Facts for Kids
Barack Obama facts for kids: born in Hawaii in 1961, the first African American president, the Affordable Care Act, and a Nobel…
Benjamin Franklin Facts for Kids
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was an American printer, writer, scientist, inventor and diplomat, and one of the founders of the United States. He…
Bill Gates Facts for Kids
Bill Gates facts for kids: his childhood, how he started Microsoft with Paul Allen, MS-DOS and Windows, the Gates Foundation’s health work…
Charles Darwin Facts for Kids
Charles Darwin (1809 to 1882) was an English naturalist who explained how living things change over many generations through natural selection. After…
Donald Trump Facts for Kids
Donald Trump facts for kids: born in 1946, the 45th and 47th president, why one person has two numbers, and what a…
Elvis Presley Facts for Kids
Elvis Presley (1935 to 1977) was an American singer and actor known as the King of Rock and Roll. Born in Tupelo,…
George Washington Facts for Kids
George Washington (1732 to 1799) was the first President of the United States, from 1789 to 1797. Before that, he led the…
George Washington’s Dentures: The Real Story
George Washington did not have wooden teeth. He lost his teeth one by one from his mid-twenties, and had only one left…
Hundertwasser Facts for Kids
Hundertwasser facts for kids. The Austrian artist who built houses with wavy floors and trees in the windows, why he renamed himself,…
Isaac Newton Facts for Kids
Isaac Newton facts for kids: how one rule explains falling apples and orbiting planets, how he split white light, and how he…
Jackie Robinson Facts for Kids
Jackie Robinson (1919 to 1972) was the first African American player in the major leagues in the 20th century. He played his…
Johnny Appleseed Facts for Kids
Johnny Appleseed was the nickname of John Chapman (1774 to 1845), a real American nurseryman. He collected apple seeds from cider presses…
Michael Morpurgo Facts for Kids
Michael Morpurgo is a British children’s author, born in 1943, best known for War Horse (1982). He was a teacher first and…
Neil Armstrong Facts for Kids
Neil Armstrong (1930 to 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. As commander of Apollo…
Roberto Clemente Facts for Kids
Roberto Clemente was a Puerto Rican baseball player who spent all 18 of his major league seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He…
Rosa Parks Facts for Kids
Rosa Parks was a Black American civil rights activist. On 1 December 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, she refused a bus driver’s order…
Theodore Roosevelt Facts for Kids
Theodore Roosevelt (1858 to 1919) was the 26th president of the United States, from 1901 to 1909, and the youngest person ever…
Thomas Edison Facts for Kids
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) was an American inventor who received 1,093 US patents. He invented the phonograph, the first machine that could record…
Thomas Jefferson Facts for Kids
Thomas Jefferson (1743 to 1826) was the third President of the United States, from 1801 to 1809, and the main writer of…
Thurgood Marshall Facts for Kids
Thurgood Marshall facts for kids: rejected by a law school for being Black, he sued it and won, ended school segregation, and…
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