The earliest microscopes were called flea glasses because they were predominantly used to observe small insects such as fleas!
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When you peer through a microscope, you are not looking directly at a specimen underneath but rather at an image of the specimen that is being projected up by the lenses to a place below the eyepiece!
There’s a Pokémon by the name of Banette who looks a little like a plush doll. In fact, she is. She was brought to life by her owner and subsequently abandoned. Now the mon has made it her life’s work to hunt him down and enact terrible revenge upon him. Is this still Pokémon we’re talking about?
If you think about your time in school, which language class did you end up taking? If you grew up in the UK, you probably learned French! French is the most widely taught foreign language in the UK.
Fact Lab
When you peer through a microscope, you are not looking directly at a specimen underneath but rather at an image of the specimen that is being projected up by the lenses to a place below the eyepiece!
There’s a Pokémon by the name of Banette who looks a little like a plush doll. In fact, she is. She was brought to life by her owner and subsequently abandoned. Now the mon has made it her life’s work to hunt him down and enact terrible revenge upon him. Is this still Pokémon we’re talking about?
If you think about your time in school, which language class did you end up taking? If you grew up in the UK, you probably learned French! French is the most widely taught foreign language in the UK.
Foxes are very vocal animals and can make over 40 different types of sound to communicate with other animals. They also have a distinctive ‘scream’ sound to scare predators away. It is very disconcerting and when heard in a city many people mistake it for a human scream.