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Allow young minds to explore moons, planets and other objects in our solar system.
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This point was first used as a sign for a reader to pause. Whether the point was low, middle or high on the line of…

Word processor is a term first used in the late 1960s when it was invented by people working for the IBM computer company. It is…

The ancient Greeks used the word túpos ‘a blow or the mark left by a blow’. The Romans changed this word to typus. In the…

Emoticons, the use of certain punctuation marks (points, dashes) to represent expressions, were used in the 1800s in Morse code and, later, in handwritten letters…

The @ symbol was invented by calligraphers (professional handwriters) in the 700s as an abbreviation for the ancient Roman (Latin) word ad meaning ‘at, to,…

The word computer entered English in 1646 meaning ‘a person who computes’. Academics borrowed it from Latin computare (com- ‘together, with’ + putare ‘to consider,…