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Exploring Canada: Fact or Fiction?
Is Canada the world’s second-largest country? Is the oak leaf the symbol of Canada? From geography to language, sort fact from fiction in this quiz of all things Canada.
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British grenadiers at the Battle of Bunker Hill, painting by Edward Percy Moran, 1909.
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North London Girl, oil on canvas by Spencer Frederick Gore, a member of the Camden Town Group, c. 1911–12; in the Tate Britain, London.
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Charles Darwin, carbon-print photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1868.
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Charles Darwin, English naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary…
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Pliosaur, a group of large carnivorous marine reptiles characterized by massive heads, short necks, and streamlined tear-shaped bodies.…
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