This is a romantic name for Ireland, the second largest of the British Isles, which is farther into the Atlantic Ocean and the warm Gulf Stream current than its bigger neighbour to the east.

The Red Cross organization was established at a conference in Geneva in 1864.

A spaceship uses a retro rocket when those aboard wish to slow the craft down. The rocket acts as a brake by giving thrust in the opposite direction to the motion of travel.

Trap-door spiders are to be found just under the surface of the earth. They belong to the class of spiders called geomorphology which includes the bird eating spiders of the tropics. All these spiders tend to be rather large.

Some trees with broad-bladed leaves lose their leaves in the winter because the tree has a rest period during the cold weather, and the leaves are not needed for the production of food. These trees are called deciduous trees-from the Latin decidere which means to fall.