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283.DID CHILDREN HAVE TOYS IN ANCIENT TIMES?
What does a toy mean to you? Is it just anything you play with; for example, two pieces of wood, a rock or a piece of cloth? While these may serve as toys sometimes, we really mean something more than that by the word “toy.”
A toy is usually something to amuse children that in some way mimics what grownups do. A gun, a car or wagon, a doll, or a little house are such toys. So are balls and tops. But since children, from the beginning of time, have liked to mimic grownups, we can assume that toys have probably existed since the earliest history of man.
265.DID THEY HAVE LIBRARIES IN ANCIENT TIMES?
A library is an attempt to gather together man’s writings, and this effort was first made long before the birth of Christ.
Scientists who dug up Ur, the city of the patriarch Abraham, discovered a clay signet. This was a cylinder of clay on which there were writings. It goes back to 800 B.C., and may have belonged to the first library.
161.DO SNAILS LAY EGGS?
Snails are mollusks, which means a kind of animal without backbones. There are two basic kinds of snails: the first includes the snails which have shells; the second, those which are covered merely by a thin mantle. Members of this second group are usually called “slugs.”
All the members of this division of mollusks have one large foot on the underside. Therefore, they are called “gastropods,” or stomach feet. This division also includes the large whelks of the ocean and the periwinkles. The ocean snail measures about 25 millimeters in the shell.
