Los Angeles to Polar Bears
Issue 10
Los Angeles County has 88 cities. Yes, each is a separate city with its own mayor and a city council.
The British royal family surname (last name) was Saxe-Coburg-Gotha until 1917. In protest of World War One, the English monarch at the time, King George V, renounced all the German titles belonging to him and his family and adopted the name of his castle, Windsor. The British royal family is also known as the House of Windsor.
Maryland is the only state in the United States that has no natural lakes within its borders. The bodies of water Maryland have all been the result of damming rivers, so they are reservoirs.
Polar bears are known as being so white that they can hide in snow, but the truth is they aren’t white at all. Their skin is black and the hairs in their fur are hollow and clear. So why do they look white? Light hits their fur and is trapped inside the hollow part of the hair, causing a reaction called luminescence. In addition, salt particles stick to the bears’ fur and act as light-scattering particles.
