Jack Goldstein Books

The key difference today between a boat and a ship is size.

The country is actually an archipelago made up of 6852 islands.

A cat’s heart beats twice as fast as a human’s.

Cats can determine if someone in a room has an animal hair allergy.

No-one knows why, but they will try to sit on that person’s lap first.

t is in fact rather tricky to clearly define what a tree actually is. The generally accepted definition is: a plant with a long stem (or trunk) that has both branches and leaves and lives for more than two year

palms are not considered trees because their trunks do not grow outwards.

any plant which has a woody trunk that thickens each year by growing outwards’.

There have been trees on our planet for around 370 million years.

Every growing season a new layer of wood is added which thickens the trunk; this process is known as ‘secondary growth’.