Places to Know
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PLACES TO KNOW
Tell me about all kinds of places!
Faraway places and places near home: Old places, new places, glad
places, sad places, rich places, poor places, highlands and lowlands,
oceans and rivers, mountains and valleys, quaint places, spooky places,
curious places.
This book will tell you about many places to know all over the world.
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
If you stop to think about it, television, telephones, and jet planes are some of the wonders in our world today. Today, we know about
OH! AND AH! PLACES
If you see fireworks bursting in the sky, you might say, “Oh!” And if you see a litter of puppies, you might say, “Ah!” Other
WHERE THEY RUN A COUNTRY
The club you may belong to has rules or laws. So do governments. But the people who run governments don’t meet in a basement or
WHERE PEOPLE WORSHIP
For thousands of years, people have built places where they can pray and worship. Jews build synagogues, Moslems build mosques, Christians build churches, and Buddhists
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Places to Know
