What ever happened to the first telephone, the first horseless carriage, the first sewing machine, and the first telegraph instrument? You may think, "Who cares, they would only be junk by now."...
MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL
> The Hall of Mirrors in the Versailles Palace "Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who's the fairest one of all? If yon were walking through the Hall of Mirrors in the Versailles Palaee near Paris,...
LET FREEDOM RING!
It was in Independence Hall, then called the Pennsylvania State House, that the Liberty Bell rang out the news that the Declaration of Independence had been adopted. That was on July 8, 1776. Before...
THE JEWEL PRISON
> The Tower of London is really a group of buildings. Usually, a prison is a place where criminals are locked up. But there is a prison in London where jewels are locked up. The jewels are the...
FROM FORT TO ART MUSEUM
> The Louvre as it looked as a fort Once, long ago, a king of' France built a fort to protect himself. Years later, another king of France added more buildings to the fort and turned it into a...
BUILDINGS JUST FOR ART
Most buildings are built for people to live in, work in, or go to school in. But in all parts of the world, there are buildings that were built for displaying works of art, such as paintings and...
TREASURE PLACES
> A treasure can be trunks of gold buried by a pirate, or bars of gold > buried by a government. A treasure can be a famous painting hanging on a wall, or a picture painted right on a wall. Even...
MEETING HOUSE OE THE WORLD
Today, if two countries of the world have an argument or a fight, an organization called the United Nations is the go-between. The United Nations is a group of people from many nations who work to...
BIBLELAND
The Bible is a sacred book for Jews and Christians. The Christian Bible has two parts---the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Jewish Bible is the Old Testament. The word "bible" comes from a...
GARGOYLES IN THE GUTTERS
> This is one kind of gargoyle. Is that a monster, or a lion, or a giant bird looking down from the church top? It's a monster, half-man and half-beast. But it isn't real. It is made of stone and...
