There's a special road for camels, and a special road for cars, and a special road for trains, and they all go through the Khyber Pass in West Pakistan. The Khyber Pass connects Pakistan and...
BUILDING A TUNNEL
> Workers of France and Italy finished building the Frejus Tunnel in > 1871. You can dig a little tunnel with your hands, or with a spoon, or with a shovel. But how would you dig a tunnel through a...
LONDON BRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN
> "London Bridge is falling down, Falling down, falling down, > > London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady. The London Bridge that was forever \"falling down" in the nursery rhyme was built of...
CITY OF CANALS
In Venice, Italy, the streets are canals. So instead of seeing cars, you can see flat-bottomed boats called gondolas. Venice is built on a cluster of small mud islands. The canals twist around the...
DONNER PASS
"California or Bust!" That's what some of the early pioneers shouted as they traveled westward in wagon trains. The pioneers had to find a pass through a range of mountains called the Sierra Nevada...
WHERE NATURE GETS IN THE WAY
What happens when you want to get to the other side of a mountain, when you can't climb it? How do you get to the other side of a lake or a river, when you don't have a boat? How do you get a boat...
PULLED OUT OF A SLUM
When Jane Addams turned Hull House in Chicago into a settlement house, it was because of a slum. She wanted a place where the poor people of the neighborhood could come for help. So she rented an...
STREET OF STEPS
Part of the modern city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is Old San Juan. Here, the government has rebuilt and restored many old buildings and streets. Now, tourists and others can see what Old San Juan...
GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT HERE
Sometimes a building becomes famous because an important person slept there. Many times we don't know that the person really did stay there. But we can be sure there is at least one place where...
THE TOWN THAT SILVER HELPED BUILD
If you climb a certain hill in central Mexico, you will find a town that silver helped build. The town is Taxco koh). Silver from the rich mines of Taxco helped pay for the red- tiled roofs, the...
