> Children of different Indian tribes do a war dance > > in front of a Wichita grass house in Indian City, Oklahoma. You can see Kiowa tepees, Apache wickiups, Wichita grass houses, Comanche...
LET THERE BE PEACE
Peace Memorial Park is the only park of its kind in the world. This park is in the center of the city of Hiroshima, Japan. It marks the spot where the first atomic bomb was dropped. During World War...
A SHIP SAVED BY A POEM
The Constitution, a famous sailing ship, looks like this today. "Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunder shook the mighty deep, And there should be her...
WHAT A CASTLE REALLY WAS LIKE
All kinds of king\'s and all kinds of lords built all kinds of castles in Europe long before the United States became a country. Many castles are no more. Others have fallen apart and stand in...
A ROOF WITH A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE
The Pantheon in Rome, Italy, was built thousands of years ago and looks like this today. Whoever heard of building a building with a big hole in the middle of the roof? No, the hole was not a...
PILLORY AND STOCKS
The Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia, has been made to look just as it did in colonial days. The people are dressed in colonial costumes. > A visitor to Williamsburg, Virginia, tries out...
AS GOOD AS OLD
When you have a favorite toy that breaks, you fix it and make it almost as good as new. Buildings and castles and cities don't break. But sometimes they wear out and need fixing, too. When we make...
THE FORTRESS THAT DIDN’T WORK
You'd have to travel 100 miles (160 kilometers) an hour for two whole hours to get from one end to the other of a line of fortresses along the eastern border of France. And you'd have to pay two...
THE TREE OF THE SAD NIGHT
> This drawing shows the army of Hernando Cortes fighting the Aztec > Indians long ago. > The Tree of the Sad Night in Tacuba, Mexico Long ago, Hernando Cortes of Spain decided to capture the...
“FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO”
In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, you can see the place where one of the bloodiest battles of American history was fought. Some people say that the Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point in the...
