Marching bands blare as football fans cheer the colorful parade. It's 1963 in Canton, Ohio, and football fans really have something to celebrate! It's the opening and dedication of the National...
ALL KINDS OF TREASURES
Thump-t/rump, thump-thump, thump-thump. You can hear the giant heartbeats as you walk through a giant model heart. Inside the heart you can watch the main parts work, just the way they do in your...
THE TREASURES OF HORYU-JI
In a beautiful setting of pine trees in a courtyard, stands a group of the oldest wooden buildings in the world. The sun adds a touch of gold to the gray tile roofs. Atop a five-story pagoda, or...
PICTURES PAINTED ON WALLS
If people want to decorate the walls of their houses, they might hang wallpaper or they might just hang lots of pictures. In the museum in Vatican City, Rome, pictures are painted on the walls...
THE PRICELESS JUNKYARD
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...
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