Holidays and Birthdays

The drill master

At the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, most men in the American Army were farmers and working men. They were brave, but they had no experience as soldiers. They didn’t know how to march…

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Folk & Fairy Tales

The Little Red Hen

> an English folk tale One day the Little Red Hen was scratching in the farmyard, when she found a grain of wheat. “Who will plant the wheat?” said she. “Not I,” said the duck. “Not I,” said the…

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How Things Work

A machine that never stops?

For twenty-seven years Dr. Coatsworthy Mothbold has been building an automatic polka-dotting machine. It can paint polka dots on anything—walls and windows, shirts and socks, even pretzels and…

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