What has the body of a lion and the head of a man? No, it's not a monster. It's one of many statues in Egypt that look like monsters. This kind of statue is called a sphinx. The Great Sphinx at...
WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Is there a place named for an emperor, or a place named by a king? Is there a place named for some fish, or a place named after some women warriors? Is there a place named because it seemed...
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...
HORSES ON THE ROOF
If you had lived a few thousand years ago, you could have taken a ride in a four-horse chariot like the one on top of this building. The building was the famous gold and marble tomb of a king named...
HANGING GARDENS
A long time ago, King Nebuchadnezzar lived in a land called Babylonia. He married a beautiful princess from another land and brought her to Babylon, the capital of Babylonia. The new queen grew...
The Gunpowder Plot
Guy Fawkes Day November 5 \"A penny for the Guy! A penny for the Guy!" The merry shouts of children asking for money echo up and down the streets. And with them they have \"the Guy," a straw...
The princess and the cowherd
Tanabata Matsuri Once upon a time, two stars, Vega and Altair, fell in love. Vega was a princess, the daughter of the king of the heavens. Altair was a cowherd. Even so, the king allowed them to...
A feast for a king
> Kamehameha Day > > June 11 > > Today, Hawaii is one of the fifty states of the United States. But two hundred years ago it was a group of islands ruled by many kings. One of the kings,...
The Sugar Egg
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey There was a very important proclamation on the gate of the king's palace, and this was what it said: \"The king wishes a new and different kind of Easter egg for the...
Free at last!
Birthday of Martin Luther King January 15 Martin Luther King, Jr., was a famous American civil rights leader. A Baptist minister, he was stoned and put in jail for practicing what he preached. ...
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