You want your electric clock to run day and night. But you wouldn't want your doorbell ringing all the time! Things like doorbells, lamps, and radios work only when you turn them on. Most things...
LINKS TO LAND
When yon travel from place to place and rivers and lakes get in the way, you can go across by boat, or go around them, or go over a bridge. People build bridges to make it easier to travel from place...
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...
THE ROYAL GORGE WAR
Long ago, two railroad companies had a fight about a big ditch in the Rocky Mountains. The big ditch is in Colorado, and its name is the Royal Gorge. It used to be that the only way to get to the...
Folk & Fairy Tales | The Three Billy Goats Gruff
a Norwegian folk tale by P. C. Asbjbrnsen and J. Moe adapted from the translation by G. W. Dasent Once upon a time there were three Billy Goats who wanted to go up to the hillside to make...