When Jane Addams turned Hull House in Chicago into a settlement house, it was because of a slum. She wanted a place where the poor people of the neighborhood could come for help. So she rented an...
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...
CITY IN A CITY
The lawmakers of Israel had no place of their own to meet. So they built most of their government buildings in an area that became something like a city in a city. It is called Quiriat Ben- Gurion.,...
A GIANT OF A BUILDING
It reaches skyward like a mighty giant. It has 110 stories and is 1,454 feet (443 meters) high. This giant of a building is Sears Tower, in Chicago, Illinois. It is the tallest building in the world....
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...
