Horses have been so important to people that sometimes when a sculptor makes a statue of a person, the sculptor includes a horse. This kind of statue is called an equestrian statue. The word...
TINY HORSES
A pony is a small, but full-grown, horse. The smallest ponies of all are the ones called Shetland ponies. Many of these tiny horses are less than three feet (90 centimeters) high. Shetland ponies...
NAMED FOR AN EMPEROR
Many years ago, a Roman emperor named Constantine decided to move the capital of his empire from Rome to a city called Byzantium. Byzantium was in the country we now call Turkey. Constantine made...
HOW THE LONGEST RIVERS GOT THEIR NAMES
The longest river in the world has more than one part and more than one name---the Nile, the Bine Nile, and the White Nile. One part of the river, called the Blue Nile, starts at Lake Tana in...
THE GLORY OF ANCIENT ROME
The people of ancient Rome met and mixed at open market places called forums. The most important of these, the Forum Romanum, or Roman Forum, became the center of Roman government. The Roman Forum...
MEETING HOUSE OE THE WORLD
Today, if two countries of the world have an argument or a fight, an organization called the United Nations is the go-between. The United Nations is a group of people from many nations who work to...
A CHURCH MUSEUM
> This view of Istanbul, Turkey, includes the Hagia Sophia, the largest > building on the left. If you become a famous soldier, you might have a city named for you. That's what happened to a great...
GIFT OF STONE
Before the temple in this picture was built near Chicago, Illinois, a man from Persia (now called Iran) arrived to mark the place where the temple would rise. Some people say that as a small group of...
THE REAL MECCA
If you want to be a hajji, you have to make a hajj. A hajj is a pilgrimage, or journey, to the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Moslems, as believers in the religion of Islam are called, try to make a...
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...
