Which weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of gold? You probably said, "Ha, you can't fool me! A pound is a pound. They both weigh the same!" Sorry, you're wrong. A pound of feathers weighs...
Balances and coins
When people first began to raise crops, they had to carry the grain from the field to a storage place. They soon learned that they could carry two loads easily by hanging one load at each end of a...
TREASURE PLACES
> A treasure can be trunks of gold buried by a pirate, or bars of gold > buried by a government. A treasure can be a famous painting hanging on a wall, or a picture painted right on a wall. Even...
HAIR FOR HONEY
> The golden building is a shrine to Buddha. It is in Rangoon, Burma. Once, there lived a man who was a great teacher and doctor. People thought that he was so wise that they gave him the title...
Here comes the dragon!
Chinese New Year Firecrackers pop and crackle! Cymbals crash! Drums roll! Zigzagging down the street comes a giant golden dragon made of silk and velvet, decorated with hundreds of sparkling-...
The money minerals
Gold is a bright-yellow metal that looks like sunlight turned to stone. Silver is a pale-gray metal that looks like frozen moonlight. These two minerals are so beautiful and hard to find that people...
My Little Golden Sister
a Chinese nursery rhyme adapted by Robert Wyndham My little golden sister Rides a golden horse so slow; She'll have to use a golden whip To make her slow horse go. A little golden fish In a...
