About two hundred years ago, there was a big change in the country of France. The French people were being badly mistreated by their king and the nobles. So, the people rose up and got rid of them...
HIGHWAY OF ALL THE AMERICAS
With all its roads, the Pan American Highway system is longer than the distance around the middle of the earth. The letters \"pan before a word mean "all,' so "Pan American Highway means "highway of...
Beneath the pole
> Above the endless sheet of white ice, a cold wind howled. Somewhere in > all that frozen whiteness was the spot that was the farthest north of any place on earth---the North Pole. Beneath the ice...
Plants of the frozen north
Far in the north, on the edge of the great sea that reaches to the North Pole, there is a great, flat plain called the tundra....
Elephants with fur coats
If you could have been in North America or Europe twenty thousand years ago, you'd have thought you were at the North Pole! Much of the land was covered with a mountain of ice and snow. Many animals...
The sun’s boundary lines
Do you know why most globes are tilted on their stands? It's because the earth is tilted. Because of this tilt, different places on earth get different amounts of sunlight. Special lines on globes...
Which way?
Which way are you going? A compass can tell you. A compass is a box with a magnetic pointer or needle that turns. The marked end of the needle always points north. Why? Because it is pulled by a...
Sky “fireworks”
People who live far enough north or far enough south are often treated to a giant "fireworks" display on clear nights. Great sheets of light seem to hang in the sky, rippling and wavering like...