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Thomas Jefferson Didn't Sign the Constitution by Barbara M. Linde
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Barbara M. Linde

THE MYTH: THE US CONSTITUTION GAVE EVERYONE THE RIGHT TO VOTE. THE FACTS: There isn’t one word in the Constitution about who can vote. At that time, only white men ...
( Category: History January 12,2023 )
F is for First State by Carol Crane
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Carol Crane

P In the 1680s William Penn arrived in Pennsylvania and Delaware and found that Native Americans were growing peaches. The climate and growing season were just right to make peaches ...
( Category: State & Local January 12,2023 )
E is for Evergreen by Roland Smith & Roland Smith & Linda Holt Ayriss
epub |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Roland Smith & Roland Smith & Linda Holt Ayriss

N On July 17, 1897, the steamboat Portland sailed into Seattle harbor with two tons of gold and news of a gold strike. Gold was found on the small Klondike ...
( Category: State & Local January 12,2023 )
B Is for Beaver by Roland Smith & Roland Smith & Michael Roydon
epub |eng | 2003-01-15 | Author:Roland Smith & Roland Smith & Michael Roydon

O The Oregon Trail was the largest voluntary human migration in history, bringing over 300,000 pioneers to the western frontier during the 1800s. It was called “Oregon Fever.” Starting in ...
( Category: State & Local January 12,2023 )
Discovering Mission Santa Inés by Sofia Nuñes
epub |eng | | Author:Sofia Nuñes

Next to the church was a cemetery. And beside it, on one side of the square, stood the friars' rooms, offices, living and guest quarters, and a monjerio. Workshops, barns, ...
( Category: State & Local January 9,2023 )
Discovering Mission Santa Bárbara by Jack Connelly
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Connelly

Neophytes built an irrigation system that brought water to the mission. water and irrigation At Mission Santa Barbara the neophytes were responsible for building systems that would bring water from ...
( Category: State & Local January 9,2023 )
Discovering Mission San Carlos Borromeo del Río Carmelo by Sam C. Hamilton
epub |eng | | Author:Sam C. Hamilton

The builders quarried large slabs of sandstone from the Santa Lucia Mountains nearby. They hauled these rocks to the Carmel Valley on carretas (wooden carts pulled by oxen or mules). ...
( Category: History January 9,2023 )
Meet Me in St. Louis by Robert Jackson
epub |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Robert Jackson [Jackson, Robert]

HAGENBECK’S ZOOLOGICAL PARADISE & ANIMAL CIRCUS Children and adults came face-to-face with many of Carl Hagenbeck’s creatures—big and small—from around the world. One advertisement described the scene as “an immense ...
( Category: History January 9,2023 )
S is for Sooner by Devin Scillian
epub |eng | 2003-01-15 | Author:Devin Scillian

O Oil is one of the most important resources in the world. So it was quite a day in April15,1897 when oil started to gush from a huge oil well ...
( Category: History January 9,2023 )
A Kid's Look at Colorado by Phyllis J. Perry
epub |eng | 2005-01-15 | Author:Phyllis J. Perry

Chapter 8 Early Gold, Silver, and Coal Mining in Colorado The 49ers, rushing to the goldfields of California, ignored Colorado as they followed the various trails from Independence, Missouri, to ...
( Category: State & Local January 8,2023 )
The Real Story Behind the Founding Fathers by Rachael Morlock
epub |eng | | Author:Rachael Morlock [Morlock, Rachael]

FACT FINDER The Culper Ring was made up of ordinary citizens and military members. They sent secret information using codes and invisible ink. They also helped spread false rumors started ...
( Category: History January 8,2023 )
The Real Story Behind the Civil War by Lisa Idzikowski
epub |eng | | Author:Lisa Idzikowski [dzikowski, Lisa]

In 1837, politician John C. Calhoun of South Carolina used the words “a positive good” when referring to slavery in a speech. He later became a U.S. senator and secretary ...
( Category: History January 8,2023 )
National Geographic Readers: September 11 (Level 3) by Libby Romero
epub |eng | 2021-01-15 | Author:Libby Romero [Romero, Libby]

HEROES in ACTION The firefighters of Ladder Company 6 called Josephine Harris their “guardian angel.” They knew that if they had been anywhere else in the building or just outside ...
( Category: History January 7,2023 )
Erimem - Into The Unknown by unknow
epub |eng | 2016-01-17 | Author:unknow

It was almost dawn when I woke. I had stayed in the tomb through the night and I had survived. I had no memory of anything that had happened. The ...
( Category: History January 7,2023 )
Navy SEALs for Kids! by Eric Z
epub |eng | 2020-08-15 | Author:Eric Z

Only then, when you have proven that you are the MASTER of your thoughts and body, can you be a Navy SEAL. Because in real life, as well as in ...
( Category: Modern January 6,2023 )

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