epub |eng | 2018-02-21 | Author:Steven Otfinoski [Otfinoski, Steven]

BENJAMIN HUGER Benjamin Huger (1805–1877) had the military in his blood. Both of his grandfathers had served during the Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and one had been killed defending Charleston from ...

epub |eng | 2017-02-03 | Author:Speedy Publishing

Their habitats range from the center of the earth to the middle of the ocean. They could also be found in caves, fire, or anywhere dark and damp. In China, ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-30 | Author:Elizabeth Raum [Raum, Elizabeth]

Apollo 13 took pictures of the far side of the moon, capturing an image of Tsiolovsky crater. NAVIGATING Mission Control told Lovell he would have to fire the engines again ...

epub |eng | 1998-01-15 | Author:James Lincoln Collier

The Susan Constant, a replica of one of the ships that carried settlers to Jamestown at the beginning. This replica can be seen today at Jamestown. In the years before ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-05 | Author:Krystyna Poray Goddu [Goddu, Krystyna Poray]

Printed in 1775 this map of the British battle plan was drawn by an officer at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Below the map appears a letter written by British ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-30 | Author:Sean McCollum [McCollum, Sean]

A beach on Comoros features the unique terrain and landscape of the island. Bahia pressed her face against the window to look out, hoping she might see city lights in ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-30 | Author:Pamela Dell [Dell, Pamela]

Apache scouts also lost their freedom. In what became known as “the Parting,” they were relocated to New Mexico to live with the Mescalero Apache on their reservation. Those remaining ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-19 | Author:Mary Colson [Colson, Mary]

Sean Choolburra Sean Choolburra is a well-known Indigenous Australian comedian and cultural performer. He visits schools all over the world and leads cultural workshops. He has even been known to ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:Rebecca Langston-George [Langston-George, Rebecca]

With nowhere else to go, migrants camped on roadsides in California and other states. Although only about 20 percent of the Dust Bowl migrants came from Oklahoma, all the migrants ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-30 | Author:Nancy Dickmann [Dickmann, Nancy]

WETLAND HORROR DIANA TILDEN-DAVIS What’s the most dangerous animal in Africa? If you ask around, many people would probably guess a lion. Others might suggest a leopard or crocodile or ...

epub |eng | 2000-01-15 | Author:James Lincoln Collier

As late as the 1920s, when this picture was taken, peasants in Italy were still tilling the soil using primitive wooden plows at the cost of much sweat, as their ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-29 | Author:Danielle Smith-Llera [Danielle Smith-Llera]

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Nearly a million people attended Guevara’s memorial ceremony in Havana eight days later. A print of Korda’s photograph hung down five stories of a government building in Havana’s ...

epub |eng | 2019-10-30 | Author:Eric Braun [Braun, Eric]

A NIGHT IN THE DEATH ZONE BECK WEATHERS Most people would consider Beck Weathers a very lucky guy—even before he survived a harrowing near-death experience on the highest mountain in ...

epub |eng | 2019-11-02 | Author:John Micklos Jr. [Micklos, John]

Bloody Battles The Civil War cost more lives than any other war in U.S. history. About 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. Many died in battle. About two out ...

epub |eng | | Author:Cindy Blobaum

DID YOU KNOW? Plenty of fish, reptiles, amphibians, spiders, and insects lived during the Ice Age. These animals were an important source of food for some of the bigger, better-known ...