Monthly Archives: January 2014
HISTORIC CELEBRATION: CHINESE NEW YEAR
Happy Chinese New Year! It is now the Year of the Horse.
HISTORIC ATTACK: ASSASSINATION OF MAHATMA GANDHI
Mahatma means ‘Great Soul’, and was the title most commonly used in reference to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a political and spiritual leader in India during the first half of the twentieth century. One of Gandhi’s chief aims was for India to gain its independence from Great Britain, which he eventually achieved by fighting prejudice and […]
WINTER TRADITION: QUÉBEC WINTER CARNIVAL
Québec is the name of both a Canadian province and that province’s capital city. Winter celebrations have been held in Québec City since 1894, but the first official carnival was in 1955. Since then, thousands of visitors have flocked to the annual Carnaval de Québec (Québec Winter Carnival) and been welcomed by its mascot, a […]
BOOK REVIEW: THE MUD ROSE
Book Review by Marva Dasef: U.S.A. This is the second book in Renee Duke’s Rose series about time-traveling kids making right the wrongs of the past. The first in the series involved the two princes in the Tower of London. They mystery is whether they were murdered by Richard III or did something else happen? […]
BOOK GIVEAWAY AT THE CELLOPHANE QUEEN
I’m away today, guest blogging with the Cellophane Queen, Marva Dasef, to promote The Mud Rose, the second book in my Time Rose series. Visitors to the site have a chance to win a free copy. All you have to do is speculate on the identity of Jack the Ripper. http://mgddasef.blogspot.ca/
TOP TEN BEST CHILDREN’S BOOK PLACEMENT 2013
The Disappearing Rose (the first book in my Time Rose series) didn’t win a recent contest it was entered in, but did make it into the top ten. Below: One of the reviews that appeared on Amazon & Goodreads shortly after its release in August, 2013. Leslie McCawley: Sydney, NSW, Australia I love how […]
HISTORIC RECOGNITION: MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY
Martin Luther King Day honours and celebrates the life of the American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Junior, who worked to end racial segregation in the American South and promote racial equality everywhere. Though his day is officially observed on the third Monday in January, he was actually born on January 15th, 1929. Most […]
MAKING A GAME OF HISTORY: CONSTRUCTIVE HISTORY
Yesterday’s post was about the failure of the Scott Expedition, which came about through a combination of bad judgement and bad luck. Failure isn’t always caused by those factors, though. Sometimes it’s just due to an unwillingness to persevere and/or adapt. Take the Vikings who went to Greenland. Their homeland had a harsh climate, but […]
HISTORIC FAILURE: THE SCOTT EXPEDITION
The Scott Expedition at the South Pole: (l-r, standing) Captain Lawrence Oates, Captain Robert Falcon Scott, and Petty Officer Edgar Evans, (l-r, seated) Lieutenant Henry Bowers and naturalist, Edward Wilson. History isn’t always made by the successful. Those who fail at their appointed task sometimes get into the history book too. One example is the […]
Time Travelling With Kids 