Monthly Archives: July 2015

HISTORIC DISCOVERY: MEDIEVAL CAT’S PAW PRINTS

Even for history buffs, plodding through ponderous old documents can be a dull task, but occasionally they come across something they’re not expecting. University of Sarejevo teaching and research assistant, Emir O. Filipović, certainly did in July of 2011. While looking through a fifteenth-century medieval manuscript from Dubrovnik in Croatia, Filipović found the paw prints […]

HISTORIC 60th ANNIVERSARY: DISNEYLAND

I like Disneyland. I’ve been several times, with children and without. With is better. Most were just regular trips, but in 1995, I took the youngest member of the next generation to the 40th anniversary. I debated whether or not to attend on the actual day. Would it be overcrowded because it was the actual […]

HISTORIC PHOTOS: THE LAST DAYS OF THE ROMANOVS

In 1789, oppression of the masses brought about a bloody revolution in France that led to the violent demise of most of its aristocracy. Having learned nothing from this, Russia’s royals went right on oppressing their own masses and, by 1917, had irked them sufficiently to spark the Russian revolution that ultimately led to their […]

HAPPY BASTILLE DAY 2015

 

HISTORIC WORTH-A-VISIT: DINOSAUR EXHIBITS

With Jurassic World now in theatres around the world, kids are likely to have more interest in dinosaurs than ever before. (And even before, most of them were interested. There’s just something about the critters.) In consequence, dinosaur exhibits and inter-active programmes abound. Some, such as the ones at the Royal Tyrrell Museum near Drumheller […]

TRIVIA TRAIL: SUNDIALS

Question: Sundials are considered the world’s oldest scientific instrument. What do they measure? Answer: Time. The base, or dial, of a sundial has markings, and as the sun moves, the shadow from the sundial’s pin falls on different sections, indicating how much time has passed. First used in Ancient Egypt, sundials of varying shapes and […]

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, U.S.A. 2015

HAPPY CANADA DAY 2015

To learn more about how Canada came about, visit: http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/holidays/canadaday1.htm Info on the Canadian flag (now fifty years old) can be found here: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/rewind/the-great-canadian-flag-debate-1.2950696

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