Monthly Archives: April 2017
HISTORY SHARE: ST. GEORGE’S DAY PRINTABLES
Happy St. George’s Day! https://www.activityvillage.co.uk/st-georges-day-printables
HISTORY SHARE: WOMEN WARRIORS OF WW II
Image of Susan Travers: Levin01/Wikimedia Commons. http://www.upworthy.com/15-badass-women-of-world-war-ii-you-didnt-learn-about-in-history-class?c=ufb2
HISTORIC MOVIE IDEAS FOR APRIL
April’s TV and/or movie suggestions are all Titanic based: Ghosts Of The Abyss (Disney Documentary, 2003) A Night To Remember (1958) Titanic (1943) Teens & Adults might find this German version of interest. According to it, a totally fictitious German First Officer was the hero, and all the non-Germans villains. But the German liner used […]
TRIVIA TRAIL: HISTORIC WORDS
Question: What is the Codex Sinaiticus? Answer: A fourth-century version of the Christian Bible. Handwritten in Greek, it contains the earliest complete copy of the New Testament.
HISTORY SHARE: HISTORIC QUESTION: DID JESUS RISE FROM THE DEAD?
Something teens and adults might like to investigate on this Good Friday. http://y-jesus.com/wwrj/6-jesus-rise-dead/
DON’T FORGET THE ‘STORY’
April’s book suggestions are Easter & Titanic based. Ages 3-7 Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco (Pysanky Egg Tradition) Peter’s First Easter by Walter Wangerin Jr. Titanicat by Marty Crisp Ages 7-9 Canadian Flyer Adventures # 14: SOS! Titanic! by Frieda Wishinsky (Early 20th-Century) Kaspar, Prince Of Cats / Kaspar The Titanic Cat by Michael Morpurgo […]
HISTORY TIDBIT: HISTORIC HEIST: THE STONE OF DESTINY
On Christmas Eve, 1950, Scottish Nationalists broke into Westminster Abbey and carried off an oblong block of red sandstone called, in Gaelic, Lia Fail. Also known as the Stone of Scone and the Stone of Destiny, the kings of Scotland had been crowned sitting atop it since about the ninth century AD (although not in […]
HISTORIC EXHIBIT: THE TERRACOTTA WARRIORS
If you’re going to be in or near Seattle in the upcoming months, don’t miss the Terracotta Warriors: Guards For Eternity exhibit. In 1974, some peasant in Lintong, Xian, Shaanxi Province, China unearthed pieces of pottery dating from the Qin Dynasty (211-206 BC) and archaeologists moved in to dig more extensively. This led to the discovery […]
