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HISTORY CHALLENGE: HISTORIC TRAVEL WRITERS
When modern kids think of a travel writer, the name Rick Steves is probably the first that comes to mind, but people have been travelling, and writing about it, for centuries. Many, many centuries. It didn’t just start with Marco Polo, who may, or may not, have visited the places he said he did. Fan […]
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 