Fun Italy Facts For Kids Italy is one seriously interesting country, from the Ancient Romans, their awesome food, their super speedy cars and an entirely independent state that sits within Italy itself. Read on, you’ll be amazed at some of these cool fa
Royal advisors in Spain raised similar concerns to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, but they trusted in Christopher’s promises and paid him to explore the west in search for a new route to India. Turns out the naysayers were right. Columbus dramatically underestimated the earth’s circumference...
Goat leather is known for being strong, soft, and supple. It is used to make bags, jackets, and small leather goods such as wallets. Goats were the first animals successfully raised to work and provide food sources and materials. Christopher Columbus brought goats to the Americas in 1493. T...
Italian Christopher Columbus discovered America and Marco Polo who discovered the Orient was also Italian. Other famous Italians include John Cabot and Amerigo Vespucci. Beyond exploring the world, Italians are famous for exploring the night skies. The famous astronomer Galileo Galilei was Italian. ...
Texarkana's newest event center Crossties in downtown Texarkana will feature the movie The Adam's Family for free Friday night under the stars.
TheImperial Palace Waterpark Resort and Spaadds weight to the Mactan hotel line-up with 556 rooms and a waterpark, a kids’ club for the tots, and a poolside Cabana Lounge replete with flatscreen TVs and DVD players. Also in Mactan is the sprawlingCrimson Beach Resort and Spaspread over ...
Just kidding!Dinosaurlanddoesn’t have any living dinosaurs but it does have a lot (50!) of fiberglass dinosaurs for kids and adults to marvel at. While they’re not animated, they are colorful and, by the photos, look pretty well maintained given they live outside in the elements. ...
to sign autographs for all the little Greek kids unless they pay him lots of drachmas. (Ken Krattenmaker, Landover Hills) 2nd Runner-Up: I felt a nameless dread. Well, there probably is a long German name for it, like Geschpooklichkeit or ...
Hey everybody, I’m looking for some fun books (mostly fiction) to read this summer. What would you recommend? One book I recently enjoyed wasThe Martian, a novel about an astronaut stranded on Mars who needs to figure out how to survive and get home with minimal supplies. It was a ...
Selling cheeses just isn't a suitable occupation for the young Christopher. Together with his brother Bartolomeo they hatch a plan to sail west across the ocean to reach Asia. It all sounds so simple, but maybe Columbus will unknowingly reach a 'New World' instead?Read more about the play....