Monthly Archives: September 2020
TRIVIA TRAIL: GREAT WALL OF CHINA
Question: Who built the Great Wall Of China? Answer: The construction of the Great Wall was ordered by China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, to defend against invading nomadic tribes such as the Xiongnu, possible ancestors of the Huns. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/great-wall-china/
HISTORIC BATTLE: THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
Though not born until the decade following the war, I had what the (mostly very young) fliers did for Britain sufficiently impressed upon me to sometimes be conscious of it when I rode my bike along the, by then, disused aerodrome between Oxford and Grove. And it was certainly always remembered and valued by those […]
HISTORY SHARE: PANDEMIC PRACTICES
Seems like the ways of getting through a pandemic haven’t changed very much. https://tinyurl.com/y2g2lokr
HISTORIC SCHOOLS: OUTDOOR SCHOOLS
This might work well as a back-to-school-during-a-pandemic solution in some areas, but I don’t think outdoor classes would be too popular through a Canadian winter, no matter how bundled up the kids were. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-outdoor-schooling-180975696/
Time Travelling With Kids 