Tag: history
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The Boy’s Life of Edison Chapters 3 & 4
Chapters 3 and 4 Edison’s Early Boyhood It was when he was about seven years old that Edison’s parents moved to Port Huron, Michigan, and it was there, a few years later, that he began his active life by becoming a newsboy. With his mother he found study easy and pleasant. The quality of the…
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The Story of Mankind: The Phoenicians
The Phoenicians, who were the neighbors of the Jews, were a Semitic tribe which at a very early age had settled along the shores of the Mediterranean. They had built themselves two well-fortified towns, Tyre and Sidon, and within a short time they had gained a monopoly of the trade of the western seas. Their…
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The Boy’s Life of Edison Chapters 1 & 2
Chapters 1 and 2 The Early Days of Electricity This is the life story of the greatest of inventors in the field of electricity. It is true that Thomas A. Edison has helped the progress of the world by many other inventions and discoveries quite outside of electricity, but it is in this field that…
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The Story of Mankind: Moses
Some time during the twentieth century before our era, a small and unimportant tribe of Semitic shepherds had left its old home, which was situated in the land of Ur on the mouth of the Euphrates, and had tried to find new pastures within the domain of the Kings of Babylonia. They had been driven…
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The Story of Mankind: Lesson 8: The Sumerians
The fifteenth century was an age of great discoveries. Columbus tried to find a way to the island of Kathay and stumbled upon a new and unsuspected continent. An Austrian bishop equipped an expedition which was to travel eastward and find the home of the Grand Duke of Muscovy, a voyage which led to complete…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: FRANKLIN’S WHISTLE.
FRANKLIN’S WHISTLE. When Franklin was an old man, he wrote a cu-ri-ous letter. In that letter he told a story. It was about some-thing that happened to him when he was a boy. Here is the story put into verses, so that you will re-member it better. Some day you can read the story as…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: FRANKLIN AND THE KITE.
When Franklin wanted to know whether the ants could talk or not, he asked the ants, and they told him. When he wanted to know some-thing else, he asked the sunshine about it, as you have read in another story. That is the way that Franklin came to know so many things. He knew how…
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THE STORY OF MANKIND
“The Story of Mankind” by Hendrik Van Loon chronicles human history from prehistory to the modern era, highlighting key events, cultures, and figures that shaped civilization.
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CHAPTER VII. HOW A BOY BROUGHT THE ADMIRAL TO GRIEF.
Columbus kept sailing on from one island to another. Each new island he found would, he hoped, bring him nearer to Cathay and to the marble temples and golden palaces and splendid cities he was looking for. But the temples and palaces and cities did not appear. When the Admiral came to the coast of…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: FRANKLIN ASKS THE SUNSHINE SOMETHING.
One day Franklin was eating dinner at the house of a friend. The lady of the house, when she poured out the coffee, found that it was not hot. She said, “I am sorry that the coffee is cold. It is because the servant forgot to scour the coffee-pot. Coffee gets cold more quickly when…