Go to Australia TODAY!

Welcome! How would you like to take a vacation to Australia with "no expenses"?  (I would love to have a  " no expenses"  trip but that's not quite how the world works:)  Would you take this offer?  Here are some fun things about Australia that I think you would like! Favorite Attractions In Australia, you can visit...

The Stars and the Heavens…

This man is Galileo Galilei and he was a 17th Century Italian scientist who studied mathematics and physics.  But, he is probably best known for his discoveries in astronomy.  Did you know that he discovered the rings around the planet Saturn, and four of the dozens of satellites ( word for: smaller planet or object...

Welcome to… Amerigo?

Do you know how or where North and South America got the name America? It was all due to man named America Vespucci who, like most people during the Renaissance, was an explorer  (from Italy). Vespucci was not always an explorer but a clerk for the House of Medici, as well as a trade merchant....

Circumnavigation of the Earth is Hard!

You know about how Columbus sailed to the "West Indies" and the people he found he called Indians? But he really found the underside of the Americas like the Bahamas and Cuba? Did you know about the man who started the expedition of circumnavigating the earth? This man's name was Ferdinand Magellan, and he was...

The Earth is WHERE?

Did you know that about 1800 years ago (200 AD) that an astronomer and astrologist  named Ptolemy made a theory about how the Earth was the center of our solar system? And people believed him, for 1200 years?! Crazy right? In the 1400's, during the Renaissance, one man finally decided that Ptolemy's theory of a...

Behind-the-Scenes: Ring around the Rosy

Hello! Today I am doing a post on the huge epidemic of the mid-14th century that killed over 30-60% of the whole European population. The Black Death.  But instead of talking about the whole thing, there was something that struck me as strange, and I want to write about this one thing. During the lesson...

Tell me, do you know who William Tell is?

Today, I am typing a post about William Tell, and just how legendary he was/is. I don't know the exact date of this story but I am going with 12 to 1400's or around that time. (I really wish I knew the exact date, but I think this story is more important than the date...

KHAN you guess what this post is about?

Today I am writing about someone who lived near the Gobi Desert and present day Mongolia which is right next to China, he was born into a tribe of people known as the Mongols (but the actual name of the tribe was the Borjigin tribe). Do you know who it is yet? He would later...

Contro-what-now?

Hi, and welcome to a post about the Investiture Controversy. Wait! don't leave yet. I am going to be talking about two men who had an argument about something  that was a really big deal to them way back when, and those two men were: Pope Gregory VII Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV Let us begin...

They sailed the seas…

Hi! Today I am writing about the Vikings, one of my many favorite cultures! The Vikings were a tribe that originated, and came from places in Scandinavia like Norway, Denmark and Sweden. People today still call them pirates, bloodthirsty and merciless raiders, and while some of that is true, the Vikings at home were, in...