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| Author | Patricia Brennan Demuth |
| ISBN | 0448465809 |
On December 7, 1941, Japanese war planes appeared out of nowhere to bomb the American base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. It was a highly secretive and devastating attack: four battleships sunk, more than two thousand servicemen died, and the United States was propelled into...
Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?
| Author | Megan Stine |
| ISBN | 1524786268 |
Even before it was named, the Bermuda Triangle--roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico--had gained a mythic...
What Was the Holocaust?
| Author | Gail Herman |
| ISBN | 0451533909 |
The Holocaust was a genocide on a scale never before seen, with as many as twelve million people killed in Nazi death camps--six million of them Jews. Gail Herman traces the rise of Hitler and the Nazis,...
Where Is Machu Picchu?
| Author | Megan Stine |
| ISBN | 0515159611 |
Built in the fifteenth century and tucked away in the mountains of Peru, Machu Picchu was abandoned after the Spaniards...
What Was the Great Depression?
| Author | Janet B. Pascal |
| ISBN | 0448484277 |
What Is the Declaration of Independence?
| Author | Michael C. Harris |
| ISBN | 0399542302 |
On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence, a document that...
Where Is Stonehenge?
| Author | True Kelley |
Where is Stonehenge? That's an easy question to answer. It sits on the Salisbury Plain in Southern England. But what is the meaning of these strange circles of stones? Was Stonehenge a religious...
Where Is the Taj Mahal?
| Author | Dorothy Hoobler |
| ISBN | 0399542159 |
The Taj Mahal may look like a palace, but it's actually a tomb and a lasting testament to one of the world's great love stories. In 1612, Mogul emperor Shah Jahan married Mumtaz Mahal....
What Was D-Day?
| Author | Patricia Brennan Demuth |
| ISBN | 0448484072 |
What Is the Constitution?
| Author | Patricia Brennan Demuth |
| ISBN | 1524786098 |
Signed on September 17, 1787--four years after the American War for Independence--the Constitution laid out the supreme law of the United States of America. Today it's easy...
Where Is the Colosseum?
| Author | Jim O'Connor |
The Emperor Titus opened the enormous Colosseum in AD 80 to host 100 days of games, and it will astound readers to learn what the ancient Romans found entertaining. Over 50,000 screaming fans watched gladiators...
What Were the Roaring Twenties?
| Author | Michele Mortlock |
| ISBN | 1524786381 |
It was the bees' knees, the cat's meow. If you're not familiar with 1920s slang, all the more reason to read this fascinating look at that wild,...