When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #47 Abe Lincoln at Last! they had lots of questions. What was it like to grow up in a log cabin? How did Lincoln become president? What was his family like? Why did United States fight the Civil War? It's time to be a Fact Tracker with Jack and Annie!
In March of 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children's Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. On the outside, in while paint, were these words:"Hana Brady" and "Waisenkind" - the German word for orphan. Children who saw the suitcase on display were full of questions. Who was Has Brady? What happened to her? They wanted Fumiko Ishioka, the center's curator, to find the answers.
There was a time that Sergeant Alvin C. York was a household name in America. Perhaps many of you recognize the name from the motion picture of Sergeant York as protrayed by Gary Cooper. Needless to say the movie won Cooper his first Oscar and gave Sergeant York even more notoriety, helping to retain his status as a true American hero.
Gilgamesh is the great epic of Mesopotamia, one of the oldest woks in Western literature, contemporary with the oldest parts of the Bible. It is the story of a legendary king who achieves heroic victories with the help of the wild man Enkidu; but when his friend dies, Gilgamesh goes in search of the way to escape death, a secret he can learn only from the one man who survived the Great Flood.
Hellem Keller merupakan sosok yang menjadi bukti bahwa keterbatasan yang dimiliki seseorang tidak dapat menjadi penghalang untuk memperoleh kesuksesan. Meski tidak dapat melihat dan mendengar, yang juge membuatnya tidak dapat berbicara, Helen dapat keluar dari kegelapan setelah hadirnya Anne Sullivan, seorang guru yang dengan setia hingga akhir hayatnya menemani Helen. Dengan dukungan orang-ora…
Plutarch's Lives, written at the beginning of the second century A.D., is a brilliant social history of the ancient world by one of the greatest biographers and moralist of all time. In what is by far his most famous and influential work, Plutarch reveals the character and personality of his subjects and how they led ultimately to tragedy or victory. Richly anecdotal and full of detail, Volume …
"Yang sakit itu Soedirman, tapi Panglima Besar tidak pernah sakit." Pagi itu, 19 Desember 1948, Panglima besar bangkit dan memutuskan memimpin pasukan keluar dari Yogyakarta, mengkonsolidasikan tentara, dan mempertahankan Republik dengan bergerilya. Panglima Besar sudah terikat sumpah: haram menyerah bagi tentara. Karena ikrar inilah Soedirman menolak bujukan Sukarno untuk berdiam di Yogyaka…