Brutus Celebrates Bermuda’s 400th Birthday
affiliate program Brutus the Bear hopped across the Atlantic to party during Bermuda’s 400th anniversary this year. Brutus, who travels for Mrs. Schroeder’s third-grade class at St. Joseph Consolidated School in Hamilton, Ohio, hung out with A. David Frith, town crier of St. George’s, Bermuda’s first capital. The Traveling Teddy is a geography outreach program [...]
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Does Greenland Have the World’s Only Shipwrecked Church?
affiliate program Whatever the weather, the fishing village of Qaqortoq in southern Greenland looks like a joyous Legoland. The sharp-peaked houses gleam in coral, teal, sunflower and jade. Life here is even color-coded: Doctors’ home and hospitals are usually yellow, sheriffs’ homes and jails green. Danes founded this coastal trading settlement in 1775. The colonial [...]
Keep Reading...MINI Cooper Hits 50!
affiliate program I love my MINI Cooper–how can you not?–and popped in to see where they’re made at Plant Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. William Morris built Oxford’s first car, a Bullnose Morris, in 1913, and built this plant in the 1930s. The original MINI was built here in 1959; production returned in 2001 when the BMW [...]
Keep Reading...Brutus Time-Travels in Egypt
Bears aren’t used to desert heat and sand, but Brutus, who travels for Mrs. Schroeder’s third-grade class in St. Joseph Consolidated School in Hamilton, Ohio, is a trooper. He traveled from Alexandria to Aswan, hoppping on and off boats and even camels!
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