Download or read book Washington Curiosities written by Harriet Baskas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive collection of Washington's odd, wacky, and most offbeat people, places, and things, for Washington residents and anyone else who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.
Download or read book Washington Curiosities written by Harriet Baskas and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Curiosities is your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things Washington State has to offer. Travel writer Harriet Baskas has combed Washington for one-of-a-kind gems that make her home state truly unique. You'll meet a man who owns the world's second largest Frisbee collection; tour the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute; discover where to go to taste a gigantic cherry pie; take a dip in the healing waters of Soap Lake. Whether you were born and raised in Washington or are a recent transplant, Baskas's home-grown humour will have you laughing out loud as she introduces you to the neighbours you never knew you had and takes you to places you never knew existed - right in your own backyard.
Download or read book Weird Washington written by Jeff Davis and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don't venture. These unique travel guides are chock-full of information about oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, and peculiar roadside attractions.
Download or read book 14 Fun Facts About the Washington Monument A 15 Minute Book written by Caitlind L. Alexander and published by Learning Island. This book was released on with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Washington Monument is one of the most recognizable monuments in Washington D.C.. It took over 50 years to build, and it has stood for over 100 years. How much do you know about this magnificent monument. How thick are the walls at the base of the monument? Why is the Washington Monument made up of two different colors of marble? Why is there a stone in the monument that says “My language, my land, my nation of Wales – Wales forever”? What metal was used to cap the Washington Monument? Find out more about the Washington Monument and amaze your family and friends with these fun facts. All measurements in American and metric. The Educational Version has activities that meet Common Core Curriculum Standards. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.
Download or read book Washington Facts and Symbols written by Emily McAuliffe and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about the state of Washington, its nickname, flag, motto, and emblems.
Download or read book 14 Fun Facts About the Washington Monument written by Caitlind L. Alexander and published by Learning Island. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Washington Monument is one of the most recognizable monuments in Washington D.C.. It took over 50 years to build, and it has stood for over 100 years. How much do you know about this magnificent monument. How thick are the walls at the base of the monument? Why is the Washington Monument made up of two different colors of marble? Why is there a stone in the monument that says “My language, my land, my nation of Wales – Wales forever”? What metal was used to cap the Washington Monument? Find out more about the Washington Monument and amaze your family and friends with these fun facts. All measurements in American and metric. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.
Download or read book 14 Fun Facts About Washington DC A 15 Minute Book written by Cullen Gwin and published by Learning Island. This book was released on with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington D.C. is our nation’s capitol. It is where many of our important laws are made, and the place that runs our country. What happens in Washington DC affects our lives in many ways, but how much do you know about this place? Do you know: By law, how large is Washington DC allowed to be? What made the way Washington DC was laid out different from every other city in America at that time? Is Washington DC larger or smaller than it was when it was first formed? What happened to many buildings in Washington DC 15 years after the city was formed? How long did it take Washington DC to get paved roads after it was formed? Find out the answers to these questions and many more and amaze your family and friends with these fun facts. Ages 8 and up. All measurements in American and metric. The Educational Version has activities that meet Common Core Curriculum Standards. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.
Download or read book Seattle Curiosities written by Steve Pomper and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Emerald City has to offer!
Download or read book The Washington Monument written by Robert David Murray and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Washington Monument is the tallest and most famous tribute to our nation's capitol. But do you know the real history behind the monument? Historic, primary source photos and explorative infographics help kids learn even more about this famous structure.
Download or read book 14 Fun Facts About Washington DC written by Cullen Gwin and published by Learning Island. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington D.C. is our nation’s capitol. It is where many of our important laws are made, and the place that runs our country. What happens in Washington DC affects our lives in many ways, but how much do you know about this place? Do you know: By law, how large is Washington DC allowed to be? What made the way Washington DC was laid out different from every other city in America at that time? Is Washington DC larger or smaller than it was when it was first formed? What happened to many buildings in Washington DC 15 years after the city was formed? How long did it take Washington DC to get paved roads after it was formed? Find out the answers to these questions and many more and amaze your family and friends with these fun facts. Ages 8 and up. All measurements in American and metric. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.
Download or read book Just the Facts about Washington written by Albert E. Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secrets of Our Nation s Capital written by Susan Schader Lee and published by Union Square Kids. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasury of facts and trivia about Washington, D.C. includes entries about the Capitol basement's ghost cat, the one-eared bust of President Lincoln, and the famous memorials at the National Mall.
Download or read book 1001 Curious Things written by Kate C. Duncan and published by Seattle : University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than one hundred years, tourists and residents alike have flocked to Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, located on Seattle's waterfront. Here a mummy nicknamed Sylvester, a collection of shrunken heads from Ecuador, a two-headed calf, and a mermaid preside over walls and cases crammed with an incredible jumble of souvenirs and trinkets, intermixed with authentic Northwest Coast and Alaskan Eskimo carvings, baskets, blankets, and other artworks. The guestbook records visits by Theodore Roosevelt, Will Rogers, Jack Dempsey, Charlie Chaplin, J. Edgar Hoover, Katherine Hepburn, John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone, and Queen Marie of Rumania, among many others. Ye Olde Curiosity Shop was founded in 1899 by Joseph E. "Daddy" Standley, an Ohio-born curio collector who came to Seattle in the late 1890s during the Yukon gold rush. Although Native American material vied for space with exotica from all corners of the globe, it soon grew to be the mainstay of the shop, which became identified with the whalebones displayed outside and the "piles of old Eskimo relics" within. Also to be found were baskets, moccasins, ivory carving from Alaska, Tlingit spruce root baskets, Haida "jadeite" totem poles, masks, paddles, and other curiosities from the Northwest Coast. Indians from the Olympic Peninsula brought baskets, coming up to the back door of the shop in their canoes. Others, originally from British Columbia but now living on the flats not far from the shop, carved miniature totem poles by the hundreds and full-size poles on commission. Trading companies supplied Indian curios from the Plains, Southwest, and California. An art historian trained in the classic arts of the Northwest Coast, Kate Duncan became interested in the history of the shop when she learned that it had not only been an active participant in Seattle's 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition but had also been a major source of important Northwest Coast collections in many museums, including, among others, the Royal Ontario Museum, the George G. Heye Collection (now in the Smithsonian's Museum of the American Indian), the Washington State Museum, the Newark Museum, the Portland Art Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History. Granted full access by the present owners - grandson and great-grandson of "Daddy" Standley - to the remarkably complete archives maintained from the time the shop opened, Duncan has provided a fascinating chapter in the history of Seattle, especially in its early years, as well as a significant contribution to the literature on tourist arts and collecting. Kate Duncan, professor of art at Arizona State University, is also the author of Northern Athapaskan Art: A Beadwork Tradition, and coauthor of A Special Gift: The Kutchin Beadwork Tradition and Out of the North: The Subarctic Collection of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.
Download or read book Speaking of Washington written by John Leo Moore and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combination of facts, trivia, anecdotes, and fun tidbits about the Constitution, the Presidency, the White House, the Congress, the Supreme Court, politics and government, and entrenched bureaucrats.
Download or read book The Washington Almanac written by Andrea Jarvela and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pennsylvania Curiosities written by Clark DeLeon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liberty Bell, Gettysburg, and Independence Hall may stand out as prominent Pennsylvania features, but the Keystone State is also home to bizarre places, personalities, events, and phenomena. These unique and quirky aspects are humorously displayed in Pennsylvania Curiosities, a cross between a wacky news gazette, an almanac, and a humorous travel guide.
Download or read book Washington written by Sarah Tieck and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore Washington in this comprehensive title! Informative, easy-to-read text and oversized photos showcase the beauty and diversity of this state. Readers learn about the state's history, cities, land features, animals, industries, sports, famous people, and more! A Tour Book spread highlights kid-friendly things to do in Washington. Other features include a table of contents, fun facts, a timeline, regional and state maps, a facts page with vital information, a glossary, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Big Buddy Books is an imprint of ABDO Publishing, a division of ABDO.
