3. Grandparents often tell stories - like: "I had to walk five miles
to
school each way!" Photographs from the national archives reveal their
lives
were actually much harder than most people today could even imagine.
http://www.awesomestories.com/history/child_labor/child_labor_ch1.htm
8. Alexander the Great believed he had conquered "the known world."
When
he died, at a young age, his men brought his body back to Egypt.
Hundreds
of years later, Caesar Augustus was still able to view the body through
"its
glass case." Where is his body now?
http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/alexander_great/alexander_great_ch1.htm