Article: Roy Chapman Andrews – a Real Life Indiana Jones

The link below is to an article that looks at the life of Roy Chapman Andrews.

For more visit:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/49186/roy-chapman-andrews-real-life-indiana-jones

Today in History – 24 May 1830

Mary Had a Little Lamb is Published

OK, just a little trivial history for today perhaps – though I am sure that some people will see this as very interesting news. ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb,’ that is the nursery rhyme, was first published on this day in 1830 by publishers Marsh, Capen & Lyon. The nursery rhyme was written by Sarah Josepha Hale
and was apparently based on a real life situation.

For a book of poems for children by the author Sarah Hale, including Mary Had a Little Lamb –

Visit the Internet Archive at:
http://www.archive.org/details/poemsforourchild00haleiala

 

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