World History

Honest History Issue 6: A Secret Mission

This issue of Honest History was all about spies. Spies have been around since ancient times.  The Egyptians, Greeks, Byzantine Empire, and even Japan used them to gain information about their enemies. The feature story in this issue was about Susan Hyde who was a spy in England.  She used invisible ink, code words, and … Read More

Honest History Issue 7 Into the Deep

Jacques Cousteau  Born in france in 1910 always curious about how things worked he learned to read blueprints at a young age and taught himself to build a functioning crane. He saved up his allowance to buy a video camera but when he got home with the camera he took it apart and reassembled it … Read More

Honest History Issue 9 The Era of Exploration

This issue of Honest History was called the Era of Exploration.  It is all about the Renaissance period of history. The Renaissance was a period during 1300-1600.  During this time many scientists, artists, explorers, philosophers lived and worked in Europe. This period of time came after the Middle Ages or Dark Ages.  The Black Plague … Read More

Honest History Issue 11 Journey Through the Jungle

Issue 11 of Honest History was called Journey through the Jungle.  This issue was about the Mayan Civilization.  Some interesting facts about the Mayans are: They were one of two ancient civilizations to create the number zero. Their writing system is made up of over 800 hieroglyphics. Kings were buried with goods such as necklaces, … Read More

my trip to the academy of natural sciences

My grandma bought us an annual membership to the academy of natural sciences for me, my mom and my brother. One Friday morning we drove down to the museum. We got to the museum around 11 and left around 2. We saw a show about birds and snakes while we were there. The woman told … Read More

Honest History Magazine

The title of the first magazine I got was called “The War Of The Currents”. It is about how Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla both had electric companies and had a battle on who had a better company. When Tesla first arrived in America he worked for Thomas Edison at Edison machine works. Tesla had … Read More