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3 Check It Out! 4 Field Trip Through Time 8 What Time Is It? 9 Alarming Clocks 10 The Lost Minutes 12 Puzzles 14 Max & Gracie 15 Tick-Tock 16 The Bores of Modern Chores 18 Find the Time 19 Timekeeping Trivia 20 10 Quick Facts About Time 22 Funny Times 24 Time Travel 25 Timer 26 Earlier Times 27 Make a Sundial 28 The Night Calendar 29 Kids Corner 30 Puzzle Solutions 2

“What time is it?” “I don’t have time to do that!” “Hurry up or you’ll be late!” You’ve probably heard one of these phrases. Everything we do revolves around time.

What if there were no clocks? How would we know what time it is? We could guess from whether the sun was up or the moon was out. But that wouldn’t help get you to school on time or keep you from being late to soccer practice.

A clock keeps track of the 24 hours in our day. A calendar keeps track of the days in the month. We need calendars to help us count how many days until our birthday or a school vacation.

But what time it is depends on what time zone you live in. The US has six time zones. If it is 1 PM in Hawaii, it will be 2 PM in Alaska. Those living in the Pacific time zone, like in California, will see 3 PM. It will be 4 PM in the Mountain time zone, like in Montana. Central time, like in Kansas, would be 5 PM, and it would be 6 PM in the Eastern time zone, like in Pennsylvania. When you wonder what time it is, first realize what zone you are in. Fortunately, your cell phone and fitness tracker will change automatically as you travel from one time zone to another.

Get ready, get set, GO! Don’t waste any time in diving into your next Fun For Kidz!

Have a great time with Time!

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by Kelly Musselman illustrations by Shannon Comins

Time flies Time’s up Time out What time is it?

Find time Waste time Out of time What time is it?

On time Last time No time What time is it?

Time for – Dinnertime Bathtime Bedtime.

What time is it?

Time to sleep Good night!

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What wakes you up in the morning? Is it your mom or dad? Maybe your cat jumps onto your bed, demanding to be fed. For many kids, the buzzzz or beep-beep of an alarm clock tells them it’s time to start the day.

People didn’t need alarm clocks long ago. The sun told them when to get up.

A rooster’s crow meant it was time for chores. Soon after clocks were developed, alarm clocks came along. Even 2000 years ago, students had to be in school on time. People needed reminders when it was time to do something.

The first alarm clocks looked nothing like the ones we use now. Some were very clever. Imagine a candle with lines marked on its side. Each mark meant an hour of burning time. To set an alarm for two hours, people pushed a nail into the candle at that mark. When the candle burned down to the nail – plink! The nail fell into a tin plate. The trouble was, people often didn’t hear this tiny noise. Other alarm clocks used containers of water dripping into one another. When a mechanical bird was put in one of the containers, it would whistle when the water reached a certain level.

Is it hard for you to rise and shine? Modern alarm clocks can help. There are clocks that fill a room with nature sounds. You can tuck a vibrating alarm into your pillowcase. In the morning, it’ll shake you awake. A cell phone lets you wake up to your favorite song. If these don’t work, you can always try using a talking clock that says, “Get up, sleepyhead!”

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by Patricia Wyman • illustrations by Rebecca Spohn Whenever Phoebe was asked to do something, she would always say, “In a few minutes.” Her mother and father asked why she never could do something right away. Phoebe would shrug her shoulders. “It’s no big deal,” she’d say. “What difference can a few minutes make?”

One morning, just as Phoebe was ready to leave the house, she saw the school bus whizz by. “That bus is early today!” she yelled. “How will I get to school?”

Mom looked at her watch. “No, the bus is right on time,” she said.

“But I did everything the same way this morning as I always do,” Phoebe said. “How could I be late?”

“Perhaps your alarm isn’t working correctly,” her mother answered.

“If you take some shortcuts and run very fast, you still might be able to get to school on time.” Phoebe thought she noticed a very small twinkle in her mother’s eyes.

Phoebe arrived at school breathless and six minutes late. For that, she received an hour’s detention.

“How could you have done this?” asked her close friend Vera. “You knew that we were going to the mall after school.”

A group of the women’s Olympic gymnastics team was appearing there. Phoebe and Vera had planned to get their autographs. Only Vera was able to go to the mall that day.

Phoebe was finally released from detention. She dragged herself home. Her school bag felt as if it held bricks. She was tired. Her shoulders drooped like a plant in need of water. Visions of never-to-be-gotten autographs kept floating in front of her eyes.

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When she walked into the house, Phoebe saw crusts of pizza on her parents’ plates. She smiled for the first time that day. “Pizza! I love pizza,” she said.

“I’m sorry,” said her father. “We thought that you and Vera were planning to buy something to eat when you were at the mall. The pizza is all gone.”

Phoebe couldn’t play her video game that night because she got started on her homework so late. She couldn’t watch TV, either, because Vera kept her on the phone forever, bragging about all the autographs she had received.

Before Phoebe went to bed, she checked her clock. Sure enough, it was slow. She leaped down the stairs, taking two at a time. “Did you change my clock last night, Mom?” Phoebe asked.

“Of course not,” her mother said. “Why? Was something wrong with it?”

“It was slow!”

“How slow was it, dear?” her mother asked.

“Three minutes,” Phoebe replied.

“Well, my goodness, that’s no big deal. What difference can a few minutes make?” her mom asked.

“Mom,” said Phoebe, “don’t ever say that! Why, a few minutes can change your entire day . . . maybe your whole life . . . maybe even the history of the world!”

Phoebe thought that she saw the same twinkle in her mother’s eyes that she had seen that morning.

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Fraction-nition

ANOTHER Fraction-nition

by David Lindo

Find the letters described by the fraction given in each of the following statements. Print the letters you select, in the order provided, into the boxes below. What did you find? Were you surprised?

by David Lindo

Find the letters described by the fraction given in each of the following statements. Print the letters you select, in the order provided, into the boxes below. What did you find? Were you surprised?

The last 1/3 of CAT The first 1/3 of ENCORE The middle 1/2 of RAFT The last 1/3 of BAT The first 1/3 of ERASER The middle 1/2 of BONE The first 1/7 of ESCAPED

The middle 1/7 of ROLLING The middle 1/3 of DREAMS The last 2/5 of HAPPY The first 1/3 of EATING The middle 1/5 of LARVA

What time is it when 10 tigers are chasing you?

What is a kangaroo’s favorite year?

Time Logic Puzzle

by Julie Truesdell

Each of the four kids in this puzzle competes in a different racing sport in which time is of the essence. In what sport does each child compete, and what is his or her team called?

In the grid, put an “x” in the boxes you know don’t go with the kid. Put on “o” in the boxes that do go with the kid.

RACING SPORT

PHOEBE ZOEY IVAN PARKER

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Hints: 1. Parker competes in cross country running, but not with the Lightning.

2. Ivan races for the Stars, but it isn’t a swim team.

3. The Flash is a cycling team, but Phoebe isn’t on it.

TEAM NAME

Mystery Picture Puzzle dog sock 2 hearts alarm clock 2 wrist watches mug 2 birds ©Liz Ball www.hiddenpicturepuzzles.com

lollipop numbers 1-10 bug fish goose 3 clocks 2 pocket watches ©Liz Ball

CENTURY SUDOKU

by Evelyn B. Christensen

Time can be measured in lots of different units, such as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, and decades. Century is another time word.

Do you know how long a century is? One hundred years! Fill in the squares so that each row, column, and 7-square section has the letters C-E-N-T-U-R-Y.

Y C R N U R T C E T U Y C R Y E T U E Y U N T N E R

Time Twisters

by Stephanie Kelley

Are you familiar with phrases related to time?

Rearrange the letters to come up with the correct saying for each definition.

Each one has the word “time” somewhere in it.

peke mite ____ ____

1. It is important when you play a musical instrument that you learn to do this correctly.

miet eaftr imet ____ _____ ____

2. To have something happen again and again

fro het mite gebni ___ ___ ____ _____

3. For now

Gihh meit ____ ____

4. This should have been done a while ago.

Finally!

hebnid het imste ______ ___ _____

5. Old fashioned

ni tmie __ ____

6. Before it’s too late, before it’s due or expires

leso temi ____ ____

7. To do something and forget to keep track of time

ni on meti __ __ ____

8. Quickly, before you know it

Time for the Answers on Page 30.

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Paris, Kentucky 7:00 PM

Warm and toasty in the room, a snowy mess outside Max and Gracie and their owners, Linda, Craig, and their seven-year-old son, Ed, are driving the back roads of America. Perhaps you have seen Max and Gracie with their heads out the window. If not, here is a letter describing their most recent adventure.

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“Yeah?” Gracie said, questioning darker earlier.” magical happened. Now it gets “When they did that, something said.

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by Jackie Myers • illustration by Pamela Harden Tick-tock, tick-tock is the familiar sound of a clock. This is a noise you’ve grown up hearing. But did you know that clocks didn’t tick in America until the 1750s?

Benjamin Banneker, an African-American son of a former slave, enjoyed solving problems and puzzles. One day an acquaintance named Josef Levi loaned Benjamin his pocket watch. Benjamin had shown an interest in it and was eager to learn how the watch worked. He took it apart to study the pieces and put the pocket watch back together. Then Benjamin borrowed books, including one about geometry, and spent the next two years designing and building a wooden clock.

Benjamin carved each piece by hand, even the gears, and successfully completed the project in 1753. It was the first clock made in America. It struck every hour and kept the correct time for over 40 years.

Most people in this era told time by looking at the sun’s position in the sky.

Benjamin Banneker died on October 25, 1806. Many viewed him as America’s first great African-American inventor.

He may be gone, but his legacy will live on forever.

Life-size figure of Benjamin Banneker

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by Kristen M. Gilleo

Monday, you take out the garbage. Tuesday, you help pick up sticks in the yard. By Wednesday, your chores may have you wanting to jump into a time machine and go back to the days of yore. But think before you leave the century of cell phones and computers to spend time with chivalrous knights and damsels in castles.

You need to know what medieval times would hold for someone like you.

Forget about sleeping in. Five hundred years ago, your day begins well before sunrise. That could mean four in the morning! Don’t worry about saying good-bye to your mom and dad as they leave for work. You’ll be going with them. Spring and summer are the times to plant and tend crops. This will ensure your family’s survival during the winter. Everyone is required to help.

Side by side, you traipse to the hay fields, ready to work in teams. One person cuts the hay with a longcurved blade called a scythe. The others bundle and tie the hay before throwing it onto horse-drawn carts.

Don’t be jealous of the person with the scythe. Everyone takes a turn at each position. This is hard work, and each person needs a chance to rest his or her muscles.

After the hay harvest, don’t expect to strap on your roller blades. There are still wheat, hemp, and flax to be weeded and gathered.

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illustrations by Rebecca Spohn

Just when you think it can’t get any worse, your long days in the field become sweltering days with the herds. Using a small pair of scissors, children cut off the precious wool coats, so women can make warm clothes. If your blades are dull, don’t panic. You get to sharpen them by hand. Shearing is an important job because furnaces have not been invented. In bitter January, you’ll need your woollies to keep warm.

Finally, by autumn, you think you’ll have earned enough money to buy that new video system. Oh, didn’t I tell you you’re not getting paid? It’s the medieval ages, and there’s no such thing as payment with money. There’s also no such thing as electricity to run a TV, so you won’t have use for video games. Instead, you get a big bonus prize!

If your harvest is plentiful and your lord – the guy who acts like your boss and landlord rolled into one – is kind, he’ll buy you dinner. For all your hard work, you get a meal consisting of bread, cheese, and some kind of meat served with ale at your lord’s table. Don’t laugh. In the medieval ages, a full meal is something to look forward to.

The next time you want to escape to the time of lords and ladies in castles, take a look around your modern-day home. How convenient the computer, microwave, and refrigerator are! If your parents enforce a few chores to teach you responsibility, get them done, and then go ride your bike. Be glad you live in this century.

Even with your chores, you still have time for yourself.

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by Vicki H. Moss • illustrations by Rebecca Spohn Most of the time, an invention stands out as someone’s dream. Then time will tell if the dream comes true or is realized. Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, was one of those dreamers. He created clever devices to make life easier.

Mr. Jefferson understood that time is money. If you can make good use of your time, you can be more productive and make more money. So, wasting time is the same thing as losing money. To save time and money, and to keep himself aware of the time of day, he invented a famous clock. This clock has one face on the outside of his house and one face on the inside.

Jefferson used cannonballs for weights, and he would wind the clock once a week.

Most major cities have a time clock somewhere in town. Some are in towers, like Big Ben and Westminster Abbey in London. These let people know what time it is, allowing them to stay on time. Perhaps Mr. Jefferson took this idea and, with a little time, discovered a way to make his indoor/outdoor clock at his home called Monticello.

Find the 13 everyday “time” phrases used in this article. With a parent, go to our Facebook page to find the answers! Can you come up with another time phrase? Maybe it’s something you made up! Send it to Kids Corner, and we’ll send you a surprise!

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Timekeeping Trivia

by Dan Guynn, Jr. • Clocks in your body? If you didn’t see sunlight, your brain’s internal clock would make you want to get up and go to bed an hour later every day.

• Neat watch! Before the mechanical clock was invented, people told time by the position of the sun. But what would you strap on your wrist, a solar-powered watch?

• What about rainy days? Try balancing an hourglass full of sand on your wrist.

• Snow in July? Roman Emperor Julius Caesar authorized the leap year in 46 B.C. because the calendar got ahead of the seasons.

• No one was born between October 5th and 14th, 1582. Pope Gregory XIII changed the calendar by removing those 10 days for that one year. He did this so the calendar would match the time it takes Earth to orbit the sun.

• Daylight Saving Time was invented to save energy, not time! People use fewer electric lights when we shift time ahead in spring and back in fall.

• The best atomic clocks wouldn’t lose one second in a million years!

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• Clocks run slower when they travel fast, but don’t use this excuse the next time you’re late! Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity also says clocks run slower near large bodies (like the sun).

Send Fun For Kidz a stamped, self-addressed envelope, and we’ll send you directions to make your own solarpowered pocket watch!

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by Ruth Naylor • illustrated by Roy Green

The cuckoo clock Tocks relentlessly, Punctuated by ticks At every breath. tick, tick, tick, tick,

tock, tock, tock, tock,

tick, tick, tick, tick,

tock tock tock tock

It tick-tocks Till I think I’ll go cuckoo.

Then a bird comes out – and does!

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“Set the alarm clock for April.”

by Edouard Blais

Jokes and Riddles

by Nicola Wiseman

Rebus Riddles

Here are two picture clues.

Each one stands for a well-known saying about time. Can you figure them out? Don’t rush.

Take your time!

by Faye Field illustration by Roy Green

Answer: ___ ___ ___ ___

___ ___ ___ ___ ___.

You can spend it.

You can use it.

You can waste it.

You can lose it.

You can count it.

You can enjoy it.

You can even kill it.

What is this?

What Am I?

I have two hands, But I don’t have arms, A face but never a head.

I’m used to tell you when to get up And when to go to bed.

Answer: ___ ___ ___ ___

___ ___

___ ___ ___ ___ ___.

Jokes on Time

What am I?

1. What is the dirtiest thing in the house?

2. What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?

Time to check your answers?

See page 30.

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by Diane Winebar Would you like to do some time traveling? It’s not as impossible as it sounds. If you are standing in the right place, you can go back to yesterday or ahead to tomorrow! This special place is called the International Date Line.

Let’s say it’s Sunday and it’s your birthday. You’re celebrating on your boat, and you’re heading east. Yay! You just crossed the Date Line! But guess what. You’ve gone back in time to Saturday.

Just stay right there in the Pacific Ocean and wait until the next day, when it’s Sunday. Then it will be your birthday again, and you can have another party! It’s a good thing you’re in a boat.

Swimming back and forth between tomorrow and yesterday would be exhausting!

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To get there, you’ll have to go to the middle of the enormous Pacific Ocean. When you finally arrive, you won’t be able to get off your boat because the Date Line is not an actual place. It is just an imaginary line that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole. It marks the place where one calendar day begins and another calendar day ends. If you cross the Date Line going west, you’re in tomorrow. Cross it going east, and you’re in yesterday.

by John Andrew Karas • illustrated by Shannon Comins There once was a clock named Timer. Timer hung on a wall in an old antique shop, along with many other clocks. But Timer had a problem. He wasn’t like the other clocks. You see, Timer had no hands with which to tell time.

All the other clocks would laugh at Timer and make jokes about him. “Hey, Timer, bet you can’t tell us what time it is, ha-ha-ha,” they would chime.

Timer was very sad. It really hurt him when some of the clocks would say, “Why doesn’t the shop owner take you off the wall? You’re not like us. Who would ever buy you, a clock with no hands? You’re worthless.”

With a sad face, Timer would reply, “But I am like you. I’m just different. I’m still a clock.” The other clocks would chime and gong and spin their hands around, teasing Timer.

One day, a kindly old woman came into the shop. The clocks heard her speak with the shop owner. “I’m looking for a certain type of clock.”

When the clocks heard this, some of them began to play their chimes. A few began to sound their gongs, and others moved their hands straight up to the 12, as if they were standing at attention. Timer just hung on the wall.

The clocks heard the shop owner and the woman approach the wall where they all hung. Then the shopkeeper took Timer off the wall. They heard the old woman say, “Oh, yes, this is the most beautiful clock face I have ever seen. And look at the name on the face. Why, this little clock is priceless. I’ll order some new hands and put them on. It will be as good as new.”

None of the other clocks could believe it. “What did she ever see in that worthless Timer,” they muttered.

What they never realized was that having real worth is never in what you have. It’s only in what you are.

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by Christine Tricarico

The shadow tells us it’s nearly 4 o’clock.

Tick-tock, tick-tock! There goes the clock that tells us time today.

But in the past, they told the time a very different way.

In ancient times, they gauged the day by looking at the sun.

An eastern sun meant morning time. In the west? Their day was done!

The sundial then came to be – a disk marked like a clock.

A pointed structure cast shadows upon its face of rock.

Then there came the hourglass. Two rounded bulbs of glass were filled with sand and turned upside down to show the time that passed.

The early clocks told time with bells, but only on each hour.

They had no face or minute hands upon their chiming tower.

Our clocks today are so advanced. They’re digital and fun!

They wake us up, they keep us prompt, they track how fast we run.

You sometimes may lose track of time. Another day goes by.

So, cherish every minute ‘cause the time can really fly!

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Make a Sundial If you want to know what time it is, just look at a clock. But what did people do before clocks and watches were invented?

The sun rises in the east, moves across the sky, and sets in the west. If you poke a stick in the ground and watch its SHADOW, you will notice the shadow moves. It always points AWAY from where the SUN is.

Ancient people noticed this too. They used the sun to tell time using a SUNDIAL. Making a sundial that tells EXACTLY the right time all year long is very difficult. But you can make a simple sundial that will tell you the time if you “set” it each day.

What You Need: • a piece of cardboard cut in a circle, about 8" across • two sharpened pencils • a watch • an adult to help you • some sunny days!

What You Do: 1. Set the cardboard circle flat on the ground in a place where the sun will shine on it all day long.

2. Push the point of a pencil through the center of the circle and into the ground. This will do two things. It will hold the cardboard in place, and it will cast a shadow on the cardboard.

3. Check the real time on your watch and, at exactly 12 o’clock noon, make a mark right along the pencil shadow.

Write 12 on the “hand” you just drew. Be sure to keep the shadow of the pencil right over the “hand” you drew.

4. Go play for an hour. When you come back to your sundial, the shadow will be in a different place because the sun has moved. WITHOUT MOVING THE SUNDIAL, draw a new “hand” along the new shadow with the other pencil. Checking your watch, write 1 on this hand.

Continue to do this for as long as you wish. Every hour, the shadow will be in a new place. Mark the new “hands” 2, 3, 4, 5. Finally, pull out the pencil and bring in the sundial for the night.

Using Your Sundial To see your sundial work, just lay it on the ground in a sunny spot and push the pencil through it. The shadow will fall somewhere on the dial. Look at your watch and see what time it really is. Turn the sundial until the pencil shadow falls on the time you read on your watch. For example, if the real time is 2:30, you should make the shadow fall between 2 and 3. Your sundial is now “set.” As the sun moves across the sky, the shadow of the pencil will move and point to the correct time.

This sundial tells only AFTERNOON time. You can put the morning hours on it the same way.

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Just like clocks, calendars also keep track of time. They show us the days of the week and the months of the year. There is another kind of calendar that is divided into months. It is used to keep track of the moon and its phases. It is called a lunar calendar. In very early days, lunar calendars helped keep track of the days in a month. There were no printed calendars like we have today.

This early calendar began with a month’s first moon. This was represented by a black circle because you couldn’t see any part of the moon. Every seven or eight days, there would be a new phase. The first quarter would show only one side of the moon. Next was the full moon, when you could see it all. After this was the last quarter, when you saw the other side of the moon.

Then it started all over for a new month.

Use this lunar calendar for February. Every night, go out after dark with your parents and look at the moon. Then draw what you see. When you view the four phases of the moon, just put a check mark to show you saw it. Most days, you will draw the part of the moon you saw. If there is bad weather, and you can’t see anything, just make note of that. You can write in “clouds,” “rain,” or “snow.”

After you are all finished, make a copy of your lunar calendar and send it to us. We have a surprise to send you for your hard work. If you want to do more months, go to our Facebook page and copy the entire lunar calendar for 2019.

Happy moon gazing!

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Century Sudoku on page 13

Y U C N R E T

T R E C N Y U

E T N R Y U C

C Y T U E R N

R N U Y C T E

U C R E T N Y

Mystery Picture Puzzle on page 13

N E Y T U C R

Time Logic Puzzle on page 12 Child Phoebe Zoey Ivan Parker

Racing Sport Swimming Cycling Speed Skating Cross Country

Team Name Lightning Flash Stars Sparks

Time Twisters on page 13 1. keep time

5. behind the times

2. time after time

6. in time

3. for the time being

7. lose time

4. high time

8. in no time

Jokes and Riddles (by Nicola Wiseman) on page 23 Rebus Riddles 1. TIME FLIES. 2. TIME IS MONEY. What Am I? A CLOCK

Jokes on Time 1. A CLOCK BECAUSE IT NEVER WASHES ITS FACE OR HANDS. 2. THE LETTER “M”

Fraction-nition on page 12 What time is it when 10 tigers are chasing you?

TEN AFTER ONE

Another Fraction-nition on page 12 What is a kangaroo’s favorite year?

LEAP YEAR

What Is This? on page 23

TIME

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Photo Credits: ©[Jacek Chabraszewski]/123rf.com 3; Benjamin Banneker Historical Park and Museum [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons 15.

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V i s i t U s O n l i n e ! F a c e b o o k . c o m / F u n F o r K i d z • w w w. F u n F o r K i d z . c o m Vol. 18 No. 1 • JAN/FEB 2019 Publisher: Thomas M. Edwards Editor: Marilyn Edwards Associate Editor: Diane Winebar Graphic Design: Gaurakisora Tucker Marketing Director: Jonathan Edwards

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