Kids Questions & Answers

Kids Questions & Answers

Who were Wee Folk?

Wee folk refers to fairies and their kind. Medieval theologians suggest that wee folk may be a special group of demoted angels, spirits of the dead or fallen angels. Ancient texts say the entities are of a middle nature, i.e., between humans and angels, and that they can inter-marry with humans and bear half-human children. The consistent factor in all …

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Who were the Iron Chancellors?

A hundred years ago, Germany was divided into many small states. In one of these states, Prussia, the chancellor or chief minister to the king, was Otto Von Bismarck. A strong and ruthless man, Bismarck built Prussia into the strongest of all German states and made its army feared throughout Europe. When the states were gathered into one empire in …

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Who were the hobbits?

Most know hobbits as the fictional dwarf-like creatures from J R R Tolkein’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy. But scientists discovered the fossilized remains of hobbitlike creatures in Indonesia. They believed them to be a separate species and called them Homo florsiensis or Man of Flores. But some anthropologists refuted that they were a separate species and said the …

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Who were the first Americans?

When Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic in 1942, he thought that the Earth was much smaller than it actually is. As a result, he believed that he had reached India and that the people in the Caribbean islands were Indians. In fact, the ancestors of these people came from north-eastern Asia, perhaps 40,000 years ago. They spread southwards and …

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Who was the Zodiac killer?

The Zodiac killer was a serial killer in California, supposedly responsible for five murders and two failed attempts that took place from 1968 to 1969. He created a sensation and a scare by publishing letters in newspapers with Zodiac as his pen name. In his letters, he used to claim responsibility for murders that had taken place and would disclose …

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Who was the strongest promoter of Father’s Day?

Father’s Day most influential promoter was Mrs. John Bruce Dodd of Spokane, Washington. The idea of a Father’s Day celebration came to her first while listening to a sermon on Mother’s Day in 1909. Her own father, William Jackson Smart, had accomplished the amazing task of raising six children – Mrs. Dodd and her five brothers – after his wife …

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Who was the real Robinson Crusoe?

Daniel Defoe’s fictional hero Robinson Crusoe is well known today. But not so well known is the real castaway, a Scotsman named Alexander Selkirk, who chose to be left on Juan Fernandez, an island named after Spaniard who had discovered it a hundred years earlier. After living there alone for over four years, Slekirk was found and rescued by a …

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