Boy's Quest articles from June 2002

Boy's Quest archives from June 2002

What are you thinking, Benjamin?(Short Story)
June 1, 2002... What are you thinking? The wind whispered in Benjamin's ear as he raced down the slope to the Patapsco River. Benjamin thought about his father and grandfather who were slaves, now free. He thought about what it must have been like to be...

High achievers.(collector cards)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Many famous achievers have one thing in common. Sooner or later, their faces appear on collector cards. As a result, you have many choices for a card collection. Patriotic Cards If you'd like to collect patriotic achievers, take a look...

Alma's high jump.(track and field athlete)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... No more school for me, decided eighth-grader Alma Richards as he saddled his horse. It was 1904, and Alma worked hard enough at the family farm and store. School was no place to see the world. From now on, Alma would spend his free time riding....

Father Damien.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... If you had leprosy in the 1 800s, you were treated as an outcast. In Hawaii, the fear of leprosy was so great that people, even children, were taken from their families and banished to a remote peninsula on the island of Molokai. The land was...

Patriotic pasta: here is an easy way to make your Independence Day meal special.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Cook one pound of spaghetti following the directions on the package except adding a generous amount of blue food color to the water before you put in the spaghetti (the water must be dark blue.) As the noodles cook, they will soak up the water...

Don't eat the tomatoes they're poisonous!(tomato introduced to America)
June 1, 2002... The first tomatoes were found growing wild by Indians in Peru and Ecuador thousands of years ago. The Indians brought the tomato plant with them when they migrated north to Central America. The Spanish conquistadors, who conquered Mexico in the...

Homeless poet.(Travis Hammar)
June 1, 2002... Eleven-year-old Travis Hammar liked to ride bikes, go swimming, and watch TV. He played the viola, but he didn't like to practice. He was just like a lot of other boys in most every way, except one. Travis didn't have a home. Travis...

Mysterious muscles.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2002... Have you ever felt part of your body move all by itself, even when you didn't want it to? Sounds weird, doesn't it? Well, try it first, then read the science secret. Once you know the secret you can use this as a science trick to try n...

E=[MC.sup.2] (energy=mass x velocity of light squared).(Albert Einstein)
June 1, 2002... This equation (the basis for the atomic bomb) was created by Albert Einstein. In 1939, he wrote President Roosevelt, advising development of the bomb. Albert Einstein was unlike other children. He was quiet, didn't play, lived in his own...

Which came first?(Sam Krupa's egg business)
June 1, 2002... Which came first, the chicken or the egg? For nine-year-old Sam Krupa of Manahawkin, NJ, it was the chicken -- a mail-ordered box full of fluff-covered chicks. Sam's father Michael bought the chickens because he thought it would be fun for...

Who did this?(quiz)
June 1, 2002... MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS Can you match each person with his achievement? 1. In the 1600s, he demonstrated that blood flows away from the heart while in the arteries and towards the heart while in the veins. _____ 2. In the 1800s, he...

The sensitive soda bottle heat detector. (Workshop).
June 1, 2002... Can you feel light with your hands? Try a little experiment to see. Close your eyes tightly, and put your hand six inches from a light bulb. You feel something. Do you feel light? While you can't feel the same type of light you see with your...

Operation migration.(protecting the whooping crane)
June 1, 2002... Have you ever seen a pilot fly an "ultralight" plane *? How about a bright yellow ultralight with the pilot dressed in a bird costume - and leading a formation of 13, young, sandhill cranes? While this may sound like a wild publicity stunt,...

The lookout.(Short Story)
June 1, 2002... Dan wasn't old enough for anything! He was not old enough to sail on the whaler with his father -- not old enough to take the rowboat outside of the harbor to fish, though food was hard to come by in Bermuda, this summer of 1775. He was...

The Lincolns' Christmas Turkey.(Short Story)
June 1, 2002... Tad Lincoln was the youngest son of President and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln. The precocious 10-year-old had a deep and abiding affection for all animals. Late in 1863, a live turkey was sent to live at the White House. Tad quickly befriended the...