Who Made It?

Sandy Island, a land mass no larger than Manhattan in the Pacific Ocean, was discovered by James Cook in 1876. When a team of Australian scientists went to survey the island in 2012, they found that there was no island at all! They believe that Cook might have spotted a mass of floating volcanic stone and gas.

In the Middle Ages, young women and men would draw names from a bowl to find their Valentine and then wear the name on their sleeve for a week. Hence the expression, “to wear your heart on your sleeve”.

Rosa Parks gave some us some inspiring and still relevant facts on freedom. She said: “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free ... so other people would be also free…. Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way…. I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.”