European Expansion

Australia 

Early 1900s in England

The Dark Between by Sonia Gensler
This realistic fiction book takes place at the turn of the twentieth century in Cambridge, England. At that time, spiritualism and seances were popular.  While fraud related to the these activities are described in this book, scientists from the area were experimenting (often unethically) with ways to access unknown parts of the human brain, the dark between.  Kate, Asher, and Elsie are teenagers who meet by chance at a small college in Oxford.  Although they are from different backgrounds, they find they can work together well to solve the mystery of killings in the area. Their travels through Oxford, the customs of the time, including the clothes worn by different classes of people, are described in the book.  

This Screencast-o-matic video tells about my visit traveling to Sydney, Australia in November 2014 and then my first night in Canberra, Australia's capital. 

Sydney by Jan Morris
Published in 1992, Jan Morris tells about the Sydney she saw on her visits there and incorporates information from the past that affects what makes Sydney the city it is today.

On my second day in Australia, we visited Namadgi National Park and Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.  The URL for NASA's Deep Space Network is: http://www.cdscc.nasa.gov/index.html.

On my third day in Australia, we toured the government buildings in Canberra, then drove on to Macquarie Pass National Park and along the South Pacific Ocean before going back to our hotel in Sydney. 
This is a link to a pamphlet about the Old Parliament House Gardens at: http://nationalcapital.gov.au/downloads/visiting/rose_guide_April2008.pdf

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