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Explorers of the World. Explorers - Lyrics - Muse. Damian's Interview with an explorer. Children's: History 1 - Christopher Columbus. Explorers by Category. Create your own virtual Street View tours with Google's new map tool. Google is now letting users create their own Street View-like virtual tours with a new feature that has been added to the company's Views website. Now, when users post 360-degree panaromas -- otherwise known as photo spheres -- onto the Views photo-sharing website, they'll be able to stitch them together to create their "own Street View experiences. " Google has been letting users share their photo spheres publicly since late last year, and it launched the Views website this summer. Users can create and post photo spheres onto Views directly from certain Android smartphones or by making them with their DSLR cameras.

PHOTOS: Top 10 most-talked-about people, topics on Facebook in 2013 But until now, photo spheres stood on their own -- unlike Street View on Google Maps, where users can move from one point to the next. To use the tool, users must first upload multiple photo spheres onto the Views website. Explorers. Units of work - Guy Fawkes Historical Recount. Animals in Space | Historical Recount | Magazine - Just English Explorer Magazine. Download Teacher's Notes Download Student's WorksheetThe first man to walk on the Moon was the US astronaut Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 space voyage on 20 July 1969. Armstrong famously said, “That’s one small step for man, but one giant step for mankind”. The astronaut’s historic few steps marked the end of years of research and development by teams of dedicated scientists and space experts.

However, it is easy to forget the other unsung heroes of the space programmes. Since space travel began in the 1940s, and well before humans ever attempted it, scientists had used animals to test space travel. Laika was a stray mongrel. The Man Who Conquered the English Channel | Historical Recount | Magazine - Just English Explorer Magazine. A Great Explorer - Thor Heyerdahl | Historical Recount | Magazine - Just English Explorer Magazine. Download Teacher's Notes Download Student's WorksheetThor Heyerdahl was one of the 20th-century’s great adventurers and explorers.

He was born in the small whaling port of Larvik in Norway in 1914. He was an only child. His family was fairly wealthy. From an early age, Heyerdahl knew he wanted to explore the Pacific. Heyerdahl wrote about their experiences in his first book Fatu Hiva. Heyerdahl’s studies at Fatu Hiva convinced him that people migrated in boats across the Pacific from the Americas. Dera.ioe.ac.uk/4930/3/nls_y5booster_hisrecount.

Writing an Historical Paragraph by Ruth Cohen on Prezi. LIFE photo archive hosted by Google. Old Pictures. Retronaut - See the past like you wouldn't believe. How does math guide our ships at sea? - George Christoph.