History's Biggest Mistakes /
Alex feels horrible about missing a shot in a basketball game and losing the game.Timeblazers, Jen and Sam, work on picking up his spirits by looking at some of history's biggest goof-ups. Columbus mistakenly named Native Americans, Indians, because he believed he had landed in India. Viking Bj...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Closed-captioned. |
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[Place of publication not identified] :
Chip Taylor Communications,
[2005]
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| Series: | Timeblazers: History and More.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | Alex feels horrible about missing a shot in a basketball game and losing the game.Timeblazers, Jen and Sam, work on picking up his spirits by looking at some of history's biggest goof-ups. Columbus mistakenly named Native Americans, Indians, because he believed he had landed in India. Viking Bjarni Herjolfsson sailed off course to Labrador, Canada and told Leif Erikson, who retraced the trip and is now known as the first European to land on North America. Napoleon Bonaparte thought he could conquer Russia but the Russians used the "scorched earth" tactic. Finally, an Italian architect built the famous Tower of Pisa on a soft foundation. |
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| Item Description: | Originally released by Chip Taylor Communications, 2005. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on October 13, 2014. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (24 min., 9 sec)) : sound, color. |
| Audience: | 3 - 5, 6 - 8 |