N. American Fauna: The Wolverine
The wolverine whose scientific name is Gulo gulo, is also known as glutton, carcajou, skunk bear, or quickhatch. It weights between 9-25 kg, measures 65-107 cm long and can live up to 13 years.
Wolverine (Kuekuatsheu) the Creator from the Innu tribe of Quebec
” Long ago, Kuekuatsheu built a big boat and put all the different animal species in it. There was a lot of rain and the land was flooded. The wolverine told the mink to dive into the water to get mud and rocks and Kuekuatsheu mixed it all together to make an island which is the world we presently inhabit along with all the animals.”
Canadian Architect: Frank Gehry
City of Wine Complex, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (Spain)
Dancing House, Prage (Czech Republic)
20th Century Greatest Classical Pianist: Glenn Gould (Canadian)
When he was 10 years old, he injured his back falling from a boat ramp and his father made him an adjustable-height chair, so Gould could sit very low at the keyboard.
Here he is at the age of 14
The chair allowed him to pull down on the keys instead of striking them from above; he used it for the rest of his life and took it with him everywhere. To Gould it was "a member of the family".
Glenn Gould entered the Music Conservatory at the age of 10 and graduated at 12 with the category of a proffesional. He he was able to memorize full pieces before playing them and once dared a friend to name a composition he couldn´t play instantly and by heart.
Lewis CarroLL Photographs
Evelyn Hatch as a Gypsy
Alice Pleasance Liddell as a Beggar Child
Annie and Francis Henderson
The "Elvis" and the Shoe Maker
A very funny version of the Grimm´s Brothers tale
The Elves and the Shoe Maker
Canadian Insects
With a wing span of up to 114 mm, this nocturnal insect is found in deciduous hardwood forests from Canada to Northern Mexico.
In Canada it is found from the Maritime provinces West to Saskatchewan.
It is one of North America´s largest moths! Watch its life cycle!
Dick Whittington´s Cat
Richard Whittington was a medieval english merchant, a member of the Parliament, four times Lord Major of London and sheriff of England´s capital city.
Twelfth Night Kings Cake
"Roscon de Reyes" is a dessert, served the night or morning of Epiphany - January 6th-, when children in Spain receive gifts from the Wise Men or Magi, who brought baby Jesus gifts.
It is traditional to put surprises inside the "roscon": a porcelain figure of a baby and a dry bean are hidden in the dough. Whoever finds the baby will have good luck and be the king of the party, but if you find the bean, you pay for the cake!
CoaL CandY Recipe For Kids
Coal candy or Candy coal is a type of candy in the USA, Canada, Spain and Italy associated with Christmas and the tradition of giving lumps of coal in place of presents in the Christmas stockings of naughty children. In Japan it´s called "kaitaname".
Ingredients:
1 package double Oreos, a package of cream cheese and powdered Sugar.
Steps:
1. Put the Oreos into the blender or food processer to grind finely into crumbs. 2. Pour Oreo crumbs into a bowl and mix in the whole pack of cream cheese; you can use your hands to mix them.
3. Once ingredients are combined, roll into balls, place on a baking sheet and put them in the fridge for about 15 minutes
4. Remove from fridge, sprinkle with powdered sugar, and ENJOY! :)
The Christmas Star & The 3 Magi
"The Appearance of the Star" by Giovanni Da Modena (1412)
The german astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed in 1604 that The Christmas Star followed by the 
Joe Raymond / AP
Grant Mathews, a Notre Dame astrophysicist, points at a computer generated demonstration of the night sky around the time of the birth of Jesus Christ: an unusual alignment of the sun, Jupiter, the Moon and Saturn aligned in the constellation Aries while Venus and Mars were in adjacent constellations.
Mathews believes The Three Magi were Zoroastrian astrologers who would have recognized the planetary alignment as a sign a powerful leader was born.
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