T.J.'s project was on the History of Coffee...some of the interesting highlights are that it was discovered by an Ethiopian goatherder who noticed his goats had a lot more energy after eating berries from certain trees, he tried them for himself and felt energized himself. Then the Arabs cultivated coffee and did all they could to keep it to themselves, making sure all beans were roasted before they left the country so that none could be cultivated elsewhere...but the Dutch smuggled some beans out of the Arabian port of Mocha, and began growing their own crop in their East Indies territory called Java.
Mak did his project on Christopher Columbus. Did you know that early on one of his ships was attacked and set on fire by pirate and he had to paddle six miles to the Portuguese shore? Or that he was freckle faced?
Chatham's favorite part is that Vikings wore bear skin shirts, which they called "Berserkers" which is where we get the word berserk...because whenever they raided villages they acted as crazy as they could.
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