Posts by Tiana Snow

The Berlin Zoo’s Most Troublesome Animal?

Berlin’s Zoological Garden, or the Berlin Zoo, is the oldest in the world. It has about 1,500 different species and almost 20,500 animals, including the largest variety of species in the world. The zoo has an intriguing history. It was founded in 1841 by the Prussian King Frederick William IV. The facility went through all the paper work and opened in 1844 with monetary support from the government. It became

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Tutu Many Sparkles

When ballet was born in the early 1400s, it most certainly didn’t look like the ballet of today. It started as a social dance in ballrooms for French and Italian nobility. Participants would dance for special occasions like a royal birth or an important marriage. They wore the clothes of the times. The dresses had layers upon layers of heavy fabric that made them hard enough to stand in, let

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