Conductor Joseph Haydn and his musicians needed a rest, but Prince Nicholas wouldn't hear of it. Would the prince hear the message if it came to him through music?
During the California Gold Rush, German immigrant Levi Strauss moves to San Francisco to sell clothing to the gold miners. After a tailor suggests making pants with metal rivets, Strauss agrees, and the two men begin selling pants as fast as they can make them. More than 150 years later, blue jeans are now worn by people around the world.
Highlights presents By Land or Sea written by Ellen Wettersten. This audiobook details the major events that led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War. The setting is colonial Boston. The audiobook tells of life in Boston during that period. It also tells of secret meetings, spies, and battles between Great Britain and the Continental Army that eventually resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Paris and the end of the Revolutionary War.
