Saige Copeland is the eleventh Girl of the Year released by American
Girl in 2013, and the fourth Girl of the Year to represent an only
child. A resident of Albuquerque, New Mexico, she has a passion for visual arts (most especially painting), and is very skilled in horseback riding.
When Saige comes back to school, she learns that there will not
be a new art class. Saige gets upset and tries to keep up her spirits
and earn a new class for the school.
A film based on her stories, Saige Paints the Sky,
was released on July 2, 2013 as a made-for-television film. It aired on
NBC on July 13, 2013. Saige was portrayed by actress Sidney Fullmer. An
iOS app entitled Paint Ponies was also released to coincide with the doll's debut.
The Saige doll has light skin, freckles across the bridge of her
nose, blue eyes and loose auburn hair that comes in a braid. She comes
in an indigo dress with a knitted/sewn geometric print belt and tan
boots with belting and her face mold is the Classic mold.
"Isabelle" and "Designs by Isabelle" books by Laurence Yep.
Isabelle Palmer is the twelfth Girl of the Year released in 2014, making her debut on an episode of Good Morning America. Isabelle is an inspired dancer who lives in Washington, D.C.
She is excited to attend Anna Hart School of the Arts where her older
sister, Jade, has been studying ballet. Her hobbies include dancing and fashion design. She designs leotards and other clothing.
She is the first Girl of the Year to have three books – Isabelle, Designs by Isabelle, and To the Stars, Isabelle, all written by Laurence Yep. A mobile app for iOS platforms entitled Isabelle's Dance Studio was also released in line with her debut. A port of the game to Android was also released in July 2014.
She also is the fourth Girl of the Year to have a movie about her. Erin Pitt portrays Isabelle in the movie Isabelle Dances Into the Spotlight.
The Isabelle doll has light skin, hazel eyes, and long blonde
hair with detachable pink-tipped highlights. She comes in a pink shirt
with a girl in a ballet position with sequins, grey capri pants, and
sparkly gold shoes, her face mold is the Classic face mold.
Just a few titles about American Girl
Rebecca Rubin.
Rebecca Rubin, American Girl's tenth historical character, debuted on May 31, 2009. She is a nine-year-old Jewish girl of Russian descent whose maternal grandparents and parents immigrated to the Lower East Side of New York City. Rebecca is fascinated by both various new American customs and the then-budding film industry, and aspires to become an actress despite her family's disapproval, though she still treasures and celebrates her family's Jewish traditions. Her six book series was written by Jacqueline Dembar Greene and focuses on issues related to assimilation of immigrants while maintaining familial, religious, and cultural traditions. Rebecca is the first Jewish Historical Character, however she is the second Jewish character made by American Girl.
The Perils of Pauline: The Perils of Pauline is a 1914 American melodramafilm serial shown in weekly installments, featuring Pearl White as the title character. Pauline has often been remembered as a famous example of a damsel in distress, although contemporaneous reception and some analyses hold that her character was more resourceful and less helpless than the classic damsel stereotype, and she was a considerable influence on early female audiences and attracted much critical attention therefore. Read more . . .
I've redrawn this vintage, paper baby, wearing a diaper plus her fancy layette just for you to cut-out and color in! You may need some help using scissors, so be sure to ask a parent or older sibling nicely for their assistance. There are three outfits for baby, plus a slip and jacket and bonnet. Toy blocks and rattles are also included.
Hula is a Polynesian dance form accompanied by chant (oli) or song (mele, which is a
cognate of "meke" from the Fijian language). It was developed in the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there. The hula dramatizes or portrays the words of the oli or mele in a visual dance form.
Hula dancing is a complex art form, and there are many hand motions used
to represent the words in a song or chant. For example, hand movements
can signify aspects of nature, such as the swaying of a tree in the
breeze or a wave in the ocean, or a feeling or emotion, such as fondness
or yearning. Foot and hip movements often pull from a basic library of
steps including the kaholo, kaʻo, kawelu, hela, ʻuwehe, and ʻami. Read more...
Below are vintage postcards of girls and ladies hula dancing. They are wearing hula costumes that are traditionally now associated with the dance. If you want to sew a hula costume for a doll, these pictures should give you some idea of how a costume like this normally looks. You will need to sew a grass skirt of some kind, a floral print blouse and string some silk flowers together to make the lei (garland).
"Mut-too-yah-lat-lat" (Thunder traveling over the mountains). Chief of the Wal-lam-wat-kin, band of Chute-pa-he or Nez-Perces (nose pierced) Indians. Joseph was born in Eastern Oregon about 1830. The Nez Perces belong to the Sahaptin family. Lewis and Clark styled them Chopunnish, while they call themselves Numepo. The tribe have always been friendly to the whites. Chief Joseph's father counseled him to continue this friendliness. The Government took away a large portion of their reservations, to this there was very emphatic objection by the Indians, yet Chief Joseph counseled peace and meek submission. Very soon, however, nearly the whole of the remaining reservation was taken, and while the Indians were preparing to move, they were as they believed mistreated by the army, and quite a number of them were killed. Chief Joseph, however, with but about three hundred followers, showed himself a great warrior, a strategist and a statesman, as it required forty companies of United States troops, together with a small army of Volunteers, over two months to hunt down and capture this little band, and although he lacked the warriors, yet in prowess and cunning he stands in a class with Tecumseh, Black Hawk and Pontiac. Joseph died September 22, 1904, at the Calville Indian Reservation, Miles, Washington. In the death of this noted chief, the United States lost its most celebrated Indian since the death of Red Cloud. In Chief Joseph's own story, after enumerating many wrongs which he believed had been perpetuated upon his people, he concluded: "Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose. Free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think, talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty. Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we shall have no more wars. We shall be alike, Brothers of One Father, with one sky above us, and one country around us, and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth." The Shahaptin stock is noteworthy on account of the Nez Perces and this famous chief, probably one of the most remarkable Indians of any age whose "retreat" in 1877 has often been compared to the celebrated "March of the Ten Thousand" of old. During this two months retreat Joseph forbade his men to interfere with any white non-combatants.
Jess McConnell accompanies her archaeologist parents on a several months-long expedition to Belize,
where she learns new lessons about responsibility and preservation of
history along learning new things about herself. To illustrate her mixed
Japanese-American and Irish-Scottish heritage, the Jess doll debuted
with a new face mold. Jess is also the first Girl of the Year by
American Girl to be explicitly biracial.
The Caracol Ruins: Caracol is the name given to a large ancient Maya archaeological site, located in what is now the Cayo District of Belize. It is situated approximately 40 kilometres south of Xunantunich and the town of San Ignacio Cayo, and 15 kilometers away from the Macal River. website
Nim Li Punit : a Maya Classic Period site in the Toledo District of the nation of Belize, located 40 kilometres north of the town of Punta Gorda, at 16° 19' N, 88° 47' 60W. Nim Li Punit is sometimes known as Big Hat or Top Hat; the name is Kekchi Maya for "Big Hat", referring to the large elaborate head-dress on a stela sculpture found on site depicting one of the site's ancient kings. about from SouthernBelize. com website.
Cahal Pech: A Maya site located near the town of San Ignacio in the Cayo District of Belize. The site was a palatial, hilltop home for an elite Maya family, and though most major construction dates to the Classic
period, evidence of continuous habitation has been dated to as far back
as 1200 BCE during the Early Middle Formative period (Early Middle Preclassic), making Cahal Pech one of the oldest recognizably Maya sites in Western Belize. Youtube video.
Blue Creek Preserve: is a small rainforest nature preserve in southern Belize, near the Guatemalan border. It is home to iguana, termite, Bothrops asper, and other snake species, Bufo marinus, lizards, tarantula, leafcutter ants, several species of bats, Morelet's crocodile, jaguarundi, jaguar, tapir, and others. website.
Actun Tunichil Muknal: (the Cave of the Crystal Sepulchre), also known locally as ATM, is a cave in Belize, near San Ignacio, Cayo District, notable as a Maya archaeological site that includes skeletons, ceramics, and stoneware. About from Belize.com website.
Xunantunich: is an Ancient Maya archaeological site in western Belize, about 70 miles (110 km) west of Belize City, in the Cayo District. About from Caves Branch website.
Altun Ha: is the name given to the ruins of an ancient Mayan city in Belize, located in the Belize District about 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Belize City and about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of the shore of the Caribbean Sea. The site covers an area of about 8 square kilometres (3.1 sq mi). About from uncoveredhistory.com website.
Cerros: is an Eastern Lowland Maya archaeological site in northern Belize that functioned from the Late Preclassic to the Postclassic period. About from destinationsbelize.com website.
Lamanai: is a Mesoamerican archaeological site, and was once a major city of the Maya civilization, located in the north of Belize, in Orange Walk District. see video.
Lubaantun: is a pre-Columbian ruined city of the Maya civilization in southern Belize, Central America. About from Globotreks at website.
Chrissa Marie Maxwell and her collection were released on January 1, 2009. An accompanying direct-to-DVD film entitled Chrissa Stands Strong based on her story premiered January 5 and became available for purchase the next day. Chrissa's books and DVD focus on peer bullying issues. Chrissa is portrayed by actress Sammi Hanratty. Both books are written by Mary Casanova. In a break with tradition for this product line, Chrissa's collection included two additional "best friend" dolls: Gwen Thompson and Sonali Matthews, neither of which had a separate collection.
Hawaiian hibiscus are seven species of hibiscus native to Hawaii. The yellow hibiscus is Hawaii's state flower. Most commonly grown as ornamental plants in the Hawaiian Islands are the Chinese hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) and its numerous hybrids, though the native Hibiscus arnottianus is occasionally planted.
The native plants in the genus Hibiscus in Hawaii are
thought to have derived from four independent colonization events for
the five endemic species (four closely related species plus the
yellow-flowered species) and one each for the two indigenous species. Read more...
Use these watercolor haibiscus to decorate your doll house walls and/or lapbooks for Kanani and Nanea dolls. The haibiscus here come in:white, rose, pink, yellow and burnt orange colors.
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Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., an American philosopher, patriot and statesman; borm at Boston, January 17, 1706. He was the fifteenth child and youngest son (of a family of seventeen children) of Josiah Franklin, an Englishman, who came to America in 1682 and was a tallow-chandler and soap-boiler.
At an early age Benjamin Franklin evinced a passion for a seafaring life, and his father, to prevent his running away, bound him as apprentice to his brother, James Franklin, a printer. He now obtained free access to books, for which he had a remarkable fondness. He studied very late at night and occasionally sent anonymous contributions to a paper conducted by his brother, which were very favorably received. Becoming a skillful printer at the age of seventeen, he removed to Philadelphia, where he was at first employed as a journeyman printer; but afterward deciding to go into business for himself, and having been promised some aid by a friend, he went to London to procure the necessary materials. Disappointed in the remittances which he expected, he was compelled to work in that city as a journeyman. After remaining there more than a year he returned to Philadelphia in 1726, and three years later was enabled to commence business for himself. He married Deborah Read in 1730. He established the Pennsylvania Gazette, which became in a short time exceedingly popular as well as profitable. He began to publish in 1732 an almanac which became celebrated as Poor Richard's Almanac though purporting to be issued by Richard Saunders. As an editor he did all that lay in his power to promote every enterprise for the public good. Through his efforts the Philadelphia Library was founded in 1731, and grew to be one of the most extensive in the United States. Justly appreciated for his honesty, prudence, and ability, he was the recipient of many honors. He became clerk of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania in 1736, postmaster of Philadelphia in the year following, and Deputy Postmaster-General for the British colonies in 1753. He was sent to England four years later by the people of Pennsylvania as their representative in the contest with the proprietaries regarding the exemption of their estates from taxation. He performed the duties of his mission before the Privy Council with ability and success, and on returning to America, in 1762, received the thanks of the Assembly. Having already attained distinction among scientific men by his successful experiments in electricity, he made a valuable and brilliant discovery in 1752, by means of a kite, of the identity of lightning with electricity. An account of his discoveries was read before the Royal Society, but was treated by that body with little consideration. Count de Buffon, however, having obtained a copy, caused it to be translated into French. It immediately attracted great attention in Europe. The Royal Society, having the subject again brought before it, and without any request on the part of Franklin, immediately elected him a Fellow, excused him from the payment of the usual admission fees, awarded him the Copley gold medal, and presented him with their Transactions. In 1762 the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh. He was again sent to England by the Assembly in 1764 to oppose the measures for taxing the American colonies, but the Stamp Act was passed in 1765. However, by his rare tact and ability he succeeded in obtaining the repeal of that obnoxious law, but other subjects of dispute of equal importance still remained unsettled.
Franklin, after an absence of more than ten years, returned to America May 5, 1775. On the day following he was unanimously elected a delegate to the Continental Congress by the Assembly of Pennsylvania. He was one of the committee of five who drew up the Declaration of Independence, which was approved by Congress, July 4, 1776, and was afterward signed by Franklin and others. Sent as Ambassador to France in the latter part of that year, he was chiefly instrumental in forming the treaty of alliance between that country and the United States, which conferred such signal benefits on the cause of independence.
Franklin also took a prominent part in negotiating a treaty of peace with England, the preliminary articles of which were signed at Paris, November 30, 1782. The full treaty itself was signed in that city, September 3, 1783, by Franklin, Adams, and Jay. After negotiating a treaty with Prussia, in which he inserted a clause against privateering, he returned to Philadelphia in September, 1785, and in October was elected President of Pennsylvania, to which position he was re-elected in 1786 and 1787. He sat as a delegate in the Convention which met in Philadelphia in 1787 to form a Constitution of the United States.
Franklin was a President of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery. He died April 17, 1790.
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Jay, John, an American statesman and the first Chief-Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born in New York, December 12, 1745. After graduating at King's (now Columbia) College, he read law, and was admitted to the bar in 1768. He soon acquired an extensive and lucrative practice, and obtained great influence in the assemblies which met to consider the hostile attitude of the British government In 1774 he was elected to the First Continental Congress, at Philadelphia, and became one of the most prominent leaders of that body. He gained distinction as an eloquent and forcible writer by the addresses to the people of Great Britain and to the people of Canada which he prepared. He aided in forming the Constitution of New York m 1777, and in May of the same year was appointed Chief-Justice of that State. He was afterward chosen President of Congress, and was sent as Minister to Spam in September, 1779. He afterward negotiated, with Adams and others, at Paris, the treaty of peace between the United States and Great Britain which was signed September 3, 1783. In 1784 he was appointed by Congress Secretary of Foreign Affairs. Be returned to America and accepted the position, the duties of which he performed with great ability until the election of Washington, in 1789. He joined with Hamilton and Madison in 1787 in writing The Federalist and two years later was appointed by Washington Chief- Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
In 1794, Jay was sent as a special envoy to England to adjust various causes of dispute which had arisen between that country and America. He consented with the greatest reluctance to accept the mission, as he was well aware of the difficulties which surrounded it He concluded a treaty in November which was bitterly assailed in America by the party favorable to France, and Jay was himself burned in effigy in Boston. He was however, defended with rare ability by Alexander Hamilton and by Fisher Ames. During his absence in Europe he was, without his consent, elected Governor of the State of New York; but he accepted the position, and held it for six years. During his administration slavery was abolished in that State. At the end of his second term he declined a renomination, and also his former position of Chief-Justice of the United States, which was tendered him. Died May 17, 1829.
The Reluctant Revolutionary.
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