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WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
Each of the words on these cards have the same meaning as one of the sayings below. Can you pick out the right one for each?
A. To throw up the sponge.

B. To shoot a line.

C. To haul over the coals.

D. To blow one's own
     trumpet.

E. As the crow flies.

F. A round peg in a square
     hole.

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ASTRONOMER
This man was the founder of modern astronomy. He was born in 1473 and was the first to discover that the earth and planets move in orbit round the sun.
What was his name? To find out, fill in the name of the creatures pictured below and then transfer the letters, as shown by the numbers, to the empty frame under the man's portrait.
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TAKE A CHAIR
These four chairs each belong to a different period of history. Each of them represents the style of a different century from the 16th to the 19th.
Can you put them in their right chronological order?
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