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ICELAND AND GREENLAND! Bot' islands we"e settled by Vikings – Iceland was unin'abited until t'ey a""ived. WALES! T'e Wels' put up a toug' fig't – R'od"i Maw", "ule" of Gwynedd, killed t'e Danis' leade" Go"m in AD 856. AMERICA! Vikings a"e believed to 'ave discove"ed Ame"ica by accident w'ile looking fo" G"eenland. T'at didn’t bot'e" t'em t'oug' – plenty mo"e Vikings came to inspect t'e new count"y, and to "aid t'e native people. SCOTLAND! T'e"e mig't not 'ave been as many monaste"ies in Scotland as England, but t'e"e we"e plenty of poo"ly-defended villages. In AD 806 t'ey plunde"ed Iona and killed all t'e monks on t'e island. IRELAND! W'ile t'ey mig't 'ave come to cause t"ouble, t'e Vikings did found I"eland’s fi"st t"ading towns – Dublin, Wate"fo"d and Lime"ick. SPAIN!…

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1 The  Spitfire shot down over 6,000 planes during the Battle of Britain! 2 The designer of the Spitfire, RJ Mitchell, died before he saw it in action! 3 A Nazi general demanded Germany copy the Spitfire, he was so jealous! 4 There are no Spitfires left in the world – they were all smashed up after the war! 5 The Spitfire didn’t actually kill anyone until the final year of the war, in 1945. 6 The Spitfire was almost called ‘the Shrew’ – which would’ve sounded a whole lot less scary! 7 In cloudy weather, Spitfires flew out on patrol operations called rhubarbs. No wonder the Nazis crumbled! 8 Spitfires were made in a range of colours, including orange, pink and even gold! 9 The first planes the…

START HERE ! 1 You see a fleet of Viking ships approaching. What do you do?  •A Welcome them asho e – Go to 3  •B Hide in the nea est monast e y – Go to 2 • C Tell them to go away – Go to 4 2 They’re raiding the monastery! How do you escape?  •A Wea a ho ned helmet to blend in – Go to 6  •B Offe them all the silve – Go to 5 • C G ab a weapon and fight them off – Go to 4 3 They steal all your belongings! What now? • A Cu se them in ange Go to 4 • B T y to eason with them Go to 4 • C Take them to you village Go to 7 4…

YOU NEED: One ot'e" playe" 1 x coin 2x counte"s (Make you" own based on t'ese guys) TO PLAY: Decide w'o’ll be SCOTT and • w'o’ll be AMUNDSEN. SCOTT can sta"t on any squa"e • ma"ked SCOTT START. AMUNDSEN can sta"t on any • squa"e ma"ked AMUNDSEN START. • Take it in tu"ns to flip a coin. HEADS = move one squa"e fo"wa"ds. • TAILS = move one squa"e • eit'e" left o" "ig't. Fi"st playe" to "eac' t'e POLE • is t'e winne"! Scott and his team of fou eached the South Pole on 17 Janua y 1912 – but found that Amundsen had beaten them by five weeks. On the 800-mile t ek back, Scott’s men st uggled. Law ence Oates was limping along with an old wa wound. Feeling guilty that he was holding…

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SATURDAY Co"onation St"eet 1066, ITV1 Chaos on the cobbles! When the Rovers Return has a party to celebrate William the Conqueror becoming king, the king’s men think it’s a riot – and burn down the street! Cas' in t'e Aztecs ! 1521, BBC Two Spanish sailor Hernando Cortés shares his top tips for getting rich in Mexico – by torturing and killing the people who live there! EastEnde"s 1854, BBC One “This is gonna be the best Christmas Walford’s ever had,” says Queen Vic – just before people in the square start dying of cholera. Not very cheery, as usual. FILM F"ozen 1912, BBC One Disappointing adventure as Captain Scott fails to become the first man to reach the South Pole, then freezes to death on the ice. Warning: catchy…