CREATIVE ACTIVITY You\'ve been a tour conductor for years, taking groups of Amer

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CREATIVE ACTIVITY You've been a tour conductor for years, taking groups of Americans acr our knowledge of European history and culture; many tour pass mented on how you make the past come alive. oss Europe. You're very p engers on your motorcoach have It's your day off. You live in Brussels and decide to sort through the cluttered attic of your recen ceased aunt, Marie-Louise Wells. Marie-Louise was the granddaughter of the famous British aut thinker H. G. Wells. But what's this in a dark dusty corner? A weird contraption with a brass plate that says.. . this machine! Could it be that what Wells wrote about is real? Attached is a note from your aunt. It t that, indeed, this time machine works. You can visit any person or place in the past. Though the time range is unlimited, its distance is not. The farthest away, geographically, you can go from E 2,000 miles. You must also return to Brussels after each single "time trip." You decide on your first excursion to visit six famous people and places from the past. Your first be to visit Mozart in Salzburg. What will the other five be? (You may need to use an atlas to calo distances.) Person Place Reason Salzburg To see a young musical gen 0 Mozart 2

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Shakespeare

Stratford upon Avon, England

To watch how the bard of England conducting his plays and how the crowd cheered.

Adolf Hitler

Berlin

To see a person who terrorized the world with his Nazi regime.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Florence

To watch Leonardo painting the Mona Lisa

Emperor Vespasian

Rome

To see him explaining his plans to build a colosseum