You can find awesome links here to learn more about life for your Paper Dali. Just don't forget to bookmark us before venturing out! (And as always, use discretion and common sense when surfing the Internet.)

Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt for Kids: http://ancienthistory.mrdonn.org/AncientEgypt.html
Make a Mummy (an online game): http://kids.discovery.com/fansites/tutenstein/mummymaker/mummymaker.html
Pixilated Momma's Ancient Egypt Unit Study: http://pixilatedschoolnotes.blogspot.com/2007/08/ancient-egypt.html

Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece: http://www.ancient-greece.org/index.html
Ancient Greece for Kids: http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/greeks/
BBC's Ancient Greece: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/
Mr. Donn's Ancient Greece for Kids: http://greece.mrdonn.org/index.html

Saints
Juan Diego:
Catholic Online: http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=73

Lucia:
Catholic Culture's Lucia Devotions: http://www.catholicculture.org/liturgicalyear/activities/view.cfm?id=108
Make St. Lucia bread using a recipe here: http://www.breadworld.com/recipe.aspx?id=68&IsPrivateID=true

Extra info from Paper Dali: Look up the different countries in which St. Lucy's feast day is celebrated:
Italy (her birthplace): Italians celebrate by eating small cakes or biscotti shaped like eyes, in memory of her having her eyes gouged out. A bit gross? Maybe, but they're not really eyes, LOL, and the cakes taste good. They also light huge bonfires, also in memory of St. Lucy being a light to others in the darkness of troubling times and also for her using candles to light her way to serve the poor. Sicilians pay tribute to a miracle performed by St Lucy during a famine in 1582. Their prayers were answered by bringing a flotilla of grain-bearing ships to starving Sicily, whose citizens cooked and ate the wheat without taking time to grind it into flour. Thus, on St. Lucy's Day, Sicilians don't eat anything made with wheat flour, but eat a cooked wheat called cuccia.

Sweden: The oldest daughter in each household brings coffee and traditional pastries called lussekatter (Lucy cats) on a tray to her parents before they arise in the morning. She wears a white gown, scarlet sash, and a crown of greens and four, seven, or nine lighted candles. If she has other sisters, they are dressed in white and carry lit candles, and accompany her. Any brothers? They are called "star boys" (not Star Wars boys) and wear tall, cone-shaped hats decorated with stars. Some towns choose one girl to represent Saint Lucy at a celebration. Why the candles on the wreath? It's in memory of St. Lucia's going through the darkened woods, bringing food to the poor. In those days, she couldn't have used a flashlight, so she put candles on a wreath around her head, so her hands would be free to carry items to the poor.

Switzerland: Lucy accompanies Father Christmas. She doles out gifts to girls; he, to the boys.

Nicholas:
St. Nicholas Center: http://www.stnicholascenter.org/Brix?pageID=23
St. Nicholas Flipbook: http://ebeth.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2007/11/28/saint_nicholascover.jpg