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Cbs News Correspondent Eric Sevareid
Read the latest of Walter Cronkite's oral essays for NPR, in which he comments on events in recent history such as the Vietnam War, the U-2 crisis, and so on.
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The Armstrong Sperry Home Page
This site provides a wealth of information about Sperry, his books, and his life. Includes correspondence and a biographical timeline.
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The Armstrong Sperry Home Page
This site provides a wealth of information about Sperry, his books, and his life. Includes correspondence and a biographical timeline.
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The Armstrong Sperry Home Page
This site provides a wealth of information about Sperry, his books, and his life. Includes correspondence and a biographical timeline.
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White Shadows in the South Seas, by Frederick O'brien
This site provides a wealth of information about Sperry, his books, and his life. Includes correspondence and a biographical timeline.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
This site provides a wealth of information about Sperry, his books, and his life. Includes correspondence and a biographical timeline.
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Wild Life Among the Pacific Islanders by e.h. Lamont
This site provides a wealth of information about Sperry, his books, and his life. Includes correspondence and a biographical timeline.
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The Armstrong Sperry Home Page
This site provides a wealth of information about Sperry, his books, and his life. Includes correspondence and a biographical timeline.
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The Voyage of Patience Goodspeed
This site provides a wealth of information about Sperry, his books, and his life. Includes correspondence and a biographical timeline.
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Acid Rain
Explore this website and discover the wonders of lightning, thunder and rain. Students will have an opportunity to read a summary of the book "Lightning and Other Wonders of the Sky" and participate in some activities that correspond...
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Drawing of Ellipse
Investigation and discussion of the way "Pin and string construction," works in producing an ellipse. Works through the corresponding equations in a well-ordered way.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: West Rock Ridge, 1911
A geologic map from 1911 of south-central Connecticut showing the displacement of trap ridges near northern end of West Rock Ridge and corresponding displacement in the crystallines of the bordering uplands.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Barlow's Map, 1785
An English facsimile of a map issued by Joel Barlow in Paris (1787) of the area north of the Ohio River, showing the essential parts of a map with his proposals to induce immigration, but the legends are turned into English from the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: North America, 1689
A map of North America, Central America, and the West Indies in 1689 at the beginning of the King William's War (1689-1697), the first of the French and Indian Wars. The map is color-coded to show the claims of the English, French, and...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, 1898
A map from 1898 of Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. The map includes an inset map of Cuba and the Isthmus of Nicaragua. "The surface of the Rocky Mountain highland in Mexico is quite similar to that of the great plateau...
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Etc: Maps Etc: England and Wales, December 9, 1643
A map of England and Wales as they were on December 9th, 1643, during the First English Civil War (1642-1646). The map is color-coded to show the districts held by the King and districts controlled by Parliament in the ongoing English...
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Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt Nielsen (B. 1918) With Her Children
Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen (b. 1918), with her children (left to right) Mimi (age 5), Bent (age 9), and Astrid (age 11). They are shown examining study materials to be taken on an African expedition. The caption provided with the...
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Eternal Egypt: Gold Cover of Psusennes' Mummy
This gold sheet covered the mummy of King Psusennes the First, who lived during the Twenty-First Dynasty. The upper part of the cover, corresponding to the torso, is decorated with two hands holding the insignia of the god Osiris: the...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico: Ernie Pyle House
Former home of famed war correspondent Ernie Pyle.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota: Oliver H. Kelley Homestead
The Oliver H. Kelley Homestead is a historic farmstead once owned by Oliver Hudson Kelley, one of the founders of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. Oliver Kelley moved to Minnesota in 1849, the year that Minnesota Territory was formed....
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Bbc: Asia Quake Disaster
BBC's official page for the Tsunami disaster of December, 2004. Key Stories, Eyewitness Accounts, reports from correspondents, and animations provide up to date coverage. December, 2004
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Samuel A. Alito Jr.
Interesting report about the background of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito. Story, as well as corresponding video, is available. November, 2005.
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Wizard of Oz (Library of Congress Exhibition)
An online exhibit that provides a collection of colorful artifacts related to L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz." See a poster promoting Baum's children's books as well as many book covers, artwork from the "The Wizard of Oz," personal...
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Guardian: War in Congo Kills 45,000 People Each Month
Guardian correspondent Chris McGreal discusses the implications of the death toll on the population of the Democratic Republic of Congo. (January 23, 2008)