Are spiders related to crabs? Study the order of arthropods with a reading selection about animal diversity. It provides details about each class within the order, as well as vivid pictures and explanatory charts. 

This site provides the complete etext for Willa Cather's story, "Alexander's Bridge."

This site provides the complete etext for Rudyard Kipling's story, The Bridge-Builders.

This lesson focuses on developing a way to cross all 7 Bridges of Konigsberg without crossing any of them more than once. Euler discovered it was impossible, but he developed the idea of using graph theory to determine if it would be...

"Over the Rainbow Bridge", written in 1920 by Louise Marshall Haynes, has been digitized and made available by the Rosetta Project. This 23 page book is appropriate for early readers.

Read the full text of the short story "With Bridges Burned" by Rex Ellingwood Beach.

Text of the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the ability to insert annotations.)

Read the full text of "Alexander's Bridge" by Willa Cather. A synopsis is included.

Here's an ebook with descriptions, locations, and pictures of bridges all over the Cuyahoga Valley.

Gives an overview of the timeline of humans establishing themselves in the Americas, starting with the crossing of the Bering Sea land bridge some time before 12,000 B.C. Archaeological evidence shows humans moving south and eventually...

This Bibliomania site provides the full text to over 25 short stories by Ambrose Bierce! Each story is accessible by just clicking on the link of the one that you want to read. A great site to check out on the subject.

This lesson focuses on a different way to construct geometric figures without tools, Origami. The goal is to make objects out of one or more sheets of paper, without any additional tools like glue or scissors. You can create incredibly...

The story of early Roman hero Horatius Cocles by Charlotte Yonge includes the famous poem by Lord Macaulay about the Roman soldier who single-handedly defended a bridge across the Tiber from invading Etruscans.

This site features the author Kathleen Thompson Norris including the full text of 10 novels and 17 short stories.

Full text of a number of Wordsworth's famous poems is available here, along with an abbreviated biography of his lengthy life.

This unique page contains links to the sonnets of the title, as well as links to biographical information about the writers. There are even audio versions of some sonnets available. A bibliography is provided, but no actual commentary or...