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University of Maryland

University of Maryland: The People's Republic of China

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive article focuses on the radical policy change known as the Four Modernizations which Deng Xiaoping introduced to China.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: A New Ecosystem for Electric Cars

For Students 9th - 10th
Forget about the hybrid auto- Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020. [18:03]
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Einstein's Miracle Year

For Students 9th - 10th
As the year 1905 began, Albert Einstein faced life as a "failed" academic. Yet within the next twelve months, he would publish four extraordinary papers, each on a different topic, that were destined to radically transform our...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Your Elusive Creative Genius

For Students 9th - 10th
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly...
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PBS

Pbs Frontline: Al Qaeda's New Front

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS Frontline investigates the threat radical jihadists pose to Western Europe and it allies - including the United States.
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Other

Math Mistakes: Common Algebra Mistakes

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn from other student's mistakes by reviewing examples of the following Algebra topics: rational expressions, radical expressions, function notation, solving linear equations, solving linear inequalities, solving quadratic equations,...
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Other

Irkutsk: Decembrists in Irkutsk

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the lives of Russian radicals after being condemned in 1825 for participating in a failed revolutionary attempt.
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Other

Nothingness.org: Social Anarchism: The Way the Wind

For Students 9th - 10th
A book review of Way of the Wind by Ron Jacobs provides extensive information about the radical group, the Weathermen.
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9/11 Memorial & Museum

National September 11 Memorial & Museum: 1993 World Trade Center Bombing

For Students 9th - 10th
On February 26, 1993, at 12:18 p.m., a small cell of terrorists, with links to a local radical mosque and broader Islamist terror networks, detonated about 1,200 pounds of explosives in a rental van in the underground parking garage at...
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PBS

Pbs Online News Hour: Tales From the Underground

For Students 9th - 10th
A reporter speaks to two former Weathermen radicals who are middle aged now. Would they do what they did during their youth knowing what they know now? They both said positively.
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Computer History Museum

Computer History Museum: Restoring the Dec Pdp 1 Computer Exhibit

For Students 9th - 10th
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) introduced the PDP-1 in 1959. It represented a radical shift in the philosophy of computer design. This site presents the history of the PDP-1, the people that worked on the PDP-1 project, how the...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Poetry of Liberation: Amiri Baraka

For Students 9th - 10th
Poet and playwright Amiri Baraka is featured in this brief biography for his radical views and contributions during the Black Arts Movement in America. See "Amiri Baraka Activities" for related resources.
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National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's Hall of Fame: Alice Paul

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the accomplishments of Alice Paul, a radical leader in the women's movement for suffrage who preferred to directly picket Congress. She was the organizer of the National Woman's Party, and spent time in jail for her activism.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The New Right

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the backlash against the freewheeling '60s and '70s with the growth of the New Right, a coalition of big business leaders, Christian Right, and even radical hatred groups.
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: A President Impeached

For Students 5th - 8th
The Radical Republicans in Congress did not approve of President Andrew Johnson's attempts to thwart their plans for Reconstruction. See what charges they used to impeach Johnson and find out why he was not removed from office.
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Bill of Rights Institute

Bill of Rights Institute: John Hancock

For Students 9th - 10th
Forever famous for his outsized signature on the Declaration of Independence, John Hancock was a larger than life figure in other ways as well. Part of the great Boston triumvirate that included Samuel Adams and James Otis, Hancock was a...
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Mangahigh

Mangahigh: Number: Rationalize a Denominator

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of rationalizing a denominator by multiplying radicals.
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Other

New Bedford Historical Society: Lewis Temple

For Students 9th - 10th
Biography of African-American Lewis Temple, whose toggle iron radically improved the harpoon used by whalers in the 19th century.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: George Washington Carver

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how George Washington Carvers' contributions to science radically changed the agricultural economy of the United States.
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Other

International Gramsci Society: An Introduction to the Life of Gramsci

For Students 9th - 10th
A good summary of the life of Antonio Gramsci, a well known Italian writer, politician and radical theorist, he was thrown in prison by Mussolini where he died in 1937.
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Library of Congress

Loc: George Washington Papers at the Loc

For Students 9th - 10th
Described as a "prominent English radical", this essay refers to the correspondence that Patience Wright had with George Washington.
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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Woody Guthrie

For Students 9th - 10th
"The original folk hero", Woody Guthrie was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1988. He wrote hundreds of songs that he turned into a way to show his social conscience and left-wing radical politics.
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BBC

Bbc: Profile: Viktor Yushchenko

For Students 9th - 10th
The BBC provides a profile of the man who will lead Ukraine through "radical political change." His background and political aspirations are noted. 1/2005
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture: Huey Newton

For Students 9th - 10th
This poster of Huey Newton is accompanied by text that explains how this photograph became a symbol for radical protext.

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