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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Flies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Based on the Greek myth of Orestes and Electra, ths play was written during the Nazi occupation of Paris. Read about the themes and characters in this enlightening site.
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Philosophe.com: Getting to Know Your Audience

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Essays about understanding your audience in the development of websites. This extended discussion can enlighten the understanding the audience in writing any work.
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Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Vajrayana

For Students 9th - 10th
An article on Vajrayana, one of the three Buddhist routes to enlightenment. The article includes the history of Vajrayana and its teachings, as well as information about its development in places beyond India, such as China, Japan, and...
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Lehigh University: Weather Factoids

For Students 3rd - 8th
How many times does lightning strike the Empire State Building? What state is know as the lightning capital of the U.S.? What time of day do tornadoes usually occur? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this enlightening...
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Royal Botanic Gardens

Plant Cultures: Themes: Sacred and Spirtual: Buddhism

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An overview of Buddhism that considers the role of the pipal tree, among other things, in the establishment of the faith. The tree is sacred to Buddhists as the tree under which the meditating Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment.
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Paris Embellished and Expanded, Date Unknown

For Students 9th - 10th
Historical overview of Louis XIV and XV reigns in France as a comparison between an absolute monarch and an enlightened monarch. Details the varying styles of two monarchs-one oppressive to the human spirit and a counter-cultural...
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Selenographia Sive Lunae Descriptio

For Students 9th - 10th
Historical overview of Louis XIV and XV reigns in France as a comparison between an absolute monarch and an enlightened monarch. Details the varying styles of two monarchs-one oppressive to the human spirit and a counter-cultural...
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Selenographia Sive Lunae Descriptio

For Students 9th - 10th
Historical overview of Louis XIV and XV reigns in France as a comparison between an absolute monarch and an enlightened monarch. Details the varying styles of two monarchs-one oppressive to the human spirit and a counter-cultural...
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Les Campagnes De Louis Xiv. Campagne Du Roy Pendant L'ann

For Students 9th - 10th
Historical overview of Louis XIV and XV reigns in France as a comparison between an absolute monarch and an enlightened monarch. Details the varying styles of two monarchs-one oppressive to the human spirit and a counter-cultural...
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Cours Des Principaux Fleuves Et Rivi

For Students 9th - 10th
Historical overview of Louis XIV and XV reigns in France as a comparison between an absolute monarch and an enlightened monarch. Details the varying styles of two monarchs-one oppressive to the human spirit and a counter-cultural...
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Constitution Des Treize

For Students 9th - 10th
Historical overview of Louis XIV and XV reigns in France as a comparison between an absolute monarch and an enlightened monarch. Details the varying styles of two monarchs-one oppressive to the human spirit and a counter-cultural...
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Deafness in Disguise

For Students 9th - 10th
Enlightening history of hearing aid devices from the 19th century on.
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Flower Vase Receptacle, Ca. 1810

For Students 9th - 10th
Enlightening history of hearing aid devices from the 19th century on.
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Why Frogs? Why Tuesday? David Wiesner's Caldecott Medal Acceptance Speech

For Students 3rd - 5th
Where did David Weisner get the idea for Tuesday? Did he have a pet frog growing up? Did he live near a swamp? David Wiesner answers these questions as you read through his Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for Tuesday on this...
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Tuesday

For Students 3rd - 5th
Where did David Weisner get the idea for Tuesday? Did he have a pet frog growing up? Did he live near a swamp? David Wiesner answers these questions as you read through his Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for Tuesday on this...
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Caldecott Medal

For Students 3rd - 5th
Where did David Weisner get the idea for Tuesday? Did he have a pet frog growing up? Did he live near a swamp? David Wiesner answers these questions as you read through his Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for Tuesday on this...
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Flying Frog From Tuesday

For Students 3rd - 5th
Where did David Weisner get the idea for Tuesday? Did he have a pet frog growing up? Did he live near a swamp? David Wiesner answers these questions as you read through his Caldecott Medal acceptance speech for Tuesday on this...
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Photograph: Hon. Oliver Mowat

For Students 9th - 10th
An enlightening but brief site that covers the major accomplishment of Oliver Mowat including his achievements as premier of Ontario.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Voltaire

For Students 9th - 10th
A French philosopher during the French Enlightenment.
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Emissions From a Uk Power Station

For Students 9th - 10th
Succinct and enlightening article on the Kyoto treaty. It is in a question and answer format and is very easy to follow. This article in a part of a series by the BBC on the environment. There are links on this page to other...
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Chart Showing Main Greenhouse Gas Emitters

For Students 9th - 10th
Succinct and enlightening article on the Kyoto treaty. It is in a question and answer format and is very easy to follow. This article in a part of a series by the BBC on the environment. There are links on this page to other...
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Unesco: Spain: Aranjuez Cultural Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between the rural and the urban, between forest landscape and the...
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Unesco: India: Mahabodhi Temple Complex at Bodh Gaya

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mahabodhi Temple Complex is one of the four holy sites related to the life of the Lord Buddha, and particularly to the attainment of Enlightenment. The first temple was built by Emperor Asoka in the 3rd century B.C., and the present...

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