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Have you also checked to see if there is a "legal cheat sheet" for your project or class? |
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Online Maps (including blank maps) can be found at:http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxindex.htm (blank country maps) http://www.atlapedia.com/ http://libraryspot.com/maps/outline.htm
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"On
This Day" Websites Scopesys.com/anyday shows "births, deaths, and holidays" as sorted by date. Promomart.com/about/app9.htm details all of the special month designations. Historychannel.com/tdih/index.html sorts from a dozen categories to tell you what happened on your birthday. http://english.yasuda-u.ac.jp/lc delivers an "eyeful of historical happenings related to writers." Scroll past the topic Ephemerids and enter a date. Disasterium.com posts three types of disasters--fires, earthquakes, and transportaiton--that you can search by month and day. |
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| The Librarian's Index to the Internet is a searchable, annotated subject directory of Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness and authority. A reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources. | Refdesk.com is a thorough and well-organized site of research and reference links. Its pages contain 20,000 links to reference sites, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, statistical resources, newspapers and magazines. It's updated and improved almost daily. | StartSpot.com simplifies your search for the best of the Web with this family of portal sites. Includes homeworkspot.com; headlinespot.com (great for current event assignments; you can search by country or topic); museumspot.com; libraryspot.com; peoplespot.com; govspot.com and bookspot.com. | Puzzlemaker
is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create
and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your
word lists.
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| Snopes.com Accurate information on urban legends. | ||||
| The Onion is a satirical weekly publication to enjoy. | ||||
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| Polling Report is an independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion. | ||||
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American
Memory The site offers more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections. Includes texts, motion pictures, sound recordings, and photographs. Provides sections on African-American perspectives, the Civil War, Continental Congress documents, presidential portraits, vaudeville and popular entertainment, and women's suffrage. Detailed multimedia presentations on significant historical events provide access to the highlights of the collections at the Library of Congress. The creation of this National Digital Library is a model for in-depth archival and historical presentations. The Learning Page is especially for teachers and features activities, tips, tricks, lesson plans and more on more than 100 American Memory collections.
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LyricSearch.com Find the lyrics to your favorite songs by doing a keyword search. The site's editors do not specialize in any one genre; rather, they post lyrics that users request. If you can't find the song you're looking for, drop them an e-mail. For additional related resources, see LibrarySpot's Music section.
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Stunning material available online including primary sources! These are the best portal sites with links to 1,000s of quality websites for medieval history.
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The Inflation Calculator (www.westegg.com/inflation) lets you enter a monetary amount and calculate its precise buying power between 1800 and 2002. | |
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Internet Movie Database (www.us.imdb.com)
The most complete movie database on the Web. Be sure to use the menu on the left hand side of the page to link to full cast & crew list, reviews (click "external reviews"), awards & nominations, plot summary, quotes, filming locations, and more. Use the link to "plot keywords" to find ideas for further search terms. |
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| American Women's History: a pathfinder to reference materials, primary documents, journals, etc. | Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World includes primary texts, images, online articles and more related to Greek, Roman, Egyptian and other ancient cultures. | Internet Women's History Source Book is a collection of online documents and secondary materials. | ||
| Victorian
Dictionary is a a guide to the social history of Victorian London. |
The Electronic Neighborhood is a unique one-stop information resource for information on California and regional history topics. Through the Electronic Neighborhood, the Los Angeles Public Library is electronically sharing indexes and visual resources. By searching its databases: California Index, Photo Collection, Menu Collection, Turnabout Theatre, California Fiction, one can access data and visual images -- indexes, documents and photographs that provide unique information on local communities, neighborhoods and people that date back hundreds of years. The Electronic Neighborhood site also includes valuable links to other regional history and informational web pages. |
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Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust is
presented from three perspectives: Timeline, People, and The Arts. Also
includes photographs, original documents, links to external Web sites,
maps, video, music, artwork, etc.
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The Official Website of the British Monarch is an interactive introduction not only to the rulers but also to their art and residences. Excellent overviews of individual monarchs. |
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