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Fun Links
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America on the
move History of transportation in America. |
| Golf in
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| IDIOM
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| Mr Picasso
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Picasso-like images.
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| Radiolovers.com
- Free Old Time Radio Shows. Hundreds of vintage radio shows
for you to listen to online in mp3 format, all for free. |
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All About
Hangovers
“I feel
sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as
good as they're going to feel all day.” -- Frank Sinatra |
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The Travel Channel Fansite From the
world's best romantic resorts and casinos, to the world's best bathrooms, the
Travel Channel does all the critical research for you |
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License plate designs From Aruba to Zaire, find
license plate designs from all over the world.
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Corporate Scandal Cartoons View
collections of editorial cartoons about accounting scandals and the loss of
faith in corporate America. |
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Living
Audio Wine Dictionary This site
provides a collection of definitions and audio pronunciations of select wine
names.
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Pastimes and
Paradigms This exhibition of 'the evolution of games since 1800,' includes a
wide variety of antique and contemporary games, as well as rare books on rules,
strategies, and recreation.
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| Time
Capsule Ever wonder what was going on in the world the
day you were born? Plug in your date of birth and get the details.
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Summer Cinema This site outlines the upcoming Summer movie lineup and
organizes them by categories such as 'family'. Also create your own watchlists.
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The Dumb
Network From dumb laws to dumb criminal acts, this
hilarious site proves that truth is often funnier than fiction. |
Neat Sites
| 19th Century Advertising
This site
chronicles advertisements from Harper's Weekly from 1857 to 1872. |
| The
Money Museum
Everything you wanted to know about money. |
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The American Package Museum
If you like old packages this is interesting. |
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Dismuke's Virtual Talking Machine
"This site is
devoted to vintage music from the early decades of the 20th Century. The
forgotten era of American popular culture. |
| Antarctic Photo
Library This site has hundreds of photos of Antartica from science to
wildlife. Search by keyword, date, or photographer. |
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Great Sports
Photography If you love great sports photography,
these Kurt Jones sites are for you. His surfing and team sports shots are
stunning.
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| The Museum Of Hoaxes
An almost daily
weblog about hoaxes, pranks, and fakery of all kinds |
| Radio
Station Locator This comprehensive site contains links to over 10,000 radio
stations and 2500 audio streams. Search by zip code or station call letters.
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| Great
Mirror From Egypt to Italy, find over 5000 beautiful
pictures of landscapes from around the world.
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Photographers of Genius To celebrate 20 years of collecting photographs at
the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, this exhibition presents works by 38
photographers. |
| Autoindex
Get detailed information on the world's automakers
including contact information and full car lineups. |
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Implosion World Explosive demolition industry’s worldwide source for news
and information on building implosions, blowdowns and all other types of
structural blasting projects. Implosionworld.com publishes news, feature
articles and non-proprietary technical information. |
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One-Minute
Portraits This site contains dozens of movie clips of famous people and
events. |
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Presidents and First Ladies This site
from the Library of Congress has an extensive collection of portraits of
Presidents and First Ladies. |
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Book Search and Price
Comparison The book search engine that
allows you to comparison shop more than 40 online bookstores including Amazon,
Barnes and Noble, and Borders. |
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Chasing The Sun
From pilots to passengers, this PBS site
chronicles the history of commercial aviation through the eyes of its key
innovators.
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For Kids
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Lego's web site
is a fun site for
preschoolers
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TuKids
Looking to
help your kids both learn and have a little fun at the same time?
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Ray's Letters and Numbers
Free, fun to use educational software for children aged
3-6. A great way to teach the alphabet, numbers, counting, simple spelling,
keyboard skills and more. Simple, entertaining, educational games which your
child will want to play again and again!
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Dinosaur Planet This site from the discovery channel explores the lives of
dinosaurs. So come on in and take the dinosaurs out for a spin. Literally. |
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Mars for Kids
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Journey to Mars!
Spirit and Opportunity, the Mars Exploration Rovers, have
successfully landed on Mars! For the latest information about their progress,
and to see what should be the greatest images of Mars ever taken, the
Exploratorium is the place to be.
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| Geometry
Games This wonderful site by Jeff Weeks is specially designed for young
children or anyone in fact who just did not have an opportunity to learn what
geometric, topological and cosmological spaces are all about. |
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Harry
Potter Here is a site you can sit your kids in front
of for an hour or 2, if you don't mind them playing wizardry games. The site has
all the charm of the Harry Potter movie as well as all the clever and
imaginative elements that made this movie so enchanting. The quaint sorting
process as shown in the hat selection scene, is all there. I did not look too
deeply into the players dialogues. But they seemed to be reasonable. Lots of
free online games. |
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Early Calculators Teach your kids that one could actually calculate before
computers. Dust off that trusty slide rule and check out this HP calculator
museum.
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Educational
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ComputerWorld
QuickStudies
Concise
tutorials explain what you need to know about key IT technologies, terms,
concepts and buzzwords.
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Library The library
contains unique educational web sites that have been created through ThinkQuest
competitions and programs. The library currently contains more than 5,000 web
sites. Built by students for students to use and learn.
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WinStars
WinStars is a complete planetarium, displaying the
appearance of the sky, as seen from anywhere on Earth, for any date. With a
click of the mouse, it's possible to review information about all objects
displayed using this program. WinStars is freeware.
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Treasure Troves of Science A
wonderful site, jam packed full of knowledge, including formulae. Astronomy,
Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and more. There's information here for students
from high school to post-graduate.
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National Geographic
The Web Site of the National Geographic Society. Web site
is full of interesting articles and photographs - always a pleasure to visit.
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The Best of
Hubble
This site has thousands of images of never-before-seen
galaxies, stars, and celestial bodies that have been sent back from the Hubble
Telescope.
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The Best of Hubble 2 - Some of the best pictures.
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The
People's Vote The Results of The People's Vote: The most influential
documents in American history. Explore 100 milestone documents of American
history. |
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The Top Science Stories of 2003 For some, this year in
science may be remembered more for its disasters than its successes. |
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| The Educator's Reference Desk
you can access Ask ERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education
information, and 200+ question archive responses. |
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Historic Cities This site contains maps, literature,
documents, books and other relevant material concerning the past, present and
future of historic cities and facilitates the location of similar content on the
web. Read more about the project...A fascinating site! |
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| Martin Luther
King Jr. Papers From a full bio to an active chronology, this site has an
extensive amount of information of Martin Luther King Jr.
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Secret Life of the
Brain Find out everything from what triggers laughter to why teenagers sleep
in. Includes a 3d anatomy of the human brain.
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Dictionary of Units
of Measurement What is the diameter of
a gnat's eye, anyway? These and other questions are answered on this great site. |
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Shakespeare This PBS companion site to its television special, irreverently
investigates the life and times of Shakespeare.
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| Diet
Guide Find it hard to understand all the different
diets out there? Don't know the difference between the South Beach and Atkins
diet? This site may help.
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Eternal Egypt Whether it's the
alluring desert, the mysterious Sphinx, the glamorous pharaohs, or the creepy
mummies, something about ancient Egypt grabs the imagination and never lets go.
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The Coliseum in Rome was was built
nearly 2,000 years ago and housed some of the most spectacular and horrific
competition in modern history. |
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Knowing Poe
Learn about Poe the person as well as Poe the writer on this excellent site from
PBS. |
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TheatreHistory
Those into theatre will want to take a
look at
www.theatrehistory.com, which offers a host of resources on the long and
storied past of this performing art. |
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| BrainyAtlas
Find
profiles of 268 countries on this extensive site. Find information on geography,
people, government, economy, communications and more. |
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Encyclopedia Smithsonian Rummage through the
collections of 'The Nation's Attic' and find everything from the Spirit of St.
Louis in 'Aeronautics' to giant squid in 'Zoology.' |
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Timeline
of Art History This site provides an overview of the history of art as
illustrated and represented in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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| Contemporary
Quotations This site contains over 10,000 quotations
from 4,000 sources, from Sigmund Freud to Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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The final mission
The Hunley became the first submarine ever to
sink an enemy ship. |
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MapMachine
National Geographic's online atlas gives
you the world—your way. |
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Best
of History Websites From the Stone age through the 20th century, this
remarkable site features reviewed links to over 700 history-related Web sites.
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D-Day: 60 Years Later Why does D-Day still matter?
View this fascinating Time special report that showcases individual stories,
maps and poignant photographs. |
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| GeographyIQ
GeographyIQ is an online world atlas packed with
geographic, economic, political, historical and cultural information. |
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Diseases Database From i-medicine.info, the
Diseases Database provides a useful reference service for medical practitioners
and researchers. |
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American President For each president, visitors can read a biographical
sketch, learn about their presidency and its legacy. |
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Galileo's
Discoveries This interactive and marvelous PBS site
describes Galileo's discoveries, his enemies, his tribulations, and his place in
history. |
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The
Science of Sports Explore the science behind skateboarding, baseball, and
other popular sports on this site from Exploratorium. |
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Cool
Cosmos This great educational site from Cal Tech
offers all sorts of great resources to assist in learning about the universe.
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| Interactive Wordplay
From 'boggler' and scrabble to crossword puzzles, this site has many ways to
play with words. It also includes helpful tools to help you solve word puzzles. |
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WordCount This fascinating site tracks over 80,000
words by popularity. Look by popular number or word. |
| Descent Into
The Ice A team of 'glacionauts' ventures into a labyrinth of unexplored and
hazardous glacier canes on France's Mt. Blanc on this site from PBS. |
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The Blue Marble Using a collection of satellite-based
observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together incredibly detailed
images of the Earth. |
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Alexander Hamilton Why does Hamilton's
face grace the $10 bill? Why was he killed in that famous duel? Explore
Alexander Hamilton's life on this site from the New York Historical Society. |
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Ancient Inventions Ever wonder how modern conveniences
such as batteries came to be? This site traces the origins of many of today's
everyday items. |
| How Everyday
Things are Made From cars to crayons, this site from Stanford's Alliance for
Innovative Manufacturing explains the processes behind the creation of everyday
products. |
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Infoplease
All the knowledge you need. |
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The
Study Stack Brush up on a variety of
subjects for the upcoming school year on this wonderfully organized site.
Includes an excellent flash card module. |
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Mathematical Functions
This is the ultimate site. Featuring over
87,000 functions, from the most elementary, to Beta ,Gamma and Zeta functions,
and the beautiful range of hYpergeometric and number theory functions, and over
10,000 visualizations, you will find everything you need, from this huge
collection of formulas and graphics covering the entire range of mathematical
functions. |
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Shadow & Substance
This site outlines exactly what happens
during a lunar eclipse using animations and diagrams. |
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Medical Devices? Snake oil and quackery |
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This Old House' Tools & Materials |
Government Sites
Health
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The Dirty Dozen Consumer Reports identifies 12 supplements whose risks range
from heart, liver and kidney failure, to cancer and cardiac arrhythmias. |
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Chemicals In Cosmetics The Environmental Working Group
has released a database of chemicals in cosmetics and personal care products.
The site is searchable in a variety of ways. |
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Nutrition Facts
This handy reference site has all you'll
need to know about food from popular restaurants such as Krispy Kreme and Burger
King.
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Miscellaneous
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Most Unforgettable Photos 2003 See the photographs that detail the
emotionally-charged year of 2003 |
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2003 - Year in Review
See the photographs you couldn't look away
from in an emotionally-charged 2003: From firefighters battling California
blazes to Africa gripped by the AIDS epidemic. (Some Mature Subject Matter) |
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Ongoing Legal
Issues The Paper Chase offers brief digests of current and ongoing legal
issues, including coverage of international law and the U.S. Federal courts.
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| Gadgets
and Personal Technology The arms race in gadgetry is a quest for the
smallest, smartest, and fastest. This site helps to keep track of it all.
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| Gizmodo
is an online review dedicated to gadgets, gizmos, and
cutting-edge consumer electronics. |
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Vietnam Project
Designed by a team at Texas Tech, this
great archive contains over 1.5 million pages of materials. Don't miss the the
fascinating oral histories. |
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National Portrait
Gallery Founded in 1856, the National
Portrait Gallery in London now allows searching of its outstanding collection on
line. Search by artist, sitter or portrait name. |
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Bestplaces
Compare cities in housing, costs of living, crime, education, economy, health
and climate. Choose any two cities and see them displayed side-by-side. |
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American
Experience This installment of PBS' New York
documentary series tracks the conception, construction, and destruction of the
World Trade Center. |
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The (FBI) Man Who Knew This fascinating PBS special chronicles the links and
plots to destroy the twin towers.Get the view into the FBI inner workings and
failures. |
| TV Now
This extensive site has articles, interviews and info on
all of your favorite TV shows and stars. Search for TV listings by actor. |
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The Old Car Manual Project
Looking for a manual for that '57 Chevy or
'39 Packard? Look no further than this site. |
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Find
Articles Search for on-line articles
from more than 300 magazines and journals. Search by date, relevance and more. |
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Web Exhibits Looking for some online exhibits? This site will point you in
the right direction. Includes topics such as 'Ancient World' and 'Science.'
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| Earth Cam
This site contains a directory of dozens of live webcam
feeds from around the world. Includes topics such as 'Space and Science' and
'Scenic Cams'. |
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The Book
of Clichés No matter how bad things
get, there is always a time tested cliché to help rationalize the situation.
This site has clichés for every occasion. |
Taxes
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