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- Frank, Anne (AnneFrank.com)
Provides pictures and information about her life and times. 10-09
- Collapse of Ancient Civilizations (Annenberg CPB Project)
Provides interactive adventures to explore why four ancient civilizations collapsed.
- Collapse of Ancient Mesopotamia (Annenberg CPB Project)
Provides interactive adventures to explore why ancient Mesopotamia collapsed.
- Collapse of Ancient Mayan Civilization (Annenberg CPB Project)
Provides interactive adventures to explore why the ancient Mayan civilization collapsed.
- Daily Life in the Middle Ages (Annenberg CPB Project)
Provides information about homes, clothing, arts, health and other topics of daily life in the Middle Ages of Europe.
- Science and Math Videos (Annenberg)
Provides videos through the free Annenberg Channel.
- Writing a Movie Scene (Annenberg and CPB)
Provides an opportunity to write a movie script online and then see how a screenwriter and others would handle the script. An interactive cinema opportunity.
- Math Conepts in Daily Life (Annenberg)
Provides examples of the applications of math to explain basic concepts, such as probability, population statistics, savings and credit, cooking by numbers, and more. 4-00
- Bradstreet, Anne (Georgetown University - Cowell)
Provides background information on the first (known) North American to publish a book of poems. Her work is unusual in that, as a Puritan, she uses poetry to express feelings rather than simply use the medium for devotional purposes. 9-00
- Bradstreet, Anne (University of Toronto - Lancashire)
Provides 11 poems by the Puritan writer. 9-00
- Frank, Anne (AnneFrank.com)
Provides pictures and information about her life and times. Frank is famous for her notes as a Jewish girl hiding out from Nazis during World War II. 2-01
- Frank, Anne (Gale Group)
Provides a biography of the girl who became famous for her diary during World War II. 8-01
- Garbage Disposal (Annenberg-CPB - Learner.org)
Provides facts about the problems in various areas of disposal and recycling, including disposal of hazardous waste and alternative treatment of sewage. Discusses alternative solutions for each set of problems. 12-01
- Recycling Resources (Annenberg-CPB - Learner.org)
Provides a carefully selected list of resources on recycling. 12-01
- Migration and Seasonal Change Research Projects (Annenberg Foundation - Journey North)
Journey North engages students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal change. K-12 students share their own field observations with classmates across North America. They track the coming of spring through the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, bald eagles, robins, hummingbirds, whooping cranes -- and other birds and mammals, the budding of plants, changing sunlight and other natural events. Find standards-based lesson plans, activities and information to help students make local observations and fit them into a global context. Widely considered a best-practices model for education, Journey North is the nation's premiere "citizen science" project for children. The general public is also welcome to participate. 8-04
- Frank, Anne - Inspiring Writer During Tragedy (MyHero.com)
"Anne Frank wrote on the first page of her diary:"
" 'I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.' "
"Anne Frank has been called the 'human face of the Holocaust.' The diary she kept for 25 months, when she was in hiding from the Nazis, is a life-affirming record of her spirit and hope in the face of cruelty and danger. Her words help us in our struggle to understand how to deal with the violence and hatred we find in the world today." 7-05
- -01 Fact or Falsehood? (FactCheck.org - Annenberg Public Policy Center)
In an attempt to discredit political opponents, presidential candidates have, on occasion, distorted the facts. The Annenberg Public Policy Center checks allegations to determine if the facts are presented truthfully. Provides links to original sources of information when "debunking" a statement.
The site quotes Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." 09-08
- Anne of Green Gables - Montgomery, Lucy Maud (Stockton)
- Anne of Avonlea - Montgomery, Lucy Maud (Stockton)
- Anne of the Island - Montgomery, Lucy Maud (Stockton)
- Lessons and Reflections Report (Annenberg Foundation)
"Lessons and Reflections describes the results of the Challenge's efforts to raise standards, improve teaching, build partnerships, create school networks for mutual support, enhance parental involvement, use data to lift student achievement, make big schools smaller, improve school leadership, and institute new accountability measures. The report also outlines the Challenge's signature feature - the use of intermediary organizations to facilitate large-scale urban reform." 6-02
- Hispanic Biographies (Gale Group)
Provides biographies of 50 notable Hispanic men and women, including Allende, Isabel, Alvarez, Aida, Alvarez, Luis, Banderas, Antonio, Blades, Rubén, Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez, Caldera, Louis, Carey, Mariah, Chávez, César, Chavez-Thompson, Linda, Cisneros, Henry, Cisneros, Sandra, Clemente, Roberto, Córdova, France Anne, Cruz, Celia, de Balboa, Vasco Nuñez, De Burgos, Julia, de la Hoya, Oscar, Estefan, Gloria, Fernandez, Lisa, Garciaparra, Nomar, Hayek, Salma, Hernández, Antonia, Hijuelos, Oscar, Huerta, Dolores, La India Leguizamo, John, León, Tania, Lobo, Rebecca, Los Lobos, Lopez, Jennifer, Martin, Ricky, Muñoz, Cecilia, Nava, Gregory, Ochoa, Ellen, Olmos, Edward James, Palmieri, Eddie, Paredes, Américo, Perera, Hilda, Puente, Tito, Rivera, Geraldo, Rodriguez, Alex, Ros-Lehtinen, Ileans, Santana, Carlos, Saralegui, Christina, Selena, Smits, Jimmy, Sosa, Sammy, Valdez, Luis, and Villa-Komaroff, Lydia. 1-05
- 10-03-03 U.N. Investigator: Iraeli Wall an Act of Conquest (Voice of America News)
"A U.N. special investigator is calling Israel's construction of a security wall in the West Bank and East Jerusalem an act of conquest. The investigator is urging the international community to condemn the wall as an unlawful act of annexation." 9-03
- Fence or Wall - What Is It? (BBC News)
"Israel argues it will prevent terrorist attacks - but Palestinians say it will cut off hundreds of thousands of people from their livelihoods. And now the United Nations says it is illegal."
"In late September, the UN issued a report which condemned the barrier as illegal and tantamount to 'an unlawful act of annexation.' "
"In his report for the UN Commission on Human Rights, John Dugard, a South African law professor, warned that about 210,000 Palestinians living in the area between the wall and Israel would be cut off from social services, schools and places of work." 10-03
- 10-21-03 Fence or Wall - U.N. Orders Israel to Stop Construction (CBS News)
"The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution demanding that Israel halt construction of a barrier jutting deep into the West Bank and dismantle the section already built."
The vote late Tuesday was 144 in favor, 4 opposed and 12 abstentions."
"In late September, the UN issued a report which condemned the barrier as illegal and tantamount to 'an unlawful act of annexation.' "
"The United States, which vetoed a Security Council resolution last week that would have declared the barrier illegal, voted against the General Assembly resolution." 10-03
- Palestinian View of the Wall (PBS NewsHour - Farnsworth)
Farnsworth: "Palestinian leaders say the attacks are an inevitable result of Israeli occupation, and call the barrier a 'catastrophe.' "
Ashwari: "It's a wall that distorts any Palestinian reality, that prevents any kind of emergence of a contiguous, viable Palestinian state. And at the same time it's an excuse for annexation of further land, annexation of water resources, and of course with the byproduct of displacement of Palestinians, of tremendous economic and daily living hardships." 2-04
- Oakley, Annie (Cowgirls.com)
Provides two pictures and a short biography. "She could handle a rifle or a six-gun with an artistry unsurpassed by that of any human being before her time or, probably, since. And when she appeared with Sitting Bull and other notables in Colonel Cody's Wild West Show, she thrilled your father and mother -- not as Phoebe Anne Oakley Moses but as 'Little Sure Shot,' the immortal Annie Oakley." (Taken from a U.S. Government Savings Bonds advertisement in 1955.) 9-05
- Wave Power on the Pacific Coast (MSNBC News)
"The potential for harnessing the power of waves has drawn serious study by Oregon State University, federal and state agencies, and communities along the Oregon Coast."
" 'There's a real good chance that Oregon could turn into kind of the focal point in the United States for wave energy development and I think that would be a boon to the economy,' said Gary Cockrum, spokesman for the Central Lincoln People's Utility District."
" 'There is tremendous potential in the oceans to supply energy for the world,' Annette von Jouanne, an Oregon State electrical engineering professor, told the crowd. 'A 10-square-mile wave power plant could supply the entire state of Oregon.' 9-05
- Bailey, Ann (AmericanRevolution.com)
"The ride in 1791 was what Anne is most famous for. A runner was sent from Point Pleasant to Ft. Lee to say Indians were going to attack with a large army force within a few days. The ammunition was low in Ft. Lee at the time. They needed ammunition so they could fight off the Indians. Anne rode a very dangerous trail alone. She rode 100 miles to Lewisburg across wilderness without roads to get the gun powder. She returned with the much needed supply of ammunition. Anne died in November 1825 of old age. A poem was written in 1861 by Charles Robb about this ride. It was called 'Anne Bailey's Ride'." 10-05
- -04-07-06 Counties: ES&S Electronic Ballots Rife With Mistakes (IndyStar.com)
"Marion County Clerk Doris Anne Sadler blasted a voting machine company this morning saying it supplied error-filled ballots for next month's primary election."
"Meanwhile, clerks in Johnson and Hancock counties, also are upset with the company because it did not deliver absentee ballots in time and failed to program touch screen voting machines." 04-06
- -04-29-06 Latin American Leaders Reject U.S. Trade Plan (CNN News)
"The Cuba-Venezuela deal -- known by its Spanish acronym ALBA, also the word for dawn -- provided a framework for the leaders to blast Washington's efforts to expand its free trade with Latin American countries."
"The U.S.-backed Free Trade Area of the Americas hemispheric trade pact stalled last year, but Washington since has signed nine free-trade agreements with Latin American countries."
"The three presidents called the FTAA a U.S. effort to 'annex' Latin America." 04-06
- EU Nations Make Ocean "Land Grab" (Guardian Unlimited)
"A vast tract of the Atlantic seabed more than 200 miles off shore is being claimed by a coalition of four European countries eager to expand their oil and gas prospecting rights."
"No country may claim any part of the seabed more than 350 miles from its shore. Once rights are established, states may extract the minerals and natural gas or oil discovered in the annexed seabed." 06-06
- -07-19-09 Israel Snubs U.S. Call to Halt Settlements (CBS News)
"Israel on Sunday rejected a U.S. demand to suspend a planned housing project in east Jerusalem, threatening to further complicate an unusually tense standoff with its strongest ally over settlement construction."
"The international community considers Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem to be settlements and an obstacle to Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking. Israel does not regard them as settlements because it annexed east Jerusalem in 1967 after capturing it in June of that year." 07-09
- Hall of Fame Nurses (NursingWorld.org)
Provides biographies of nurses inducted into the American Nursing Association Hall of Fame."
Includes: Mary Berenice (1890-1960), Blake, Florence Guinness (1907-1983), Blanchfield, Florence Aby (1882-1971), Breckinridge, Mary (1881-1965), Bunge, Helen Lathrop (1906-1970), Cabaniss, Sadie Heath (1863-1921), Carnegie, Mary Elizabeth (1916 - Present), Cooper, Signe Skott (1921 - Present), Cornelius, Dorothy A. (1918-1992), Dame, Harriet Patience (1815-1900), Damer, Annie (1858-1915), Davis, Mary E.P. (circa 1840-1924), Delano, Jane Arminda (1862-1919), Dix, Dorothea Lynde (1802-1887), Dock, Lavinia Lloyd (1858-1956), Dolan, Margaret Baggett (1914-1974), Dreves, Katharine Densford (1890-1978), Driscoll, Veronica Margaret (1926-1994), Eldredge, Adda (1865-1955), Franklin, Martha Minerva (1870-1968), Freeman, Ruth Benson (1906-1982), Gardner, Mary Sewall (1871-1961), Gault, Alma Elizabeth (1891-1981), Geister, Janet M. (1885-1964), Goodrich, Annie Warburton (1866-1954), Goostray, Stella (1886-1969), Hall, Lydia Eloise (1906-1969), Henderson, Virginia A. (1897-1996), Hoffman, Katherine J. (1910-1984), Jacobs, Maggie (1943-1992), Maass, Clara Louise (1876-1901), Mahoney, Mary Eliza (1845-1926), Maxwell, Anna Caroline (1851-1929), Notter, Lucille Elizabeth (1907-1993), Noyes, Clara Dutton (1869-1936), Nutting, Mary Adelaide (1858-1948), Ohlson, Agnes K. (1902-1991), Osborne, Estelle Massey (1901-1981), Osborne, Mary D. (1875-1946), Palmer, Sophia French (1853-1920), Peplau, Hildegard (1909-1999), Parsons, Sara Elizabeth (1864-1949), Porter, Elizabeth Kerr (1894-1989), Reilly, Dorothy E. (1920-1996), Reiter, Frances (1904-1977), Richards, Linda Anne Judson (1841-1930), Robb, Isabel Adams Hampton (1860-1910), Roberts, Mary May (1877-1959), Rogers, Martha Elizabeth (1914-1994), Sams, Undine (1919-1999), Sanger, Margaret H. (1879-1966), Sargent, Emilie Gleason (1894-1977), Smith, Dorothy M. (1913-1997), Soule, Elizabeth Sterling (1884-1972), Staupers, Mabel Keaton (1890-1989), Stewart, Isabel Maitland (1878-1963), Stimson, Julia Catherine (1881-1948), Strong, Anne Hervey (1876-1925), Styles, Margretta Madden (1930-Present), Taylor, Effie J. (1874-1970), Thompson, Julia Charlotte (1907-1972), Thoms, Adah Belle Samuel (circa 1870-1943), Titus, Shirley Carew (1892-1967), Vreeland, Ellwynne Mae (1909-1971), Wald, Lillian D. (1867-1940), Wald, Florence S. (1917-Present), Wolanin, Mary Opal (1910-Present), Wyche, Mary Lewis (1858-1936), and Yellowtail, Susie Walking Bear (1903-1981). 1-04
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