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  1. Christmas - The Gift of the Magi (O Henry)
      Provides links to definitions for key difficult words. No pictures are provided.

  2. Garnet, Henry Highland (Bright)
      Provides a picture and a short biography of this influential 19th Century African American.

  3. Harrison, William Henry (POTUS)
      Presents a very comprehensive and well organized set of facts and links regarding President William Henry Harrison.

  4. Thoreau, Henry David (Bibliomania - Simmonds)
      Provides a biography, with an emphasis on his contribution to American Literature.

  5. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (Bibliomania - Simmonds)
      Provides a biography, with an emphasis on his contribution to American Literature.

  6. Harrison, William Henry (Patria Press)
      Provides sources of information and pictures related to President William Henry Harrison. 11-00

  7. Henry, O. - The Gift of the Magi (Infomotions)
      Provides online text. 6-02

  8. Dana, Richard Henry - Two Years Before the Mast (Bartleby.com)
      Provides the entire book. 6-02

  9. Kissinger, Henry - Former Secretary of Defense (Nobel eMuseum)
      "Secretary Kissinger has written many books and articles on United States foreign policy, international affairs, and diplomatic history. Among the awards he has received are the Guggenheim Fellowship (1965-66), the Woodrow Wilson Prize for the best book in the fields of government, politics and international affairs (1958), the American Institute for Public Service Award (1973), the International Platform Association Theodore Roosevelt Award (1973), the Veterans of Foreign Wars Dwight D. Eisenhower Distinguished Service Medal (1973), the Hope Award for International Understanding (1973), the Presidentia1 Medal of Freedom (1977) and the Medal of Liberty (1986)."

      "Dr. Kissinger was born in Fuerth, Germany, on May 27, 1923, came to the United States in 1938, and was naturalised a United States citizen on June 19, 1943. He received the BA Degree Summa Cum Laude at Harvard College in 1950 and the MA and PhD Degrees at Harvard University in 1952 and 1954 respectively." 1-04

  10. Lodge, Henry Cabot (FirstWorldWar.com)
      Provides a short political biography of President Woodrow Wilson's greatest adversary and the person who blocked U.S. membership in the League of Nations, the precursor to the United Nations. Lodge was a Republican conservative." 3-04

  11. Ford, Henry (CNN News)
      "But Ford's contributions reverberate far beyond his company's factories and boardrooms."

      "His policy towards employees -- most evident in his 1914 decision to essentially double the then-standard wage to $5 a day, while guaranteeing 8-hour shifts and a 5-day workweek -- rippled through the American economy. As other companies adopted this policy, more and more Americans had both the money and time to drive anywhere, anytime."

      " 'If it hadn't been for Henry Ford's drive to create a mass market for cars, America wouldn't have a middle class today,' wrote Iacocca."

      "Increased travel spurred appeals for better and more roads, the development of suburbs, the oil industry's rise and a boom in gas stations, strip malls and motels."

      "But the assembly line itself had the biggest impact on American society, Hyde contended, in making possible the swift, mass production of everything from computers to 'fast food.' "

      "Ford deserves credit for the mass consumption society in which products that people want can be produced so that they are affordable and abundant." 8-04

  12. Paulson, Henry ("Hank") (Wikipedia.org)
      "Henry Merritt "Hank" Paulson Jr. (born March 28, 1946) is the United States Treasury Secretary and member of the International Monetary Fund Board of Governors. He previously served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs." 09-08

  13. -Summary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
      Provides an analysis and summary. "The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit private operating foundation, based in Menlo Park, California, dedicated to producing and communicating the best possible analysis and information on health issues." 07-12

  14. Turn of the Century in the US Search (Library of Congress)
      "This collection of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company Collection includes over 25,000 glass negatives and transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly of the eastern United States. The collection includes the work of a number of photographers, one of whom was the well known photographer William Henry Jackson." 10-09

  15. -Presidents of the United States (POTUS - Summers) star
      Presents a very comprehensive and well organized set of facts and links regarding each President of the United States of America (USA). The American Presidents include first (1st) George Washington, second (2nd) John Adams, third (3rd) Thomas Jefferson, fourth (4th) James Madison, fifth (5th) James Monroe, sixth (6th) John Quincy Adams, seventh (7th) Andrew Jackson, eighth (8th) Martin Van Buren, ninth (9th) William Henry Harrison, tenth (10th) John Tyler, eleventh (11th) James Knox Polk, twelfth (12th) Zachary Taylor, thirteenth (13th) Millard Fillmore, fourteenth (14th) Franklin Pierce, fifteenth (15th) James Buchanan, sixteenth (16th) Abraham Lincoln, seventeenth (17th) Andrew Johnson, eighteenth (18th) Ulysses Simpson Grant, nineteenth (19th) Rutherford Birchard Hayes, twentieth (20th) James Abram Garfield, twenty-first (21st) Chester Alan Arthur, twenty-second (22nd) Grover Cleveland, twenty-third (23rd) Benjamin Harrison, twenty-fourth (24th) Grover Cleveland, twenty-fifth (25th) William McKinley, twenty-sixth (26th) Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-seventh (27th) William Howard Taft, twenty-eighth (28th) Woodrow Wilson, twenty-ninth (29th) Warren Gamaliel Harding, thirtieth (30th) Calvin Coolidge, thirty-first (31st) Herbert Clark Hoover, thirty-second (32nd) Franklin Delano Roosevelt, thirty-third (33rd) Harry S. Truman, thirty-fourth (34th) Dwight David Eisenhower, thirty-fifth (35th) John Fitzgerald Kennedy, thirty-sixth (36th) Lyndon Baines Johnson, thirty-seventh (37th) Richard Milhous Nixon, thirty-eighth (38th) Gerald Rudolph Ford, thirty-ninth (39th) James Earl Carter, Jr., fortieth (40th) Ronald Wilson Reagan, forty-first (41st) George Herbert Walker Bush, forty-second (42nd) William Jefferson Clinton, George Walker Bush (43rd). 1-05

  16. Physics Nobel Laureates Since 1981(Nobel Foundation)
      Provides short autobiographies of the Nobel laureates in physics since 1981. Includes Gerardus 't Hooft, Martinus J.G. Veltman, Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer (or Stormer), Daniel C. Tsui, Steven Chu, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, William D. Phillips, David M. Lee, Douglas D. Osheroff, Robert C. Richardson, Martin L. Perl, Frederick Reines, Bertram N. Brockhouse, Clifford G. Shull, Russell A. Hulse, Joseph H. Taylor Jr., Georges Charpak, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Jerome I. Friedman, Henry W. Kendall, Richard E. Taylor, Norman F. Ramsey, Hans G. Dehmelt, Wolfgang Paul, Leon M. Lederman, Melvin Schwartz, Jack Steinberger, J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alexander Müller (or Muller), Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer, Klaus von Klitzing, Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer, Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, and William Alfred Fowler. 9-00

  17. Architects - Sullivan, Louis Henri (About.com - Craven)
      Provides a short biography and related resources on a very influential architect. "Louis Sullivan is widely considered America's first truly modern architect. Instead of imitating historic styles, he created original forms and details." Sometimes visitors misspell as Louise Henry. 3-01

  18. Shakespeare, William - Plays (Bartleby)
      Provides the plays of William Shakespeare, including The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, The Comedy of Errors, Much Ado about Nothing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer-Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, All’s Well that Ends Well, Twelfth-Night, The Winter’s Tale, The Life and Death of King John, The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, King Henry the Fourth, The Life of King Henry the Fifth, King Henry the Sixth, The Tragedy of King Richard the Third, The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth, Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens, Julius Cæsar, Macbeth, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, King Lear, Othello, the Moor of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, Cymbeline, and Pericles, Prince of Tyre. 5-00

  19. Vice Presidents of the United States (Virtualology)
      Presents, in alphabetical order, a profile for each Vice President of the United States of America (USA). The Vice Presidents include John Adams, Spiro T. Agnew, Chester A. Arthur, Alben W. Barkley, John C. Breckinridge, Aaron Burr, George H. W. Bush, John Calhoun, Richard B. Cheney, George Clinton, Schuyler Colfax, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Curtis, George M. Dallas, Charles Dawes, Charles Fairbanks, Millard Fillmore, Gerald Ford, John N. Garner, Elbridge Gerry, Albert Gore, Jr., Hannibal Hamlin, Thomas A. Hendricks, Garret A. Hobart, Hubert H. Humphrey, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Johnson, William R. King, Thomas R. Marshall, Walter Mondale, Levi P. Morton, Richard M. Nixon, Dan Quayle, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt, James S. Sherman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Daniel D. Tompkins, Harry S. Truman, John Tyler, Martin Van Buren, Henry A. Wallace, William Wheeler, and Henry Wilson. Visitors sometimes misspell as vise-president, vice-president, or vise president.

  20. 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

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