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Wikipedia: Oceanic Trench

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides brief information on oceanic trenches, and has a hyperlinked list of major world trenches.
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Wikipedia: Korean Shamanism

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers excellent information on Korean Shamanism, including a chart listing the regional shaman rites and how they are performed.
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Wikipedia: Encryption

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides a basic definition of encryption, and distinguishes between the two encryption methods: symmetric and asymmetric key algorithms.
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Wikipedia: Chaim Potok

For Students 3rd - 8th
This brief article on Chaim Potok, a rabbi and the author of "The Chosen", supplies information about his novel's characters, his early life and his education. Provides links to related articles.
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Wikipedia: Linear Regression

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia explains the statistics term, "linear regression." Includes table of contents, hyperlinked terms, and formulas.
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Wikipedia: Tapeworm

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers detailed information on Cestoda, or the class of tapeworms. Includes a scientific classification chart and hyperlinked terms.
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Wikipedia: Ludovico Ariosto

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers biographical information on Italian poet and author of Orlando Furioso, Ludovico Ariosto.
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Wikipedia: Jean De La Fontaine

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers brief biographical information on French poet, Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695 CE). Includes image and some works.
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Wikipedia: Atomic Number

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides the definition of the term, "Atomic number," a term used in chemistry and physics to represent the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom.
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Wikipedia: Volumetric Heat Capacity

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a brief definition of the term, "Volumetric heat capacity." Includes hyperlinked terms.
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Wikipedia: Heat of Fusion

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wikipedia page provides basic descriptive information on the term, "Heat of Fusion."
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Wikipedia: Ultrasound

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers information on the basics of ultrasound, "Sound or vibrations with frequencies too high to be audible by the human ear."
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Wikipedia: The Old Man and the Sea

For Students 9th - 10th
Short encyclopedia entry providing basic information about the book and film versions of The Old Man and the Sea. Contains links to additional information by clicking on keywords within the text.
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Wikipedia: Microsoft Access

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a Wikipedia description of Microsoft Access.
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Wikipedia: False Dilemma

For Students 9th - 10th
Short encyclopedia article from Wikipedia about the logical fallacy named false dilemma (also known as false dichotomy, either/or dilemma, or bifurcation). This is a rather brief discussion of the term, but a few examples are given.
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Wikipedia: Bandwagon Fallacy

For Students 9th - 10th
A short Wikipedia article explaining the logical fallacy called "the bandwagon fallacy," also known as "appeal to the people," "authority of the many," "argument by consensus," "appeal to the gallery," "appeal to popularity" or...
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Wikipedia: Iambic Pentameter

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This encyclopedia entry for iambic pentameter provides examples of poetry and explanations of the meter's purpose.
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Wikipedia: Caesura

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Encyclopedia article that defines and gives many examples of Caesura in poetry. Examples are taken from Latin, Old English, and Middle English poetry. Also defines different forms of Caesura (such as masculine caesura and feminine caesura).
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Wikipedia: Free Verse

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Short encyclopedia article from Wikipedia that defines and gives historical context to free verse poetry. Although no examples are given, there are links to related topics available.
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Wikipedia: Binomial Nomenclature

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia, an open-source encyclopedia, offers great information on the classification system used in Biology. Covers the benefits of the system, history, and general information on the whole system together.
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Wikipedia: Hornblende

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a description of the mineral Hornblende including specific gravity, hardness, and image.
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Wikipedia: Shale

For Students 9th - 10th
Originating as clay or mud, shale is a sedimentary rock formed by deposits of small particles by slow moving water. Wikipedia includes color images and discusses composition and deposition.
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Wikipedia: Harper Lee

For Students 9th - 10th
Here at Wikipedia you can find an encyclopedia article exploring the life of Nelle Harper Lee and her work.
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Wikipedia: Taiga

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia, an open-source encyclopedia, offers a general overview of the taiga biome. A long list of taiga eco-regions can be found, each linking to its own encyclopedia entry.