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Encyclopedia Britannica: w.c. Handy
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features W.C. Handy, an African American composer who changed the course of popular music by integrating the blues idiom into then-fashionable ragtime music. Among his best-known works is the...
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Ludacris
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Ludacris, an American rapper who exemplified the Dirty South school of hip-hop, an exuberant, profanity-laden musical style popularized by artists in the southern United States. Ludacris's...
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Encyclopedia Britannica: Will Smith
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Will Smith, an American actor and musician whose charisma, clean-cut good looks, and quick wit helped him transition from rap music to a successful career in acting.
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Kids reads.com: Emily Arnold Mc Cully
This resource features a profile of Emily McCully, the noted children's book illustrator whose artwork has been included in the International Biennale at Bratislava, and who won a Christopher Award for Picnic, one of the many picture...
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Early Typewriter
Information is given on the invention of the typewriter by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1867. Discusses the attempts before him to develop a feasible typewriter and the invention of the electric typewriter after his invention.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: North America, 1882
A map from 1882 of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean, showing political boundaries at the time, major cities, mountain systems, lakes, rivers, and coastal features of the region. The map is color-coded to show general...
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Etc: Plan of St Paul's Cathedral, London, 1675 1710
This is a plan of the St Paul's Cathedral in London, England. It is an example of English Renaissance architecture. The construction lasted from 1675 to 1710. Sir Christopher Wren designed the cathedral. "In plan, Wren's design was in...
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Unesco: Dominican Republic: Colonial City of Santo Domingo
After Christopher Columbus's arrival on the island in 1492, Santo Domingo became the site of the first cathedral, hospital, customs house and university in the Americas. This colonial town, founded in 1498, was laid out on a grid pattern...
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Unesco: Belgium: Plantin Moretus House Workshops Museum Complex
The Plantin-Moretus Museum is a printing plant and publishing house dating from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Situated in Antwerp, one of the three leading cities of early European printing along with Paris and Venice, it is...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Gore Place
A remnant of an estate that was once much larger, Gore Place preserves an excellent Federalist mansion built in 1806 for Christopher Gore, a Massachusetts governor and United States senator. The mansion was saved from destruction in...
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Trickster's Choice
Powell's Books presents a series of author interviews. This is a transcript of an interview with three authors of fantasy fiction: Philip Pullman, Tamora Pierce and Christopher Paolini. They discuss the ways they create characters and...
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Lyra's Oxford
Powell's Books presents a series of author interviews. This is a transcript of an interview with three authors of fantasy fiction: Philip Pullman, Tamora Pierce and Christopher Paolini. They discuss the ways they create characters and...
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His Dark Materials Box Set
Powell's Books presents a series of author interviews. This is a transcript of an interview with three authors of fantasy fiction: Philip Pullman, Tamora Pierce and Christopher Paolini. They discuss the ways they create characters and...
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The Song of the Lioness Quartet 4 Copy Box Set
Powell's Books presents a series of author interviews. This is a transcript of an interview with three authors of fantasy fiction: Philip Pullman, Tamora Pierce and Christopher Paolini. They discuss the ways they create characters and...
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Alanna : The First Adventure (83 Edition)
Powell's Books presents a series of author interviews. This is a transcript of an interview with three authors of fantasy fiction: Philip Pullman, Tamora Pierce and Christopher Paolini. They discuss the ways they create characters and...
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Havana Skyline
The BBC provides a timeline of key events in Cuban history starting in 1492 when Christopher Columbus claimed Cuba for Spain until the present. Video and audio news included.
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