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Wislawa Szymborska's Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
Site for information on Szymborska - includes the poem "Tortures" and links to article about the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Author's Calendar: Molnar, Ferenc

For Students 9th - 10th
A good, comprehensive biography Ferenc Molnar, the "Hungarian-American playwright, director, novelist, short-story writer, and journalist."
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Author's Calendar: Czeslaw Milosz

For Students 9th - 10th
Czeslaw Milosz, "Polish-American author, translator and critic, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature."
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Author's Calendar: Stanislaw Lem

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise but very good biography of Lem, complete with a listing of selected works.
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Author's Calendar: Elie Wiesel

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise but good biography about Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor.
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Tal Cohen's Bookshelf: The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age

For Students 9th - 10th
Thorough review of "How the World Was Saved", the first story in "The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age", the masterpiece by Stanislaw Lem.
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Literature & National Consciousness in Hungarian History

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth paper on the literature of Hungary and how it "voluntarily accepted an obligation to find a solution for the 'life-and-death questions' of national history and national life."
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The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

For Students 9th - 10th
The site for the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity; it includes the work of the Foundation, a biography on Wiesel, and a list of his published books.
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Then Again

Then Again: Web Chron: Western and Central Europe Chronology: The Huns

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides insight regarding the migrations of the Huns into Europe.
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Parallel History Project: Nato and the Warsaw Pact

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides documentation and further information about the development of NATO and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, their mutual threat perceptions and military plans, and their significance for our time.
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Nations Online Project

Nations Online: Croatia

For Students 9th - 10th
Features a virtual destination guide and country profile of the European nation of Croatia, background details, and numerous links to in-depth information on the nation's culture, history, geography, economy, tourism, environment,...
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Nations Online Project

Nations Online: Czech Republic

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can find a country profile and travel guide to the European country of the Czech Republic, background overview, and numerous links to extensive information on the country's culture, history, geography, economy, environment,...
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BBC

Bbc: News: Country Profile: Albania

For Students 9th - 10th
BBC News offers a broad overview of the European country of Albania. Focus is on history, current information, country facts, leaders, and media. Provides links to a timeline of key events, internet resources, and recent news articles.
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Bbc: News: Country Profile: Czech Republic

For Students 9th - 10th
BBC News offers a broad overview of the European country country of the Czech Republic. Focus is on history, current information, country facts, political leaders, and news media. Provides links to a timeline of key events, recent news...
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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Rush of Immigrants

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the new wave of immigrants who came to America in the late 19th century. See differences between these groups of immigrants and those who came earlier. Find out where immigrants settled, and read about those who did not...
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Mother Earth Travel

Mother Earth Travel: The Social Democratic Free Democratic Coalition, 1969 82

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the tensions between West Germany and Eastern European nations. Identify the leadership of West Germany during this time and how the public took to the leadership. Discover the terrorist groups such as the Red Army Faction.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Middle Ages for Kids: Kievan Rus

For Students 9th - 10th
Kids learn about the Kievan Rus from the Middle Ages and Medieval times. Explore this Eastern European empire that was the start of the Russian culture.
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Library of Congress

Loc: California Folk Music From 1930s

For Students 9th - 10th
The Library of Congress provides a collection of 35 hours of folk music recorded during the Depression. The project is unique in that it recorded Slavic, Middle Eastern, European, Spanish and English speaking peoples who lived in...
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University of Texas at Austin

Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection: Historical Maps of Europe

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection from the University of Texas Library Online of historical maps contains a wide variety of maps from various parts of Europe and from different parts of history. Each map is accompanied by a brief description and is clear...
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Facts for Kids: Algonquian Indian Tribes

For Students 3rd - 8th
This article explores the Native American language grouping known as "Algonquian". Much like the Indo-European language family, the Algonquian language family was spoken by many different and widespread Indian tribes. Find out about the...
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Mountains in Europe

For Students 9th - 10th
View breathtaking pictures of the Alps as well as read facts about this European mountain chain. Links to other mountain ranges.
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Curated OER

Etc: The Early European Settlements of Pa and Nj, 1617 1683

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania showing the early European settlements in the area from Bergen, New Jersey established in 1617 to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, established in 1683. The map shows the boundary between West New...
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Author's Calendar: Wislawa Szymborska

For Students 9th - 10th
Still another brief biography - perhaps because not much is known about her life and she does not like to talk about it. Includes some good thoughts on her work.
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The Kafka Project: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
Wonderful Kafka site from The Kafka Project! Includes "all Kafka texts in the original form and their translations from the critical edition.." Also includes "Help for a paper," in which author gives student a good idea of where to start...

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