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Wikipedia: Alkaline Earth Metals

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a brief but accurate definition of alkaline earth metals. Includes a list of elements in the chemical series.
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Wikipedia: Allemande

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a definition of allemande, a type of dance popular in Baroque music. Includes hyperlinked terms.
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Wikipedia: Ragtime

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers the definition, historical context, revival, and composers of the ragtime style of music.
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Wikipedia: Ashkenazi

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia entry for Ashkenazi Jews, descendants of Jews from Germany, Poland, Austria, and Eastern Europe.
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Wikipedia: Augsburg Confession

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides an encyclopedia entry on the Augsburg Confession, the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church and one of the most important documents of the Lutheran reformation.
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Wikipedia: Bacon's Rebellion

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides an entry about Bacon's Rebellion, an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony led by Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part. A similar uprising...
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Wikipedia: Bodhisattva

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers excellent information on Bodhisattva, or a person striving for Enlightenment, including a table of contents for easy site navigation.
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Wikipedia: Caedmon

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers biographical information on Anglo Saxon poet, Caedmon, including "Caedmon's Hymn of Creation."
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Wikipedia: Avian Influenza (Bird Flu)

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides a detailed, up-to-date overview of avian influenza that focuses on the infection, how it is spread to humans as well as its impact on humans, prevention and treatment, and more.
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Wikipedia: Henry Cavendish

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers biographical information on the British scientist Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), credited with having discovered hydrogen, which he described as "inflammable air."
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Wikipedia: Centrifuge

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides detailed information and history on centrifuges in scientific research and industry, including its importance in making nuclear weapons.
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Wikipedia: Color Blindness

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Encyclopedia Wikipedia provides information on the condition of color blindness, including different types of color deficiencies, a discussion on the causes of color blindnes, images, and more.
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Wikipedia: Civil Rights Act of 1964

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a detailed explanation as to what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was, how it came about, and how it affected American society. Includes a photograph of President Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act into law.
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Wikipedia: Literary Criticism

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers a detailed history of literary criticism from medieval time up to its current state.
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Wikipedia: United States Department of Energy

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia gives basic facts concerning the US Department of Energy and its organization and responsibilities.
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Wikipedia: Erasmus

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This encyclopedia site from Wikipedia can be translated into several different languages. Use this site out for more information on Erasmus (1466-1536 CE).
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Wikipedia: John Bosco

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How did John Bosco contribute to the world of education? Find the answer to this question and more by checking out this Wikipedia website. This website can be translated into German also.
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Wikipedia: Echinoderm

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides detailed information on echinoderms, or a phylum of marine animals including star fish and sea urchins. Website includes image, chart of scientific classification, and many hyperlinked terms.
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Wikipedia: Electrical Potential

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides detailed information on electrical potential, including a definition, introduction, and mathematical formulas.
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Wikipedia: Epicureanism

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides detailed information on Epicureanism, a system of philosophy based on the teachings of Epicurus.
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Wikipedia: Epigram

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides the definition of an epigram, including examples of epigrams by a number of poets.
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Wikipedia: Figure of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Wikipedia provides a detailed definition of figure of speech, and then includes hyperlinks to different types of figures of speech.
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Wikipedia: Folklore

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia offers an extensive definition of folklore, including where the term came from, different categories of folklore, and how it can be used.
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Wikipedia: Franco Prussian War

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides detailed information on the Franco-Prussian War.