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DNA/race article
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Using Images in classroom
Images Can Make Powerful Slam Dunk Digital Lessons
Criteria for selecting images, generating questions/brainstorming around an image.
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Book: Digital History (creating)
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web
Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig do it again, this time as a “how to” book (entire contents online at the link) on creating digital history projects.
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NYTimes: NYPL Illuminated Manuscripts
Illuminated Pages Capturing a Fading World – New York Times
Though Feb. 11, NYPL displays 100 illuminated books. Also displays some books with additional monitor “page-turner” viewers. Includes a girdle bok, “in this case a breviary in a second wood binding designed to be strung from a belt. It is bound upside down so that it resembles a blocky mallet, and it is one of only two dozen known to exist.”
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Tailor Made for History
Williamsburg tailors, seamstresses and mantua makers, general info about 18th century tailors and grament industry.
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NYTimes: Arctic melt, new coastline article
NY Times
October 10, 2005
The Big Melt
As Polar Ice Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, STEVEN LEE MYERS, ANDREW C. REVKIN and SIMON ROMERO
CHURCHILL, Manitoba – It seems harsh to say that bad news for polar bears is good for Pat Broe. Mr. Broe, a Denver entrepreneur, is no more to blame than anyone else for a meltdown at the top of the world that threatens Arctic mammals and ancient traditions and lends credibility to dark visions of global warming.
Still, the newest study of the Arctic ice cap – finding that it faded this summer to its smallest size ever recorded – is beginning to make Mr. Broe look like a visionary for buying this derelict Hudson Bay port from the Canadian government in 1997. Especially at the price he paid: about $7.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/science/10arctic.html?pagewanted=print
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