THURSDAY

Apazia's Web Adventures
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HIKING IN CHINA
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ASTEROID COLLISION
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KLINGON LANGUAGE INSTITUTE
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POST-IT NOTE OFFICE PRANK
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HISTORIC CITIES

Imagine if you could visit beautiful cities such as
London and Paris as they were centuries ago?
Travel back in time to view ancient maps,
literature and other documents of the world's historic
cities at different stages of their evolution.

Search the city guide from A-Z to see old maps of these
historic cities and their famous monuments.
Then go to the Map Makers section to learn about
some of the legendary cartographers of
the past six centuries
historic-cities.huji.ac.il/


SHOELACE PORTAL

Learning to tie our shoes is one of the first things
we learn to do in life. However, if you
are bored with the standard lace-up style you learned as a kid,
this site has over twenty cool techniques for
tying your shoes.

Fashion meets science at Ian's Shoelace Site, an
instructional guide to getting laced up in
thirty-three different ways.
www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm

THE BASEBALL CUBE

Scouts and baseball fans will want to bookmark this
site, which is dedicated to the talented athletes that
play America's favorite pastime. The Baseball Cube is
an online archive of player statistics from
Amateur, College, Minor League, and
Major League baseball.

There are so many unique features on this website,
from player stats to a complete amateur
draft archive. In addition to the endless
player info, there are also products such as posters,
jerseys and other fan paraphernalia for sale.
www.sports-wired.com/

LOLA REIN AND HER DRESS

In 2002, a woman named Lola Rein met with a curator
of the United States Holocaust Museum, telling him
her story and handing him a dress. Out of
that meeting came this exhibition entitled Silent Witness,
which tells the story of a girl who spent seven months
in hiding underground, her only possession the
very dress she was wearing, which had been
sewn by her mother.
www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/silentwitness/lola/flash/index.htm

CAUSES OF COLOR

This educational site examines the fifteen causes of color,
the idea of micro-consciousness, and the way in which
color is taken in by our eyes and impacts
our experience of life.

Scroll the exhibit and learn about how light is made,
lost, and moved. There are also other features,
such as how the world looks through colorblind eyes,
how animals see, and the various color atlases.
webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/index.html

CHACO CANYON

Located in a remote area of New Mexico, the canyon was
once home to an ancient tribe known as Chicoans, who
continue to be studied for their remarkable
abilities in architecture and astronomy.

This website, sponsored by NASA, is a beautiful trip
into not just the breathtaking visions of Chaco Canyon,
but also the world of Archeoastronomy.
The Chacoans were famed skywatchers, using petroglyphs
and other ancient but accurate methods to
monitor the sun, the changing of the seasons and
other astronomical occurrences such as eclipses and the
cycles of the sun and moon.
www.exploratorium.edu/chaco/flash.html

AMERICAN GARDEN MUSEUM

This peaceful online museum exhibits America's beautiful
and diverse gardens and the dedicated gardeners
that tend to them.

Take a calming, virtual stroll through the "Showcase",
which features some of the most interesting gardens around,
Or if you have a garden of your own you are proud of,
just follow a few easy steps and have it displayed
on the museum. The site is dedicated to the
appreciation and preservation of this inspiring
natural hobby.
www.americangardenmuseum.com/index1.html

DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN?

"Do You Speak American" takes a humorous but insightful look
at the English language as it is spoken in our
untraditional but creative nation.

The program's website offers fascinating features such as
the evolution and impact of modern American slang,
the future of speaking, and a map experience
that tracks how our language changes from region to region.

Make sure you visit the "Beastly Mispronunciations" section,
where they have 100 examples listed of
commonly mispronounced words.
www.pbs.org/speak/

THE SWEATER GUY

This hilarious website documents one guys hideous sweater
collection from the 1980's. Check out the
garments and read the funny commentary on Kevin's
sweaters that even "Bill Cosby wouldn't touch".

When checking out the pages and pages of bad sweaters,
keep in mind that the first ones you see are a
little better than the succeeding pages. How
many sweaters can you look at before you can't
take it any longer??
www.buriedlede.com/projects/sweater.html

THE MONGOLS

Western history tends to portray the Mongols of the
13th and 14th Centuries as ruthless conquerors,
but there is much more to the story of one of the most
powerful empires of all time. While The Mongols
were militaristic and brutal invaders, they also made
significant cultural contributions to global history.

The largest contiguous land empire of all time, Ancient Mongolia
was built by infamous rulers such as
Khubilai and Chinggis (known to us as Genghis) Khan.
In addition to supporting the Theatre and the Arts,
The Khans funded the study of Astronomy and Medicine,
built temples and monasteries, and took on Tibetan Buddhist Monks
as advisors.
afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongols/