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Dec
13
2011

Browse the news in a completely different way! Use the map to search for what you want; filter by news categories, by language, by time, go where you want with a couple of clicks....browse the news like you never did before!

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Aug
18
2011

Here at Archiving Early America you will be rewarded with a unique array of primary source material from 18th Century America. Scenes and portraits from original newspapers, magazines, maps and writings come to life just as they appeared to this country's forebears more than 250 years ago.

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Apr
10
2011

Welcome to HistoryBuff.com, a nonprofit organization devoted to providing FREE primary source material for students, teachers, and historybuffs. This site focuses primarily on HOW news of major, and not so major, events in American history were reported in newspapers of the time.

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Jan
16
2011

A world map has been a great help in finding locations which also serves as our references tool on our travel projects, studies, hobbies, interest, countries time guide etc. In our time today, large poster size map are getting less popular. The online maps are widely used by researchers, navigators, travellers as complete manual in their portable devices like netbook, notebook, smart phone, iPad and even applied to their industries.

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Jan
14
2011

There are tons of free historical games, interactives and simulations on the web. Playing history aggregates info on these resources in a simple, searchable database making it easy to find, rate, and review historical games. There are currently 126 shared games.

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Dec
6
2010

In the 2006 Canadian Census an incredible 4.7 million Canadians said that they were of Scottish origin. At the time, the entire population of Scotland was just under 5.2 million.

So, why are there so many people descended from Scots living in Canada today?

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Dec
5
2010

KidPast.com is the fun way to explore our history. We are who we are today, because of those who have gone before us.

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How can we engage our students with history?  How can we help them make personal connections to the events of the past?

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Sep
4
2010

Historians study the everyday lives of people who lived in the past by looking at clues: the objects and documents that people left behind and that have somehow survived. Someday future historians interested in the history of the late 20th century may study your family!

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Mar
26
2010

As computers and automated systems increasingly take the jobs humans once held, entire professions are now extinct. Click through the gallery below to see examples of endangered professions, from milkman to telegrapher, and hear from people who once filled those oft-forgotten jobs.

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Nov
1
2009

"Although Alfred Wegener was not the first to suggest that continents have moved about the Earth, his presentation of carefully compiled evidence for continental drift inspired decades of scientific debate."

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Mar
7
2009

There she is — standing tall in the bright sunlight, her great shadow threatening to make even the most confident Edwardian feel insignificant. But those gazing up at the billowing smokestacks nearly 10 stories overhead know they live in a time of immense

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