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10 Dec 09

Coding Horror: Boyd's Law of Iteration

"This leads to Boyd's Law of Iteration: speed of iteration beats quality of iteration.

You'll find this same theme echoed throughout every discipline of modern software engineering: "

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17 Aug 09

Civil War Sallie

found more about Miss Clara Barton, including that many documents written by her were found in old buildings of the Andersonville Prison in Georgia

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30 Jul 09

Teaching the Civil War with Technology

Dr. Fifer's latest blog posting about technology to be used in teaching of the Civil War. "....encourage you to make a $25 donation to the company and purchase a copy of the CD. As part of the CD, you get all of the material available via the website, plus additional materials and a special Teacher’s Edition of the animations....."

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25 Jul 09

History of organic farming - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a good example of why we should not depend on wikipedia; the information in this article covers very little of the work of JI Rodale, his son and family;

Others consider this article biased because of its assumption that organic farming is superior to conventional farming (whatever conventional means)

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Environmental Movement History

text-only version of this page

This Timeline gives the dates of some of the most important events in the history of the American environmental movement

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Environmental History Timeline

a more complete timeline of those concerned about the environment where humans must live

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Environmental History Timeline: 1830-1890

there is misinformation here; the main problem Luddites had with technology was not the technology, but the efforts of textile mill owners to devalue their work and wages by hiring cheaper, non-skilled laborers

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Information Age: People, Information & Technology

a brief history of the information age, beginning w/Samuel Morse's telegraph in 1837 through present day; also provides information to be used when citing images from this website.

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02 May 09

A history of queensland - Google Book Search

a history of Queensland Australia; 150 years since colonization by UK

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Times Higher Education - Ancient Rome and Modern America

how various people refer to our similarities and disimiliarities with the Roman Empire at various moments in US History

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14 Jan 09

Speaking of History........: Smithsonian In Your Classroom - Focus on Lincoln

I became part of the Smithsonian Teacher Ambassador Program to help spread the word about these amazing resources. from Dr Fifer1863

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24 Nov 08

LIBERTY! . Teacher's Guide | PBS

EDUCATIONAL VIDEO The Liberty! Teacher’s Guide is designed to fully engage students in the drama and rich educational information presented in the six-part PBS series LIBERTY! THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. The plans are flexible and can be easily adapted. PreK-12 teachers may videotape the series and use it in the classroom for one year.

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