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Although this site has been created primarily for my students, anyone is welcome to visit. In these pages you will find a number of sources of information.
The Websites of Interest section below has numerous links that are of current interest. For more links to material on just about any topic you're looking for, use the E-Links button above. Linked off of that page are pages containing hundreds of links to sites covering a number of topics.
Visit often ... I update frequently! Hope you enjoy the site!
Quote of the month"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. "- Mark Twain
Numbers of the monthThere are currently 51 million Social Security beneficiaries in the US. In 2009, the number of seniors applying for Social Security jumped 19%. 63% of families headed by someone 55 or older have some level of debt, up nearly 10% from 1992. Their average debt is $70,000, more than double the 1992 level even after adjusting for inflation. - Christian Science Monitor 02/28/2010
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03/01/1781 - The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. |
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03/01/1790 - Congress authorized the 1st US Census. |
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03/01/1864 - Rebecca Lee became the 1st black woman to receive a medical degree, from the New England Female Medical College in Boston. |
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03/01/1872 - Congress authorized the creation of Yellowstone National Park. |
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03/01/1954 - Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire from the Gallery of the US House of Representatives, wounding five congressmen. |
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03/01/1961 - President Kennedy officially established The Peace Corps. |
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03/01/2010 - National Pig Day |
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03/01/2010 - St. David's Day |
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03/01/2010 - Holi (Spring Festival) - Hinduism |
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03/02/1917 - Puerto Ricans were granted US citizenship. |
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03/02/1977 - The US House of Representatives adopted a strict code of ethics. Yeah, right! |
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03/02/2010 - The Fast of Nineteen Days - Baha'i |
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03/02/2010 - Texas Independence Day … On this day in 1836 Texas declared its independence from Mexico. |
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03/03/1879 - Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the 1st woman admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court. |
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03/03/1931 - The Star Spangled Banner officially became the national anthem of the US. |
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03/03/2010 - National Anthem Day |
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03/04/1193 - Saladin, the Muslim warrior who opposed the Crusades, died. |
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03/04/1789 - The Constitution of the US went into effect as the 1st federal Congress met in New York. |
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03/04/1861 - Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated president. |
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03/05/1933 - The Nazi Party won 44% of the vote in the German parliamentary elections. |
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03/05/1946 - Winston Churchill delivered his Iron Curtain speech at Westminster College in Fulton MO. |
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03/05/1970 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty went into effect after 43 nations ratified it. |
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03/06/1836 - The Alamo, in San Antonio TX, fell to Mexican forces after a 13-day siege. |
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03/06/1857 - In its Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court held that Scott, a slave, could not sue for his freedom in federal court. |
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03/06/1965 - The Defense Department announced it was sending the 1st contingent of US combat troops - 3500 Marines - to fight Communist guerillas in South Vietnam. |
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03/06/2010 - Alamo Day |
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03/07/1657 - The Canadian government made it illegal to sell liquor to Indians ... the 1st case of racial discrimination in North America. |
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03/07/1965 - State troopers & a sheriff's posse broke up a march by civil rights demonstrators in Selma AL. |
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03/07/1969 - The Who released Pinball Wizard in the UK. It was the 1st selection the public heard from the rock opera Tommy. |
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03/07/1974 - As the Symbionese Liberation Army held Patty Hearst, the government distributed tons of free food to meet their demands. California Governor Ronald Reagan showed his anger at those accepting the food by saying, "It's too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism." |
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03/07/2010 - Peace Corps Day |
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03/08/1965 - The US landed abut 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam. |
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03/08/1971 - Radio Hanoi began its 1st American rock broadcast with the Jimmy Hendrix rendition of the National Anthem. |
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03/09/1862 - The ironclads Monitor and Virginia (formerly Merrimac) clashed for five hours to a draw at Hampton Roads VA. |
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03/09/1975 - Work began on the Alaskan oil pipeline. |
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03/10/1496 - Christopher Columbus completed his second visit to the Western Hemisphere as he left Hispaniola for Spain. |
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03/10/1848 - The Senate ratified the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico. |
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03/10/2010 – Harriet Tubman Day |
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03/11/1810 - Emperor Napoleon of France married by proxy the Archduchess Marie Louse of Austria. |
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03/11/1959 - Lorraine Hansberry's drama A Raisin in the Sun opened at New York's Ethel Barrymore Theater. |
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03/12/1933 - President Roosevelt delivered his 1st radio fireside chat, telling Americans about plans to deal with the nation's economic crisis. |
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03/12/1947 - President Truman established the Truman Doctrine to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism. |
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03/12/1993 - Janet Reno became the nation's 1st female Attorney General. |
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03/12/2010 - Employee Day |
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03/12/2010 - Girl Scout Day |
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03/13/1781 - Sir William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus. |
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03/13/1868 - The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began in the US Senate. |
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03/13/1884 - The US adopted Standard Time. |
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03/13/1925 - A law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of evolution. |
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03/14/1743 - Boston held the 1st recorded town meeting in America at Faneuil Hall. |
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03/14/1900 - Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act. |
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03/14/1923 - Warren G. Harding became the 1st president to file an income tax report. |
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03/14/1965 - Israel formally approved establishment of diplomatic relations with West Germany. |
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03/14/2010 - Pi Day |
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03/14/2010 - Sikh New Year |
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03/14/2010 - Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 am. Move your clock ahead an hour and lose the sleep! |
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03/15/44 BC - A group of nobles, including Brutus & Cassius, assassinated Roman dictator Julius Caesar. (Beware the Ides of March!) |
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03/15/1493 - Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his 1st voyage to the Western Hemisphere. |
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03/15/1913 - President Wilson held the 1st open presidential news conference. |
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03/15/1919 - The American Legion was founded in Paris. |
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03/15/1977 - Three's Company made its debut on ABC. |
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03/16/1802 - Congress authorized the establishment of the US Military Academy at West Point, NY. |
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03/16/1836 - The Republic of Texas approved a constitution. |
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03/16/1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter was 1st published. |
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03/16/1945 - Iwo Jima was declared secured by the Allies during WW II. |
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03/16/2010 - Freedom of Information Day |
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03/16/2010 - Loco Davi (manger du bois rituel) – Voudon |
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03/17/1776 - British forces evacuated Boston during the Revolutionary War. |
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03/17/1910 - The Camp Fire Girls organization was formed. |
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03/17/1941 - The National Gallery of Art opened in Washington DC. |
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03/17/2010 - St. Patrick's Day ... According to tradition, St. Patrick, who is the patron saint of Ireland, died in Saul on this day in 461. |
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03/18/1766 - Britain repealed the Stamp Act. |
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03/18/1931 - Schick marketed the 1st electric razor. |
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03/18/1937 - More than 400 people, mostly children, died in a gas explosion at a school in New London TX. |
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03/18/1940 - Benito Mussolini agreed to join Adolph Hitler's war against France and Britain. |
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03/18/1965 - The 1st spacewalk took place as Soviet cosmonaut Aleskei Leonov left his Voskhod Two capsule secured by a tether. |
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03/19/1918 - Congress approved Daylight Saving Time. |
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03/19/1953 - NBC televised the Academy Awards ceremony for the 1st time. |
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03/19/2003 - President George W. Bush ordered the start of war against Iraq. (Because of the time difference, it was early March 20th in Iraq.) |
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03/20/1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's influential novel about slavery, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was 1st published. |
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03/20/1896 - US Marines landed in Nicaragua to protect US citizens in the wake of a revolution. |
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03/20/1987 - The FDA approved the sale of AZT, a drug shown to prolong the lives of some AIDS patients. |
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03/20/2010 - First day of Spring |
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03/20/2010 - Legba Zaou - Voudon |
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03/21/1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany. |
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03/21/1804 - France adopted the French civil code - the Napoleonic Code. |
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03/21/1871 - Journalist Henry Stanley began his famous expedition to Africa to locate the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone. |
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03/21/1963 - Alcatraz federal prison in San Francisco Bay released its last inmates at the order of Attorney General Robert Kennedy. |
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03/21/1965 - More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators led by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. began their march from Selma to Montgomery. |
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03/21/2010 - Equinox - Wicca/Celtic |
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03/21/2010 - Feast of Naw-Ruz (New Year's Day) - Baha'i |
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03/21/2010 - Shunbun no Hi / Vernal Equinox Day - Shinto |
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03/21/2010 - Hola Maholla – Sikhism |
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03/21/2010 - Passion Sunday |
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03/22/1882 - Congress outlawed polygamy. |
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03/22/1894 - The 1st Stanley Cup game in history was played. Montreal beat Ottawa 3-1. |
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03/22/1945 - The Arab League adopted its charter in Cairo, Egypt. |
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03/22/1988 - Both houses of Congress overrode President Reagan's veto of a sweeping civil rights bill. |
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03/23/1775 - Patrick Henry made his famous call for American independence from Britain, telling the Virginia Provincial Convention, "Give me liberty or give me death." |
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03/23/1806 - Explorers Lewis and Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, began their journey back east. |
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03/23/1933 - The German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers. |
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03/23/1983 - President Reagan 1st proposed developing technology to intercept enemy missiles - a proposal known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, as well as Star Wars. |
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03/24/1955 - The Tennessee William's play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opened on Broadway. |
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03/24/1958 - The Army inducted Elvis Presley in Memphis. |
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03/25/1634 - English colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore founded Maryland. |
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03/25/1957 - The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community. |
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03/25/1965 - Martin Luther King, Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol on Montgomery to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks. |
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03/25/2010 - Annunciation |
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03/26/1971 - East Pakistan claimed its independence, taking the name Bangladesh. |
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03/26/1979 - Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed the Camp David treaty at the White House. |
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03/26/1982 - Groundbreaking ceremonies took place in Washington DC for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. |
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03/27/1512 - Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. |
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03/27/1794 - President Washington and Congress authorized the creation of the US Navy. |
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03/27/1998 - The FDA approved Viagra. |
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03/28/1979 - America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred at the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown PA. |
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03/28/2010 - Palm Sunday |
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03/29/1638 - Swedish colonists settled in present-day Delaware. |
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03/29/1882 - The Knights of Columbus was chartered in Connecticut. |
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03/29/1951 - A jury convicted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of conspiracy to commit espionage and sentenced them to execution in June 1953. |
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03/29/1973 - The last US combat troops left South Vietnam. |
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03/29/2010 - Pesach / Passover begins at sundown - Judaism |
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03/30/1867 - The US reached an agreement with Russia to buy the territory of Alaska for $7.2 million. |
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03/30/1870 - The 15th amendment to the Constitution, giving black men the right to vote, took effect. |
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03/30/1870 - The Union readmitted Texas. |
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03/30/1981 - John Hinckley Jr. shot and seriously injured President Ronald Reagan outside a Washington DC hotel. |
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03/30/2010 - Magha Puja Day / Sangha Day - Buddhism |
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03/30/2010 - Passover begins - Judaism |
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03/31/1889 - The Eiffel Tower was officially completed. |
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03/31/1917 - The US took possession of the Virgin Islands from Denmark. |
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03/31/1933 - The Congress authorized the Civilian Conservation Corps. |
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03/31/1943 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Oklahoma opened on Broadway. |
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03/31/1991 - The Warsaw Pact ended its existence as a military alliance. |
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03/31/1968 - President Lyndon Johnson announced he would not seek another term as president. |
o Law Library of Congress: North Korea - Collection of links to websites on North Korea government, politics, and law. Includes legal guides, country studies, and links to constitutions and branches of government (where available).
o Council on Foreign Relations: North Korea - Background, articles, and opinion pieces about North Korea government and politics. Many of the articles focus on North Korea's nuclear program. From the Council on Foreign Relations, "an independent membership organization and a nonpartisan think tank and publisher."
o State of the Union (SOTU) - The site uses an interactive timeline to provide a visual representation of prominent words in presidential State of the Union addresses by displaying significant words as "determined by comparing how frequently the word occurs in the document to how frequently it appears throughout the entire body of SOTU addresses." The "Appendices" section describes the statistical methods used. Also includes the full text of addresses.
o Supreme Court Nominations Not Confirmed - Reasons include "Senate opposition to the nominating President, nominee's views, or incumbent Court; senatorial courtesy; perceived political unreliability of the nominee; perceived lack of ability; interest group opposition; and fear of altering the balance of the Court. These nominations have been the subject of extensive legal, historical, and political science writing, a selected list of which is included in this report." A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report for Congress. Opens directly into a PDF file.
o Small Town Papers - This site provides access to scanned images of recent issues of dozens of small town newspapers from throughout the United States. "Newspapers are updated periodically, 2-3 weeks after publication." The site also includes a searchable archive (of articles, photos, and advertisements), which covers different periods for each paper, some as far back as the 1890s. Access to the archives requires free registration.
o A summary of the US Supreme Court's 2005 ruling on eminent domain allowing "local governments to expropriate private property for development." Includes links to statements from organizations on both sides of the argument as well as to Supreme Court documents about the case (Kelo v. New London). From JURIST: The Legal Education Network.
o This website "serves as a centralized location to learn about the Congressional Research Service and search for CRS reports that have been released to the public by members of Congress." ("CRS Reports do not become public until a member of Congress releases the report.") Features a searchable database with more than 8,000 reports, a list of recently released reports, other collections of CRS reports, and a FAQ about CRS.
o Stem Cell Research - The official National Institutes of Health resource for stem cell research is at http://stemcells.nih.gov/index.asp. In 2005, NOVA aired an overview of the issue, at www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3209/04.html. A 2001 Time Magazine feature is at www.time.com/time/2001/stemcells.
o Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798 - 2004 - This report lists hundreds of instances in which the United States has used its armed forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict or for other than normal peacetime purposes. It was compiled in part from various older lists and is intended primarily to provide a rough survey of past US military ventures abroad, without reference to the magnitude of the given instance noted.
o Homeland Security Knowledgebase
o If you're worried about retirement, try some of the following sites:
IRS Tax Information for Retirement Plans
Social Security Retirement Planner
Retirement Planning Resources from Smart Money
Personal Financial Planning Tools from Business Week
o Keeping the Shi'ites Straight - Based on the opinion that "no story has been more confusing for the Western news media to cover in postwar Iraq than the politics of the country's Shi'ite majority," this article provides a basic outline of Shi'ite religious history. Discusses the Sadr family (Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr, Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, and Muqtada as-Sadr), Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, and other figures.
o MILITARY DEATH TOLL IN IRAQ - Developed "to provide information that has been scrupulously culled from government sources and cross-checked against other existing lists" about the military death toll in Iraq. It features statistics about fatalities and injuries for Iraqi Coalition armed forces. Data may be retrieved by month, name, location of occurrences, cause of death, state residence and more. Includes links to sources of information.
o This commercial site presents brief information about dozens of Black inventors from the United States. Some entries include portraits and images. Also includes a searchable timeline covering 1721-1988. Does not include bibliographic information.
o Annenberg Political Fact Check - This site describes itself as "a nonpartisan, nonprofit, 'consumer advocate' for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in US politics." The site provides original articles, with summaries and sources, analyzing factual accuracy in "TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases." Searchable. From the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
o White House Tapes: The President Calling - "Three of America's most compelling presidents -- Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon -- bugged their White House offices and tapped their telephones. In this documentary project, American Radio Works eavesdrops on presidential telephone calls to hear how each man used one-on-one politics to shape history." Includes audio, a transcript of the documentary and background information on each president and the tapes.
o The Government Performance Project: The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report - This report from Congressional Quarterly analyzes "the tax structures and tax management of the 50 states" and evaluates "the way each state raises its revenues." It includes an overview of major sources of state revenue (sales taxes, personal income taxes, property taxes and corporate taxes) and features a description of the tax structure for each state. Also provides related reports back to 1999.
o History of Guantanamo Bay - Based on two volumes of "the history of both the area and of the base, contributed to the base by a former Commander of Naval Base Guantanamo Bay." It begins with Columbus' discovery of the Cuban bay in the Caribbean through the Spanish loss in 1898 and until 1982. Includes appendices for flora and fauna, treaties and agreements of 1934, bibliography and more. Also provides related links.
o First Amendment Library - Provides info on Supreme Court First Amendment jurisprudence, including rulings, arguments, briefs, historical material, commentary and press coverage.
o What Home Pages Tell (and Don't Tell) About a Candidate
o American Choices: Understanding Foreign Policy Debates - This "foreign policy self-assessment ... asks you to weigh some of the fundamental trade-offs facing US policymakers. At the end of it, you get a summary of your beliefs, and how they compare with others." Also includes annotated listings of foreign policy Web resources. From "e-the People, a nonprofit organization whose nonpartisan mission is to improve civic participation through Internet technologies."
o Interested in lowering your medication costs? Try Doctor Solve at 866-732-0305, www.needymeds.com, 800-PMA-INFO or www.benefitscheckup.org.
o If you are thinking of changing your electricity provider, go to www.powertochoose.org or call 866-797-4839.
o Drug Policy Alliance - This group claims to be "the leading organization working to broaden the public debate on drug policy and to promote realistic alternatives to the war on drugs based on science, compassion, health and human rights." The searchable site includes information about various topics such as specific drugs, national and international drug policies, drugs and race, drug treatment options and drugs and law enforcement. Also includes the Lindesmith Library catalog, a discussion forum, news and alerts.
o Check out www.unitedhealthalliance.com or www.CrossBorderPharmacy.com for ordering prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies.
o Primary Documents in American History
If you need a presentation or workshop for your group, use the Community link here or at the top of the page.
The link will take you to a list of the topics I currently have available.
To schedule a date or for more information, feel free to contact me at dramyglenn@earthlink.net.
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