Mary Nix on July 23rd, 2009

aura Weldon recently sent me a link to Animated Engines. The site was first created in 2000 and offers a variety of engine animations. That is interesting enough, but then the creator also shares HOW the animations were created in the about section of the site.
If you happen to know of similar sites, [...]

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Mary Nix on July 20th, 2009

love to scour second hand shops when I need a new piece of furniture. This week-end I found a lovely end table and when I was cleaning it at home, I was happy to learn it was crafted by a company in North Carolina. What does this have to do with a [...]

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Mary Nix on July 15th, 2009

I learned of this free copy of Secrets of a Buccaneer- Scholar from Barb Lundgren on Facebook.
“A Buccaneer-Scholar is anyone whose love of learning is not muzzled or shackled by any institution or authority; whose mind is driven to wander and find its own place in the world.”
This is a fantastic resource and you can [...]

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Mary Nix on June 7th, 2009

Link: Cobblestone.
Magazines and Books
for Toddlers to Teens! From their site:
Cobblestone Publishing has been producing high-quality nonfiction magazines for young readers since 1980. Our philosophy is that nonfiction, whether it deals with American or world history, world cultures, archaeology, or science, should be a combination of fascinating pleasure reading and factual resource material that educates and [...]

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Mary Nix on May 26th, 2009

Yes Magazine presents, The Twisted History of the Microwave.    Yes magazine is new to me, but I explored it and found some really interesting resources at their site.  They offer projects you can do at home, brain bumpters, reviews by you and more.
The Twisted History of the Microwave

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Mary Nix on May 16th, 2009

The website states that there are thousands of archived events which happened to or affected the indigenous peoples of North America. For example, it states that on today’s date he reports that the following occured:
1677: Mugg, an Arosaguntacook Indian Chief, dies in Black Point, Maine. At the outset of King Philip’s war, Mugg [...]

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