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Dowling's Titanic site
http://www.dowlingcentral.com/MrsD/area/literature/Nonfiction/Titanic/TitanicWebQuest.html

Titanic - This official site for the film has some footage of 
dives to the 
wreck by James Cameron, the director.
http://www.titanicmovie.com

Encyclopedia Titanica
http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org

Titanic Historical Society - Features selections from the 
society's journal, 
photos & trivia
http://www.titanic1.org

Titanic's Lost Sister - A site of the Titanic's sister ship 
Britiannic, 
which was sunk in November, 1916
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/titanic

George Behe's Titanic Tidbits - Created by a past official of 
the Titanic 
Historical Society, this site covers obscure information like 
the music 
played by the ship's band.
http;//ourcompuserve.com/homepages/Carpathia

A Very Cool Titanic site with answers to some of those "hard to 
find" 
questions (eg "elevators)
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/8059/main.htm

Embracing Our Differences - This is really cool & on display 
downtown at the 
marina park.
http://www.embracingourdifferences.org

Civil War Photos
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

History Place: Abraham Lincoln Timeline
http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/index.html

History Place: A Nation Divided
http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html

Civil War Research Resources
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Tower/1217/civwar.html

Camplife Civil War Collections from Gettysburg
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex

Civil War Potpourri
http://www.civilwarhome.com/potpourr.htm

History Place - great site for all U.S. History stuff
http://historyplace.com/

American Memory - excellent source for all things "American"
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html

 #1 Baseball & America from NY Times Learning Network
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20070416monday.html?searchpv=learning_lessons

#2 Baseball from NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20060728friday.html?searchpv=learning_lessons

#3 NY Times Baseball
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20020830friday.html?searchpv=learning_lessons

#4 Baseball from NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/19990309tuesday.html?searchpv=learning_lessons

Baseball Players & Opportunity Costs
http://economics.about.com/cs/sportseconomics/l/aa021903a.htm

#5 NY Times & Baseball
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20000211friday.html?searchpv=learning_lessons

Early Baseball Pictures
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/jrgmabout.html

Baseball, the Color Line, & Jackie Robinson
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/robinson/jr1860s.html

World Clock - Fascinating, Cool, Stuff
http://www.peterrussell.dreamhosters.com/Odds/WorldClock.php

"Behind the Name"
http://www.behindthename.com

First Names and What they Mean
http://www.zelo.com/firstnames/index.asp

Baby Names World
http://www.babynamesworld.com/

The Constitution
http://www.historynow.org/09_2007/index.html

American Progress Action
http://www.americanprogressaction.org

Eyewitness to History John Wilkes Booth
http://eyewitnesstohistory.com/booth.htm

Presidential Polling - 2008
http://electoral-vote.com

PBS Teachers - PBS Vote 2008
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/vote2008/

U.S. Electoral College
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/2008/

2008 Presidential Election
http://www.270towin.com/2008_polls/mccain_obama/

Electoral College Prediction Map
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/campaign08/

Electoral College Map with Numbers
http://www.usaelectionpolls.com/2008/general-election/electoral-college-results.html

Electronic Translaters
http://www.ectaco.co.uk/English-Multilanguage-Dictionary/

"2057" A very cool website from the Discovery Channel about "our 
world" in 
the year 2057.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/2057/2057.html

World Map - interactive
http://encarta.msn.com/encet/features/mapcenter/map.aspx

World Map - political
http://www.justmaps.org/maps/thematics/political.asp#

Weekly Reader Election Guide
http://www.weeklyreader.com/election/

Rasmussen Reports Tracking Poll
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/fox_rasmussen_polling/fox

Interactive Electoral College Map
http://www.270towin.com

Nettrekker - use this search engine to help you with Election or 
History 
Fair information.The user name is SMS2 - the pw is sarasota 
(cAsE sensitive -
 type it as you see it above). Click on "American Gov't" or use 
the search 
window.
http://school.nettrekker.com/frontdoor/

New York Times Election Page with interactive map
http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/whos-ahead/key-states/map.html

Electoral Vote Calculator - use this to create YOUR campaign for 
President
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/interactive_sm/05/electoralcalculator.html

CIA Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook

Scholastic.com
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=455

African culture stuff
http://goafrica.about.com/od/peopleandculture/African_Culture_and_People.htm

Culture Grams - good for research of just about any country
http://online.culturegrams.com/


Excellent Resource for all History information
http://www.mrdowling.com

American Cultural History - The 20th Century by Decades
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decades.html

Kid friendly graphing templets
Create a Graph

piratesinfo.com

National Geographic & Pirates

How To Be Speakin' Pirate Like

Pirates Of the Caribbean in Fact & Fiction

Pirate Speak Translator

Consumer Consequences.

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