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Clean Air Revival: Burning Issues: Constituents of Wood Smoke
Site has several articles on particles from wood smoke and its health effects.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: The Burning Bush
An image of "The Burning Bush", created by Nicolas Froment in 1476 (Wood, 410 x 305 cm).
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Arts and Crafts
This encyclopedia article from Wikipedia details how the term "arts and crafts" came into existence and lists a wealth of links to other encyclopedia articles on different types of arts and crafts. Links are provided for additional...
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Biomass Energy
What is biomass? Learn about the different types of biomass energy, how it is released, and the advantages and disadvantages of biomass.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: From Trash to Gas: Biomass Energy
Have you ever dreamed of a world where you could take the scraps from last night's dinner and toss them into your car's fuel tank and make gas? Well, we're not quite in "Back to the Future" yet, but in this energy science fair project,...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Industial Revolution
At one time, humans, fueled by the animals and plants they ate and the wood they burned, or aided by their domesticated animals, provided most of the energy in use. All life operated within the fairly immediate flow of energy from the...
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: John Greenleaf Whittier
This site provides links to twelve of Whittier's most widely-read poems, including "Snow-Bound, A Winter Idyl," "Barbara Frietchie," "Ichabod," and "The Worship of Nature." Also includes a brief biography.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Chicago Fire [Pdf]
"Chicago Fire" is a one page, nonfiction passage about the great Chicago Fire of 1871, which burned the city constructed of wood, and its rebuilding using brick. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to...
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: The Osage "Reign of Terror" Murder Trials
The "Reign of Terror" that overtook the Osage Reservation in 1921 is just one chapter in the long story of mistreatment of Native Americans by whites, but is one of the most horrifying. Before the chapter ends, untold dozens of Osage...
Agnes Scott College
Alphabetical Index of Women Mathematicians
Read the biographies of dozens of women mathematicians who were important in the 1700's, 1800's, and 1900's.
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Wounded Escaping From the Burning Woods in the Wilderness...
A presentation on Alfred Waud, who drew for the national press during the Civil War.