Stan T. Rex is the name given to a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton that was excavated and reconstructed by the Black Hills Institute. Stan is sixty-five percent bone and among the most complete T. Rex skeletons in the world that scientists...

Landmines kills thousands every year in countries around the world. Some of the topics on this site include the history of landmines, the threat they present in over sixty countries worldwide, the damage they do,risk reduction education,...

General Barlow, born in Brooklyn, N. Y., October 18th, 1834, was graduated at Harvard in 1855. In 1861 he enlisted as a private in the Twelfth Regiment, New York State National Guard, and went to the front of the first call for troops to...

General Michael Corcoran, born in Carrowkeel, County Sligo, Ireland, September 21st, 1827, died near Fairfax Courthouse, Va., December 22nd 1863. Upon the first call of the President for troops in 1861 Colonel Corcoran led the...

Selected poems by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892). Seventy-nine full-text poems are included.

Former "flower child" Lisa Law shares her photographs and memories of the turbulent sixties counterculture.

An obituary for General Douglas MacArthur, who served in the United States Army for over sixty years. [Article date: April 6, 1964]

Offers complete biographical details on popular Sixties folk-rock duo, Simon and Garfunkel, 1990 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Includes a timeline of key events and essential songs list.

See a three-sixty view of the post-eruption elevation of Mount Saint Helens.

Ethel Barrymore from the famous family of actors spent sixty years in the theater. Read about her roles and see a portrait of her painted by Paul Helleu.

Read a portion of the document adopted by the Native American representatives from over sixty tribes in 1961 setting forth their political agenda.

You are Mayor Joe Starks from the book Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, and you want more people to relocate to Eatonville, Florida. Identify five amenities that may make Eatonville attractive to African-Americans...

This Wikipedia page provides the text of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, a document signed in 1848 by sixty-eight women and thirty-two men, delegates to the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.

This study of black protest poems from the early part of the twentieth century through the late sixties can provide insight into the issues African Americans faced during that time and the ways they responded to them. Works from seven...

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka is widely known as the Supreme Court decision that declared segregated schools to be "inherently unequal." The story behind the case, including that of the 1951 trial in a Kansas courtroom, is much...

Learn about what happened during the 1983 bombing of the US embassy in Beirut. Sixty-three people were killed in this attack.

Two hundred sixty-nine letters written by St. Augustine, divided into those written before and after he became Bishop of Hippo. A great source of primary source material. Please note that ?The Catholic Encyclopedia? is a historic...

Sixty-one questions to test your knowledge of verb usage. You choose the correct answer and if you're correct, the next question is displayed. If you're wrong, the computer lets you know immediately by offering correct answering without...

This site from The Internet TESL Journal provides sixty-seven questions to test your knowledge of phrasal verbs. You choose the correct preposition to complete a phrase. If you're correct, the next question is displayed. If you're wrong,...

See images of famous and unknown faces from the 1960s. All black and white images by various photographers.

See images of famous and unknown faces from the 1960s. All black and white images by various photographers.

See images of famous and unknown faces from the 1960s. All black and white images by various photographers.

Former "flower child" Lisa Law shares her photographs and memories of the turbulent sixties counterculture.

Read about one of the most prolific scorers in NBA history who scored at least sixty five points fifteen times; no one else in the history of the game has come even close. Biographical profile from ESPN with links to additional articles...