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Web Gallery of Art: A Quack and His Assistant

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "A Quack and His Assistant", created by Jan Miense Molenaer, c. 1630 (Oil on canvas, 105 x 87 cm).
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Iraqi Children Line Up for Fuel, Water From British Troops in Southern Iraq 2003

For Students 9th - 10th
With Operation Iraqi Freedom over, and Saddam Hussein ousted, many Iraqis are left without proper food, shelter, water, and healthcare. In order to change this, humanitarian assistance is necessary. This NPR site addresses the...
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Fighting for Water

For Students 9th - 10th
With Operation Iraqi Freedom over, and Saddam Hussein ousted, many Iraqis are left without proper food, shelter, water, and healthcare. In order to change this, humanitarian assistance is necessary. This NPR site addresses the...
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Bluffton University: Tips on Reading Thomas Aquinas

For Students 9th - 10th
This helpful site assists readers of Thomas Aquinas' work.
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Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox, Florence Hedges, Unknown, Edna Fawcett

For Students 9th - 10th
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) botanists Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox (1884-1974), Florence Hedges (1878-1956), unidentified woman, and Edna H. Fawcett (b. 1879). Quirk was assistant to the senior plant pathologist, USDA,...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Pauline Kirby

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1954, Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) had just been appointed Chief of the Nursing Service at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. Kirby joined the ANC in 1926 and had served as the U.S. Army's assistant...
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Bangladesh: Strategy for Sustained Growth

For Students 9th - 10th
See the development challenges Bangladesh faces and the way the World Bank is assisting the country. There is also a brief summary of the various functions and organization of The World Bank as well as an overview of how priorities are...
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Bangladesh: Country Environmental Analysis

For Students 9th - 10th
See the development challenges Bangladesh faces and the way the World Bank is assisting the country. There is also a brief summary of the various functions and organization of The World Bank as well as an overview of how priorities are...
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To the Md Gs and Beyond

For Students 9th - 10th
See the development challenges Bangladesh faces and the way the World Bank is assisting the country. There is also a brief summary of the various functions and organization of The World Bank as well as an overview of how priorities are...
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The Last Days of Leo Tolstoy

For Students 9th - 10th
Full text of a biographical account by Vladimir Chertkov, Tolstoy's friend and assistant. Includes an index and and bibliography of Tolstoy's work.
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Unesco: Germany: Mines of Rammelsberg, Goslar & Upper Harz Water Mgmt System

For Students 9th - 10th
The Upper Harz mining water management system, which lies south of the Rammelsberg mines and the town of Goslar, has been developed over a period of some 800 years to assist in the process of extracting ore for the production of...
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Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox (1884 1974), Florence Hedges (1878 1956)

For Students 9th - 10th
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) botanists Agnes J. Quirk, Helen Morgenthau Fox (1884-1974), and Florence Hedges (1878-1956). Quirk was assistant to the senior plant pathologist, USDA, 1901-1927, and served as head of the...
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Otto Emery Jennings (1877 1964) and Grace Emma Kinzer Jennings (D. 1957)

For Students 9th - 10th
Carnegie Museum botanist Otto Emery Jennings (1877-1964) and Grace Emma Kinzer Jennings (d. 1957). Grace Jennings was a fourth-generation Pittsburgher whose family had established one of the city's major iron foundries. She was an...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888 1969)

For Students 9th - 10th
Libbie Henrietta Hyman (1888-1969) graduated from the University of Chicago in 1910 and earned a Ph.D. degree from Chicago in 1915. She stayed at the university with an appointment as a research assistant until 1931 because, despite her...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Margaret Reed Lewis (1881 1970)

For Students 9th - 10th
Physiologist and anatomist Margaret Reed Lewis (1881-1970), an authority on tumors, had served as an assistant to Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia and then worked as a research collaborator in the embryology department of the Carnegie...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ann Haven Morgan (1882 1966)

For Students 9th - 10th
The zoologist Ann Haven Morgan (1882-1966) began her career as an assistant to Cornelia Clapp at Mt. Holyoke College. After receiving a Ph.D. from Cornell University (1912), Morgan did research at the Marine Biological Laboratory and...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Clara H. Hasse (1880? 1926)

For Students 9th - 10th
Clara H. Hasse (1880?-1926) was an assistant horticulturist and botanist in the Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., and later worked at the Florida Experiment Station
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Lucia Mc Culloch (1873 1955)

For Students 9th - 10th
Lucia McCulloch (1873-1955) was an assistant pathologist in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry, where she worked on crown gall and gladiolus diseases and pests and collaborated with botanist Nellie Adalesa Brown
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Alice Hamilton (1869 1970)

For Students 9th - 10th
An expert in occupational health issues, Dr. Alice Hamilton (1869-1970) was Assistant Professor of Industrial Medicine, Harvard Medical School. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Hamilton did additional research in Germany...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ingeborg Schmidt (B. 1899)

For Students 9th - 10th
Born in Estonia and trained in medicine in Germany, ophthalmologist Ingeborg Schmidt (b. 1899) did research on color vision. She had worked as a research assistant in Tubingen and Berlin, 1927-1935, and in aviation medicine at the...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Mary Greig

For Students 9th - 10th
Mary Greig was an assistant in the department of public health, American Museum of Natural History, New York
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Eternal Egypt: Ramesses the Third

For Students 9th - 10th
King Ramesses the Third was the last great king in the New Kingdom. He defeated the Libyans and the Sea Peoples. He made new structures at Luxor, Karnak, Pi-Ramesse, Heliopolis, Memphis, Hermopolis and Abydos and in Nubia and Syria....
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Eternal Egypt: Relief of a Woman Giving Birth

For Students 9th - 10th
This plaque shows a woman on the birthing-chair, being assisted by two women with Hathor heads and crowns, the Hathor crown consists of two horns with the sun disk between them and tall plumes. Hathor acted as nurse and was the patroness...
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Photo of Woman in a Reference Room With the Caption \Census 2000

For Students 9th - 10th
The Census Bureau has grouped a number of helpful resources here, including reference information on the bureau and its history, free teaching materials, and news about Bureau programs to assist in education. ESL and Adult Literacy Kit...

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