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Sophia Learning
Sophia: Rewriting Nominalizations: Lesson 2
This lesson goes over how to rewrite sentences including nominalizations. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Rewriting Nominalizations."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Rewriting Nominalizations
This lesson goes over how to rewrite sentences including nominalizations.
New York Times
New York Times: Photographic Portraits of the Year's Best Actors (2004)
This portfolio of black-and-white portraits of Oscar-nominated film stars captures a range of faces, poses, moods, and points of view. Excellent site for comparing and criticizing artistic choices and approaches and for inspiring...
PBS
Pbs News Hour: The Confirmation Process
As part of NewsHour's "The John Roberts Confirmation" site, a chart that describes the confirmation process for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: 5 Bad Writing Habits You Can Break Today (Infographic)
This infographic includes a list of easy-to-fix writing habits. Methods for fixing these five writing habits are included.
The Washington Post
Washington Post: Us Congress Votes Database: Senate Confirmation: John Roberts
Brief analysis of the confirmation vote on Chief Justice John Roberts to the Supreme Court. (2005)
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Bravo! Canada: Nobel Prize Nominated Poet Irving Layton Dies in Montreal at 93
An obituary of Irving Layton - it looks at his poetry from the standpoint of a feminist. Preview site first - as this is a media site, the advertisement photos may sometimes be a bit off-putting.
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Etc: Maps Etc: Egypt, Abyssinia, Et Cetera, 1904
"Egypt is another of those countries whose prehistoric ages are wrapped in mystery as impenetrable as the sources of her Nile, whose exact location ling baffled the most enterprising of explorers. Great interest attaches to the country's...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Indiana: Benjamin Harrison Home
Benjamin Harrison lived in this Italianate house from 1875 until his death there in 1901, except from 1889 to 1893 while he was the 23rd President. He was also a Senator from Indiana from 1881 to 1887. Harrison accepted the Republican...
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Harriet Miers With Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid
News article from October, 2005, announcing the nomination of Harriet Miers for the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated by William Rehnquist. Miers will later withdraw her name.
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Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
January, 2006, report covering the confirmation of Samuel Alito's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. There is also a brief video report from the Associated Press that goes along with this article.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Hiram G. Berry
General Berry, born in Thomaston (now Rockland), Me., August 27th, 1824, died at Chancellorsville, Va., May 2nd, 1863. He originated and commanded for several years the Rockland Guard, a volunteer company, which attained a very high...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Millard Fillmore
Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 - March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth President of the United States, serving from 1850 until 1853, and the last member of the Whig Party to hold that office. He was the second Vice President to assume the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Thomas Moore
Moore, Thomas, the national poet of Ireland, was born in 1799 in Dublin, where his father was a grocer; died near Devizes in 1852. From Trinity College, Dublin, he passed in 1799 to the Middle Temple in London, nominally to study law;...