Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults Infographic
Adult cigarette smoking has decreased in recent years, but it is still the number one cause of preventable disease and death in America. An infographic breaks cigarette smoking down by education level, geographical region, gender, race,...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Customizable Graphic Organizers
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of graphic organizers for reading students. Forms are provided for plot, character analysis, reading logs, and reading responses.
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Sri: Erma and Micr, the Origin of Electronic Banking
Discusses the history of electronic banking, banking problems, vacuum tubes vs. transistors, magnetic ink character reading, handling paper at high speed, and the ERMA.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Earthquake: The Chinatown Story
Read eyewitness accounts and view a photographic narrative of the devastating fires that broke out in San Francisco Chinatown after the earthquake in 1906.
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Walter Reed Photo
This site from the Arlington National Cemetery provides an easy to read account of the life and work of Dr. Walter Reed (1851-1902 CE), Major in the United States Army Medical Corps who proved that yellow fever was transmitted by...
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Walter Reed Gravesite
This site from the Arlington National Cemetery provides an easy to read account of the life and work of Dr. Walter Reed (1851-1902 CE), Major in the United States Army Medical Corps who proved that yellow fever was transmitted by...
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Tour Egypt: The Ancient Egyptian Number System
This Tour Egypt site presents an easy-to-read account of ancient Egypt mathematics. Content explores the history and development of mathematics, how it was used, what helpful documents we have found that give us insight into what the...
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Rbdsr: The 'Day of the Martyrs' January 9, 1964
At this website, read excerts from LIFE magazine, which captured the January 1964 events in Panama through first person accounts and photographs. Discusses the "Day of Martyrs."
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A History of the 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Check out this site to read a personal account of an infantryman whose unit saw action in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
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Eye Witness to History: U Boat Attack, 1916
Read about the rise of u-boat warfare and a personal account of a u-boat attack from the diary of a u-boat commander. Provided by EyeWitness to History.
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Eye Witness to History: U Boat Attack, 1916
Read about the rise of u-boat warfare and a personal account of a u-boat attack from the diary of a u-boat commander. Provided by EyeWitness to History.
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Eye Witness to History: Battle at Lexington Green, 1775
This first-person, eye-witness account discusses the Battle at Lexington Green was the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the "Shot heard 'round the world." Read details about this famous battle.
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Eye Witness to History: Battle at Lexington Green, 1775
This first-person, eye-witness account discusses the Battle at Lexington Green was the beginning of the Revolutionary War and the "Shot heard 'round the world." Read details about this famous battle.
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Map2
A well-detailed explanation of the Battle of Trafalgar, including events that led to the battle and the aftermath. Also read a personal account from a sailor who survived the battle.
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Saddam Hussein in Us Captivity
An account of Saddam Hussein's first encounter with an Iraqi judge and the reading of his rights under the new Iraqi court. This occurred on June 30, 2004 and was before his first actual court appearance on July 1, 2004.
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E. Pauline Johnson
Pauline Johnson, "a reader or reciter of talent as well as a writer," performed in Winnipeg in 1897, and this is an account of that performance from the "Winnipeg Free Press." Read about Johnson's costumes, her portrayals of a "heathen...
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Eyewitness to History: Evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940
An eyewitness account of an Englishman who set sail from England to rescue soldiers on the shore of France at Dunkirk. Read about this daring plan to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of British, French, and Belgian soldiers under...
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Eyewitness to History: Evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940
An eyewitness account of an Englishman who set sail from England to rescue soldiers on the shore of France at Dunkirk. Read about this daring plan to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of British, French, and Belgian soldiers under...
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Eyewitness to History: Evacuation at Dunkirk, 1940
An eyewitness account of an Englishman who set sail from England to rescue soldiers on the shore of France at Dunkirk. Read about this daring plan to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of British, French, and Belgian soldiers under...
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Usacmh: Defense of the Americas 7 December 1941 2 September 1945
This brochure from the Army's Center of Military History gives an extensive account of the little-reported on American theater of World War II. Read about the preparations for hemispheric defense, the few breaches of the defense, and the...
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Usacmh: Defense of the Americas 7 December 1941 2 September 1945
This brochure from the Army's Center of Military History gives an extensive account of the little-reported on American theater of World War II. Read about the preparations for hemispheric defense, the few breaches of the defense, and the...
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Usacmh: Defense of the Americas 7 December 1941 2 September 1945
This brochure from the Army's Center of Military History gives an extensive account of the little-reported on American theater of World War II. Read about the preparations for hemispheric defense, the few breaches of the defense, and the...
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Usacmh: Defense of the Americas 7 December 1941 2 September 1945
This brochure from the Army's Center of Military History gives an extensive account of the little-reported on American theater of World War II. Read about the preparations for hemispheric defense, the few breaches of the defense, and the...
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Usacmh: Defense of the Americas 7 December 1941 2 September 1945
This brochure from the Army's Center of Military History gives an extensive account of the little-reported on American theater of World War II. Read about the preparations for hemispheric defense, the few breaches of the defense, and the...