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Famous Trials: Mutiny on the Bounty Court Martial (1792)
The true story of the the 1789 mutiny on the Bounty is far more complicated than suggested by film versions of the event, which have emphasized the gratuitous cruelty of the ship's captain, William Bligh. The psychological drama that...
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Famous Trials: Moussaoui (9/11) Trial (2006)
"He killed the 9/11 victims as surely as if he had been at the controls of one of those airplanes." --U. S. Attorney Robert Spencer, in his opening statement in the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man tried for the 9/11 attacks...
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Famous Trials: West Memphis Three Trials (1994)
On a warm sunny May day three eight-year-old boys set off on a bike ride around their hometown of West Memphis, Arkansas. The next afternoon, their bruised and mutilated hog-tied naked bodies were pulled from a stream, setting off an...
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Famous Trials: Thomas More Trial (1535)
"I die the king's good servant, and God's first."--Thomas More. There is much to learn from the story of how the head of one of the most revered men in England, Sir Thomas More, ended up on the chopping block on London's Tower Hill in...
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Famous Trials: The Trials of Dr. Jack Kevorkian (1992 99)
He called his invention "the thanatron." It was an inexpensive contraption. A jewelry chain, parts from an Erector Set, an old motor, an intravenous line, and three plastic bottles. One of the bottles contained a saline solution, another...
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Famous Trials: The Trial of Joan of Arc (1431)
The story of Joan of Arc, the peasant girl whose religious visions altered the history of France, has been told often. And like so many stories in history, things do not end well for Joan. On May 30, 1431, after a lengthy and highly...
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Famous Trials: Anthony Burns (Fugitive Slave) Trial of 1854
The extradition of Anthony Burns as a fugitive slave was the most memorable case of the kind that has occurred since the adoption of the Federal Constitution. It was memorable for the place and for the time of its occurrence; the place...
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Famous Trials: Sheriff Shipp Trial (1907 09)
"I am ready to die. But I never done it. I am going to tell the truth. I am not guilty. I have said all the time that I did not do it, and it is true. I was not there. I know I am going to die and I have no fear to die and I have no fear...
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Famous Trials: Sam Sheppard Trials (1954 & '66)
On July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard, the wife of a handsome thirty-year-old doctor, Sam Sheppard, was brutally murdered in the bedroom of their home in Bay Village, Ohio, on the shore of Lake Erie. Sam Sheppard denied any involvement in...
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Famous Trials: Ruby Ridge (Weaver) Trial (1993)
In the 1980s, the mountainous panhandle of northern Idaho became a magnet for right-wingers of all stripes. Government-haters, minority-haters, immigrant-haters, and modern culture-haters all found refuge in the sparsely-populated...
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Famous Trials: Trial of the Nazi Saboteurs (1942)
The eight Germans who landed on beaches were all graduates of a training school for saboteurs. The idea for a sabotage effort in America developed in late 1941, soon after a German spy network in the United States imploded when one of...
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Famous Trials: Trial of Anne Hutchinson (1637)
America was not always the "Land of Liberty." In the 1630s, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, questioning Puritan dogma could bring you a world of trouble. It could get you shunned, it could get you ex-communicated, it could even get you...
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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...
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Famous Trials: Mountain Meadows Massacre (1875 76)
Called "the darkest deed of the nineteenth century," the brutal 1857 murder of 120 men, women, and children at a place in southern Utah called Mountain Meadows remains one of the most controversial events in the history of the American...
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Wise Pockets: From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
This site has activities for enrichment for the book "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg.
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Um: Overcoming Barriers to Listening
Quick set of suggestions for overcoming the barriers to good listening.
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Famous Trials: Selected Issues of the New York Weekley Journal
Here you will find images of two issues of The New York Weekly Journal. One issue was ordered burned due to its content.
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Famous Trials: Salem Witch Trials (1692): William Stoughton
Biographical and historical note, with portrait, about William Stoughton (1631-1701), that briefly explains Stoughton's role as chief justice during the Salem witch trials. Itemizes the deviations from normal courtroom practice that...
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Famous Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials Bibliography and Links
This site provides an extensive bibliography and links for original documents and analysis of the Salem Witch Trials.
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Famous Trials: Chronology of the Dakota Conflict (Sioux Uprising) Trial
Contains a chart of the chronology of the Dakota Conflict trials from 1851 to 1890.
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Famous Trials: William Calley
A partial biography of Calley that gives sketches of what people thought about him. The verdict and sentence he received is also covered.
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Biotech Adventures: Dna Replication
Replication 1, Replication 2, 5'to 3' direction, polymerase replication, and ligase replication are the topics delved into in this complete site. The text is supplemented with animation for clarity.
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Biotech Adventures: Rna
This competent site provides a basic introduction to RNA and then focuses on composition, transcription, and processing.
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Exploring Constitutional Conflicts: Constitutional Trivia Quiz
Are you a law school drop out or a Supreme Court justice? Take this trivia quiz over the Constitution and find out! Self-correcting and answers are provided.