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Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine. Today I Found Out. Lifehacker, tips and downloads for getting things done. Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history. Online Video Lectures and Course Materials — Open Yale Courses. Science Daily: News & Articles in Science, Health, Environment & Technology.

Wonderopolis. Learn how Everything Works!". The WELL - the birthplace of the online community movement. OpenDemocracy. Skeptical Inquirer Index. Science news and science jobs from New Scientist. The Mercury Theatre on the Air. Online Speech Bank. "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. " "But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. "When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

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