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http://www.mnh.si.edu/rc/fieldbooks/

The Field Book Project: Home

The Field Book Project's overall mission is to create one online location for scholars and others to visit when searching for field books and other field research materials.
http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/about-arc.html The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries. Additional information:

About ARC

The Encyclopedia of Television The Encyclopedia of Television includes more than 1,000 original essays from more than 250 contributors and examines specific programs and people, historic moments and trends, major policy disputes and such topics as violence, tabloid television and the quiz show scandal. It also includes histories of major television networks as well as broadcasting systems around the world and is complemented by resource materials, photos and bibliographical information. Please click on one of the letters below to browse subjects beginning with that letter.

The Encyclopedia of Television

http://www.museum.tv/publicationssection.php?page=520
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/01/15-great-dictionary-websites.html

15 Great Dictionary Websites

Below is a collection of some web-based dictionaries that can make your digital reading experience an enjoyable one. I personally use a great dictionary extension installed on my Chrome and which works quite smartly. Whenever I come across a word that I need to look up I just select and tap on it and a small window pops up right above it providing me with the explanation, and a little mic icon to hear how it is pronounced and a link to click on to see a detailed explanation.
http://edudemic.com/2011/10/twitter-hashtag-dictionary/

The A-Z Dictionary of Educational Twitter Hashtags

Whether you’re a new or seasoned Twitter user, you likely come across confusing hashtags that probably look like a bunch of nonsense. First, What’s A Hashtag? The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keyword or topic in a Tweet. Any Twitter user can categorize or follow topics with hashtags.Those hashtags (usually) mean something and are a great way to get a tweet to appear in search results or discussion monitoring.

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http://www.youtube.com/user/BiographyChannel Welcome to BIO's YouTube Channel! Watch exclusive extras from BIO's original hit shows featuring real-life stories of survival, "I Survived" and "I Survived Beyond and Back." Hear first person accounts of paranormal encounters with bonus clips from "Celebrity Ghost Stories" and "My Ghost Story."
http://www.youtube.com/user/thenobelprize Welcome to the Nobel Prize YouTube Channel which presents videos about the Nobel Prize awarded achievements and the Nobel Laureates, provided by Nobelprize.org, the official web site of the Nobel Prize. Nobelprize.org® and Nobel Prize® are registered trademarks of the Nobel Foundation. Comments are moderated.

Nobelprize.org

Summary Summary of drug information (MedlinePlusDrug) Summary of dietary supplement and herbal information (MedlinePlusSupp) Summary of consumer health information (MedlinePlusTopics) Summary of HIV/AIDS treatment (AIDSinfo) Summary of the effect on breastfeeding (LactMed) http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/drugportal.jsp

Drug Information Portal - U.S. National Library of Medicine - Quick Access to Quality Drug Information

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/timeline30-years-liberating-literature

Timeline: 30 Years of Liberating Literature

Since 1982, Banned Books Week has rallied librarians, booksellers, authors, publishers, teachers, and readers of all types to celebrate and defend the freedom to read. As we commemorate 30 years of Banned Books Week and enter our 31st year of protecting readers' rights, ALA is pleased to unveil this timeline of significant banned and challenged books. Timeline powered by Tiki-Toki

The Best 100 Closing Lines From Books

"Yes, they will trample me underfoot, the numbers marching one two three, four hundred million five hundred six, reducing me to specks of voiceless dust, just as, in all good time, they will trample my son who is not my son, and his son who will not be his, and his who will not be his, until the thousand and first generation, until a thousand and one midnights have bestowed their terrible gifts and a thousand and one children have died, because it is the privilege and the curse of midnight’s children to be both masters and victims of their times, to forsake privacy and be sucked into the annihilating whirlpool of the multitudes, and to be unable to live or die in peace." Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie <p style="text-align:right;color:#A8A8A8"></p>
“ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Miserables on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Pierce & Pierce and twenty-six doesn't seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, ‘Be My Baby’ on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so.”

The Best 100 Opening Lines From Books

Great Websites To Develop Students Vocabulary

Technology has made it dead easy to learn a foreign language. I can still remember all the difficulties and hardships I went through when I was learning French and German and now that I see all that technology offers to students to learn a new language I just wish I had them back then it would have been not only way easier but more fun too.