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The Archaeology of Costa Rica
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- In spite of its small size, Costa Rica can be divided into three general zones whose cultures produced artifacts of distinctly different styles, especially after c. 500 A.D. Natural boundaries, like the Cordillera Central and the Talamanca mountain range,...
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UNIMA - USA, Inc.
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- UNIMA-USA is the American Chapter of UNIMA, Union Internationale de la Marionette, the world's oldest theatre organization. It is dedicated to the art of puppetry.
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Let's Learn About Cranes!
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- read all about the behavior and lifestyle of this large bird. Cranes are large, beautiful, graceful, long-lived birds which have inspired awe among people for millennia. For many cultures, particularly in the Orient, cranes have a deep cultural and mythol...
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The Mariners' Museum - Newport News, Virginia
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- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Perhaps the most famous explorer was Christopher Columbus. Born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451 to a weaver, young Columbus first went to sea at the age of fourteen. As a young man, he settled in Portugal and married a woman of noble backgr...
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Show #2621 Feature: Into Africa
- WHAT'S IN THE NEWS is an award-winning multi-media instructional series that uses current events as a springboard for exploring history, geography, government, world cultures, science, language arts, and all other areas of the curriculum. Utilized in 4th-...
Source/Host: Penn State University | Reviewer: K. Just |
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Castor Castor Canadensis - The Canadian Beaver
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- The beaver is the largest rodent in North America and second only to the Capybara in the American continents. Beavers are relatively short and squat, with are large rump. Each foot has five toes, with the hind feet being webbed to help the beaver swim. T...
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Plate Tectonics, the Cause of Earthquakes
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- The plates consist of an outer layer of the Earth, the lithosphere, which is cool enough to behave as a more or less rigid shell. Occasionally the hot asthenosphere of the Earth finds a weak place in the lithosphere to rise buoyantly as a plume, or hotsp...
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National Parks Worldwide - Directory by continents/countries
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- A directory of Web sites for National Parks around the world. The listings are organized by continent in additional to a set of world wide listings.
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