CIA Factbook
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CIA Factbook


One of the best country overviews has long been the CIA factbook which has a map, facts, pictures, etc. for every country in the world.  I hadn't checked it out in a while and can tell you that it is vastly improved and very easy to manipulate.




- Fun Facts About Australia
I found this fun short article at ezinearticles.com. As the site allows for the reproduction of articles by blogs and other websites, I am going to go ahead and reprint it here. The author of the article is Beverly P. Frank. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

- Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas Of The Planet Earth, 73rd Edition
I received a copy of the book Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition. The book is lavishly illustrated and has entries for every country in the world. The United States is given extra coverage with each state getting...

- Victorian Medicine
Victorian Medicine - A comprehensive study by Henry Hattemer of professional and traditional medicinal practices, practitioners, scientific theory, and health trends in England between the years 1830 and 1910. I realize medical science made a huge jump...

- Polleverywhere Adds Picture Components To Questions
Image Support for Multiple Choice Options from Poll Everwhere on Vimeo. I just taught my tech integration class how to use PollEverywhere this past week and along comes their newest innovation which is to add pictures to the questions.  Frank (Panterfan)...

- Facts On King Tut And Movies On Mummies
One of the new things I have learned to do on the cloud is to take screen shots without downloading them.  If you use pixlr.com, you can crop the photos and then save them to Picassa or other places where you might have your pictures.  One...



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