• Space Sciences
  Resources and tools from our Science Center.
• Millenium Series: The Great Explorers!
  This week, Education World presents the second in our year-long Millennium Series. Last month we explored the Middle Ages; this month we turn our sites to the great explorers of the millennium. In the stories listed below you'll find resources and activities for exploring the great explorers -- from Leif Eriksson to Neil Armstrong!
• The Space Place
  This site is filled with projects and activities related to current space missions and information.
• NASA Home Page
  Information on earth science, space science and space technology.

John Huston, film director (The African Queen), born (1906)

Guy de Maupassant, French author, born (1850)

Conrad Aiken, American writer, born (1899)

• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
  Resources and tools from our Language & Literature Center.

Richard Burton, British stage and screen actor, died of a stroke at the age of 58 (1984)

Marilyn Monroe, movie star, died at 36 (1962)

Tthe United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty in Moscow banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, space and underwater. (1963)

First English Colony in North America founded at Newfoundland (1583)

Statue of Liberty cornerstone laid (1884)

• Statue Of Liberty

1st transatlantic telegraph cable between U.S. and Britain completed by Cyrus W. Field (1858)

U.S. levied it's first Income Tax to help finance the Union war effort (1861)

• Civil War Lesson Plans and Activities
  

Spectrum of a comet observed for 1st time by Giovanni Donati (1864)

• Meteor Showers
  Education World recommends some of the best web sites on meteors, comets, and amateur astronomy.