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Home > Learning Calendar > This Day > December 2nd

    D E C E M B E R     2nd    
December 2000
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December 03 - December 09, 2000
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December 17 - December 23, 2000
December 24 - December 30, 2000
December 31 - January 06, 2000

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Holidays Around the World: A Festival of Lessons!
’Tis the season! This week, Education World offers ten lessons about December celebrations, observances, and activities from several cultures. Included: A Hanukkah game, a Kwanzaa recipe, and an activity that involves students in diagramming similarities and differences in holiday celebrations!

December Holidays
Join Education World as we celebrate the holiday season. We have articles, lesson ideas, site reviews, books, crafts, clipart and much more -- all to help you meet all your holiday needs!

Great Sites for Teaching about Multicultural Holidays
Teaching about multicultural holidays? Look here for the best of the Web!

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Georges Seurat, French painter who introduced the neo-impressionist style called pointillism, born (1859)

Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (Zorba, Last Temptation of Christ) born (1885)

Maria Callas, operatic soprano born in New York (1923)

Aaron Copeland composer (Fanfare for the Common Man, Appalachian Spring, Rodeo), died at 90 (1990)

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began operation (1970)

Napoleon was crowned emperor of France (1804)

First permanent artificial Jarvic-7 heart successfully implanted in patient Barney Clark at the University of Utah (1982)

Team of scientists led by Enrico Fermi achieved the first controlled self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago (1942)

US Senate censured Joseph McCarthy (Senator-R-WI) for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute" (1954)

Napoleon Bonaparte defeated a combined Russian and Austrian army at Austerlitz (1805)

First savings bank in US opened in Philadelphia (1816)

President James Monroe declared his "Monroe Doctrine" opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere (1823)

Ford unveiled the Model A automobile as the successor to the Model T (1927)

David Macauly, author and illustrator (The Way Things Work), born (1946)



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