Collecting Paper Currency for Fun
"Cael Chappell has been collecting banknotes for fifteen years, and has written an excellent introduction to the hobby. His first piece of advice is to collect for fun, not for profit. Second is to choose the type of collection you want. Do you want to specialize in a particular continent or country? Or collect banknotes with specific images such as birds or trains? Many collectors strive for a collection that includes a banknote from every country that produces paper money. Another of Cael’s invaluable pages is Anatomy of a Banknote, which explains the terminology of paper money."
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Clems Homemade Newspaper Kite Plans
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Children’s Diseases Foundation
Reviewed February 2, 2001 by Ramsey Makar, a reader from Fremont, California who is affiliated with the site. Children’s Diseases Foundation designed a web site to allow visitors a free and easy way to make a difference in the lives of sick children around the world. Visiting any of the sponsors on the site generates at least 5 cents. You can visit as many sponsors as you want every day but the foundation will only get paid once per day per sponsor you visit. You do not have to buy anything!
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Cave of Magic
""Pick a card, any card." Even though Simeon performs only one trick, he does it very well and his Cave is my pick of the day. Everyone I showed it to played the trick several times and walked away still thinking about it. How does the computer know your card? Is it the whisper? Is it the location of your mouse? If you do figure it out, remember: a magician never tells."
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Care Girl
"Have you have always wanted to ‘Do Something’ but never knew what to do or how to go about it? Then this is the place for you. Care Girl can help you to turn your ideas into reality. Care Girl features interviews, links to organizations and real-life stories from the trenches: "Nadine had really been looking forward to working with cute little babies, and the idea of spending ten hours with the elderly didn’t exactly thrill her at first." Want to share your volunteer story? Look for the bulletin board link in the middle of the She Cares page."
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Bonus: Do you Know your Leaves?
"Do you know your leaves? Get ready for a botanical mind bender. Plants are everywhere - but how often do you pay attention to a single leaf? Test yourself here, by matching leaves with their plant names. Is it a fir, a birch or a eucalyptus leaf? After trying your hand at this educational eighteen-question quiz, click on over to the rest of Bonus.com’s Garden Playground. To get there, follow the link to ""Explore"" and then choose ""The Earth."""
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Birder.com: Fun and Games
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Bird Watching
"For early readers this kid-sized introduction to bird watching can stand alone. But the rest of us will want to follow the inline hyperlinks for more depth. There you’ll find treasures such as a chart of bird seed preferences, a complete list of field marks used to identify birds, and a multi-page guide to building bird houses. This two-tiered approach makes this site a great place to start your own birding adventures."
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Bird Songs
"Where would we be without the sounds of birds singing? Tony Phillips of State University of New York has recorded more than a hundred bird songs from sixty five different species, and paired them with the beautiful drawings of Chester Reed. This delightful site is simple to navigate, and the sound files (chirp chirp) are worth the small wait."
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Bird FeederCam
"If there aren’t any birds to watch from your own window, visit this feeding station in a backyard in Indianapolis, Indiana. Bird FeederCam sends a new a snapshot to the Net every forty-five seconds from dawn till dusk. Use your browser reload button to refresh your view, or click on the picture to open an auto-updating window. Today I watched and waited patiently without any visitors at first. And then magically, two birds arrived at the feeder. If you run out of patience before your first bird arrives, enjoy the best of past images that include owls, woodpeckers, and hummingbirds."
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