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Heroine Worship: Helen Keller
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Helen Keller Quotes - The Quotations Page
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. This Quotations Page collection includes thirty-eight quotations culled from a variety of online data bases. In addition to the Keller quotes, you’ll find the meta-search tool useful for finding other quotations. Quotations can be found from a partial snippet (use the % as a wild card character) or by author."
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Helen Keller Foundation: Life of Helen Keller
"The Helen Keller Foundation promotes sight, speech and hearing research, carrying on the life’s work of their namesake. The biography here is short, and the best reasons to stop by are the photos of Keller and the many luminaries she visited. These include Alexander Graham Bell, Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplain, Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt and modern dancer Martha Graham."
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Hall of Harry Houdini
"Although interesting, this photo gallery lost a star for its organization as simply a long list of unannotated links. To navigate amongst the twenty-nine photos and posters, use your browser’s back button. For your effort, you’ll be rewarded with Houdini’s handcuffs (he was known as "The World’s Handcuff King"), promotional posters, photos of him and his wife, his famous signature and more."
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Great Women: Rosa Parks
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Girls Guide to Elvis
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Girl Power: Rosa Parks
"This single page Rosa Parks feature is published by Girl Power, a public education campaignof the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help encourage nine- tofourteen-year-old girls to make the most of their lives. Learn how Parks became "Mother of theCivil Rights Movement" and how she is still fighting the good fight against prejudice anddiscrimination. "
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Gettysburg Address
"In 1863, David Wills, a Pennsylvania judge, was given the task of "cleaning up the horrible aftermath of the [Civil War] battle" at Gettysburg. Wills acquired seventeen acres for a national cemetery and three weeks before its dedication, invited President Lincoln to "formally set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks." Lincoln’s brief remarks at the cemetery on November 19, 1863 became one of the most memorable presidential speeches ever given. Can you recite it? "Four score and seven years ago . . .""
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Gale: Susan B. Anthony
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Freedom Heroes
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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