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Time 100: Rosa Parks
Time Magazine names Rosa Parks as one of the "Heroes and Icons" of the twentieth century.The story told here about her historic Montgomery bus ride reveals a bit of behind-the-scenespolitics that is rarely told. Parks was not the first Montgomery black to be arrested for refusing tocede a bus seat to a white rider; she was the third. It was Parks’ beyond-reproach standing in thecommunity (she was married and employed) and her political savvy (she was involved with thelocal N.A.A.C.P.) that made her case the perfect one to test the legality of Montgomery’s bussegregation.
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TIME Magazine: Commemorative Issue: Ronald Reagan
"Although the articles that appeared in the June 14, 2004 commemorative issue of TIME Magazine are now archived for paying subscribers only, the three photo essays are open to all. "Reagan Remembered" presents his life in ten slides. "Making the Gipper" summarizes Reagan’s Hollywood career with six promo shots from the studios. "A Man for His Times" presents highlights from his White House years in just five photos. For magazine subscribers who misplaced their print issue, the archive is excellent and worth visiting."
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TIME 100: Heroes & Icons--Charles Lindbergh
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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TIME 100: Heroes & Icons - Helen Keller
"TIME features Helen Keller as of the one hundred most influential people of the twentieth century. She is categorized as a Hero and Icon, one of just twenty who exemplify ""courage, selflessness, exuberance, superhuman ability and amazing grace."" Penned by blind jazz singer Diane Schuur, this bio stresses Keller’s achievements after the death of her teacher and friend Anne Sullivan. ""She was our first star,"" writes Schuur. ""And I am very grateful to her."""
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Time Travel: Think like Einstein
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government
""I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." This collection contains over 2,100 quotations from Jefferson’s writings. It is easily navigated from the Table of Contents, or by the Infoseek search function located below the Table of Contents. Note that the spelling and punctuation of these quotations has been modernized. In Jefferson’s time commas were used much more liberally, a practice distracting to the modern reader."
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Thomas Jefferson Online
""Our plan was that we were going to make Jefferson human, that this film was going to getpast the icon and bring the man alive." This site documents the making of Ken Burns’ 1996 PBS film "Thomas Jefferson." Included are discussions of the relevance of Jefferson’s legacy, and a photo gallery exploring the meaning of the much-quoted phrase "the pursuit of happiness." What does "the pursuit of happiness" mean to you? View the photos of three award-winning photographers, as well as those of the student winners of the Pursuit of Happiness Photo Contest."
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The Wright Brothers
Reviewed March 26, 2002 by Kathleen Casterline, a teacher from Farmington Hills, MI, who is not affiliated with the site. This is an excellent, "kid appropriate" site on the Wright Brothers. You can read about their childhood, their cycle shop and their first flight. You might also want to check on a chronological listing of the important dates in their personal history as well as our American history.
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The Works of Thomas Jefferson
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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The Way to Wealth
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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