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Beyond 2000
"In your great-grandchildren’s lifetime, dinner might be served by robots, and airplanes might fly without pilots. Who knows? Futurists make educated guesses about the future so companies and government can be can be better prepared. But with technology changing so rapidly, the futurists say it’s hard to imagine more than thirty years out. These predictions, from National Geographic "World" magazine, include video-conferencing wristwatches and driverless voice- recognition taxis."
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Betsy Ross Homepage
"Betsy Ross would often tell her children, grandchildren and friends of the fateful day in May, 1776when a secret committee from the Continental Congress asked her to sew the first flag. Today thehistorical accuracy of her story is debated point-counterpoint on her very own web site. Alsoincluded in this fun site is how to cut a five-pointed star with a single scissor snip, flag trivia, flagetiquette, and the opportunity to contribute your own thoughts about the American flag."
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Betsy Ross Homepage
"Betsy Ross would often tell her children, grandchildren and friends of thefateful day in May, 1776 when a secret committee from the Continental Congressasked her to sew the first flag. Today the historical accuracy of her story isdebated point-counterpoint on her very own web site. Also included in this funsite is how to cut a five-pointed star with a single scissor snip, flag trivia,flag etiquette, and the opportunity to contribute your own thoughts about theAmerican flag."
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Ben & Jerry’s Winter Holidays
"Happy Holidays, Season’s Greetings, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Yuletide Greetings, Happy Winter Solstice, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year, Feliz Navidad, Habari Gani? We wish you a happy holiday season. With a small introduction to Christmas (the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ), Hanukkah (the Jewish festival of religious freedom), Kwanzaa (the African-American heritage holiday) and the Winter Solstice (a pagan and secular event marking the shortest day of the year), the Vermont ice cream brothers bring us holiday games and links."
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Ben & Jerry: Halloween
"To celebrate their ""absolutely most way-favorite time of year,"" Ben & Jerry have created a Halloween playground of games and crafts. Interactive games are found in both obvious places (Halloween Games) and not-so-obvious ones (such as the Interactive Haunted House listed in the Flavor Graveyard.) There’s also a Ben & Jerry Graveyard Screensaver, and a nice collection of printable crafts, mazes, coloring pages and word searches. Check out the print-and-cut skeleton with movable arms and legs that you can put together with brass fasteners."
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BBC Online: American Independence
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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Auld Lang Syne
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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April Fools at Web Holidays
A Surfnetkids Honorable Mention site.
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April Fool’s Day E-Cards
"Hello. We at Blue Mountain Sweepstakes would like to congratulate you on being our million dollar grand prize winner! Although I don’t think they’ll actually fool anyone, these April Fools e-cards are fun and very simple to send. If you haven’t yet familiarized yourself with BlueMountain.com’s huge selection of animated electronic greetings for all occasions (uh oh – I totally missed National Pig Day on March 1), then today is as good a day as any to jump into the electronic greeting card frenzy.<!--"
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April Fish Day
"Until the 16th century, the new year was celebrated at the advent of spring, near April 1st. In 1584, when the Gregorian calendar was introduced, King Charles IX of France ruled that NewYear’s Day be moved to January 1st. Some of Charles’ subjects refused to adopt the new calendar, and continued to observe the new year around April 1st. Naturally, these individuals were the buttof many jokes and taunting, and earned the name Poisson d’Avril"" (April Fish) because at that time of year the sun was in the zodiac sign of Pisces, the fish.""<!--"
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