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SITE OF THE DAY ARCHIVE
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it."
- Samuel Johnson
NOVEMBER 2006
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11/1/06
Get Home Values & See Comparable Home Valuations
Find your home value on this site by Yahoo Real Estate. Get free instant home values and see comparable home valuations for millions of houses. No personal information is required and no one will contact you.
11/2/06
Guide Star
Interested in learning how to access, give to, or help out a charity or non-profit organization? This site is a complete guide to helping you sort out, find, and learn everything you need to know in order to best give back to your community and to make a difference in the world.
11/3/06
Monterey Bay Aquarium
The mission of this award-winning web site is to inspire, enrich and extend a visit to the aquarium, while fostering a deeper commitment and connection to the institution and ocean conservation.
11/4/06
FDA Centennial: 1906-2006
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2006. In addition to a nation-wide program of commemorative events being held throughout the year, FDA has launched a special Web page at http://www.fda.gov/centennial. The January-February 2006 issue of FDA's bimonthly publication, FDA Consumer, traces the agency's history from the passage of pure food and drug laws at the turn of the last century to the challenges posed today by cutting-edge sciences such as genomic and proteomics, and new initiatives like 'personalized medicine'.
11/5/06
National Geographic Adventure Magazine
Travel that will set your heart pounding, open your eyes, and force you to look again at what surrounds you. Because, in the end, a trip of a lifetime isn't about thread counts, umbrella cocktails, or bragging rights. It's about discovering that there's more to the world - and yourself - than you knew.
11/6/06
Election and Voting Resources
This site by the Internet Public Library provides election and voting resources for the General Election on November 7, 2006.
11/7/06
Election and Voting Resources
This site by the Internet Public Library provides election and voting resources for the General Election on November 7, 2006.
11/8/06
America's Most Generous Donors: How the Wealthy Give
America's most-generous donors contributed a total of $4.3-billion to charity last year, a sharp drop from 2004, when the top donors gave more than $10-billion, a new Chronicle survey has found. For the first time since 1998, no gifts of $1-billion or more were donated to charitable causes. The median amount the donors on the list gave in 2005, including pledges, was $32.5-million, meaning that half gave more and half gave less.
11/9/06
Exercise Library
The American Council on Exercise is a nonprofit organization committed to enriching quality of life through safe and effective physical activity. As America's Authority on Fitness, ACE protects all segments of society against ineffective fitness products, programs and trends through its ongoing public education, outreach and research. This site offers a free exercise library emphasizing proper form in basic to advanced workouts.
11/10/06
Children's Nutrition Research Center
Official website for the federally funded Children's Nutrition Research Center, which conducts research on the role of maternal, infant and child nutrition in optimal health, development, and growth.
11/11/06
Official Veterans Day Web Site
Armistice Day officially became a holiday in the United States in 1926, and a national holiday 12 years later. On June 1, 1954, the name was changed to Veterans Day to honor all U.S. veterans. In 1968, new legislation changed the national commemoration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. It soon became apparent, however, that November 11 was a date of historic significance to many Americans. Therefore, in 1978 Congress returned the observance to its traditional date. Related sites: InfoPlease: Veterans Day / Library of Congress: Veterans History Project / Moving Tributes.
11/12/06
America's Most Generous Donors: How the Wealthy Give
America's most-generous donors contributed a total of $4.3-billion to charity last year, a sharp drop from 2004, when the top donors gave more than $10-billion, a new Chronicle survey has found. For the first time since 1998, no gifts of $1-billion or more were donated to charitable causes. The median amount the donors on the list gave in 2005, including pledges, was $32.5-million, meaning that half gave more and half gave less.
11/13/06
The National Science Digital Library
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) was created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. NSDL is the Nation's free online library for education and research in: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
11/14/06
Audubon's Birds of America
Audubon would like to thank Richard Buonanno for compiling the content for this online version of John James Audubon's Birds of America, now available for display on Audubon.org. It is from an 1840 'First Octavo Edition' of Audubon's complete seven volume text, and presents Audubon's images and original text descriptions. Bird species can be found listed alphabetically, or categorized by family. Audubon's drawings of some species' anatomical features are also included in the 'Figures' section. The list of species that have gone extinct since Audubon's time was provided by Mr. Buonanno, as was the list of State Birds.
11/15/06
Exploring Space: The Quest for Life
Our galaxy alone contains hundreds of billions of stars, giving scientists a vast cosmic frontier to search. Could alien life be looking up at its own sky and asking, 'Is there life out there?' Learn from this PBS site about the amazing quest for life that begins on Earth and extends into the heavens above.
11/16/06
Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)
The OWL at Purdue offers online writing, research, and MLA and APA style help to the world. Now celebrating more than ten years of operation, the OWL at Purdue receives over 50,000,000 visits per year, with usage increasing steadily each month.
11/17/06
The Columbia World of Quotations
The 65,000 essential quotations by 5,000 authors that constitute this authoritative collection represent the research of 154 experts and are divided into 6,500 subjects.
11/18/06
AskOxford.com
Searchable online version of the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, as well as thesauri, quotations, foreign language dictionaries, a word of the day, and games.
11/19/06
Seven Wonders of the Modern World
As a tribute to modern society's ability to achieve the unachievable, reach unreachable heights, and scorn the notion of 'it can't be done,' in 1994 American Society of Civil Engineers sought nominations from across the globe for the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The chosen projects pay tribute to the greatest civil engineering achievements of the 20th century. Related sites: Seven Wonders of the Ancient World / Seven Wonders of the World.
11/20/06
American Rhetoric
Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.
11/21/06
Library of Congress: Panoramic Photographs
The Panoramic Photograph Collection contains approximately four thousand images featuring American cityscapes, landscapes, and group portraits. These panoramas offer an overview of the nation, its enterprises and its interests, with a focus on the start of the twentieth century when the panoramic photo format was at the height of its popularity. Subject strengths include: agricultural life; beauty contests; disasters; engineering work such as bridges, canals and dams; fairs and expositions; military and naval activities, especially during World War I; the oil industry; schools and college campuses, sports, and transportation. The images date from 1851 to 1991 and depict scenes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia.
11/22/06
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works, the use of the primary source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out their civic responsibilities. And, just as GPO Access provides locator services to U.S. Government sites, Ben's Guide provides a similar service to U.S. Government Web sites developed for kids.
11/23/06
How Thanksgiving Works
Thanksgiving stands out in the holiday season because it is open to just about everybody. It isn't tied to any specific religion, and you can pretty much celebrate it however you want. The only essential traditions are to enjoy a meal with friends or family and to give thanks for what you have. Have you ever wondered where the particulars of this story and the other details of Thanksgiving actually come from? In this HowStuffWorks article, you'll learn the origins of the many things associated with Thanksgiving Day. Related site: Epicurious.com: Thanksgiving Recipes and Cooking Tips.
11/24/06
Congress Votes Database
Every vote in the U.S. Congress since 1991 has been gathered at this site by the Washington Post. Check out the outcomes of the latest bills, see how senators and House members vote, and sign up for RSS notification on individual members of Congress.
11/25/06
PBS: The Forgetting, A Portrait of Alzheimer's
Created by PBS, this unique "Living Center" hopes to clear up the cobwebs of misinformation on Alzheimer's disease and offer hands-on tools for patients, families, and their caregivers. Do you suspect someone you love may have the disease? A simple clock test is one way to pinpoint possible Alzheimer's. While no cure currently exists, the causes of the disease correlate strongly with old age.
11/26/06
TerraFly
TerraFly changes the way you view your world. Simply enter an address, and our system will put you at the controls of a bird's view aerial imagery to explore your digital earth. Related site: Reference Desk: Maps.
11/27/06
NPR: Driveway Moments
You're driving along, listening to a story on NPR. Suddenly, you find yourself at your destination, so riveted to a piece that you sit in your idling car to hear it all the way through. That's a Driveway Moment.
11/28/06
Library of Congress: Portals to the World
This Library of Congress site provides one-stop shopping for your international information needs. Curious about Croatia? Portals to the World links to everything from embassies to travel tips. Want some background on world events? The site offers directories for Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as other countries in the news today.
11/29/06
Information Please
Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938 - first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the Internet at www.infoplease.com. Many things have changed since 1938, but not our dedication to providing reliable information, in a way that engages and entertains.
11/30/06
WebMD Medical Symptom Checker
Need information as you determine what to do about your symptoms? Get help figuring them out by answering a series of questions. To get started, click on male or female, regardless of age, then the part of the body that is troubling you.
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