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The Breathing Earth. One year of seasonal transformations on Earth Graphic source: http://earthsky.org/tonight/years-shortest-season-starts-with-december-solstice Created by John Nelson using images from the NASA Visual Earth team. 21st Century North American Eclipses Map Graphic: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16179716/total-solar-eclipses-future-unites-states-2024 Graphic source: http://earthsky.org/tonight/total-solar-eclipse-on-august-21 See the tiny black dot crossing the United States in this this animation of the August 21 solar eclipse? It’s only here that you can see a total eclipse of the sun. But everyplace within the much larger gray circle will see a partial eclipse Graphic source: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40902774 Graphic source: https://www.space.com/37808-cassini-saturn-probe-one-month-mission-end.html The 7 Biggest Mysteries of the Human Body 7/2012 7 Bizarre Ancient Cultures That History Forgot 7/2016 7 truths about the mind you missed in psychology class Thenextweb.com Top 10 cool things about stars 5/2016 Top 10 Inventions that Changed the World 3/2016 10 Mysterious Deaths and Disappearances That Still Puzzle Historians 7/2016 10 Things You Didn't Know About Black Holes 11 images that capture the incredible vastness of space Vox.com 4/2015 14 Strangest Sights on Google Earth 2/2016 15 Things We’ve Learned About the Universe From the Hubble Space Telescope 12/2015 25 Most Mysterious Archaeological Finds on Earth 10/2016 25 Surprising Facts About the World, Courtesy of Ken Jennings 40 Words For Emotions You’ve Felt, But Couldn’t Explain 50 Interesting Facts About The Earth Livescience.com 2012 50 Soft Skills for Lifelong Happiness and Success 360 Aerial Panorama 89 Of The Creepiest Unsolved Mysteries Of All Time 360 Cities.net The world in virtual reality A genetic atlas of human admixture history Alpha Centauri Gets a New Moniker as 227 Star Names Are Clarified A Nonlinear History of Time Travel - Births, deaths, and other time travel paradoxes 9/2016 Photos: A look at NASA's discovery of Earth 2.0 Technrepublic.com 7/2015 Antarctica Photos Anthropocene Epoch: How Humans' Impact on Earth Will Change Geology Forever Weather.com Anything Astronomical Knolling Is The Prettiest Way To Organize Objects In Space Space.io9.com 2015 America's Most Wanted Criminals USA.gov Are you a rebel or a yankee? Astronomy Picture of the Day Calendar NASA.gov Aurora Borealis: What Causes the Northern Lights & Where to See Them 2/2015 A Walk Through Time NIST.gov A Word A Day Links Page Dictionaries, words-related resources A Year in Space: 30 pictures of Earth taken from the International Space Station in 2011 Baby Names Most popular by year, decade, etc. SSA.gov Baby Names - Name Voyager Check out when your name was popular - cool! Barnacle gosling’s terrifying cliff tumble BBC.com Behind the Name Beloit College Mindset List From 2002 to Present Big Five mass extinction events Biocompare's Funny Science Videos Bioterrorism - Public Health Links Brain's 'Cheat Sheet' Makes Moral Decisions Easier Livescience.com 1/25/2012 Brain Confidence: How Our Neurons Make Decisions bigthink.com Brain Gym Cognitive tests from Cognitive Labs.com - The coolest tests Bridges PBS.org British History Timelines BBC.com Very cool! BuildtheEnterprise.org Calendars Through the Ages Cassini at Saturn Cassini's First Grand Finale Dive: Milestones 4/2017 Celebrity Birthdays Excite.com Common Mythsconceptions, World's Most Contagious Falsehoods Coolest Archaeological Discoveries of 2014 Livescience.com Cool Sites for Kids Cool Sites A - L Cool Sites M - Z CrimeReports National Crime Map Crosswords Resources Refdesk.com Cultural Institute Dark Matter: The Unseen Universe | Video Livescience.com David Rumsey Map Collection Definitions of Insurance GAO Did you miss yesterday’s total solar eclipse? Here’s your next chance 8/2017 Diseases Medline Plus D-PLACE Database of Places, Language, Culture and Environment Dumb Laws Dumblaws.com Earth as the Big Blue Marble NASA.gov Earthcam.Com Where the world watches the world Earth Pictures: Iconic Images of Earth from Space Livescience.com 3/2015 Eclipse Across America Map NASA.gov Electricity Around the World Encyclopedia of Life EPIC:Earth Earth selfies! Everyday Mysteries: Fun Facts from the Library of Congress LOC.gov Facts Encyclopedia Refdesk.com Facts Subject Index Refdesk.com Everything You Need to Know About the Winter Solstice Nationalgeographic.com Famous Birthdays Famous Hookups.Com Famous People, Famous Regions Famous People the FBI watched Famous People Who Died in 2003 Famous People Who Have Died - Gone but not forgotten Famous Quotes and Quotations Brainyquote.com Federal Court Concepts First Things First Refdesk.Com - news sources,etc to start the day Free Online Annual Reports Free Rice.com Donate rice for every vocabulary word you get right Free stuff on the Net Funny Forms Genealogy References and Searches Geography of Recession NY Times Global Incident Map Thanks, Rose! Global Views of Our Planet, Then and Now NASA.gov Going Bananas: The Real Story of Kepler, Copernicus and the Church 2/2017 Goodbye to Night: 80 Percent of Humanity Lives Under Light Polluted Skies 6/2016 Gravitational Waves vs. Gravity Waves: Know the Difference! 2/2016 Gravitational Waves: What Their Discovery Means for Science and Humanity 2/2016 Greatest Mysteries: How Did Human Culture Evolve? Livescience.com Greatest Mysteries: What Causes Mass Extinctions? Livescience.com Gravitational Waves Detected from Neutron-Star Crashes: The Discovery Explained 10/2017 Great Images in NASA library of images NASA's Visions of the Future Heart Disease Hoaxes How Change of Seasons Affects Animals and Humans 2010 How Earth looks from outer space 9/2017 How Everyday Things Are Made Standford University How much is time wrong around the world? How the Earth Formed Photo Timeline How Stuff Works Human Planet BBC - cool video! Thanks, Rose! HyperHistory Online A timeline of world history Impact Earth! Purdue.edu Impromptu Photo shoots Mug shots of the rich and famous Immediate Memory Challenge InfoPlease "All the knowledge you need" Interesting Fun Facts Internet Sacred Text Archive John Snow - historical giant in Epidemiology Jupiter and Its Moons NYTimes Leonardo Da Vinci's 10 Best Ideas Livescience.com Life's Extremes: Left- vs. Right-Handed Livescience.com 11/2011

Topics M to Z

Graphic source: http://www.space.com/36697-pluto-orbiter-mission-after-new-horizons.html Graphic source: http://www.space.com/36604-cassini-spacecraft-first-grand-finale-dive-saturn.html Graphic source: http://earthsky.org/earth/scientists-find-jet-stream-in-earths-core Graphic source: http://www.space.com/34710-how-to-photograph-the-supermoon-nasa-pro-shares-his-tips.html Graphic source: http://earthsky.org/earth/lifeform-of-the-week-rats Manners (Now you have no excuse...:)) Emily Post Matter: Definition & the Five States of Matter 4/2016 Mcsweeney's Internet Tendency Humor Mercury was a total mystery for centuries. We're finally learning its secrets. Vox.com 5/2016 Meteoritesize All the meteors that have ever hit earth MST - The Morals Sense Test Names.org Naming Stars NASA Image and Video Library NASA releases new video showing the globe age one year 7/2016 National Atlas of the United States National UFO Reporting Center Newseum.org Today's Front Pages New York City Municipal Archives Gallery NYC.gov New York Public Library Digital Collection New Year Countdown Around the World New York Public Library Digital Library New York's Times Square Odd Ways the Mind Warps Time livescience.com On This Day In History Do a search; Dmarie.Com Openculture.com Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena Michael Bach Optical Illusions: A Gallery of Visual Tricks Livescience.com 2015 This is your brain on art WP.com This square isn’t actually rotating. Here’s why. 7/2016 Patent Search Personality - Myers-Briggs Photos of Siberia's Mysterious Craters Livescience.com Pi, Anyone? The Secret to Memorizing Tens of Thousands of Digits Livescience.com 3/2015 Pixcetera.com Stunning photos of everything Places Teach! National Park Service Planet Classification: How to Group Exoplanets 5/2017 Plate tectonics: the hidden key to life on Earth 12/2017 PONG Story Pop Cultural Charts Popular Baby Names Social Security Administration Popular Mechanics - Knowing Your Stuff Portals to the World from the Library of Congress Quick FactsRefdesk.Com Reframing the Mind Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences Rhetological Fallacies Rulesofthumb.org All of them in one place Scale of the Universe Thanks, Lara Scale of the Universe 2 Scale of Things Size of the Milky Way Upgraded, Solving Galaxy Puzzle Space.com Solar System Planets: Order of the 8 (or 9) Planetsk The Science of Persuasion [Infographic] Hubspot.com These 26 Pictures Will Make You Re-Evaluate Your Entire Existence Neekly.com Search Engines Resources Refdesk.Com Science.Gov Science Stuff Search Engines Index Page Seven amazing domino creations Sixth Mass Extinction In Earth's History Underway; Scientists Say Humans To Blame Weather.com 2015 7 Wonders of the World Space-related Infographics Space.com Space Stuff Search Systems Public Records by State Secret Life of the Brain PBS.Org 6 Not-So-Secret Secret Societies Mental Floss Blog Skeptic's Dictionary Alphabetical Index: Abracadabra to Zombis Skeptic's Dictionary Topical index: logic & perception Skyscraper.com Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Panoramic Virtual Tour Snow Flakes and Snow Crystals Photographs Caltech.edu Spooky! The Top 10 Unexplained Phenomena 2007 Spring starts Sunday — 5 myths about the equinox, debunked Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Stanford.edu State & Local Government on the Net State of the Climate NOAA.gov Storm Predictor Center NOAA.gov Storm Reports NOAA.gov Storm tracker: Sites for following hurricanes Cnet.com Temperament - Keirsey TerraflyBird's eye views of any location.... The Day the Sky Goes Dark: August 21, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse The big five mass extinctions Carbon calculations say sixth mass extinction looms The Hunt for the Very First Stars Is Taking Us Back to the Moon 4/2017 Graphic source: http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a25858/first-stars-dare-telescope-moon-nasa/ The Tangled History of Big Bang Science 2/2017 The Mirror Effect How the rise of mirrors in the fifteenth century shaped our idea of the individual 11/2016 Titan: Facts About Saturn's Largest Moon 6/2016 Source: https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/cassini-s-final-saturn-plunge-approaches Graphic source: https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/cassini-s-final-saturn-plunge-approaches Graphic source: http://www.livescience.com/53260-entire-universe-squeezed-into-one-image.html Graphic source: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110614.html Graphic source: http://earthsky.org/space/what-would-happen-if-sun-disappeared-infographic

The Mindset List What do young people today reference? The Nostalgia Pendulum: A Rolling 30-Year Cycle of Pop Culture Trends 2/2017 The Psychology of Collecting 4/2016 There Are Only Four Types of City in the World, Says Math Motherboard.com The Virtual Body View parts of the human body The Word Brain Learning languages This is every active satellite orbiting earth Qz.com This is the most detailed map yet of our place in the universe Vox.com 2014 Timeanddate.com The World Fact Book CIA.gov Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time 20 All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture EW.com 20 All-Time Vilest Villains in Pop Culture EW.com Tracking Financial Crisis Cases NY Times Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive You can always sound like a geek University - Find it Useful Sites for Day-to-Day Living Universcale Nikon. Visit the world of perspective. Very cool U.S. Copyright Office Useful Sites for Day-to-Day Activities Virtual Gumshoe.ComResources to conduct investigations Value of Volunteer Time War & Peace Library of Congress We Come From the Future io9.com Weird Body Quirks: From Brain Freeze to Hiccupping WebMD Welcome to the Anthropocene: Five Signs Earth Is in a Man-Made Epoch 1/2016 What Are Gamma-Rays? Livescience.com 3/2015 What Death Row Inmates Say in Their Last Words 3/2016 What Happened in my Birth Year What is an exoplanet? 4/2018 What is a Scientific Theory? Livescience.com 3/2015 What is Culture? | Definition of Culture Livescience.com What is Dark Matter? 5/2013 What is Daylight Savings Time, how it came to be, and why we should probably get rid of it 3/2018 What Is Visible Light? Livescience.com 4/2015 What's That Noise? 11 Strange and Mysterious Sounds on Earth & Beyond What to look for in a total solar eclipse What we know about Jupiter 7/2016 Where's the Proof in Science? There Is None Livescience.com 4/2015 Why bad ideas refuse to die 6/2016 Why Is the Heart Emoji so Anatomically Incorrect? Priceonomics.com ' Why It's Impossible to Know a Coastline's True Length 10/2016 Why Scientific American's Predictions from 10 Years Ago Were So Wrong 5/2015 Who2.com Celebrity facts Who's Alive and Who's Dead WorldWide Telescope Time Graphic source: http://earthsky.org/earth/twilight-2 5 myths about daylight saving time Washingtonpost.com Day and night exactly equal at equinoxes? 9/2016 Day length, sunrise and sunset calculator Daylight Saving Time Spring 2015: Why Arizona doesn't observe Daylight Saving Abc15.com Daylight Saving Time 2015: All the Memes You Need to See Heavy.com Daylight saving time rules, exceptions and legislation NIST.gov Daylight saving time: 8 things to know Chicagotribune.com 2015 Daylight Hours Explorer Daylight Time NAVY.mil Duration of Daylight/Darkness Table for One Year Navy.mil Every Time Zone Leap Year Rules WWU.edu Spring Forward: Daylight Saving Time Returning To Most Of U.S. Nola.com Summer solstice 2016: Everything you need to know about the longest day of the year 6/2016 Summer solstice 2016: When is the longest day of the year and why is it significant? 6/2016 Sunrise and Sunset for a Location Sun or Moon Rise/Set Table for One Year US Navy Sunrise, Sunset Calendars and Local Time Sunrisesunset.com Sunrise, Sunset Set up your own calendar Sunsrisesunset.com Sunrise/Sunset Calculator NOAA.gov Sunrise, sunset, daylight in a graph The backwards brain? How brain maps develop to help us perceive the world Sciencedaily.com 11/2014 The case against time zones: They're impractical & outdated Vox.com The leap second: Because our clocks are more accurate than the Earth 4/2016 There’s no proof daylight saving time saves electricity, so why do we even bother? 2015 What exactly is twilight? 7/2016 What Time is it? Worldtimeengine.com Know it this red hot minute Why Some People May Be Harder Hit by Daylight Saving Time Livescience.com 3/2015 Why Spring Gets About 30 Seconds Shorter Every Year Discovery.com Year’s fastest sunsets around equinoxes 9/2016 Weather 2014 Was the Warmest Year in the Modern Record NASA.gov Every State, Ranked by How Miserable Its Winters Are Explainer: How do scientists measure global temperature? Carbonbrief.org Four keys to understanding moon phases 11/2016 Hurricane Tracker Weather.com International Weather Conditions NOAA.gov It's official: 2014 was the hottest year ever recorded Vox.com 2015 NASA GIFS Page NASA National Technology Transfer Program - NASA Technologies Database National Hurricane Center - Names Naval Oceanography Portal Regional El Niño Impacts and Outlooks Assessments NOAA.gov Snowflakes Not So Perfect, High Speed Camera Reveals Livescience.com 2015 State of the Climate NOAA/NASA The mysterious (and cool) science of icicles Ventusky.com Real-time Weather Tracking Weather Pages Weatherspark.com The Typical Weather Anywhere on Earth Why We Don’t Know If It Will Be Sunny Next Month But We Know It’ll Be Hot All Year 9/2016 Wind Map of the US - in real time World Heritage List UNESCO Wunderground.Com Everything about Weather Graphic source: http://www.space.com/35080-total-solar-eclipse-2017-path-maps.html

Graphic source: http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/10/13899124/nasa-giphy-account-reaction-gifs-every-feeling-emotion
Map source: http://earthsky.org/earth/solstice-tale-of-two-cities
A Lunar Transit 7/16/2015 Graphic source: https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/23/nasa-releases-new-video-showing-the-globe-age-one-year/	Graphic source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/science/what-a-total-solar-eclipse-looks-like-from-space.html A Lunar Transit 7/4/2016 Graphic source: https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/23/nasa-releases-new-video-showing-the-globe-age-one-year/

Graphic source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/04/08/the-melting-of-greenland-and-antarctica-isnt-just-raising-seas-its-changing-the-earths-rotation/

Geological Time Scale (including eras, periods and epochs) (USGS)

Graphic source: http://www.weather.com/science/news/new-anthropocene-epoch-humans-impact-earth-geology

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History: American

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50 Strange But True Facts About the U.S. 10/2017 Americans Name the 10 Most Significant Historic Events of Their Lifetimes 12/2016 PEW 9/11 Remembered in Space Photos U.S. History and Historical Documents USA.gov 20 Startling Facts about American Society and Culture Livescience.com 7/2015 70 maps that explain America Vox.com Very good! The real state of the union, in 33 maps and charts Vox.com A Brief History of Productivity: How Getting Stuff Done Became an Industry 1/2017 American Culture: Traditions and Customs of the United States Livescience.com A more tolerant America? Sciencedaily.com 3/2015 Brainy History A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers American Indians and the Pacific Northwest Univeristy of Washington American Journeys Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916 A Life Apart: Hasidism in America American History USA.gov America on the Move History of Transportation A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans & the U.S. Constitution American Presidents Atlantic World: America & the Netherlands Census Gov Chaco National Historical Site Chronicling America - Historic American Newspapers LOC.gov Civil War @ Smithsonian Colonial America Smithsonian Do You Speak American? PBS FBI Records: The Vault Fold3.com Original historical documents online From the Home Front and the Front Lines Flying Saucers to Mind Control: 22 Declassified Military & CIA Secrets 1/2017 George Washington: A National Treasure Hayman's History Blog Hotchkiss Map Collection Korea: The Unfinished War Lewis & Clark Mapping the West Library of Congress Exhibitions

Graphic source: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/how-big-data-broke-american-politics-n732901?cid=eml_nbn_20170314 Map source: http://www.vox.com/2015/2/23/8090157/native-american-theft Every US River Visualized Map source:http://www.livescience.com/56751-visualization-of-united-states-rivers.html Map source: http://www.vox.com/2015/2/17/7917165/maps-that-explain-america The political division of North America since 1750 Murder at Harvard National Museum of the American Indian National Archives Experience Papers of John Jay Presidents of the United States White House.gov Reconstruction: The Second Civil War Remembering the Apollo 1 Fire (Infographic) 1/2017 Remembering Jim Crow Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis & Clark and the Revealing of America Taking the Long View - Panoramic Photographs 1851-1991 The Fight The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 The Other Hawaii The Price of Freedom: Americans at War The Siege and Battle of Corinth: A New Kind of War The Wright Brothers Using millions of online photos cobbled together, we can now watch history unfold Qz.com Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories We Didn't Start the Fire Billy Joel's song set to pictures. Thanks, Rose! Why the U.S. Economy Is Not Depression-Proof Mark Skousen Wikipedia's List of common misconceptions Has references With an Even Hand: Brown v. Board at Fifty Witness and Response: September 11 Working in Patterson World War II Military Situation Maps Year by Year: 1900 - 2008 Infoplease.com

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History: International

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• 10 Epic Battles that Changed History Livescience.com
• 10 Mysterious Deaths and Disappearances That Still Puzzle Historians 7/2016
• A Brief History of Trial by Combat 7/2016
• AILLA A digital archive of recordings and texts in and about the indigenous languages of Latin America.
• Churchill & the Great Republic
• Eyewitnesstohistory.com
• Family Ties: 8 Truly Dysfunctional Royal Families Livescience.com
• Galileo's Battle for the Heavens
• Hacking the Nazis: The secret story of the women who broke Hitler's codes Techrepublic.com
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• National Women's Hall of Fame
• Reflections - Russian Photographs 1992-2002 National Library of Congress
• The Enigma
• The History of Lorem Ipsum Priceonomics.com
• 38 maps that explain Europe Vox.com
• Timelines of British History
• Timelines of History
• Topozone.Com
• Rio 2016 visualized: The Olympics in charts and graphics 8/2016
• We Didn't Start the Fire Billy Joel
• World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings

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