• Great Sites for Teaching About…Explorers
  Best sites on the web for teaching about exlorers
• Explore the Explorers Online!
  Columbus and the other early explorers provide your students with the opportunity to explore new worlds -- as well as worlds of knowledge and discovery! This week, Education World delivers a shipload of sites and activities guaranteed to keep your lessons afloat -- and your curriculum current.

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th U.S. President 1901-09, born (1858)

• Great Sites for Teaching About…Presidents of the United States
  Best sites on the web for teaching about the presidents.
• U.S. Presidents on the Internet!
  

First rapid transit subway opened in New York City (1904)

Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Begin of Israel were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize (1978)

Niccolo Paganini, Italian composer and violin virtuoso who revolutionized violin technique, born (1782)

• Energy In The Air: Sounds From The Orchestra

Sylvia Plath, American poet (3 Women, Bell Jar), born (1932)

• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
  Resources and tools from our Language & Literature Center

Issac Merrit Singer invented first practical home sewing machine (1811)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...Inventors and Inventions

Emily Post, author on social behavior (Etiquette), born (1872)

Roy Lichtenstein, American Pop art painter, born (1923)

Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet (A Child's Christmas in Wales, Under Milkwood), born (1914)

• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
  Resources and tools from our Language & Literature Center

Ralph Nader set up a consumer organization which became known as “ Nader's Raiders” (1969)