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    D E C E M B E R     8th    
December 2000
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December 03 - December 09, 2000
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December 17 - December 23, 2000
December 24 - December 30, 2000
December 31 - January 06, 2000

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Holidays Around the World: A Festival of Lessons!
’Tis the season! This week, Education World offers ten lessons about December celebrations, observances, and activities from several cultures. Included: A Hanukkah game, a Kwanzaa recipe, and an activity that involves students in diagramming similarities and differences in holiday celebrations!

December Holidays
Join Education World as we celebrate the holiday season. We have articles, lesson ideas, site reviews, books, crafts, clipart and much more -- all to help you meet all your holiday needs!

Great Sites for Teaching about Multicultural Holidays
Teaching about multicultural holidays? Look here for the best of the Web!

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EVENTS

Eli Whitney, American inventor of the cotton gin, born (1765)

Jean Sibelius, composer (Finlandia), born (1865)

James Thurber, American humorist writer (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), born (1894)

Sammy Davis Jr, American multi-talented entertainer, born (1925)

United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)

American Federation of Labor was founded at a convention of union leaders in Columbus, Ohio. (1886)

James Hoban, architect who designed the White House, died (1831)

Golda Meir, Israel's Prime Minister (1969-74), died in Jerusalem at 80 (1978)

John Lennon fatally shot in New York City by Mark David Chapman (1980)

Construction started on Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco (1913)

NAACP filed suit to equalize the salaries of black & white teachers (1936)

US & USSR signed treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space (1966)

President Clinton signed into U.S. law the North American Free Trade Agreement (1993)



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