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D E C E M B E R 14th

December 2000
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December 03 - December 09, 2000
December 10 - December 16, 2000
December 17 - December 23, 2000
December 24 - December 30, 2000
December 31 - January 06, 2000

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FEATURED THEME:
December Holidays

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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Patty Duke, American Academy Award-winning actress (The Miracle Worker), born (1946)

George Washington died at Mt. Vernon, Virginia, at 67 (1799)

George Washington Lives!--On the Internet
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Andrei Sakharov, Soviet physicist, dissident & 1975 Nobel peace prize winner, died at 68 in Moscow (1989)

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Information : The Fifty States of the United States
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Teachers Explore Antarctica and the Arctic!
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U.N. General Assembly voted to establish UN Headquarters in New York City (1946)

UN General Assembly established High Commission for Refugees (1950)

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Max Planck presented the quantum theory at the Physics Society in Berlin (1900)