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Important Dates & Events
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April 1 - April Fool's Day in many countries.
April 2, 1805 - Hans Christian Anderson, Danish fairy-tale writer, born.
April 4, 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, shot dead.
April 7, 1770 - William Wordsworth, English poet, born.
April 9, 1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer, born.
April 12, 1961 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet astronaut, became the first person to orbit the earth.
April 15, 1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, and scientist, born.
April 15, 1883 - Stanley Bruce, Australian statesman, born.
April 15, 1912 - British ocean liner Titanic struck iceberg and sank.
April 19, 1984 - Advance Australia Fair proclaimed Australia's National Anthem.
April 21, 1816 - Charlotte Bronte, English novelist, born.
April 22 - Earth Day celebrated in many countries. (See more under "Scavenger Hunts")
April 22, 1870 - V.I. Lenin, first dictator of the Soviet Union, born. (April 10 on the Russian calendar then in use.)
April 22, 1917 - Sidney Nolan, Australian artist, born.
April 23 - St George's Day
April 23, 1896 - First public showing of a motion picture.
April 23, 1564 - Traditional birth date of William Shakespeare. (See more under "Feature of the Month")
April 24, 1846 - Marcus Clarke, Australian writer, born. (See more under "e-Books")
April 25 - ANZAC Day,
commemorating the Gallipoli landings by Australian and New Zealand
troops during World War I, 1915. (See more under "Hints & Tips")
April 27, 1791 - Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, born.
April 28, 1789 - Mutiny against British naval captain William Bligh on his ship, the Bounty.
April 28, 1795 - Charles Sturt, British explorer of Australia, born. (See more under "Hints & Tips")
April 30, 1975 - Vietnam War ended.
April 30, 1945 - Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
May 1 - May Day (International Labor Day).
May 2, 1729 - Catherine the Great of Russia, born.
May 3, 1841 - New Zealand was proclaimed a separate colony.
May 6, 1840 - First postage stamp issued in England.
May 6, 1937 - Airship Hindenburg blew up and burned.
Who are these people born in April?
Find out by clicking on each image. World Book Student's Biography Centre has more than 10,000 biographies on influential people. You can search by area of work, gender, nationality, and time period.
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What's New?
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» SCIENCE POWER
The popular Graphic Organizers will have a dedicated section on the Science Power home page from early April 2011.
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» The following are among those articles and features recently revised:
New pictures: (34 added recently)
Adobe Photoshop software
Cable-stayed bridge
Cantilever bridge
Concrete arch bridge
Eiffel Tower
George Orwell
Girder bridge
Marshall Nirenberg (biochemist)
Mekong River
Popeye
Prosthetic knee implant
State funeral service of Sir Robert Menzies
Steel arch bridge
Suspension bridge
Tahrir Square
Toyota Prius
Truss Bridge
New articles: (25 added recently)
Bataan Death March
Cake (food)
Consciousness (state of mind)
Cytokine (protein)
Dunkerque, Battle of (World War II battle)
Evolutionary developmental biology
Hoarding (Psychology)
Marne, Battles of the (World War II battles)
Munchausen syndrome (psychological disorder)
National Ignition Facility (nuclear energy experiment)
Paris, Treaties of (international agreements)
Sudan, South (country, Africa)
Tahrir Square (Cairo)
White blood cell (biology)
Wolf spider
Ypres, Battles of (World War I battles)
New dictionary entries: (8 added)
bohrium
copernicium
darmstadtium
dubnium
hassium
meitnerium
roetgenium
seaborgium
Revised articles: (more than 250)
Bulge, Battle of the
Fraser, Dawn
Hypertension
Immune system
Nuclear weapon
Wizard of Oz, The
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FEATURE OF THE MONTH
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Born April 23, 1564
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Many people regard
Shakespeare as the world’s greatest dramatist and the finest poet
England has ever produced.
» SHAKESPEARE RESEARCH GUIDES
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resources in World Book.
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Enter the world of Elizabethan drama with the adaptation Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Hamlet.
These adapted versions are written in such a way that students will
better understand the themes and plot points of the plays.
There are two simplified
versions of the classic tales; Years 4 - 8 and Years 6 - 12.
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World Book
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» SHAKESPEARE
Literary Criticism - View the World Book Advanced database of literary criticism content highlighting more than 20 literary critiques on Shakespeare.
e-Books - View the World Book Advanced database of e-books for more than 60 e-books on Shakespeare.
» MARCUS CLARKE
Read "For the Term of His Natural Life" available through the World Book Advanced e-Book Centre.
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Hints & Tips
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» ANZAC HISTORICAL MAP
View historical map of Gallipoli Peninsula
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"World Book Outlines Why Reference Matters Even More in the Digital Age"
"The entire text of the
World Book Web - some 21 million words - is a part of Watson’s “brain,”
IBM’s® supercomputer... While people’s brains are limited to human
intelligence, not artificial, millions of children and adults have
access to the World Book Web and can share in encyclopedic knowledge."
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