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What's New?
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>> The following are among those articles and features revised over the past month:
New pictures:
Arthur C. Clarke
Geothermal heating in a house
Greek language alphabet
Milford Sound
Romulus and Remus
Sir Henry Parkes
Yukio Hatoyama
New videos:
Camouflaged tiger
Excerpt from Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech
Ian Paisley discusses Protestant strike
Suez Canal crisis
New articles:
Christmas Truce (cease-fires in World War I)
Trench warfare (warfare that uses fortified ditches or trenches)
Zimmermann telegram (intercepted German message)
New maps:
Abel Janszoon Tasman's explorations
Arthur Phillip's explorations
Bass and Flinders's explorations
Bert Hinkler's flights
Charles Sturt's explorations
Dirk Hartog's explorations
Edmund Kennedy's explorations
Edward John Eyre's explorations
Ernest Giles's explorations
First Fleet route
Forrest brothers' explorations
Hamilton Hume's explorations
James Cook's explorations
John McDouall Stuart's explorations
Ludwig Leichhart's explorations
Matthew Flinders's explorations
Robert O'Hara Burke's explorations
Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's explorations
Sir Douglas Mawson's explorations
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell's explorations
Willem Jansz's explorations
William Dampier's explorations
Revised articles:
D-day
Enceladus
Gestapo
Tiger shark
>> Language Translator
We have added 17 additional languages to the translation feature:
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian,
Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Thai, Turkish,
and Urdu.
>> World Newspapers now in World Book Advanced
By popular request, we have added a World Newspapers feature in World Book Advanced. They appear on the homepage, in the Research Tools
section below the "Explore" link. It will show your local newspapers as
a default, but you can choose a location with the dropdown.
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Coming Soon!
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Following on from our November Issue
detailing the January 2010 upload of additional maps, World Book is please to announce the February 2010 upload of additional maps to the World Book Web that cover many topics of interest in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
February 2010 upload:
New Zealand - Population
New Zealand - January Temperature
New Zealand - July Temperature
New Zealand - Precipitation
New Zealand - Economy
March 2010 upload will be detailed in the Back to School 2010 Newsletter.
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Year in Review
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During the past year, World Book editors have added:
> More than 600 new pictures and illustrations
> More than 280 new encyclopedia articles
> More than 3,800 revised articles
> Hundreds of new videos
Further highlights during the past year:
> Harvard Citation builder introduced
> Literary Criticism collection introduced
> Early Peoples Digital Library launched
> Living Green Digital Library launched
> Inventions and Discoveries Digital Library launched
> Public Library Edition launched
> New look Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
> Read-aloud and text translation features included in World Book Kids, World Book Student and World Book Advanced
> "World of Animals" introduced to World Book Kids - School Edition
> Dramatic Learning - World Book Classroom launched
> 17 additional languages to the translation feature
> World Newspapers in World Book Advanced introduced
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Important Dates & Events
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December 1, 1987 - World Health Organisation declares the first World AIDS Day.
December 1, 1942 - Scientists in Chicago achieved the first
controlled atomic chain reaction, leading to the development of nuclear
energy and nuclear weapons.
December 3, 1854 - Eureka Stockade incident, a revolt by gold miners, in Australia.
December 3, 1967 - Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon, performed the first human heart transplant.
December 5, 1901 - Walt Disney, American movie producer, born.
December 7, 1941 - Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in World War II.
December 8, 1934 - First weekly airmail service between England and Australia.
December 8, 1980 - John Lennon shot and killed in New York City.
December 9, 1929 - Robert Hawke, Australian prime minister, born.
December 10, 1919 - Ross and Keith Smith, Australian aviators, completed first flight from United Kingdom to Australia.
December 10 - Human Rights Day
December 10, 1908 - New Zealand born Ernest Rutherford won Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
December 10, 1962 - New Zealand born Maurice Wilkins shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
December 13, 1577 - Sir Francis Drake left England to sail around the world, attacking Spanish possessions.
December 14, 1911 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer, reached the South Pole.
December 16, 1653 - Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector and ruler of England.
December 16, 1689 - English Parliament passed Bill of Rights.
December 16, 1773 - Boston Tea Party
December 16, 1775 - Jane Austen, English novelist, born.
December 17, 1903 - Orville Wright made first heavier-than-air flight, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
December 20, 1894 - Sir Robert Menzies, Australian prime minister, born.
December 25 - Christians celebrate Christmas as the birth of Jesus Christ.
December 25, 1991 - The Soviet Union was dissolved.
December 26 - Boxing Day in various countries.
December 26 - Mao Zedong, Chinese leader, born.
December 30, 1865 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer, born.
January 1 - New Year's Day in many countries.
January 1, 1863 - President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
January 1, 1901 - Commonwealth of Australia was formed.
January 1, 1962 - Western Samoa (now Samoa) became independent.
January 4, 1809 - Louis Braille, French inventor of the alphabet used by the blind, born.
January 5, 1834 - William Wills, explorer of Australia, born.
January 6 - Epiphany (Twelfth Night) celebrated by Christians.
January 10, 1946 - First UN General Assembly met, London.
January 13, 1644 - Abel Tasman, Dutch navigator, began second voyage of exploration in Southern Hemisphere.
January 16, 1547 - Coronation of Russian czar Ivan the Terrible.
January 18, 1882 - A.A. Milne, British author for children, born.
January 18, 1919 - Versailles Peace Conference opened following World War I.
January 26, 1788 - Sydney founded; celebrated as Australia Day.
January 27, 1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer, born.
January 27, 1832 - Lewis Carroll, English author, born.
January 30, 1771 - George Bass, explorer of Australia's coastline, born.
January 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler, named chancellor of Germany.
January 30, 1948 - Mohandas K. Gandhi, spiritual and political leader of India, assassinated.
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