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Libraries are now available. Click on your choice of Digital Library
for further information and to request a free trial.
Each Digital Library includes everything in the print set PLUS:
Search Across Databases
Searches in World Book Student and World Book Advanced will also include Digital Library
results. This is particularly useful if your users do not know which
database is best suited to their query or if they do not want to have
to repeat the same search in different databases.
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What's New |
>> The following are among those articles and features revised over the past month.
New pictures:
Caterpillar feeding
Mastoid
Meiosis
New articles:
Chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD)
New dictionary entries:
clownfish
Maasai
overshare
Revised articles:
Auckland, University of
Optics
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Important Dates & Events |
June 2, 1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
June 3, 1621 - Dutch West India Company chartered.
June 3, 1790 - first ship of the Second Fleet from England entered Sydney Heads, Australia.
June 4, 1942 - Battle of Medway in World War II began.
June 5 - World Environment Day.
June 5, 1967 - Six-Day War began between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
June 6, 1944 - D-Day in World War II; Allied troops landed on the German-held coast of northern France.
June 8 - World Oceans Day
June 12, 1929 - Anne Frank, diarist, born.
June 13, 323 B.C. - Alexander the Great died.
June 15, 1215 - King John of England granted the Magna Carta.
June 17, 1867 - Henry Lawson, Australian short-story writer and poet, born.
June 18, 1815 - Napoleon defeated at the Battle of Waterloo.
June 20, 1837 - Victoria became queen of the United Kingdom.
June 21, 1945 - Allied forces captured Okinawa in World War II.
June 25, 1929 - Eric Carle born; illustrator and author gaining recognition with The Very Hungry Caterpillar (1969).
June 28, 1861 - Burke and Wills, explorers, died on return journey after first north-south crossing of Australia.
June 28, 1914 - Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated, touching off World War I.
June 28, 1919 - Treaty of Versailles signed.
July 1, 1851 - Proclamation of the state of Victoria.
July 1, 1916 - Battle of the Somme in World War I began.
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World Book Web Scavenger Hunts
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