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MARCH 2009 | www.worldbook.com.au | www.worldbook.co.nz





Dear Subscriber,

   What's New

> Literary Criticism collection
- a database of literary criticism content highlighting more than 300 of the most-studied authors, including Chaucer, Shakespeare and Cervantes, as well as Australian authors Christina Stead and Patrick White. View sample pages.
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> The following are among those articles and features revised over the past month:
New pictures:
Ammonia molecule
Bigfoot
Blue whale
Colour blindness
Different strata of rock
Networks of neurons
New articles:
Quentin Bryce
Jinni
Malcolm Turnbull
New dictionary entries:
bolivar fuerte
chenin blanc
cladistics
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unibrow
withholding
Revised articles:
Adelaide
Albury-Wodonga
Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)
Colosseum
Nazism
World Bank
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ERA CONSORTIA MEMBERS

Please note that ERA World Book Web subscription renewals occur on June 30, 2009.  We will be sending invoices for your 2009/2010 subscription in May 2009 unless you have taken up the option to extend your subscription to December 31, 2009 or June 30, 2010.

In case you haven't done so already, you may wish to make provision for this renewal in your current library/technology budget. Please notify us of any changes in your school population.
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  Coming Soon!

Inventions and Discoveries
  • 12 Volume Set
  • Pre-Publication Offer!
  • Available April 2009
Explores the transformative impact of inventions and discoveries that continue to shape our world today. For a sneak preview, click here.

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  Important Dates & Events

March 1 - Saint David's Day
March 3, 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, born.
March 5, 1953 - Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator died.
March 6, 1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet, born.
March 6, 1937 - Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonaut and first woman in space, born.
March 7, 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell, patented the telephone.
March 12, 1930 - Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi and his followers began the 24-day Dandi march to protest the British tax on salt.
March 14, 1804 - Johann Strauss, Austrian composer, born.
March 14, 1879 - Albert Einstein, German physicist, born.
March 15, 44 BC - Julius Caesar assassinated.
March 15, 1877 - First cricket test match between England and Australia, at Melbourne.
March 16, 1774 - Matthew Flinders, navigator and explorer of Australia, born.
March 17 - St. Patrick's Day.
March 19, 1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge opened in Australia.
March 20, 1796 - Edward Gibbon Wakefield, pioneer of colonisation in Australia and New Zealand, born.
March 21, 1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer, born.
March 25, 1807 - British Parliament abolished the slave trade.
March 30, 1870 - John Forrest and party start first west-to-east crossing in Australia.
March 30, 1953 - Albert Einstein announced his revised Unified Field Theory.
April 1 - April Fools' Day in many countries.
April 2, 1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy-tale writer, born.
April 4, 1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights leader, shot dead.
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