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Dear Subscriber,
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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:
Australian dollar
Ludwig van Beethoven
Mars Exploration Rover & photograph
Messenger probe & photo of mercury
Voyager 2 craft & photo of Jupiter
New videos:
Dolphins swimming
Great white shark
Green sea turtle
Hippopotamuses
Ho Chi Minh & North Vietnamese soldiers
Honey bees on comb
Howler monkey in a tree
Humpback whale mother & calf
Hyenas
Jonas Salk discusses the polio vaccine
Kangaroos
Komodo dragon
Lionesses
Lions camouflaged by plants
Petra, Jordon
Pilot whales
Pygmy sperm whale
Stingrays in the ocean
Stonehenge
Stress test
Swimming sea turtle
Tarantula
Ultrasound
Winston Churchill touring war-damaged London
New articles:
Australian Open (tennis tournament)
Conway, Jill Ker (Australian-born historian, educator, and author)
Grand slam (tennis tournaments)
Hatoyama, Yukio (Japanese political leader)
Tasmanian tiger
Tet Offensive
Three Gorges Dam
Trap door spider
Valley of the Kings
New tables:
Important dates in Bob Hawke's life
Important dates in Kevin Rudd's life
Revised tables:
Nobel Prize - includes Elizabeth Blackburn
Booker Prize
Revised articles:
Australian Rules football
European Union (EU)
Nobel Prize
Booker Prize
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Coming Soon!
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Following on from our October Issue detailing November 2009 and December 2009 uploads of additonal maps, World Book is pleased to announce the January 2010 upload of additional maps to the World Book Web that cover many topics of interest in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands.
January 2010 upload:
Blue Mountains
Cocos Islands
Convicts in Australia
Cook Islands
Great Artesian Basin
Kangaroos
Koalas
Kokoda Trail
Murray River
New Caledonia
New Zealand, North Island - Political
New Zealand, South Island - Political
Northern Development in Australia
Port Phillip Bay
Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
Snowy Mountains
Squatters in Australia
February 2010 upload and March 2010 upload will be detailed in future Newsletters.
>> Language Translator:
Coming soon:
17 additional languages
Later this year, the translation feature will be expanded to include 17
additional languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hausa, Hebrew,
Hindi, Hungarian, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Romanian,
Serbian, Thai, Turkish, and Urdu. For further details:
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> Public Library Edition
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Print Resources:
>>Explore the Universe -
Pre-Publication Offer
A highly illustrated, 10-volume examination of celestial wonders beyond
the solar system, covering the important objects in the solar system
and how scientists study them. This set extends the student's knowledge
of the solar system at a more in depth and advanced level with
curriculum relevant topics.
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Online Resources:
>> Dramatic Learning -
World Book Classroom
Dramatic Learning uses dramatic readings of plays to engage students
actively with a method that promotes standards-based learning, improves
reading fluency, helps struggling readers, and solidifies positive
behaviour trends in and out of the classroom. > Preview
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Important Dates & Events
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November 1 - All Saints' Day observed by Christians.
November 3 - Melbourne Cup Day
November 4, 1922 - Tomb of Tutankhamun, king of Egypt, discovered.
November 4, 1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel, assassinated.
November 5 - Guy Fawkes Day in the UK; Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament failed in 1605.
November 7, 1917 - Bolsheviks ousted provisional Russian government. (October 25 on the Russian calendar then in use.)
November 7, 1926 - Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer, born.
November 7, 1935 - Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian aviator, disappeared after leaving Allahabad, India on a long-distance flight.
November 9, 1938 - Kristallnacht, when Jewish businesses and synagogues throughout Germany were attacked by the Nazis.
November 9, 1989 - Opening of the Berlin Wall, Germany.
November 11, 1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger, hanged.
November 11, 1918 - Armistice signed ending World War I.
November 13, 1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, born.
November 14, 1845 - George Grey, served two terms as Governor and later one as premier, arrives in New Zealand.
November 17, 1869 - Suez Canal opened.
November 22, 1819 - George Eliot, English novelist, born.
November 22, 1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy assassinated.
November 23, 1923 - Radio broadcasting began in Australia.
November 25, 1880 - John Flynn, founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, born.
November 27, 1849 - Te Rauparaha, New Zealand Maori chief, died.
December 1, 1987 - World Health Organisation declares the first World AIDS Day.
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.
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Peoples, Inventions and Discoveries, and Living Green sets. The link is
located at the bottom all the World Book Web pages or via the following
link:
http://www.worldbookonline.com/marc/
>> Changes to World Book Student:
"My Backpack" is NOW called "My Research"
All the functions available with "My Backpack" remain the same. The Scavenger Hunts and Tip Sheet have been updated to reflect the change.
>> Current Webinar Schedule for Term 4
- live training on the World Book Web. For a schedule of upcoming
webinars and to register enquire today.
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