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Dear Subscriber,
HOT HEADLINE NEWS!!
Announcing the launch of three new digital products from World Book.
World Book introduces its first graphic nonfiction series -
BUILDING BLOCKS OF SCIENCE
Each of the 10 volumes features a whimsical character to guide the reader through a physical science topic. Read more on Pre-Pub offer
• WHAT'S NEW IN WORLD BOOK
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New pictures:
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new pictures added recently
Scribes copying the Tao Te Ching
Compact fluorescent light
Confucius
Cricket game
Dwarf planets
How data moves over the Internet
Incandescent light bulb
Weather balloon
New dictionary entries:
5 new dictionary entries added recently
agita
curb appeal
dress code
giardiasis
needleleaf
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New articles:
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new articles added recently
Australopithecus afarensis (anthropology)
Australopithecus sediba (anthropology)
Clark, Andrew Inglis (Australian politician)
Evans, Cadel (Australian cyclist)
Gerrard, Steven (English soccer star)
Henry, Thierry (French soccer star)
Revised articles:
more than 230 articles recently
Australian Loan Council
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Carboniferous Period
Cathode rays
Mumbai
Saffron
Sweden
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More What's New in World Book ...
November 4, 1922 - Tomb of Tutankhamun, king of Egypt, discovered.
See more under "Feature of the Month"
November 4, 1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel, assassinated. See more under "Research Tools"
November 7, 1935 - Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian aviator, disappeared after leaving Allahabad, India on a long-distance flight.
See map under "Research Tools"
November 9, 1938 - Kristallnacht, when Jewish businesses and synagogues throughout Germany were attacked by the Nazis.
See more under "Research Tools"
November 9, 1989 - Opening of the Berlin Wall, Germany.
November 11, 1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger, hanged.
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November 11, 1918 - Armistice signed ending World War I. See more under "Research Tools"
November 17, 1869 - Suez Canal opened. See map under "Research Tools"
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. See map under "Research Tools"
November 26, 1855 - The name Van Diemen's Land was officially replaced by Tasmania.
November 27, 1849 - Te Rauparaha, New Zealand Maori chief, died. See more under "World Book Digital Libraries"
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More This Month in History ...
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Who are these people born in November?
Find out by clicking on each image.
• World Book Student's Biography Centre has more than 10,000 biographies on influential people.
• World Book Kids' Important People features several thousand biographies on curriculum topics, popular culture figures, and other people of interest for younger students.
• NEW Social Studies Power's Important People features brief biographies on famous people across the same unit structure as the lessons.
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FEATURE OF THE MONTH —
Tomb of Tutankhamun
Discovered by Howard Carter
November 4, 1922
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The tomb had not been opened since ancient times. It is the only tomb of an ancient Egyptian king to be discovered almost completely undamaged.
Listen to Howard Carter dramatically describing the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.
World Book Student Subscribers
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Public Libraries Edition Subscribers
Play the "drag and drop" Egyptian Rulers game in Early Peoples Digital Libraries.
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Primary Source Documents
World Book Advanced provides primary sources in the form of documents,
letters, books, speeches, articles, records, interviews, and images.
Research Guides and Pathfinders
Provides links to related World Book articles, study questions, and additional resources.
Special Reports
The nearly 400 in-depth feature articles focus on issues surrounding timely topics, important current events, and obituaries of famous people.
Exploration Maps
Award-winning maps.
• WORLD BOOK DIGITAL LIBRARIES
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Early Peoples, Living Green, Inventions & Discoveries - offer an online, interactive complement to World Book’s most popular print reference sets. Each library features all the content from the print set as well as videos and animations, interactive activities, curriculum correlations, and links to encyclopedic content.
World Book Discover has hundreds of World Book Explains videos.
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