This activity will help students understand the relationship between the slopes of parallel and perpendicular lines.
This site, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, gives information on the German mathematician Cantor.
This University of St. Andrews site contains biographical information as well as accomplishments of Riemann.
A biography of the mathematician Georg Joachim von Lauchen Rheticus. Includes numerous quotations.
This University of St. Andrews page offers an excellent biography on George Boole, an English mathematician and linguist (1815-1864.) Discusses his life and his contributions to these fields.
This site provides biographical information on the author, as well as facts about the novel's context, plot, and major themes, this study guide is an excellent tool for anyone studying George Eliot's novel, "Middlemarch." Also includes study questions (with responses) and suggestions for further reading.
This Bibliomania website features the full text of George Eliot's novel Mill on the Floss. A summary note about this novel, comparable to Wuthering Heights, is also provided.
The Virginia Bill of Rights was the framework for the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights. Some of Mason's actual phrasing appear in the first ten amendments passed fifteen years later. He is credited for authoring the first American document that limited the authority of government and strengthened the rights of individuals.
Discover how historians use newspapers and learn about the development of the modern newspaper. Get answers to many questions about different newspapers.
A guide to dissecting official documents. Learn how to find the author of documents, the primary audience, and other important information.
Review the text George Washington's first inaugural address given on April 30, 1789. RI.11-12.8 seminal U.S. texts
Students will love this lesson! Students will do a number of hands on activities in groups. Students will first solve the problem and then write a formula of how the answer may be found.
Notes for teachers who are reading Freeman's (1852-1930 CE) stories with their students, as well as links to other authors for comparison and a bibliography of source material are all available here.
A thorough discussion of the state of the government and politics in Georgia today. Information is from the U.S. State Dept. Background Notes and a link is provided for more information on the South Ossetia question.
This resrouce gives the text of Gerald Ford's State of the Union Address in 1977.
Check out this site for a brief history of the Watergate scandal & the text of President Ford's speech announcing his official pardon of Richard Nixon. You can access an audio clip of the speech as well as view the original written document.
The response to the Nuremberg Laws by the National Representation of the Jews in Germany, September 24, 1935.
Links to four documents in which Adolph Hitler justifies his invasion of Poland and his response to Great Britain's objection to that act. Very interesting reading.
Read Gertrude B. Elion's autobiography at this Nobel Foundation online museum. Learn about her contributions to the study of immunology, for which she is honored with the Nobel Prize. Includes information on her personal and professional life.
At this site from the Nobel e-Museum you can download and read Gertrude B. Elion's Nobel Lecture, "The purine path to chemotherapy." This lecture, originally given by Elion on December 8, 1988, is available in pdf format.