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Art History Timeline
Which came first, the Maori carvings of Easter Island or Olmec hieroglyphics? At the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History, more than 20,000 years of art marches on, from prehistoric times to the present, to give online visitors an invaluable tool for studying art, archaeology, anthropology and history.
Organized by geography, the timeline lets visitors click on a period from 20,000 BC to 1400 AD, then on art icons scattered on a map of continents to get overviews and key art events of the period, all linked to the Met's vast collection. Still a work in progress, more stages will be added, plus an index, glossaries and multimedia elements to enhance the content now available.
metmuseum.org
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Fixing Appliances
If your dishwasher is leaking, or the baking element burns out in your stove, check out the Repair Clinic. This useful site provides consumers with helpful information for every major household appliance including troubleshooting, maintenance tips, answers to common questions and a diagnostic section.
repairclinic.com
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The Symphony: An Interactive Guide
While classical music is popular all over the world, many listeners are uneducated about the rich processes behind the creation of the music. This is a great site for anyone who loves classical music but often feels lost when it comes to understanding the nature, form and history of the symphonies they listen to.
This website offers an interactive tour through the many aspects of the symphony. Visitors will learn about the history of the music, the life and work of many famous and talented composers, and the many components that make up an orchestra.
Listen to clips of symphonies listed on the site, take a 'crash course in symphonic form', or go on a 'quick-tour' of the history and development of classical music.
library.thinkquest.org
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Logical Fallacies
Learn to spot non sequiturs, slippery slopes, equivocations and post hoc reasoning at Stephen's Guide to Logical Fallacies, where you can analyze precisely why the other guy's argument just doesn't add up.
datanation.com
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Philosophy in Cyberspace
At Philosophy in Cyberspace, there appears to be no philosophy topic that doesn't exist - at least as a link from this extraordinarily comprehensive collection of resources on the search for wisdom or, more specifically, understanding logic, aesthetics, ethics, metaphysics and epistemology.
Five sections categorize the site into branches of philosophy, text sources like books and journals, organizations, forums and miscellaneous links (even philosophy humor). Within each section is a plethora of sub-categories, like aesthetics or existentialism, each leading the user to still more links to individual philosophers, newsgroups and electronic journals.
www-personal.monash.edu.au
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CDC Travelers' Health
This site offers current info on disease outbreaks, specific diseases that affect travelers and vaccination recommendations to match your itinerary. Just click on the map and see outbreaks, numbers of cases and special health concerns in the region. Precise information like the inspection scores earned by cruise ships and public health guidelines for airline-exposure to meningococcal disease assure travelers that they're getting info from those who know it best: the CDC.
cdc.gov
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Tiny Useful Windows Apps
They're tiny, they're useful and they're applications for Windows - enough said. At Tiny Apps.org find immensely useful applications no bigger than 1.5 Mb, like PopKi, weighing in at just 337kb, which eliminates those awful pop-up windows. More abound, from a Notepad replacement to full operating systems, all small enough to fit on a floppy.
tinyapps.org
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The Living Internet
Newbies to the Internet and old hands who think they know the neighborhood will both learn more about the massive village that is the World Wide Web at The Living Internet. Inspired by the power of the Web during the 1989 Tiananmen Square rebellion, the site's founder created a comprehensive reference work, with more than 2,000 intra-site links and 2,000 external links.
From basics like how the Internet works and why it matters to more complex topics like MUDs and Usenet groups, the site is ad-free and as easy to use as the topic is complicated. Become an expert searcher, use net-related tricks and meet the people responsible for all that is wonderful about the Web.
livinginternet.com
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Broke Scholar
Visit BrokeScholar, a free scholarship search engine of financial aid and scholarships via a 900,000 item database. Search for the one for you by keyword, create application letters and your own deadline calendar. But get that job, too.
scholarships.brokescholar.com
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