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Hotlinks For 2002 By Date

• Hotlink for 6 to 13 January, 2002
  The Degree Confluence Project
  An entirely volunteer project -- "An organized sampling of the world". The idea is for visitors to the site to find and photograph the points on land where any degree of latitude and any degree of longitude meet. These 12,789 points are mapped out on the site, and you can volunteer to attempt to photograph any that you care to. There are excellent map resources, and a continually updated list showing possible locations, attempts, and photographs of successlful visits. Even if you never attempt to photograph one yourself, there's still a wealth of geographical information here for you and your students.
  
• Hotlink for 13 to 20 January, 2002
  Tour Egypt
  The official website of Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and The Egyptian Tourist Authority, this site says it offers 7000 pages of information -- news, feature stories, maps, and links to Egypt's hotels, tour operators, and dive centers. Main sections include "Antiquities", "Travel Guide", "Color Egypt for kids", "Recipes", "Conference and Chat", and a section of "Fun Stuff" and "Useful Tools". An attractive and very comprehensive presentation of the possibilities for visiting Egypt, including security issues.
  
• Hotlink for 20 to 27 January, 2002
  World Climate
  An interesting site that stores a database of climatic data, garnered from public domain sources. Geographically, it is about 10 years behind the times (Riga, for example, is not listed as in Latvia but as "former Soviet Union"). But the data is interesting, easily accessible, and quite thorough. One interesting aspect of the site is the "navigation" box -- once you've selected a site, you can navigate by latitude and longitude: select "east" and you'll go one degree of longitude east of your present site; select "southwest" and you go one degree south and one degree west. For example, I started in Riga (56N,24E), and four clicks southwest had me at Okecie Airport in Warsaw (52N,20E). Two clicks south took me to Krakow, then four more clicks south to Szeged, in Hungary. I haven't tried this, but I imagine you could circumnavigate the globe with 360 clicks north or south or east or west. Worth checking out.
  
• Hotlink for 27 January to 3 February, 2002
  Agropolis Museum
  The Agropolis Museum in Montpellier, France, maintains this website as a way to display and extend their different exhibitions. There are three main areas -- History of food and agriculture, Farmers and farming over the world, and the "Banquet of Humanity". Each area brings you some sense of what the exhibit is about, and gives information about the topic. Be sure to note the links pages, called "Other Internet services", as these pages will give you links to FAO and other governmental and NGO bodies concerned with food and its distribution. This site is available in French as well as in English, and the French version is by far the richer of the two, as it includes streaming videos, news about the Museum's light displays and animations, and more.
  
• Hotlink for 3 to 10 February, 2002
  Virtual Louvre
  The Louvre museum, Pages Jaunes (the French Yellow Pages), and the French Ministry of Education collaborated to create this Web site that allows students to take a virtual tour of the Louvre from their classroom or home. Over 3,000 works of art and 350 exhibit halls have been brought online. Students can learn not only about artwork, but also how to use the Internet (this is especially important in a country where only 20 percent of households have web access). The Web site was created in response to a mandate from Prime Minister Lionel Jospin to make the Web accessible to French schools and administrative offices. The site features a cyberdesk where students can store artwork for easy reference. The site's appeal is not restricted to art classes: teachers of ancient civilizations and languages are supplementing their courses with material from this site. Although the site is available in French only, non-French-speakers will find wonderful surprises around every virtual corner.
  
• Hotlink for 10 to 17 February, 2002
  Portals To The World
  Designed and hosted by the U.S. Library of Congress, Portals to the World is a directory that offers links, organized by country, to "topics of interest to specialists and the general public alike. Typical categories are business, commerce, economy, culture, education, government, politics, law, history, libraries, and archives, with some categories tailored to subjects of particular importance for the study of individual nations. All of the links in the Portals to the World site are chosen and organized by Library of Congress staff. Portals to the World is still a work in progress -- the site currently has information for just over 50 countries -- but when the project is completed next year there will be a portal page for every nation of the world.
  
• Hotlink for 17 to 24 February, 2002
  Planet Quest
  Created at the Jet Propulsion Labs, this website offers online resources as well as offline activities for middle school and high school students to begin to understand how new technologies are changing our knowledge of the universe and the search for life on other planets. Virtual tours, 3D models and animations have been created to more clearly show students the work being done by JPL. A rich and intersting site, with links to all kinds of resources.
  
• Hotlink for 24 February to 3 March, 2002
  Stormy Weather
  Learn to use the Internet and software tools while doing atmosphere investigations for the middle school and high school classroom. All activities, especially the Weather Hunt, Storm Sampler and The Perfect Storm Webquest, are designed for use by cooperative groups and culminate in a final shared presentation. The Weather Hotlist and the Weather Scrapbook are easily adapted for use by individual students.
  
• Hotlink for 3 to 10 March, 2002
  POP Goes Antarctica?
  What does it take to be a scientist on Antarctica? How do you sterilize lab equipment? Students explore this website to find out about Antarctica and the work being done there to study Persistent Organic Pollutants. Student activities really try to put students in the real world of this project. Links lead to activities, virtual tours, glossaries, photos, and more.
  
• Hotlink for 10 to 17 March, 2002
  WhaleNet
  This interactive educational web site focuses on whales and marine research. Take the WhaleNet Tour to acquaint yourself with the resources available at this website, such as the Satellite Tagging Observation Program and What's It? (an identification activity). A marvelous collection of resources can be found by clicking "students" -- everything from how to build a life-size whale at school to photo catalogs and whale data.
  
• Hotlink for 17 to 24 March, 2002
  Mountain Voices
  How does development affect individuals in different countries? Oral testimonies have been gathered from mountain communities in ten countries -- in the Himalaya, the Andes, the Sierra Norte, Mount Elgon, the highlands of Ethiopia and Lesotho, China, the Sudety mountains and the Karakorum mountains. Students can learn of the past and present of many native peoples in the world, as well as the realities of the global economy in these regions.
  
• Hotlink for 24 to 31 March, 2002
  Dragonfly
  Miami University of Ohio and its School of Interdisciplinary Studies, through an NSF grant, maintain these web pages for young students (though they say "for investigators of all ages", and I've found lots of useful information here for myself!). There are more than 20 subdirectories, from Time (how did the ancients keep track of time; what time is it *exactly*) to Using Tools, Webs of Life, Trees and Seeds, Navigation, Ice and Snow, and much more. Right now, the "hot" topic on dragonfly is "Saving the Planet". A fascinating and very useful site for teachers and students.
  
• Hotlink for 31 March to 7 April, 2002
  Molecular Expressions
  The Molecular Expressions Galleria is a gateway to our collections of photographs taken through a microscope. It began as "chip shots" -- high magnification images of silicon chips; there are now a large number of "galleries", including microphotographs of DNA, amino acids, phytochemicals, and even beer. Fascinating views of stuff that's right there in front of us but we never see it.
  
• Hotlink for 7 to 14 April, 2002
  Woodland Network
  This site, from a school in Sweden, provides students with two projects to help them observe and hypothesize about the health of trees in their area. The first project is for students 10 - 15 years old and is called Just a Tree (in both Swedish and English languages). Older students can participate in the more extensive Woodland Research Project (available in nine languages). Data is sent to the project site, then posted for public use. When more data is available (use it with your students and help build up the data!), this will be a great site for mathematics/science/geography integration.
  
• Hotlink for 14 to 21 April, 2002
  State Reports
  We want our students to consult many resources for their reports on the states of the U.S., but it can be difficult to find those resources, and sometimes we don't want our students surfing all over looking for resources. Classbrain has assembled "state report" resources for students doing reports on U.S. states, or for anybody who wants more information about individual states. Links gathered here include "Official" state sites, books, history and statistics, symbols and emblems, and maps. There are also a number of "special collections" linked, including the resources of the Library of Congress.
  
• Hotlink for 21 to 28 April, 2002
  RefDesk
  RefDesk is a comprehensive and overwhelming directory of Internet research and reference links. The site can be at least a little intimidating at first, because there's just so much there, but once you see that there is a structure and a framework there, you'll see that RefDesk is a very powerful portal and launch pad for online research.
  
• Hotlink for 28 April to 5 May, 2002
  Internet Archive and Wayback Machine
  The Internet Archive is a digital library of Internet sites; they are catalogued and accessible in a variety of ways. Perhaps the most fun: the Wayback Machine. The Wayback Machine allows you to surf historical pages that are stored in the Archive, and see what your favorite website looked like years ago. For example, enter www.mapping.com and look at the first one they have catalogued, Jan. 11, 1998 -- way back before the site used tables or other structures to simplify its use. Or look at nationalgeographic.com for November of 1996 to see a really quaint beginning of what would become the National Geographic powerhouse site and portal of today. Great fun, very interesting, and often instructive.
  
• Hotlink for 5 to 12 May, 2002
  Mondo Times
  Mondo Times is a web site devoted to mass media around the world. This service provides access to thousands of media outlets available online, organized by location and topic. Links to media in every country can be found in the left column on the main page. You can also review and read by topic, by "breaking news", by "most popular media" and more. Although English seems to prdominate, be aware that links lead to newspapers in dozens of languages, and to some that require a subscription.
  
• Hotlink for 12 to 19 May, 2002
  The Turbo10 Search Engine
  Turbo10 is a MetaSearch engine that searches all the other engines, including google, altavista, alltheweb, and the other major ones; it delivers results in a somewhat different way, possible more useful for some searches. "Turbo10 Topics" breaks your search down into possible sub-topics, and these can be accessed separately from a pull-down menu. Results appear in abbreviated form, in pages of 10, and generally all 10 of the results are readable at once; you can sort results by relevance, by speed, and by source search engine; a "progress meter" in the upper left helps sped up navigation through results. As with most search engines these days, some results are paid for by advertisers -- but these are clearly labeled as "sponsored". It's fun and easy to use, and definitely worth a look, and possibly a bookmark.
  
• Hotlink for 19 to 26 May, 2002
  The Border Crossing Hitlist
  This is such an interesting and quirky site, it makes me want to say "here is what the Web is really about". The site is based in Denmark, managed by Jesper Nielsen, who has been thinking about borders both real and imaginary for years and years. Register with the site, and then you can enter how many borders you've crossed (read the rules) and compare your tally with others' lists. By itself, a fascinating idea, and fun to visit, but there is also a very valuable collection of links to sites about borders.
  
• Hotlink for 26 May to 2 June, 2002
  National Museum of African Art
  A powerful and interesting site, the Web site of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art is worth a visit. Start at the homepage; from there, the "What's New" link and the "collections" link lead to different specialized interfaces of the museum's collections, including diversity, uses, imagery, currently on view, and an advanced search structure.
  
• Hotlink for 2 to 9 June, 2002
  Seth's Sites
  Seth Ruef, at the International School of Luxembourg, hosts this page on the Iteachnet site; the top page leads to over 30 pages of topical links of interest to teachers, ranging from Art, Drama, and Museums, to Religion and Sociology. Some of the categories are still empty, because the page is quite new, so visitors have an opportunity to suggest sites for particular categories. While you're there, also visit the backlink, at http://members.iteachnet.org and see what this remarkable portal is about: all sorts of resources for world-minded teachers, for those interested in open-source technology solutions, for travelers, and much more.
  
• Hotlink for 9 to 16 June, 2002
  National Atlas of the U.S.
  The newly-updated National Atlas, and National Atlas Website, are definitely worth a visit. Click on "atlas maps", and you get a rich selection of choices -- beginning with "National Atlas Online", their Interactive Browser. Select, change, and display different layers, zoom in and out, point at features for more information, locate and label over 2 million geographic names. You'll also find a section of Multimedia Maps, dynamic maps that use Flash and QuickTime to tell remarkable stories; you can also select and download your own choice of Map Layers, view a selection of printed, or printable, maps. The site is definitely under development, but it grows and changes all the time and thus is worth bookmarking.
  
• Hotlink for 16 to 23 June, 2002
  National Geographic Map Machine
  ESRI and National Geographic continue to do amazing things with their interactive "Map Machine". Within the main page, you can move the map around, click and drag to select a section of the map to zoom in on, and customize your map in various ways. You can also select base maps from a number of different categories, including World and U.S. themes (physical and political, census, etc.), street maps for the U.S., Canada, and Europe, Atlas and Historical maps, "Flags and Facts", and even maps of Mars and of the "Wild World". Amazingly powerful.
  
• Hotlink for 23 to 30 June, 2002
  The National Library of Australia: World Treasures Exhibit
  This site supported an exhibition six months ago at the library; the exhibition is closed, but the site is still running and offers students the opportunity to explore several different themes around the unifying idea of the contributions of different cultures to world religions, literature, music, science, exploration, and more. Lessons in the teacher's section support the online materials. Each "treasure" that you explore lists the museum that houses it; an interesting supplemental activity might be to have students explore and discuss how foreign museums can end up with another culture's treasure.
  
• Hotlink for 30 June to 7 July, 2002
  The NASA "Cities From Space" Collection
  This is a stunning collection of outstanding astronaut photographs of world cities. Here you can view cities as they are seen from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station. You can search by country and city name or on a world map, or select from several "registered" city images which are displayed with maps. Quite a few cities are in the set -- and many of the images are only a few weeks old!
  
• Hotlink for 7 to 14 July, 2002
  Canadian History Time Line
  A 100-year view of Canadian and Commonwealth history; click on a decade, and view a list of events, arranged by date. This resource was created by ProQuest to demonstrate the power of their academic reference software; it's not particularly rich or deep -- you can't click on an event to read about it, for example -- but it does give a broad overview of Canada's history, and it also provides one type of example of a timeline on the web. Other types of web timelines you may wish to visit include Chinese History from the University of Maryland; World History from HyperHistory; or the Metropolitan Museum's Timeline of Art History. Selecting this link will give you Google's 600,000 links for "history" and "timeline".
  
• Hotlink for 14 to 21 July, 2002
  National Interagency Fire Center
  Wildfire activity blazes across the U.S. throughout the Summer months. The government agencies charged with control of these fires and minizing the damage they cause are the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture. To help them coordinate their efforts, the Interagency Fire Center has created the Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination website, geoMAC. Among its many features, geoMAC has a near-real-time map showing the location of fires in great detail, and links to all the relevant offices, including National Weather Service, Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service.
  
• Hotlink for 21 to 28 July, 2002
  BBC Weather Center
  One of the great weather pages on the web, the BBC Weather Center gives you very easy interfaces to UK and World weather, plus quick links to travel weather, sports and events, astronomy, gardening, marine weather, pollen counts, and a large number of special features, including several Shockwave games -- a "diy weather map", a "battle against the elements", and even "hangman" with a weather-word twist.
  
• Hotlink for 28 July to 4 August, 2002
  Bartleby
  Originally created by Columbia University and now its own independent operation, Bartleby is an online collection of some of the greatest reference books in the word. Free of charge, you can access the complete American Heritage Collegiate Dictionary, the complete Columbia Encyclopedia, the complete Oxford Shakespeare, the complete Gray's Anatomy, the complete 70 volumes of the Harvard Classics, and much more. Best of all, you can use Bartleby two ways: you can browse through Bartleby's online "books" by hand or you can search all of Bartleby's works for a particular keyword or phrase.
  
• Hotlink for 4 to 11 August, 2002
  Yahoo Full Coverage
  Yahoo Full Coverage is an amazing source of news. For each major news event requested, Yahoo creates a special page that contains links to the latest developments, the basic news stories, related Web sites, opinion and editorial articles, and audio and video clips related to that particular news event. For example, on July 11, Jordan rejected the idea of using force against Iraq. Yahoo Full Coverage's page about this contained links to news stories from Reuters, AP, the London Times, the Guardian and more; editorials from the Daily Star of Beirut, plus the Washington Post and Boston Globe; Audio from NPR, Video from the AP, and 14 or more related websites. If you're concerned with keeping up with what's going on in the world, bookmark this site.
  
• Hotlink for 11 to 18 August, 2002
  Earth As Art
  At the Landsat-7 "Earth As Art" Gallery, you can view Earth through the images taken by the Landsat-7 satellite. This particular area of the landsat website highlights images selected based on their appeal as works of art, not just their interest as photos from space; there are cloud formations, rivers, islands, mountains, and much more. Select a continent and scroll through thumbnail photos, or select the Image Index to see thumbnails of all the images. Besides viewing the images, you can also order professional prints of each image.
  
• Hotlink for 18 to 25 August, 2002
  F-Secure
  F-Secure used to be called Datafellows.com -- here, you will find one of the Web's largest sources of virus and hoax information, including detailed histories of each virus and each hoax. There are also downloads and "fix" tips. I was told about this site by someone who makes their living from recovery. As the prophet once might have said, "A byte of prevention is worth a gig of cure!" Check the "information center" for the most recent security threats, and the section called "security solutions" for answers to all your questions about file encryption security, network security, and everything else. A marvelous site, a really worthwhile service.
  
• Hotlink for 25 August to 1 September, 2002
  Great Buildings
  Great Buildings is a huge database of information about architects and their buildings. 800+ Buildings are featured from 40 countries. There aren't images of every building, but many buildings shown have multiple views. Virtual Reality (VR) versions of some building are available, and can be viewed after downloading the free "Design Workshop" software, which allows you to move around the building, view it from all kinds of interesting angles, and remove layers. You can search by building name, architect's name, or by location -- for example, finding all the buildings they have archived in Rome or Venice or Honolulu. Fascinating.
  
• Hotlink for 1 to 8 September, 2002
  National Severe Storms Lab
  The National Severe Storms Laboratory is a division of NOAA, with the mission of studying and providing information on all kinds of severe weather. Learn everything about tornadoes, typhoons and hurricanes, lightning, thunderstorms. Check out the resources that teachers can download and print for weather education.
  
• Hotlink for 8 to 15 September, 2002
  Web Geological Time Machine
  The University of California Museum of Paleontology, at Berkeley, sponsors and maintains this amazing website. The top page lists geological periods very neatly, with eons, eras, and periods visible and selectable. Link to a time of interest, and read about it, including its particular divisions: for example, in the Phanerozoic Eon, and the Paleozoic Era, select the Devonian Period, and you get photos and explanations of the highlights of the Devonian, with links to all kinds of details. There are also four navigation buttons: stratigraphy, ancient life, localities, and tetonics, that give you lots of specific information. A vast and well-organized storehouse of information.
  
• Hotlink for 15 to 22 September, 2002
  RefDesk
  The Internet Reference Desk -- an amazing resource. The number of links on the home page can be daunting, but don't be dismayed, as it is really very well organized, and incredibly useful.
  
• Hotlink for 22 to 29 September, 2002
  
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day
  • Earth Science Picture of the Day
  • Science Daily Picture of the Day
  • NOAA's Albatross IV Survey Ship Photo of the Day
  • Weather Picture of the Day
  
  A handful of sites that post a new picture every day. "Astronomy Picture of the Day" is a NASA site with a vast archive; "Earth Science Picture of the Day" comes from a combined space research consortium of universities; in "Science Daily" the picture of the day ranges widely around the sciences, while NOAA's Albatross IV posts pictures of its catches and of other fisheries assessment work. "Weather Picture of the Day" has an archive of past pictures too, so if you're looking for a tornado or hurricane photo, for example, here's a place to look.
  
• Hotlink for 29 September to 6 October, 2002
  Gabriel -- Gateway to Europe's National Libraries
  A very interesting effort by the Conference of European National Librarians to provide a link to all the national libraries, to their services, and to their online exhibitions -- both individual exhibitions and joint ones. Clicking on "online exhibitions" leads to a virtual exhibit called "Treasures for Europe's National Libraries", and more; "Bibliotheca Universalis" is an effort to put major cultural and scientific works on line.
  
• Hotlink for 6 to 13 October, 2002
  Aneki.com Country Information
  This site attempts to provide country information, and regional and world rankings on a variety of topics. The site is nicely designed and easy to navigate, making it easy to find their tables of statistical facts and figures taken from the CIA World Factbook and a variety of other resourecs. But BEWARE! The data is not always completely accurate or up-to-date. In mid-September, with the US Census Bureau reporting the US population at 288,000,000, this site reported it at 278,000,000. So, for general trends and ideas, this is definitely a good place to look; for accurate numbers, try government resources.
  
• Hotlink for 13 to 20 October, 2002
  Renaissance Secrets
  A joint offering of the BBC and the Open University. This website helps visitors explore four Renaissance mysteries from a historian's point of view: the city of Venice, Italian medicine, conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth 1 in 1594, and Gutenberg's invention. Each topic is divided into subsections, and each subsection includes detailed information and evidence, and help for students in "thinking about history". A link to "Series One" leads to an earlier series of episodes, and three other "mysteries".
  
• Hotlink for 20 to 27 October, 2002
  Best Of History Sites
  Best of History Web Sites is a dandy little portal, with a vast number of sites linked and rated for usefulness and accuracy. There is a top-level navigation menu that includes Prehistory, Ancient/Biblical, Medieval, US History, Early-Modern European, 20th Century, World War II, Art History, General Resources, and Maps. You can also navigate by Lesson Plans/Activities, Multimedia, and Research Sites, or use a pull-down jump menu that breaks each of the top-level topics into component parts.
  
• Hotlink for 27 October to 3 November, 2002
  Bartleby
  Bartleby is a site we've mentioned before in our "hot links", but it's worth mentioning again and again. It is a vast compilation of reference books, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, including the famous 5-foot shelf of "Harvard Classics", plus the Columbia Encyclopedia, the American Heritage Dictionary, Strunk and White's Elements of Style, Stearn's Encyclopedia of World History, Roget, Bartlett and other quotation books, Gray's Anatomy, Robert's Rules of Order, the whole Oxford Book of English Verse, the King James Bible, and much more.
  
• Hotlink for 3 to 10 November, 2002
  Internet Picture Dictionary
  Nothing too complex here, but great fun and very informative. Pick a language and a category, and review the items in that category in the language of your choice. Or find a picture in your own language, and see what that word is in the other languages. Language choices include English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, and categories include vegetables, transportation, tools, numbers, fruits, kitchen, apparel, animals, colors, and more. Test your knowledge of words in other languages by using the flashcards, fill-in-the-blanks, word scrambles, and misspelled words. There is also a link to "other picture dictionaries online".
  
• Hotlink for 10 to 17 November, 2002
  Today's Front Pages
  A section of the "newseum" website, this link will take you to a page from which you can access the front pages of hundreds of today's newspapers from all over the world. The majority of them are in North America, but even so there are front pages to read from every region of the world. If you want to see how the rest of the world is covering an event that is making headlines here, this is a good place to begin. Click on a region to see the list ov available papers, then click on a paper to see its front page. You are also given options such as "see this paper's website".
  
• Hotlink for 17 to 24 November, 2002
  A Gallery Of Map Projections
  Paul B. Anderson, at Illinois State University, has put together this amazing archive. At the time this "hotlink" was posted, there were 306 different world map projections available at this site -- sorted by type (Azimuthal, Conics, Cylindrical, Polyconics, Pseudoconics, and Pseudoculindricals as well as "miscellaneous"). These are world map projections, all stored in .pdf format, which you can open from your browser and then print locally for use in classrooms. There are also two very useful references -- a bibliography on map projection by John P. Snyder, and an article on nomenclature and classification, by Lee, written in 1944 but still the basic reference on the topic. Everything you ever wanted to know about map projections, and then some.
  
• Hotlink for 24 November to 1 December, 2002
  Google Language Tools
  Google offers a very interesting array of language "tools". In the first part of the page, you can search google's index by specific language or specific country. Then you can translate: type (or paste) a phrase in the to "translate text" box, and trasnlate it between German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and English, or type the URL of a web page into the "translate a web page" box, and it will return the entire web page translated into the chosen language. Then you can use the google interface in your chosen language (there are dozens of real languages to choose from, and a few just for fun such as 'pig latin', 'hacker', and 'Elmer Fudd'. And finally, you can select Google's site in a specific country -- there are 36 to choose from.
  
• Hotlink for 1 December to 8 December, 2002
  
  • UNESCO uses the Nepalese name for the world's highest mountain
  • The Mountain Institute uses Qomolangma
  • NASA's Earth Observatory uses Everest and Chomolungma and "Goddess Mother of the World", the translation of the Tibetan.
  The Name Of The Highest Mountain In The World? Authorities accept many different names for the world's highest mountain; the name Everest was given to the mountain in 1865 by the British, in honour of Sir George Everest who was then Surveyor-General in the Survey of India. He mapped and measured the peak in 1852. But China claims the peak was first mapped in 1717 by Tibetan officials during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. In those early records, the mountain was called Qomolangma (pron. Chomolungma), its Tibetan name. Here are links to various authorities. You can use this link to google.com to find out more.
  
• Hotlink for 8 to 15 December, 2002
  Exploring the States with NASA
  Exploring the States implements multi-disciplinary teaching approaches using NASA technologies to enhance existing curriculum. Exploring the States uses images from NASA Landsat satellites and AVHRR to explore all 50 states with pictures and math. Simple instructions (switches and buttons) guide students through three sections; Exploring the States, Naming the States and Traveling the States. The satellite images offer a unique way to capture students interest in a very basic subject matter . The goal is to provide children the opportunity to learn about Earth through observations and to be shown the benefits of space exploration.
  
• Hotlink for 15 to 22 December, 2002
  The EmTech Map Page
  EmTech, a consulting practice based in Alabama, has a phenomenal collection of web resources on every imaginable topic. This is their list of web resources about maps -- maps on the fly, archives of maps, map projections, ancient maps, regional maps, topographical maps, and on and on. It's sorted alphabetically, rather than by theme, so it can be hard to find exactly what you want -- but you can be sure it's here somewhere.
  
• Hotlink for 22 to 29 December, 2002
  Blue Marble Updated
  To mark the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 17 mission and the famous "Blue Marble" full Earth image, Goddard Space Flight Center's Visualization and Analysis Lab has rendered a new visualization inspired by the mission. There is a .jpg version, a 48 MB mpg version, and 4 different .mov versions, including one that is 928 MB in size (better have a lot of bandwidth to download this one!). The mpg and mov files produce a film that is 21 seconds long, beginning with a launch at the Kennedy Space Center, and ending with the Earth Rise and the moon in view below you.
  
• Hotlink for 29 December, 2002 to 5 January, 2003
  Neighborhood Knowledge - California
  A new community mapping web site freely accessible to anyone who wishes to take a close look at any neighborhood in the state of California. The site contains unique web-based mapping tools and even allows users to upload their own data from personal files. The "point and click" functionality of the site is designed for the "non-expert." NKCA makes available a wide variety of public and private data for groups working to preserve and expand opportunities for home ownership through fair housing and lending research, education and policy development.

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