Throughout Australia, April 25, 1915, is a date that every Australian knows well. This is ANZAC Day, and it commemorates the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops on a hostile shore along the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey. This online exhibit, developed by the staff of the Australian War Memorial, pays tribute to that fateful day by providing brief essays and digitized images of primary...

This website from the de Young Museum (a 293,000 sq. ft. museum located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park) presents a happy ending to what started as a story of looted cultural heritage. Harald Wagner, 1903 - 1976, was an architectural draftsman and property developer, as well as a painter and art collector, who loved and traveled to Mexico frequently, and bought a home there in the 1950s. In...

Over its twelve-year history, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has certainly never avoided tackling immensely controversial and important subjects, and this latest online feature is certainly no exception to this trend. Designed to complement a current exhibition at the Museum, this site looks at the ways in which the Nazi regime attempted to transform the genetic makeup of the...

Mysterious disorder puts S.D. bees at risk http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070515/NEWS/705150301/1001 Queen Bees-In Hive or Castle, Duty Without Power http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/15/science/15angi.html Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/wildlife/article2449968.ece You've saved whales and dolphins-now save the...

The Ice Cream Sundae's Birthplace? That’s the 64,000-Calorie Question http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/06/nyregion/06sundae.html?ex=1155009600&en=b1001d010a230de6&ei=5087%0A NPR: Ice Cream Sundaes from Coast to Coast [Real Player, pdf] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5531839 Two Rivers, Wisconsin: Home of the Ice Cream...

Board of Education may face controversy over new curriculum http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/local/50619491.html Curriculum debate marred by ideologues http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/localnews/columnists/jfloyd/stories/071409dnmetfloyd.3d10b0e.html Texas Education Agency: Social Studies Expert Reviewers...

In the 1990s, the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior started the Decade Volcano Project. As part of their work, they designated sixteen volcanoes particularly worthy of study "because of their explosive histories and close proximity to human populations." The group recently teamed up with National Geographic to create a guide to these volcanoes via this...

Deena Stryker has spent her entire life travelling the globe documenting the people and cultures of Cuba, France, Italy, and Holland. In the early 1960s she took two trips to Cuba that resulted in one of her major photographic endeavors. On the second trip she took in late 1963 to early 1964, she spent a substantial amount of time interviewing and photographing Fidel and Raul Castro, along with...

Based in Wilmington, the Delaware Historical Society (DHS) preserves the history of the state through exhibits, online offerings, a lecture series, and a wide range of other activities. On the left-hand side of the homepage, visitors will find over a dozen sections, including Education, Museums, Publications, and What's New! First-time visitors may wish to click on over to the Featured Exhibit...

The University of Delaware Library has been expanding their online offerings in the past few years, and this addition of the "Delaware Notes" archive is most welcome. The series consists of a variety of publications created by the University from 1923 to the present, and the subject matter covered within these pages is quite diverse. Here visitors will find a very exhaustive history of the...