The Bowery Boys New York City History: Podcast: Rikers Island
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The New York African Free School
Podcast: African Free School No. 2
MAAP
Saturday, November 22, 2008
The Bowery Boys | New York City History: Podcast: Rikers Island
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
John Hanson
John Hanson: First President of the United States Under the Articles of Confederation
Cavanaugh, John W. Our Two First Presidents, John Hanson—George Washington. The Gold Book of United States History, Full of Gold Nuggets . [New York?: N.p., 1932.
John Hanson, President of the United States in Congress Assembled, 1781-1782 . Baltimore: Cushing, [1892?].
Johnson, Amandus. John Hanson: First President of the United States Under the Articles of Confederation . [Philadelphia: Swedish Colonial Society, 1966].
Kremer, J. Bruce. John Hanson of Mulberry Grove . New York: A. & C. Boni, Inc., 1938.
Levering, Ralph B. “John Hanson, Public Servant.” Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Summer 1976): 113-33.
Nelson, Jacob A. John Hanson and the Inseparable Union; An Authentic Biography of a Revolutionary Leader, Patriot and Statesman . Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1939.
Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas). Essay on John Hanson . N.p., 1892.
Smith, Seymour Wemyss. John Hanson, Our First President . New York: Brewer, Warren, and Putnam, 1932.
Stoeckel, Herbert J. The Strange Story of John Hanson, First President of the United States; A Guide to Oxon Hill Manor and Mulberry Grove in Maryland . 1956. Reprint, Hartford, Conn.: Hanson House, 1958.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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Business Ideas and Inventions
Smartheels Interventor Stacie Urbach
Butler Bag Inventor Jen Groover
Backless Bra Inventor Elaine Cato
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
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Rise of the Carbon-Neutral City
Rise of the Carbon-Neutral City
The World's Green Cities:The long race is on to build emission-free communities and carbon-neutral cities
Tesla-Master of Lightning
A Gallery of Energy Pioneers
The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences-Selected Internet Resources
Yale African American Affinity Group -Pioneers
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Blogging and RSS
WhatisRss
Depending on who you talk to, RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication. Either way, RSS is a real important technology that information specialists and educators would be well advised to harness sooner rather than later. In simple terms, Weblogs (and an ever-growing number of other sites) generate a behind-the-scenes code in a language similar to HTML called XML. This code, usually referred to as a "feed" (as in "news feed"), makes it possible for readers to "subscribe" to the content that is created on a particular Weblog so they no longer have to visit the blog itself to get it. As is true with traditional syndication, the content comes to you instead of you going to it.
For instance, say you've found 20 or 30 (or, like me, 120!) Weblog sites on the Internet that interest you. Finding the time to click through to those sites on a regular basis is probably pretty difficult. But what if you had to go to only one place to read all of the new content on all of those sites? Wouldn't be so difficult, would it? Well, that's exactly what RSS allows you to do by using what's called an "aggregator" or news-feed collector. The aggregator checks the sites you subscribe to, usually every hour, and it collects all the new content into a folder that is just waiting for you to come and read it. Big deal, you say? Very big, indeed, for a variety of reasons.
Take this general scenario, for instance: You currently get the headlines from The New York Times via an e-mail message that arrives each morning. But more and more, your e-mail box is being clogged up by spammers selling everything from pornography to mortgages. There are new virus warnings every day. Not so with RSS. The feed your aggregator checks is virus free, and you know that everything in your aggregator is something you want to read because you subscribed to it. No ads, no spam, just new content from the sources you read. You can scan the headlines, read the entire post, click through to the actual Web site, and file the information away for later retrieval.
Will Richardson
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Sunday, November 2, 2008
King James
Photograph by Lucy Nicholson/Reuters.
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LeBron James on the cover of Sports Illustrated, Volume 96, Issue 7 (February 18, 2002)
LeBron James on the cover of Sports Illustrated, Volume 96, Issue 7 (February 18, 2002)
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