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4) Dolphins
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Friendly and fascinating, dolphins are one of nature's most intelligent animals. Award-winning science writer Seymour Simon has teamed up with the Smithsonian Institution to give you an expert view of these clever, curious, and mischievous mammals in a full-color photographic introduction.
12) Woolly mammoth
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Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Realistic illustrations highlight this story about a day in the life of the woolly mammoth. Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, information sections give all the vital statistics about the woolly mammoth.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"In World War II, black Americans fought side by side with white Americans to preserve freedom and democracy. But they came home to a world in which blacks were separate but unequal. The 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education eliminated segregated schools in theory, but in reality Jim Crow still ruled the South. The civil rights movement began in the 1950s, gathered steam with the sit-ins and marches of the 1960s, and led...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"The environmental movement of the 1960s arose out of Rachel Carson's book, SILENT SPRING. The best-selling book brought to public awareness the destruction of the environment by chemicals such as DDT. Other environmental problems -- among them, water pollution, air pollution, and garbage spewing out into city streets -- stirred people into action as well. Earth Day 1970 was the first mass protest. Since then many improvements have been made to the...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Women worked in the factories in World War II. They volunteered and worked in the military in World War II. When given the opportunity, women did everything men did. But when the war ended, they were told to go home and keep house. And they did. But by the 1960s, energized by the civil rights movement and angered by the limitations still placed on them, women decided that enough was enough. They had a right to work. They had a right to buy their...
19) The Emancipation Proclamation inkstand: what an artifact can tell us about the historic document
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"With the stroke of a pen, President Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves. Or did he? Who did the Emancipation Proclamation really free? And what became of the inkstand on which he wrote it? Find answers to these questions, and learn what an artifact can tell us about history." -- Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"On February 1, 1960, four young black men sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and staged a nonviolent protest against segregation. At that time, many restaurants in the South did not serve black people. Soon, thousands of students were staging sit-ins in 55 states, and within six months, the lunch counter at which they'd first protested was integrated. How did a lunch counter become a symbol of civil rights? Readers...
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