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Hotlinks For 2001 By Date

• Hotlink for 07 to 14 January, 2001
  USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
  The United States Geological Survey, a bureau of the US Department of the Interior, sponsors this website which brings together materials about the past, present and future of earthquakes. You can find information about earthquake activity in history, at the moment, and prognostications for the future. Under Earthquake Education, there are areas for students, for teachers, and for parents: Earthquake ABC's, Earthquake facts, and more.
  
• Hotlink for 14 to 21 January, 2001
  Internet Springboard
  This site is based at the School of Nursing of The Flinders University of South Australia in Adelaide. The site gives you a wealth of ways to find the information you're looking for on the web -- searching, software and software support, entertainment, graphics and multimedia, online reference sources, web and internet resources, magazines, news, Australian-specific sites, and a long list under "Miscellany". Definitely worth bookmarking, a site you'll come back to often. Just to give you an idea of how extensive this portal is, the category called "Searching" has 100 or more links, subdivided into The Big Ones, Meta/Parallel/Multiple, Australasia, Asia, The World, Software, Discussion Formes, For Women, For Kids and Teens, Music, Sport, People.
  
• Hotlink for 21 to 28 January, 2001
  The Visible Earth
  Access over 1400 satellite different images of the earth at the NASA Visible Earth site. The goal of Visible Earth is to provide a consistently updated central catalog/collection point to the superset of Earth science-related visualizations and images. Categories exist for Agriculture, Atmosphere, Biosphere, Cryosphere, Human Dimensions, Hydrosphere, Land Surface, Oceans, Radiance of Imagery, Solid Earth, Satellites/Sensors. Under the Environmental Impacts for Human Dimensions category there are images for Biomass Burning, Deforestation, Eutrophication, Industrial Emissions, Oil Spills, and Urbanization. The effective use of thumbnail images allows the user to view the image before loading it. Images are accompanied by a description and information on file size and format, usually .tiff and .jpeg.
  
• Hotlink for 28 January to 4 February, 2001
  North American Numbering Plan Association
  The NANPA Administers the North American Numbering Plan, which is the numbering plan for Country Code 1, the Public Switched Telephone Network in the United States and its territories, Canada, Bermuda, and many Caribbean nations, including Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks & Caicos. NANP numbers are ten digits in length, and they are in the format: NXX-NXX-XXXX Where N is any digit 2-9 and X is any digit 0-9. The first three digits are called the numbering plan area (NPA) code, often called simply the area code. The second three digits are called the central office code or prefix. The final four digits are called the line number. There is a good chunk of useful information here. Even if you're not curious about NPA relief planning, or CO prefixes, this is at least a good place to find out where all those new area codes are located.
  
• Hotlink for 4 to 11 February, 2001
  TopoZone
  A portal for recreational and professional Topographical Maps of the US. They have plenty of proprietary services, but also many free services, including a really intuitive topographical map of the entire US which allows you to select the particular map you'd like to see based on place name or lat/long, and then allows you to build a map with only those features you require. An amazing resource.
  
• Hotlink for 11 to 18 February, 2001
  The Population Reference Bureau
  One of the very best sources for global population information, the Population Reference Bureau maintains a site which is incredibly rich and deep, with information about hundreds of population-related topics, easily navigated and ready to use. From the top page, you can navigate to regional information, or to information on a variety of topics. Be sure to visit their Educators Forum, with lesson plans, resource guides, and an amazing collection of facts, data, and statistics.
  
• Hotlink for 18 to 25 February, 2001
  The History of Costume Index
  From the Assyrians and Ancient Egyptians to late 19th century peoples of Europe and Asia, this group of pages presents thumbnail pictures of typical costumes; click on the thumbnail, and you get a large image. The images are taken from a late 1800's book entitled "Historic Costume in Pictures", by Braun and Schneider, which has been reprinted by Dover, and which you can order from Amazon by clicking here
  
• Hotlink for 25 February to 4 March, 2001
  The Barbara Petchenik Children's Map Collection
  The Barbara Petchenik Award was initiated by the International Cartographic Association in 1993. The biennial award is designed to help teachers promote children's geographic literacy through creative representation of the world. All maps submitted since 1993 are on display here, with a search structure that allows you to examine just the winners, or just the submissions from one particular year or country or age level.
  
• Hotlink for 4 to 11 March, 2001
  Historical Atlas of the Twentieth Century
  This site has some amazing maps and data about US and World history during the last century. The section on "systems of government" maps the changing political landscape of the 20th century, tracking Monarchies, Democracies, Juntas, and Single-Party States; there are maps of population growth and density, of urban change, of war, of religion, and also maps of changes in specific places in Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa, and a long section on the changing fabric of international relations. The last maps track information about disasters, Nobel Prizes, and the Olympics. Not updated frequently, but enough to make the maps timely and useful.
  
• Hotlink for 11 to 18 March, 2001
  The Great Globe Gallery On The World Wide Web
  From the top page of this vast site, you can select from 176 pages of maps and globes; some of the pages have a single image, such as number 104, "Political Map of the World"; others have many different images, such as the first pages, which show dozens of projections. You can find a huge amount of information here, from Digital Elevation Models to satellite imagery to global thematic maps (temperature, rainfall, sunshine, and much more). There are puzzles, fantasy globes, all kinds of rotating and animated globes; near the end, link 175, "The latest view on Earth", is a link to the latest GOES weather imagery. Not the easiest site to quickly find exactly what you want, but worth visiting again and again.
  
• Hotlink for 18 to 25 March, 2001
  ABC Quick Maps
  ABC Maps of the World, of Regions, and of individual countries, plus world and country data from the ABC World Fact Book. This page presents a long list of choices; each link brings you to a page of maps and of further links. Select a country, and you not only get several useful maps of that country, but you also get links to information on the country's flag, geography, people, government, economy, transportation, communications, and defense. Select a region or continent, and you get a variety of other choices. There is also a good selection of outline maps, referred to here as "coloring maps". A rich and useful site.
  
• Hotlink for 25 March to 1 April, 2001
  Directory of Islands Of The World
  The UN Environmental Program, based in Switzerland, maintains this site, which lists and compares over 2000 islands worldwide. The list includes only marine islands, not those found in bodies of fresh water, but the list can be sorted and presented in several ways, by land area (from four islands under 0.1 square kilometer to New Guinea at nearly 800,000 square kms.), by elevation, by ocean, by geologic type, by ecology, economy, human impact, and by "islands at risk". A fascinating page. Back up one level, to The UNEP Islands Web Site Top Page and you can find many other useful resources on islands from the UN and from several intergovernmental organizations.
  
• Hotlink for 1 to 8 April, 2001
  USGS Geographic Names Information system
  Approximately 2 million cultural and physical features with the US are indexed here, by name, by location in state and county, and by geographic coordinates. You can query the US and Antarctica Online Date Bases directly, download datasets, or link from this page to gazetteers and information servers for non-federal and foreign name servers of many kinds. A rich source for geographic information for GIS, for classrooms, and for fun.
  
• Hotlink for 8 to 15 April, 2001
  The Natural History Museum Interactive Online Exhibitions
  The Natural History Museum, in London, maintains this very entertaining and interesting site. Featured areas include "Antcast", which lets you view their ant colony in streaming video; "Dino Directory" which lets you search by dinosaur name, continent, or period; "Eclipse", which uses the Flash plug-in to present a wide range of information about eclipses; "Earth Lab Datasite" is the on-line version of the geology exhibit; "Quest" lets you choose an object to explore; "Seasons" gives you a chance to explore seasonal rhythms; and there is much more, including a VR section.
  
• Hotlink for 15 to 22 April, 2001
  Balifolder
  A richly packed site, full of information about the history, geography, culture, arts, people, languages, and special areas of Bali, as well as travel hints, a "what's on" section detailing special events, and a "what's cooking" section about Balinese and indonesian cuisine. The "features" section includes an interactive map of Bali, a virtual exploration of the island, plus folklore, news, and a section for learning and practicing your Bahassa Indonesia.
  
• Hotlink for 22 to 29 April, 2001
  USGS Map Projections Page
  This is one page within the Mapping Applications Center Directory of the massive USGS site. This page has a lengthy and detailed explanation of 18 of the most common map projections; for each one, there is imagery, an explanation of how it is drawn, a summary of advantages and shortcomings, etc. At the end of the page, a table helps compare the suitability of different projections for different purposes. A vast amount of other maps and mapping information can be found at the MAC main page, and at the USGS National Mapping Information Home Page.
  
• Hotlink for 29 April to 6 May, 2001
  How Volcanoes Work
  Dr. Vic Camp, at San Diego State, constructed this site; its purpose is to create an educational resource that explains and describes volcanoes and volcanic processes. You can see images and explanations of Eruption Dynamics, Volcano Landforms, Eruption Products, Eruption Types, and Historical Eruptions, plus volcanoes on other worlds, and a section of volcano crosswords and links to other sites. Among the highlights of the site are the Quicktime animations -- the dynamics of an eruption, and a fly-by of an eruption.
  
• Hotlink for 6 to 13 May, 2001
  NIX -- NASA Image eXchange
  The NASA Image eXchange gives you access to over 300,000 of NASA's online images and photos. NIX returns thumbnail sized images, textual descriptions, image numbers, links to higher resolution images, links to more information, and links to the NASA Center that stores each image. Images vary greatly in quality and detail, (some are just handheld pictures taken out of a shuttle portal while others are extremely high-res graphics of distant planets, aerial shots of US and World sites, etc. The very powerful search routine makes this a good place to find imagery on a specific location or topic. Use the "Browse" tab to browse a pre-selected set of images in each of several hundred categories; the "Options" menu gives you direct access to several specific databases.
  
• Hotlink for 13 to 20 May, 2001
  The Peace Corps World Wise Schools Program
  This information-packed addition to the Peace Corps site offers many resources for educators and students. Educators can set up correspondence between their students and a volunteer, or access lesson plans on countries and cultures; students can view country information and maps, or use a workbook to learn about cultures, or access folktales, letters, stories, videos, and a section called "A Day In The Life". There is also a section of facts about the Peace Corps, and help in contacting returned volunteers for class projects or information.
  
• Hotlink for 20 to 27 May, 2001
  The Medieval Technology Pages
  No, Medieval Technology is not an oxymoron. These remarkable Medieval Technology Pages at NYU are an attempt to provide accurate, referenced information on technological innovation and related subjects in western Europe during the Middle Ages, everything from Agricultural Tools and Arabic Numerals to Windmills and the Wine Press. There are several ways to access this information. The most direct method is through the Subject Index which provides direct access to all the technology pages. Many of the articles are also present in a historical Timeline. And material can be found by examining the References which back-reference all articles through the sources used.
  
• Hotlink for 27 May to 3 June, 2001
  Online Map Collections, US Library of Congress
  The Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress holds more than 4.5 million items of which only a small number have been converted to digital form. The focus here is Americana and Cartographic Treasures. The images are mostly restricted to older items, not covered by copyright protection. The directory is organized according to seven major categories; a map will usually be assigned to only one category, so searching will provide the most complete results since the indexes for all categories are searched simultaneously. Maps can be downloaded.
  
• Hotlink for 3 to 10 June, 2001
  London Walks -- Other Links Page
  One of the best methods for learning your way around a city is to walk it, especially to walk it with somebody who knows it well. London Walks is one of the oldest and best-known "city walk" companies, and their website has lots of information about what they do, where they go, etc. But their "links" page is also very useful -- links to walking tours in 20 other cities, hotel and home-exchange links for the UK, and a lot of very useful tourism links for many parts of Europe. If you're one of the millions heading for Europe this Summer, this page is probably worth a visit.
  
• Hotlink for 10 to 17 June, 2001
  Virtual Museum -- Canada
  A very deep and complex site that allows visitors to taste some of the richness of "the stories and treasures held in trust by Canada's museums". "VMC Exhibits" includes several multimedia productions that use materials and exhibits from Canada's museums. There are also several other subdirectories: the "Image Gallery" can be searched by object or artist; "Fun and Games" includes interactive activities about Canada's peoples and history and geography; "Teachers' Centre" offers lessons, exercises, games, exhibits, and more; you can also find a museum for your particular interest, or see what's on in different museums this week, or purchase museum souvenirs and replicas in the CyberBoutique. Finally, and possibly most interesting, is "MY Personal Museum", which allows you to create a museum around themes and artifacts of your own choosing, specifying layouts and more.
  
• Hotlink for 17 to 24 June, 2001
  Crowding The Rim
  Natural Hazards (volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes, and more) around the Pacific Rim are making a lot of news as they stress and endanger the region's growing population and developing economies. An international partnership, of public and private participants, has been formed by Stanford University, the American Red Cross, the U.S. Geological Survey, and others. They are planning an international, multi-disciplinary summit in August, plus the development of educational modules and a GIS database, and workshops throughout the Pacific Basin. Take a look at this site to see what they're doing, and how to participate.
  
• Hotlink for 24 June to 1 July, 2001
  Current Value of Old Money
  A very interesting hotlist created by a science librarian at the University of Exeter; not a tool by itself, but a list of links to online tools which teachers and students can use to compare inflation, costs of living, and more for many different periods in history. Ancient Rome, Medieval Britain, and Colonial America are some of the periods featured. Many links to explore, linking geography, money, and history.
  
• Hotlink for 1 to 8 July, 2001
  Online Anthropology Exhibits
  The California Academy of Science sponsors this interesting site; don't miss the "History of Eating Utensils," with its explanations of how knives, forks, spoons and chopsticks came to be used commonly for the consumption of food. Look a little farther, and you will find online exhibits that can supplement many areas of your geography or social studies curriculum, such as "The Pacific Voyages of Rollo Beck," "Native Alaskan Graphic Arts," and "Ceramics of the Persian Empire." There are also very useful links to other areas of the Academy's work.
  
• Hotlink for 8 to 15 July, 2001
  
  • National Geographic Mapmachine
  • ESRI Interactive Maps
  • Geography Network Interactive Maps
  • US Geodetic Survey Maps -- US Only
  • US Census Bureau Tiger Mapping Service
  In addition to introductory GIS packages like ArcVoyager, folks interested in doing some simple interactive mapping should try some of the horde of interactive mapping sites on the web today. It's quite compelling stuff, especially if you have reasonably fast internet connection! Here's a starter sample, with "world on down" and "US only" options.
  
• Hotlink for 15 to 22 July, 2001
  Waypoint Databank
  A very large collection of "waypoints" for GPS use. A waypoint is the latitude and longitude of a location, which you can enter into your GPS to plan a route between different locations. But, if you're looking for the latitude and longitude of almost any kind of significant location (airports, historic sites, important buildings, etc), you can find it here, even if you don't happen to have a GPS unit.
  
• Hotlink for 22 to 29 July, 2001
  Earth Trends, The Environmental Education Portal
  This is the World Resources Institute's new interactive website. It is intended to be a portal for timely and accurate global environmental and sustainable development information. There are five ways to explore the site: a searchable database, maps, country profiles, text and graphics "features" pieces, and pre-formatted datatables. You can use these tools to access information in ten topic areas: coastal and marine ecosystems; forests and grasslands; water resources and freshwater systems; agriculture and food; climate and atmosphere; population, health, and human well-being; economics and business; energy; biodiversity and protected areas; and environmental governance.
  
• Hotlink for 29 July to 5 August, 2001
  The Buddha
  An unbelievably beautiful multimedia demo on Buddhism. It could be useful as an in-class teaching demo or for out of class homework assignments in cultural geography. As the page loads (over 600K!, but worth every second of the wait), try moving your cursor around on it to see what happens; after the preface, you get an introduction that runs by itself, and then a "menu" which is structured as 7 water lilies -- "taking refuge", "five precepts", "noble truths", "eightfold path", "loving kindness", "merits", and "last words". An astounding piece of work, hosted on a Malaysian site.
  
• Hotlink for 5 to 12 August, 2001
  Six Friends
  Six Friends is a site designed as a compilation of "Resources for Christian Families Living With a Visual Impairment", and there is a definite Christian bias in the links chosen here, but the author is very careful to be respectful of different doctrinal and moral viewpoints. The reason I have listed the site here is this spectacular page, "Books (and Other Materials) in Alternative Formats"; this is a portal to websites about, and materials by, authors from Aesop to T.S. Eliot, including Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, St. Augustine, Mark Twain, and more. It also includes links to libraries that have been digitized, folk songs from around the world, newspapers from around the world, and all sorts of assistive and adaptive technologies. Worth a visit.
• Hotlink for 12 to 19 August, 2001
  Teaching Time
  A site to bookmark and refer to whenever you find yourself having to teach about time, and specifically about analog and digital clocks, and how to tell time. A software developer in the UK created this site to support teachers as they teach about time; it uses both analog and digital clocks. Initial teaching can be done using the whole class clock, where the teacher can manipulate the time shown and ask students "What time is it now?", "What time will it be in...?" Worksheets are available for individual or group work (you can easily print different worksheets for each child in your class), and when students are ready for a proficiency challenge, there are interactive games for the five years of primary school, all with clocks, increasingly challenging through the years.
  
• Hotlink for 19 to 26 August, 2001
  World Resources Institute Earthtrends Portal
  The World Resources Institute in Washington, DC has a new online environmental almanac packed with facts and figures. Data covers more than 140 countries plus regional and global trends. Energy, human population, agriculture, food, climate, ecoregions, preservation, and species are just some or the topics included. And you may also be amazed at the very sophisticated use of java.
  
• Hotlink for 26 August to 2 September, 2001
  Great Images in NASA
  A new NASA collection; over 1000 images, chosen for their historical interest, which can be browsed by subject, NASA Center, or Keyword. These are high-resolution images, so some of them are extraordinarily large and consequently slow to download, but they are remarkable images highlighting events and discoveries throughout NASA's history, and valuable in a number of classroom settings.
  
• Hotlink for 2 to 9 September, 2001
  Powers of 10
  Charles and Ray Eames developed a film called "Powers of 10", on the relative sizes of things in the universe. Kees Boeke, in The Netherlands, created a book that told the same story. Now, there is a javascript version. This site is actually all about optics, but this particular segment has great utility for geography teaching, particularly about scale. Rather than zooming in on the hand of the person lounging on the Lake Michigan beach in Chicago like the movie did, this one zooms in on a single leaf in south-central USA. The WWW just doesn't get any better than this. (Take a look at the details of the original film, and order it if you're interested, by Clicking Here.
  
• Hotlink for 9 to 16 September, 2001
  Images of Early Maps on the Web
  This page is maintained by Tony Campbell at the British Library; it is a very comprehensive listing of early maps that are available on the Web. The sites are indexed by region as well as by theme, and there is a large first section of "general and miscellaneous" sites. Be sure to click on "About This Listing", which explains how to find your way around, the best ways to view maps online, how to use search engines and directories to find what you want, and includes a very useful section on technical matters such as image quality and how to cite electronic images in derivative works. A user-friendly and useful page. Campbell's main page, Gateway To The History of Cartography, can be found at http://www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/maps/.
  

• Hotlink for 16 to 23 September, 2001
  NASA's Planetary Photojournal
  A collaboration between NASA's Planetary Data System Imaging Node, the Solar System Visualization Project, and JPL's Media Relations Office, the site give you easy access to all the public documents available from the various Solar System exploration programs. Nearly 3000 images, of everything from the Sun to Pluto, plus planetary moons, various comets and several asteroids.
  
• Hotlink for 23 to 30 September, 2001
  Permanent Missions to the United Nations
  The UN sponsors this website. It has many useful subdirectories, including links to the websites of all the Permanent Missions, (which themselves have links to information about their respective countries, governments, cultures, etc.). There is also a search engine which allows you to search all the web sites of all the Permanent Missions, so you can easily compare what each one has to say about monetary policy or refugees (or whatever). You can also link directly to UN.ORG resources, which suggests that you might be interested to note that this site uses the new top-level domain name "int", or "international", and not un.org.
  
• Hotlink for 30 September to 7 October, 2001
  The European Union On-Line
  A huge amount of information can be found here, about the European Union and about its member states. After selecting your language of choice (the site is available in 11 languages), you can read "News", with good discussions of key issues, or read about the "Activities" of the EU, in 28 areas ranging from Agriculture to Transport, or you can learn about the different institutions of the EU, read its official documents, or you can learn, in the "ABC" section, all about EU history, symbols, and treaties. At European Governments On-Line you can see the official government sites of EU members, and of non-member European states.
  
• Hotlink for 7 to 14 October, 2001
  Live Weather Images
  A very extensive privately-run weather data site. The main weather page includes current images, forecast maps, satellite imagery, doppler radars, plus surf and aviation information. Also includes an "interactive page" at which you can calculate sunrise and sunset, heat and wind chill indices, and tides, and wide selection of weathercams.
  
• Hotlink for 14 to 21 October, 2001
  World History Maps from HRW
  Holt, Rinehart and Winston have published on the web a very useful and wide-ranging collection of maps. This page is the directory for their World History maps -- with subdirectories of maps covering everything from "The Beginnings of Civilization" to "The World Since 1945". There is also a nice collection of outline maps, useful in a variety of ways (including as tools for the" Mapping The World By Heart" curriculum). You might also find their American History Maps Section useful.
  
• Hotlink for 21 to 28 October, 2001
  Action-Dignite-Humaine
  A huge and complex site dedicated to human dignity and global understanding. On this page, "The World and More...", a world map allows you to select a region, and each region brings up a list of countries (and other entities) within that region, which you can select, and this opens a page of information and links about that country. Other main headings include "Acting Positively", "The World of Employment", "The Juridical World", "Life Surroundings", "Useful Information", "The Humane World", "The World of Health", and "The World of Disability". The English translations are imperfect ("usefull informations"), but clear.
  
• Hotlink for 28 October to 4 November, 2001
  The Trail Database
  A phenomenal database, organized for browsing or for searching, that catalogues the world's hiking trails. Hiking trails from Samoa to Finland, from Bhutan to the Cape Verde, are listed, described, mapped, and explained. The site manager, Henk, has his own collection of "Henk's Hikes", while many hikes and locations are submitted by others. The page begins with a useful set of links on safety and health and maps and weather and lodging.
  
• Hotlink for 4 to 11 November, 2001
  Kindergarten Resources
  Pages specifically for Kindergarten are not usually chosen for our weekly hotlink, but this is a well-conceived and broadly applicable list for educators at many levels. It's not a site, it's just a one-page "Internet Hotlist" compiled by a "tech integrator" in Ottawa. There are links to the Ontario Curriculum (worth a visit even if you're not teaching in Ontario), but also lots of very useful and even remarkable links on language arts, broad themes, learning-center ideas, and more.
  
• Hotlink for 11 to 18 November, 2001
  Earth Calendar
  A fascinating site, presenting a vast worldwide "holiday" database in selectable ways. For example, "Holidays By Religion" gives you holiday listings for several of the world's major religions, and also for Zoroastrianism, Wiccan & Witchcraft, and Stregherian. Among the nicest feature: select "holidays by country", and you're given a list of countries; when you pass your cursor over the name of a country, its national flag is shown. Be aware that the word "Holiday" is interpreted quite broadly -- not only will you find well-known and important days -- days of independence and other national and regional celebration days, but, for example, you will also find listed in the U.S. section such "holidays" as "Elvis's Birthday" and "National Clean Off Your Desk Day". Still, an impressive and thoughtful compilation, worth bookmarking.
  
• Hotlink for 18 to 25 November, 2001
  ESRI Map Book Gallery
  Every year, GIS users from around the world bring samples of their work to the ESRI User Conference. ESRI selects a sample and produce a mapbook, which is released at the following year's conference. These maps and stories show how hundreds of thousands of people across the world are using GIS to analyze data and solve problems. The 16th map book, prepared for the 2001 User Conference, is now online. Special care went into making this volume accessible to educators with a range of Internet access speeds. You'll see examples from agriculture, business, cartography, conservation, disaster planning, electric & gas, environmental, geology, government, health & human services, law enforcement, local government, military, natural resources, oceans & seas, petroleum, pipeline, planning, public safety, telecommunications, tourism, transportation, and water & wastewater.
  
• Hotlink for 25 November to 2 December, 2001
  WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
  Thousands of links in a huge range of topics related to international affairs. There are media sources -- International TV and radio listings, journals and magazines; there are listings of and links to every imaginable organization -- NGO's, IGO's, the UN, EU, and US, and research organizations; and there are detailed listings by region and country, as well as by topic.
  
• Hotlink for 2 to 9 December, 2001
  The Canadian West
  A lovely little site, full of useful information, centered on the question: How did Westward expansion play out in what is now the Canadian provinces? The first section, "Anticipation" allows you to access early maps that show European cartographers' best guesses at the western lands. Under "Contact", learn how the fur trade and scientific expeditions impacted the future of the land and the peoples living there; finally, under "Accommodation", you can witness the urbanization and industrialization of Canada in the 1920s.
  
• Hotlink for 9 to 16 December, 2001
  Kidon Media Link
  If you're looking for a media website from anwywhere in the world, this is a very powerful place to begin. Select a region, or a specific country, and the site returns links to TV, Web, Press, and Magazine sites for that region or country. Quickly find and read the latest Afghan news from newspapers throughout South Asia; see what European newspapers are saying about events in the US. You can also see what's on TV tonight in Islamabad, or read local news in local languages around the world.
  
• Hotlink for 16 to 23 December, 2001
  mesoamerican Ballgame
  Take me out to the ballgame, as played in Mesoamerica, the subtropical area between present-day countries of Mexico and El Salvador. Learn about the eight major cultures found in this area between 1500 BC and 1519 AD, as well as the effect of the Spanish conquest in this region. Then, explore the architecture of the court, as well as the the balance between sport and religion within the game. Offline activities include creation of masks, clay effigies, headresses and clay ballgame figurines.
  
• Hotlink for 23 to 30 December, 2001
  The Euro
  On New Years Day, "E-Day," the citizens of 12 European countries -- Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain -- will start using a single currency, the "euro." You can find EVERYTHING you could possibly want to know about the euro at this site; there's still more information at The Euro Press Kit Page. If you want to see what the new euro notes and coins look like, take a look at Euro Banknotes and Coins. To see exchange rates, check The Euro Conversion Page . Daily news can also be gleaned from Yahoo's Euro page. Finally, check the UK Yahoo page which covers the debate about whether the UK should, or should not, join the European Monetary Union: Yahoo's Euro-debate page.
  
• Hotlink for 30 December, 2001 to 6 January, 2002
  The United Nations
  Redeisgned and extensive, the United Nations website provides all kinds of information on programs, issues, member nations, and more; also worth a visit: The UN Wire Website. The United Nations Foundation redesigned the site and it offers an improved look, along with greatly enhanced functionality. It continues to feature the most current information on UN and international events.
  

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