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Congress Approves Daylight-Saving Time

On this date 92 years ago, Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time. Daylight-saving time is the idea of moving the clocks ahead an hour to increase the overall daylight in a day. According to Wikipedia: The practice is controversial. Adding daylight to afternoons benefits retailing, sports, and other activities that exploit sunlight after working hours, but causes [...]

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TPS Teacher Librarian Day 2010

The annual TPS-Colorado Teacher Librarian Day was held this year on February 12th.  The conference, titled “Unpack the Standards – Discover Your Story” was a professional development event for Colorado educators that was hosted by Metropolitan State College of Denver in collaboration with Rocky Mountain PBS, the Denver Public Library, the Colorado History Museum, and [...]

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Andrew Jackson Elected President in 1828 (American Memory)

Andrew Jackson was elected the 7th U.S. President 181 years ago today.  Since Jackson is one of the most famous of Presidents and because there is so much information on him, I thought I’d just do a simple post showing the ease of using the Library of Congress’ American Memory website to quickly find various [...]

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Are You Using Google Reader Yet?

Today I wanted to talk a bit about the power of Google Reader and it’s sharing and social networking capabilities.  If you’ve never used Google Reader you are missing out on the of the most powerful tools you can use while online.  You can read about it on the Wikipedia page, which I highly recommend [...]

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Sam Houston: First President of the Republic of Texas

173 years ago today, Sam Houston was elected as the first president of the Republic of Texas. He served from October 22, 1836, to December 10, 1838, and served a second term from December 12, 1841 to December 9, 1844. After Texas was annexed by the U.S. in 1845, he was elected to the U.S. [...]

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