Gold posts biggest drop since 1980
Aug. 24 - Business summary: Gold futures fall $104 an ounce in one day, Strong durable goods orders ease concern about another recession; Americans watching Hurricane Irene; Wall Street rallies for a third day. Carmen Roberts reports.
Queen Anne's Lace
Making of Lip Dub
Assessment Motivation: Try Try Your Best
Motivational song created for the NJASK Testing Pep Rally at Roland Rogers Elementary School in Galloway, NJ. The teachers perform the song to the tune of YMCA and even dress u like the village people. (4:58)
Guide to the Microfilmed Records of Pine Creek Presbyterian Church, Fox Chapel, Pa., 1863-1957
The records of the Pine Creek Presbyterian Church contain historical materials, minutes of session and meetings, name indexes, and cemetary records, 1863-1957.
Guide to the Records of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Pennsylvania (miscellaneous po
The Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) was a veterans organization formed in 1866 for soldiers who fought for the North during the American Civil War. This collection contains the microfilmed records of miscellaneous posts in Pennsylvania including the following information: minutes, rosters, personal war sketches, descriptive books, ledgers, and receipt books.
Guide to the Microfilmed Scrapbooks of Marshall W. "Major" Taylor, 1897-1904
Marshall W. ("Major") Taylor, a professional African-American bicycle racer, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on November 26, 1878. The scrapbooks document, through newsclippings from American and foreign presses, the climate of racial opinion in America and abroad as well as Taylor's reactions along with providing more factual information about professional cycling as a national and international sport.
Guide to the Microfilmed Records of Hiland Presbyterian Church, Ross Township (Allegheny Co.) Pa. 18
This collection contains session minutes, church registers, and interment records for Hilard Presbyterian Church, Ross Township, Pa., 1800-1981.
Guide to the Records of the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, 1930-1980
The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust operated as a financial supporter of the arts, culture, and education from 1930 to 1980. The collection documents the internal business operations of the Trust and its relation with the organizations, institutions, and programs that it funded.
Reflecting on Professional Practice - Personal Development Planning
These slides support a module Reflecting on Professional Development and look at personal development planning. The resource has been developed through the Learning from WOeRK project and seeks to support learning in the work place. For an overview of all related modules and resources please visit http://cpdoer.net/collections/
Het deugdenboek voor het onderwijs : Didactische bundel Als leerkrachten kunnen we veel kennis doorgeven. Maar als we daarbij ook kunnen bijdragen tot een positieve karaktervorming van het kind, wordt het plaatje completer. Het Deugdenproject TM en deze didactische bundel …
"The Ancient Days Have Not Departed": Calvin Coolidge on the Spirituality of Commerce
With his famously laconic style, President Calvin Coolidge captured the spirit of the 1920s when he announced in a speech before the Society of American Newspaper Editors that "the chief business of the American people is business." Coolidge's aphorism revealed the centrality of commerce to the nation and its culture in the 1920s, even while it concealed some of the wrenching cultural changes that were required to accommodate a commercial civilization. Coolidge, as a son of rural Vermont and sma
VUCast Extra: Walking welcome for new ‘Dores
Music and cheerleaders and new ‘Dores – oh my! Check out Founders Walk – a tradition that welcomes new students and gets them in step with the Vanderbilt experience.
Welcome Back Wildcats
As the new school year commences, students re-emerge, eager to make this year the best the University of Arizona has seen. Our returning students and faculty welcome a new freshman class as they begin to find their place here at the University.
Chaos at Baghdad mosque blast site
Aug 29 - Terrified women and children run from the scene of a bomb blast at a Baghdad mosque, where at least 24 people were killed. Travis Brecher reports.
Nigerian president visits U.N. blast site
Aug. 27 - Nigeria's president Goodluck Johnathan visits the United Nations building in Abuja where a car bomb blast killed 19 people on Friday. Deborah Gembara Reports.
Advanced Audio Blog S3 #9 - Comida de la Sierra: Food of the Highlands
Learn Spanish with SpanishPod101.com! During your travels through Spanish-speaking Latin America, you’re staying with a family in the Andes Mountains in Peru. They’ve taken you on tours and introduced you to their nearby family members and pets. You find out they raise guinea pigs, and you tell them you had a guinea pig named Sally [...]
Learn Chinese for Kids : Counting 5-6-7-8
This is a fun, animated way for kids to learn Chinese numbers. (05:43)
"Sarabande on Attaining the Age of Seventy Seven" by Anthony Hecht (poetry reading)
The Sarabande is a stately dance. I suppose that when one gets old, then one considers one's age an accomplishment, our continued existence becomes more and more precarious. Harbingers are messengers bringing bad news, in this case grey hairs. He mentions other infirmities: wizening, tooth decay, loss of acquaintances. These things we have to look forward to. It's all downhill from here on, folks. The dance has to end sometime.
The picture of Anthony came from here, where there's a perso
Sunday Service - 8/28/2011 - Sam Wells
A service of worship in Duke University Chapel. The Rev Dr Samuel Wells delivers a sermon entitled "Six Steps to Heaven." What it means to know God.
Sermon begins at 43:13.
Exodus 3:1-15
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