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Water Pollution
Chesapeake Bay, Environmentalism, FYI Articles, Kids Homework Help, Pollution, Rappahannock River, Teen Homework Help, Virginia Johnson, Natural World, Science and Technology, Teacher Resources
01/10/2013 - 12:34pm

Our rivers, lakes, and beaches are beautiful, but are they safe? Every day, the toxic runoff from parking lots, busy roads and quiet subdivisions makes its way into our streams and oceans. Even the oil burning off from cars on the roads gets washed into the groundwater and streams by way of the storm drain every time it rains.

The more houses we build, the more pollution we will add to our environment. Every time we lay down a new parking lot or piece of roadway, there is an impact on our environment.

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Christmas Around the World
Christmas, Customs, December, December kids, Folklore, Holidays, Kids Homework Help, Recipes, Shelley Chick-Gravel, Teen Homework Help, Cooking, Families, History, Multicultural, Religion/Spirituality, Teacher Resources
11/01/2012 - 8:40pm

If it's December, it's time for that familiar topic for reports: Christmas Customs Around the World. Fortunately, the library has a number of resources to help you.

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Here Comes Johnny Appleseed
19th century, Apples, Frontier and pioneer life, Fruit, Teen Homework Help, Virginia Johnson, Autobiography and Biography, History, Natural World, Teacher Resources
05/06/2010 - 10:00am

If you saw a man walking by your house barefoot, wearing old clothes and with a tin pot on his head, you'd likely wonder where on earth he came from. But if you lived in Indiana or Ohio in the early part of the 1800s, you just might recognize your wandering neighbor, Johnny Appleseed.

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The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848
19th century, Mexico, Steve Johnson, Teen Homework Help, Virginia history for kids, War, History, Teacher Resources
04/02/2010 - 2:15pm

In 1821, Mexico finally won its independence from Spain after a long war. It was a lot like the American Revolution against Britain; heroic generals led an army of poor, brave farmers against the Spanish army and by sheer guts wore the Spanish down. The constitution written in 1824 even called the new nation the United States of Mexico. It was larger than the United States, covering all of modern Mexico plus the western third of the modern United States.

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The Powhatan Confederation
History Feature Articles, Indians of North America, Kids Homework Help, Pocahontas, Powhatan Indians, Teen Homework Help, Virginia history for kids, Virginia History
03/15/2010 - 11:02am

By Jane Kosa

Pocahontas, the Powhatan princess who befriended the Jamestown colonists, married the Englishman John Rolfe in 1614, and is believed by many to have saved John Smith's life -- that is why the world knows the Powhatan Confederacy. Her father, Powhatan, almost alone, united the small scattered Algonquian tribes of present-day Virginia and Delaware into a thirty tribe group in the late 1500s. We know this group as the Powhatan Confederacy. The Confederacy included 128 Algonquian villages and 20,000+ people at its peak in the early 1600s.

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Discovering the Lost Colony
16th century, FYI Articles, Historical mysteries, History Feature Articles, Kids Homework Help, North Carolina, Teen Homework Help, Virginia history for kids, Virginia Johnson, History, Teacher Resources, Virginia History
03/15/2010 - 10:59am

Twenty years before Jamestown was founded, over 100 women, men, and children came to Virginia to try their luck at starting a colony. They arrived on the stormy shores of what we know now as North Carolina. They were not the first to land there. Two years before, another group of colonists, all men, gave up trying to settle Roanoke Island and sailed back to England. The supply ships arrived too late to save the abandoned first colony, but they left behind fifteen soldiers to mind the fort who soon vanished into the wilds, driven off by an Indian attack.

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From Pearl Harbor to Midway
Japan, Steve Johnson, Teen Homework Help, Weekly Feature Articles, World War II, History
08/07/2009 - 9:41am

In the summer of 1942, the Japanese were winning their war with the United States. They had sunk or crippled America's battleship fleet at Pearl Harbor, and snapped up a chain of islands across the Pacific which could, if fortified, form an impenetrable barrier to the U.S. Navy. Now the Imperial Japanese Navy was looking for a knockout blow, to destroy the American aircraft carriers before American industry replaced its losses.

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