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 | | Marie Curie | | by shmz, Sep 29, 2008 | | Biography of Marie Curie, the inventor of modern nuclear technology. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 3 |
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 | | Ensuring the Silence: The Effects of ‘Naming’ on the Caribbean Colonized | | by Kaz Silvestri, Sep 28, 2008 | | Naming becomes a powerful symbol for the colonial experience, one that the colonized people learn to use to their own benefit. The oppressed people give themselves secret names, strong and empowering names, and even fake names for protection. The act of naming becomes a means of control for the colonizers and a means of strength and defiance for the colonizers. All attempts at ensuring the silencing of a race failed in the end. They would be heard. Their names would be remembered. They would break the silence and the future would be theirs. | | Comments(1) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | Scrabble Board Game and Its Beginnings | | by Tel Asiado, Sep 28, 2008 | | Scrabble, originally called Lexico, is a board game enjoyed by both children and adults. It's gone a long way since it was conceived by its inventor, Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect who loved word games. The name Scrabble® is a registered trademark. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Indian Ingenuity | | by catkima, Sep 28, 2008 | | Brief Introduction to Native Woodland Indian Technology of the past compared to that of the modern era and also to a lesser degree, to that of the Euro-American cultures of the colonial era. This study is being done to help eliminate, if not eradicate Native stereotypes and to explore the past as a relevant counterpart to our high tech computer age. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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