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How many pennies would it take build a structure as large as the Empire State Building or to cover a football field? Visualizing large numbers isn’t easy, but this week’s CoolTool site, The MegaPenny Project, attempts to do just that. If you’ve ever wondered what a trillion looks like, you’ll learn the answer here: http://www.learnthenet.com/english/features/cooltool.htm

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1. Learn how to make a movie: http://www.admitone.org/

2. Take a virtual trip to London: http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/

3. Experience Volkswagen concept cars: http://www.vw.com/concept/

4. Relive Nixon's meeting with Elvis: http://www.nara.gov/exhall/nixon_elvis/index.html

5. Find out how a web server works: http://webcompare.internet.com/webbasics/index.html

6. Explore Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre: http://shakespeare.eb.com/

7. Enjoy classics at the Museum of Television and Radio: http://www.mtr.org/

8. Discover the history of plumbing in the White House: http://www.plumbingproducts.com/hiswhitehouse.html

9. Browse through the Encyclopedia of the Orient: http://www.i-cias.com/e.o/

10. Review the best political cartoons of 2001: http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/Bestof2001/main.asp

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