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1. Take care of your pet: http://www.animaland.org/petcare/

2. Test your knowledge of grammar: http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm

3. Calculate your life expectancy: http://www.retireweb.com/death.html

4. Listen to the Olympic storyteller: http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/greenspan/

5. Marvel at patent models: http://www.patentmodel.org/

6. Browse an encyclopedia of toons: http://www.toonopedia.com/

7. Read an eyewitness account of King Tut's tomb: http://www.ibiscom.com/tut.htm

8. Visit the cathedral of Notre-Dame of Chartres: http://www.chartres-csm.org/us_fixe/index.html

9. Hear Hispano music recordings from the Rio Grande: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/rghtml/rghome.html

10. Watch movies about life in the 20th century: http://www.archive.org/movies/

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