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1. Take a tour of a fire engine: http://www.city.davis.ca.us/fire/tour/

2. Enter the world of Charles Dickens: http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/index.html

3. Transform paper into origami creations: http://www.oriland.com/learning/practice/practice.asp

4. Turn a room into a camera obscura: http://brightbytes.com/cosite/cohome.html

5. Discover the history of time keeping: http://physics.nist.gov/GenInt/Time/time.html

6. Read spy letters from the American Revolution: http://www.si.umich.edu/spies/

7. Explore the life of Britain’s Queen Mother: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/obituaries/queen_mother/default.stm

8. Listen to excerpts from Nixon's White House tapes: http://www.c-span.org/executive/presidential/nixon.asp

9. Hear a lecture by anthropologist Margaret Mead: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/audiofiles.html#mead

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