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"Ten Things You Can Do on the Net This Week:" http://www.learnthenet.com/english/features/tenthings.htm

1. Read famous last words: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6537/

 

2. Take care of your houseplants: http://www.plantcare.com/

 

3. Interact with Australia's telerobot: http://telerobot.mech.uwa.edu.au/

 

4. Tour the Cockroach Museum: http://www.pestshop.com/cockroac.html

 

5. Watch the evolution of the Latin alphabet: http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/latin.html

 

6. Soar with aerial kite photography: http://www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/kaptoc.html

 

7. Join in the search for Bigfoot: http://www.bfro.net/

 

8. Strum your way into guitar heaven: http://www.guitar.com/

 

9. Explore James Audubon's multimedia Birds of America: http://employeeweb.myxa.com/rrb/Audubon/

 

10. Follow the journey of a can of beans: http://www.geocities.com/beansaroundtheworld/beanshome.html

 

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