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

1. Tour the Toaster Museum: http://www.toaster.org/

2. Solve toothpick puzzles: http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/madras/maths/toothpickworld/index.html

3. Take online piano lessons: http://www.gopiano.com/

4. Learn how to clog: http://www.radix.net/~jmangin/clogging/

5. Explore Sherwood Forest: http://www.sherwoodforest.org.uk/index2.htm

6. Play the game of Plaque Attack: http://207.69.132.225/games/plak/plak.htm

7. Read the poems of E.E. Cummings: http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=157"

8. Sail the world from the bridge of the Dawn Princess: http://www.princess.com/fleet/dawn/dawn_cam.html

9. View photographs of czarist Russia: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/

10. Marvel at the world's largest roadside attractions: http://www.infomagic.net/~martince/

 

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