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ABC-CLIO  American History

• In the US Supreme Court case, Choate v. Trapp
  (1912), the eight thousand plaintiffs were
  members of which two Native American tribes?

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ABC-CLIO World Geography

• What are the two official languages of The
  Republic of Djibouti?
  
• Click on the CLIOVIEW Statistical Tool. Which
  has the greater population growth rate, Albania
  or Andorra?

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ABC-CLIO Modern World History

• What is the title of the first chapter of the
  Little Red Book, Quotations from Chairman Mao
  Zedong?

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Contemporary Literary Criticism Online

• In what year was John Steinbeck born?
• Who wrote the book China Men?

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Culturegrams

• Click on World Edition.
• From the drop down menu select Oceania.
• Then click on the Marshall Islands.
• When was the flag of the Marshall Islands most
  recently adopted?
  
• 2. Click the recipe collection on the top. How
  many recipes from the Marshall Islands do you
  find?

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EBSCOhost

• Click the Literary Reference Center. Click
  Advanced search and deselect everything but short
  stories. How many short stories BY Ernest
  Hemingway are there?
• Go back and click NoveList. What are President
  Obamas favorite books?
  
• Go back and click Points of View. Click Media
  Communications. Click Media Bias. Click the
  Periodicals tab. Who wrote the article Women for
  President Media Bias in Eight Campaigns?

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EBSCOhostContinued

• Go back and click EBSCOhost Web. SelectMas Ultra
  School Edition, the Health Source, and the
  Science Reference Center, then click continue.
  Click Full Text and type stem cell research
  (include the quotation marks) into the search
  window. How many articles do you get?

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EBSCOhostContinued

• Click the Title List for the Newspaper Source.
  Click The Arab News. What is the latest issue
  available?

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Facts on File

• What are the different subject categories?
• How many records are there on Cell Structure and
  Function?

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Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online

• Search Grolier Online for France. How many
  documents do you find?
  
• Search for Martial Arts. Click on the
  Encyclopedia Americana (EA) article. Click Web
  Links (on the right). How many Websites do you
  get?

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Japan Knowledge

• Type in Koizumi. How many hits do you get?

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The Japan Source Japan Info Links

• Go to Japan Info Links and find a Website on
  Kabuki featuring Ichimura Manjiro. Write down
  the URL on your answer sheet.
  
• Go to the ASIJ Author section.In what year did
  Edwin Reischauer graduate from ASIJ?

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NewsBank 

• Click on Access World News.
• Click on The Middle East, then click Iran.
• Scroll down and select the Teheran Times
• Type Barack Obama in the search window and
  specify only hits in the Lead/First paragraph.
  
• How many articles do you get?

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Opposing Viewpoints
Click on Bioethics. Then click the Viewpoints
tab. How many articles do you get?
Click on the Magazine tab. How many magazine
articles come up? How many statistical tables co
me up when you click the Statistics tab?
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Oxford Art Online

• Giovanni Battista Cavalletto ran a workshop of
  considerable repute in which Italian city?

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Oxford English Dictionary Online
1. What is the definition of the word mivvy and
when was it first used?
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Oxford Music Online

• Where did George Gershwin begin his music career?

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Oxford Reference Online Core Collection

• Click into Performing Arts. There is one
  reference book on Dance. What is it called?
  
• Click into Biological Sciences. How many
  reference books are available?

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Teaching Books.Net

• Click into Book Readings. How many selections
  are read by William Faulkner?

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Online Databases
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