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The World Book web site offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides. World Book is publisher of the World Book Encyclopedia.

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Hollywood in the 1920s: US History for Kids ***

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Find a summary, definition and facts about the Hollywood in the 1920s for kids. United States history and the Hollywood in the 1920s. Information about the Hollywood in the 1920s for kids, children, homework and schools.

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Facts about the Great Lakes | Science with Kids.com

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The Great Lakes are one of the Earth's best natural resources. The five Great Lakes including Lake Erie, Michigan, Huron, Ontario and Lake Superior were carved out thousands of years ago by glaciers during the ice age. Now stands 5 huge freshwater lakes that provide many resources including water to the people living around the lakes. Find out interesting facts for kids to learn about the Great Lakes.

The Great Lakes contain 20 percent of the world's surface fresh water.

The 5 Great Lakes include Lake Erie, Michigan, Superior, Huron and Ontario.

The Great Lakes are part of the St. Lawrence Seaway shipping route, allowing boats to travel from the Great lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. This is an important shipping route for Great Lakes cities like Chicago, Buffalo, Toronto, Green Bay, Toledo, Cleveland and Detroit.

The Great Lakes border 7 U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario. The U.S. states bordering the Great Lakes are Ohio, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.

The total water surface area of the Great Lakes is over 95,000 square miles (246,000 square kilometers).

The state of Michigan borders 4 of the 5 Great Lakes (does not border Lake Ontario).

The Great Lakes water system is the largest inland shipping system in the world.

From the furthest point west on the Great Lakes to where the Saint Lawrence River empties into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, covers a distance of over 1900 miles (3058 kilometers).

Lake Erie is the shallowest and warmest of the Great Lakes with an average depth of only 62 feet (19 meters). Lake Erie is the only Great Lake sitting entirely above sea level.

With its warmer temperatures, Lake Erie also has the most fish species of any of the Great Lakes.

Lake Superior is the deepest Great Lake, with an average depth of 483 feet (147 meters0.

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world. Lake Superior has an area of 32,000 square miles (83,000 sq. km). In terms of depth and volume of water, Lake Superior is not the largest lake in the world. Lake Baikal in Siberia has a maximum depth of 5577 feet (1700 meters), which is greater than Lake Superior's maximum depth of 1332 feet (406 meters).

Salt and gypsum were or are currently being mined from under Lake Erie, indicating that this lake may have contained salt water at one time. Salt mines currently extend thousands of feet under the lake, near Cleveland, Ohio.

Water from Lake Superior, Michigan, Huron and Erie flows over Niagara Falls to the Niagara River into Lake Ontario.

Michigan's coastlines with Lake Erie, Michigan, Huron and Superior includes 3288 miles (5294 kilometers) of coastline. This is more coastline than California and Florida. Only Alaska has more coastline than Michigan.

Lake St. Clair, which is located near Detroit, is a large lake helping to connect Lake Huron to Lake Erie and is part of the Saint Lawrence Seaway shipping route. It is not considered a "great lake", but many consider it the sixth Great Lake. It is the 15th largest lake in the United States (430 square miles).

The war of 1812 was fought between the English and America on the Altantic Coast, Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes. The first victory by the United States was won at the Great Lakes.

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Find out the most interesting and important facts about the Great Lakes for kids. The Great Lakes are the largest group of fresh water lakes in the world. The 5 Great Lakes are located between Canada and the United State.

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Learn About the Park - Statue Of Liberty National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)

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Internet:

The Empire State Building official website is an excellent source for information and resources, including historical timelines, photos, and fun facts. Click here

The New York Public Library's Digital online collection hosts Lewis Wicke Hine's historical photographs of the Empire State Building. Click here

The Skyscraper Museum is not only an excellent follow-up trip to your Empire State Building venture, but also has a wealth of knowledge about all things skyscraper. Click here

PBS.org's "Building Big" covers a number of skyscrapers with facts relating to size, costs, appearance, etc. Click here

The following interview, "How The Irish Built An American Icon" (from The Gotham Gazette), is with author Thomas Kelly, who discusses his novel, Empire Rising. The interview offers good insights into who these workers were and the conditions under which they worked. Click here

GreatestBuildings.com hosts fantastic photographs and information on the Empire State Building. Click here

Project East built a 6' to-scale model of the Empire State Building. The details are astounding and the replication is extremely precise. It is useful in identifying architectural terms for students. Click here

The Great Depression: The Tolt Middle School Resource Center has gathered a great number of useable links on the Great Depression, the era during which the Empire State Building was constructed. Click here One of the links is an extensive timeline hosted by the University of Virginia. Click here

The New Deal Network is a robust online collection of primary source materials for teacher and students created by The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute. Click here

The New York Times hosts a web special entitled "Looking Back At The Crash Of '29." Click here

Video:

The 1999 PBS documentary, New York ("Cosmopolis," Episode Five, 1919-1931) is an amazing film by Ric Burns. The fifth episode focuses on the skyscraper building races of the late 1920s-early 1930s and the Great Depression. Click here

The Great Depression: Stories of a Generation's Struggle for Democracy (1993)
"Somehow, in the hardest of times, with America slipping away, our parents and grandparents found the courage to fight their way out," begins The Great Depression, an unprecedented seven-hour public television series. "Nothing turned out exactly the way they planned. What began in the roaring twenties ended when war exploded in the forties. They may have done an imperfect job, some lost their nerve and some gave their lives. But by the time the Great Depression was over, they had done better than simply save America, they had made a new America." The Great Depression offers the untold story of how Americans responded to the greatest crisis to confront them in twentieth century. Click here

Books:

For Children

Joe and the Skyscraper: The Empire State Building in New York City
by Dietrich Neumann (Prestel Publishing, 1999, Grades 3 to 5)
Tells the story of the construction of the Empire State Building through the experiences of sixteen-year-old Joe Carbonelli, whose job it was to carry drinking water up to the other workers.

For Teens and Adults

Empire Rising (Fiction)
by Thomas Kelly (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005)
One of the thousands of men who come to work on the Empire State Building in 1930 is an Irish immigrant. He meets a woman artist who is chronicling the rise of the building through her paintings. Unfortunately, she is also connected to the era's corrupt Tammany Hall and the New York City underworld.

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Internet: The Empire State Building official website is an excellent source for information and resources, including historical timelines, photos, and fun facts. Click here The New York Public Library's Digital online collection hosts Lewis Wicke Hine's historical photographs of the Empire State Building. Click here