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Cotton Mather thought that New England suffered as much as any other portion of the world from lightning, or, as he termed it, thunder, it being in his day generally supposed that thunder and not lightning caused the damage. Lightning had struck buildings, trees, animals and people from the time of the earliest settlement, but it does not appear to have caused very much damage in any one season until 1768. The scattered buildings and people had but slight chance of being injured by lightning on account of their small number and wide separation.

K-12 education's early steps in movement to an all digital curriculum. Students in 4th, 7th, and 9th grade social studies will be on an iPad.

Images are from the Burnes collection of historically amazing images.

URL shortener for websites (From Google)

JOG THE WEB is a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique.

New chapter added to "Journey to America," a journal by Heinrich Gudehus, published in 1828

Videos from KidsGov.

Google Earth Layers that also connect to Norton Publishing.

Create Avatars to speak to your students.

A great sight for yes/no debates or for discussion of the importance of a range of factors.

Here is an additional site to save to your list of Constitutional Day resources.

Madison's Notes from the Constitutional Convention. 

Want to give some design feedback on a site (or another 10k Apart entrant)? You can, with TinyBounce! Grab a screenshot of a website, add notes to it, then save your feedback and send the link to your friends (or enemies). TinyBounce is the smaller, sleeker little brother to Bounce (bounceapp.com)

The 3rd Annual Market at Washingtonburg was held at the US Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on September 10-12 this year. On Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, various demonstrations were held to reflect the the period when the Carlisle Barracks was known as Washingtonburg during the Revolutionary War. The Carlisle Barracks was established during the French and Indian War. There were demonstrations of French and Indian War field tactics, the use of an 18th century forge, and Revolutionary War tactics.

Test your legal and historical know-how in this quiz of Supreme COurt decisions and constitutional controversies.