Oxley Learners

from Marxists.org

"Marxists Internet Archive: Zhu De "

Massive collection of brief biographies of world rulers and leaders.

"Stefan R. Landsberger's site with basic info and good posters.

The purpose of this website is to provide a summary overview of the First World War. A word of caution however; this is by no means an academic website. It's authored as spare time permits and is geared towards a general rather than scholarly readership. Given this, it is not recommended that this site be used for academic reference purposes for school or university papers. This does not so much indicate a concerning lack of authorial confidence in the accuracy of site content as an acknowledgement that material on the site has not been submitted for formal peer review.

Our inflation calculator will tell you the relative buying power of a dollar in the United States between any two years from 1914-2009.

The Slowman home, the same one-level cinderblock structure his family had lived in for nearly a half-century, was contaminated with potentially dangerous levels of uranium from the days of the cold war, when hundreds of uranium mines dotted the vast tribal land known as the Navajo Nation.

"Some Playthings," by the distinguished John Hollander, a poet for whom serious and light verse, the formal and the playful, flow forth in equal measure.

GM from 395,000 workers to 38,000. 150 plants to 34. This is the new Century / New Economy

James Hill is a young photographer who epitomizes the best of young digitally savvy "self-starters".

The World is Flat 3.0 - By Thomas Friedman Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman speaks on the MIT campus to discuss the 2007 update to his bestseller The World is Flat. He also provides a preview of his latest book, Hot, Flat, and Crowded.

Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars.

In this lecture on J. D. Salinger's Franny and Zooey, Professor Hungerford presents her argument about religion in the novel as an example to students of how to construct a sound literary critical paper using evidence from the text. Moving between large claims and close readings, Hungerford shows how Salinger prevents his investment in mysticism from becoming mystification by grounding his sense of the divine in the specificity of persons, the importance of family language and love.

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