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Open Clip Art

On March 27, 2012 By

Looking for clip-art for a specific project that you can use privately or commercially?

Open Clipart states:

This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use.

Almost all of the clipart on Open Clipart is user created.  All of it is licensed under a [...]

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A modern free ebook about the biggest cats in the world!  From the collaborators at Wikipedia comes another great Wikijunior book- Big Cats.

From the forward:

Wild cats are some of Earth’s grandest treasures, and their stories excite the imagination of kids of all ages. Many of these lords of the wild are [...]

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All horses very curious are
And things which they espy afar
Arouse their curiosity:
They wonder what on earth they see.

With ears pricked up and cautious mien
They come to see. When they have seen,
They snort and turn and off they scurry
In a contemptuous [...]

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Geometry is one of the most elegant fields in mathematics. It deals with visual shapes that we know from everyday life.

Parents and students that are looking for a more modern text that they can use in math studies now have a free option in WikiBooks.

From the creators of Wikimedia, WikiBooks attempts [...]

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Free Sheet Music

On December 23, 2011 By

The Mutopia Project offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others.

We also host a growing number of modern editions, arrangements and new music. The respective editors, arrangers and composers [...]

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Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah, come light the menorah
Let’s have a party, we’ll all dance the hora
Gather round the table, we’ll give you a treat
Dreidels to play with and latkes to eat

And while we are playing
The candles are burning low
One for each night, they shed [...]

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Physics For Free

On November 16, 2011 By

The website Physics for Free is a very plain looking place.  It contains three free books written by Frank Firk, former Chairman of the Department of Physics at Yale.

The great thing about these pdf downloads is that they are expressly copyright-free.

The three books build off one another and are perfect for advanced high [...]

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Mr. President Radio Show

On September 23, 2011 By

These old radio show episodes are fun to listen to and a great addition to any study of American history.  The point of the show was to try to guess which president was being “acted” out by the voice talent.

Click to listen to the episodes online, or right-click “save link as” [...]

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