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Timelines

Create your own timeline : http://www.ourtimelines.com/ , HistoryWorld : http://www.historyworld.net/default.asp Step-By-Step: Creating A Timeline : http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=6529&o_iid=831&o_lid=831&o_it=831 Food - what people ate: http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html This Day in American Weather History : http://www.weatherforyou.com/history/ American (Smithsonian): http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmah/timeline.htm    Interesting animated timeline/atlas: http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie2.html - great little 10 minute brush-up on the highlights of US history Australian : http://www.foundingdocs.gov.au/timeline/ British : http://www.britannia.com/history/time1.html     BBC : http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/     Ulster : http://www.cruithni.org.uk/ Scottish : http://members.aol.com/skyelander/timeline.html Upper Canada - later Ontario, Canada : http://www.uppercanadagenealogy.com/chronologyS.htm...

Maps

Google Earth : http://valoriez.blogspot.com/2005/07/google-earth-and-moon.html , Maps : http://maps.google.com , http://valoriez.blogspot.com/2005/02/google-maps.html National Atlas of the United States of America : http://nationalatlas.gov/ Maps of the Alsace : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/alsace/maps/ Maps of Scotland : http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/maps-of-scotland.html Oddens’ Bookmarks : http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.php Find out stuff about US places : http://www.epodunk.com/ (also easy links to maps) GNIS : http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic    The GNIS database provides longitude and latitude, but most of the mapping sites use street addresses. But click on a link labeled "GNIS in Google Map" to see its location on a Google map. Or, once you have found the longitude and latitude, you can go to Google Maps and enter that information, either in decimal format (44.798404, -68.827259) or as degrees/minutes/seconds (+44°...