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Sea clocks : the story of longitude
"For hundreds of years ships had been sailing to places far and near without really knowing where they were!" Sailors knew how to measure latitude, their location north or south of the equator, but they could not measure longitude, their location east or west of their home port. Because of this, many lives were lost worldwide. The key to solving this problem lay in devising a clock that could …
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- 9780439024426
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- 48 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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- 526 BOR
Caps, hats, socks, and mittens : a book about the four seasons
A host of season-specific images and activities include steaming mugs of cocoa, fall leaves, sleigh-riding, running in the rain, playing baseball, and trick-or-treating.
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- 0590448722
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- 32 pages : illustration : 22 cm
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- 508 BOR
A. Lincoln and me
Skinny as a beanpole and tall for his age, an awkward young boy learns that Abraham Lincoln was called "gorilla, baboob, backwards hick." Yet along with big feet and big hands, Lincoln had a big heart and the great ability to keep a nation together. And what the boy learns as he studies Lincoln opens his mind to great possibilities for his own future.
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- 9780439862776
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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