Web Site Evaluation
Critical Evaluation
Links to Bogus and Hoax Websites
Bogus or Real Web Sites?
Bogus web sites have become a serious problem for those who surf the Internet in search of accurate information. The spoof site, SkyHigh Airlines is one example. Here is a list of links to additional sites that, in some cases, are hard to distinguish between bogus or real.
Sites to Use for Demonstrating Critical Evaluation
• Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanies
• Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
• Boilerplate: Mechanical Marvel of the 19th Century
Boilerplate Man. "Built in a small Chicago laboratory, Boilerplate was originally designed as a prototype soldier for use in resolving the conflicts of nations. Although it was the only such prototype, Boilerplate was eventually able to exercise its proposed function by participating in several combat actions."
• Burmese Mountain Dog
Burmese Mountain Dog is a medium sized, muscular dog originally bred in Burma (Myanmar) to guard Buddhist temples. The Burmese Mountain Dog Club of America was established in 1985 to foster the breed in the United States and the world.
• Buy an Ancestor Online
• California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge
California Velcro Crop Under Attack. "California's important Velcro crop, vital to the clothing, footwear, and sporting goods industries, has been severely stressed by drought, disease, and pests."
• Case Analysis of a Historic Killer Tornado
• Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division
Dihydrogen Monoxide. "Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division (DMRD), currently located in Newark, Delaware. The controversy surrounding dihydrogen monoxide has never been more widely debated, and the goal of this site is to provide an unbiased data clearinghouse and a forum for public discussion."
• Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
• Golden Gate Tunnel ()
• Google Job Opportunities
• Google Technology
• Jacopo di Poggibonsi
• Mankato (MN) Home Page
• MoonBeam Enterprises and Lunar Travel Agency
• History of the Fisher-Price Airplane
• OvaPrima Foundation
• Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
• Taxonomy of Barney
• Visit Exciting Fredericton
Elementary level tutorial for evaluating web sites
Bonzai Kitten. This is a site with very dark humor about raising kittens as one would a Bonzai tree. It takes a while to realize this is not for real.
GenoChoice. "Create your own genetically healthy baby online.From the first human male pregnancy to the first successful medical application of nanotechnology, RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center has dramatically advanced the art, science, and technology of medicine..."
Male Pregnancy."In the years since the first "test tube baby" was born in 1978, physicians and scientists from RYT Hospital have been working to develop a viable technique for the successful impregnation of male individuals."
Mankato, Minnesota. Mecca for scores of knowing Midwesterners. The winter temperature in many Mankato neighborhoods has never dropped below a balmy 70 degrees.
SEC. "McWhortle Enterprises is an established and well-known manufacturer of biological defense mechanisms. Fortune 500 companies routinely use McWhortle Defense systems to protect their far-flung executives living in dangerous areas. These discreet, confidential safeguards have for years given employees and their families peace of mind".
, which claimed in 1999 it was already implanting identification microchips in human beings, created a bit of apocalyptic hysteria in its time -- a cautionary tale for all aspiring Net satirists.
Look up Anyone's Driver's License on the Web!
"Welcome to the National Driver's License Records Bureau Website," this site boasts, "where you can search our online database of over 220 million U.S. driver's license photos and driver's license information currently on file, absolutely FREE."
Man Beef
This controversial site purported to sell "high quality human meat" products, but, like the similarly provocative Bonsai Kitten Website, was just an elaborate prank designed to push people's emotional buttons.
|New Hartford, MN Homepage |descy.NewHartford/newhtfd.html |
|Burmese Mountain Dog |descy.akcj3/bmd.html |
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|Strawberry Pop Tart Blow Torches |sci.tamucc.edu/~pmichaud/toast/ |
|Study of Holocaust Revisionism |revisionist/tr03butzhr.html |
Some pages can still fool even the most seasoned navigator. Students need to think critically and carefully to evaluate any Internet information.
• Aluminum Foil Detector Beanie
• AyleeOrgNetCom Desinternetation
• Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide
• Boilerplate, the Victorian Era Robot
• Bonsai Kitten
• Burmese Mountain Dog
• Buy An Ancestor Online-NEW!
• Cicada Information Source - NEW!
• Click Monkeys
• California Velcro Crop
• Computer Virus Linked to Humans - NEW!
• Continental Drift Cam
• Digital Recomposition for wide screen film to video transfer
• Dog Island - NEW!
• Drivers License Search
• Final Curtain
• Visit Exciting Fredericton - NEW!
• Funky Shoes
• Genochoice
• Greenpeas
• Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
• Hacker Barbie
• Jackalope Conspiracy
• Kresky TV
• Little Known Facts About Women and Aids
• Lunar Travel Agency - NEW!
• Mankato, Minnesota
• McWhortle Enterprises, Inc.
• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
A hoax site set up to teach people how to watch out for scams. The site looks and ‘feels’ real to the people searching the Internet for investment opportunities and is great to use with older secondary students.
A similar site is Parsons Heritage Offshore Opportunities Ltd.
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• Miskatonic University - NEW!
• MoonBeam Enterprises
• New Hartford, Minnesota
• Ova Prima Foundation
• Penguins Conspiracy - NEW!
• Pets or Food - NEW!
• Republic of Molossia - NEW!
• Sasquatch
• Save the Mountain Walrus
• Tass Net Ruslafield Zoo sian Newspaper
• Time Travel Fund - NEW!
• Tree Octopus
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• Wingmakers
Check these sites to verify spoofs, hoaxes, urban legends or myths you may have read about:
• Urban Legends
• CDC Health Hoaxes & Rumors
• Hoaxbusters
• Vmyths
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• FunPhone
Throw away your mobile phone and use this website.
• Haggis Hunt
This funny site adamantly proclaims that a Haggis is a wild animal.
• Ova Prima Foundation
Linger-Not Associates
Investigates which came first - the chicken or the egg.
Randolph Y. Teasley Hospital - Dwayne Medical Center
o Male Pregnancy
o Transgenic Talking Mouse
Sellafield Zoo
John Hopkin, Hull, United Kingdom
Where the wildlife has a half-life
Clones Are Us
• Internet Evaluation - Hoax Sites - compiled by Celita de Armond at U Texas San Antonio
• Questionable Web Sites - good resource page created by Ken Winter, Preston Library, Virginia Military Institute.
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|Secondary ICT: Web Literacy (online video) |
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|Secondary ICT: Web Literacy |
|This programme reveals the critical importance for teachers to provide guidance to their pupils when using the |
|internet for research. |
|A group of Year 9 pupils at Wortley High School in Leeds are asked to look at three websites. The subject matters are|
|Martin Luther King, the holocaust and Victorian robots. |
|None of the websites are what they seem. The first two are fronts for racists and holocaust deniers. The last is a |
|good-natured spoof. None of the pupils spot any problems with the validity, reliability or authority of the sites and|
|many say they would cut and paste information from the sites for use in homework or other projects. |
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|Beluga Whale Facts |
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|Beluga Whale Facts |
|The Beluga Whale, first discovered by Spanish explorers in 1719, is among the most misunderstood sea creatures in the|
|animal world. The Beluga is not a "true whale," but rather a water-breathing fish closely related to the sailfish and|
|marlin. |
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|Note Taking ... not what it seems |
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|Note Taking ... not what it seems "This (evaluating websites lesson)is disguised as a lesson on note taking. It |
|starts with a Flash presentation on how to take effective notes and then sends students to some great bogus web sites|
|created by Jeff Hastings of the Howell School District. |
|The note taking lessons is appropriate for upper elementary and MS." |
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|Jo Cool or Jo Fool |
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|Jo Cool or Jo Fool |
|This interactive online module takes students through a CyberTour of twelve mock Web sites to test their savvy |
|surfing skills. |
|It includes a 20-question online quiz that provides additional food for thought about the Web issues that the brother|
|and sister team Josie and Joseph Cool encounter. |
|Jo Cool or Jo Fool is also accompanied by an extensive Teacher's Guide, that contains background information for |
|teachers, and questions and classroom activities for students, about online issues such as marketing, privacy, |
|safety, responsible Internet use and authenticating information. |
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|Panexa |
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|No matter what you do or where you go, you're always going to be yourself. And Panexa knows this. Your lifestyle is |
|one of the biggest factors in choosing how to live. Why trust it to anything less? Panexa is proven to provide more |
|medication to those who take it than any other comparable solution. Panexa is the right choice, the safe choice. |
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|Titles from the 'Facts About' series |
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|Titles from the "Facts About" series |
|Facts about Beluga Whales | Facts about the American Civil War | Facts about "Huckleberry Finn" | Facts about the |
|Planet Mars | Facts about Sheldrake the Beneficent | Facts about Biomes of the World | Facts about Ancient China | |
|Facts about Albert Einstein | |
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|Gallery of Hoax Websites |
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|Gallery of Hoax Websites |
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|Californians for Ferret Legalization |
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|Californians for Ferret Legalization |
|California is the only State on the continent that prohibits possession of the domestic ferret, although there are |
|currently estimated to be 500,000 here* kept as family pets. |
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|Gullible |
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|Gullible |
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|Looks Too Good To Be True |
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|Looks Too Good To Be True |
|This website was developed to arm you with information so you don? fall victim to these Internet scam artists. |
|Education, good judgment, and a healthy dose of skepticism are the best defenses against becoming a victim. Remember,|
|if it looks too good to be true, it probably is! |
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|Save the Rennets |
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|Welcome to the web site dedicated to saving rennets from unnecessary torture and slaughter. |
|Rennets are small hamster like rodents which are intensively factory farmed and slaughtered for the production of |
|cheese. |
|Rennets are added to milk when making cheese as this aids the coagulation process necessary for the production of |
|cheese. |
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|Victorian-era robots |
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|Here is the most extensive collection of images and information on Victorian-era robots to be found in the whole |
|World Wide Web. |
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|Google Gulp |
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|At Google our mission is to organize the world's information and make it useful and accessible to our users. |
|But any piece of information's usefulness derives, to a depressing degree, from the cognitive ability of the user |
|who's using it. That's why we're pleased to announce Google Gulp (BETA) with Auto-Drink (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of |
|"smart drinks" designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty. |
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|The history of the fisher price aeroplane |
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|Almost forgotten, the Fisher-Price Airplane is a relic from the 1970s, a rare example of a Soviet design that was |
|adopted by Western airlines. It is the predecessor of regional jets, which are beginning to form the backbone of |
|major U.S. airlines. |
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|ova prima |
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|Since 1887, the Ova Prima Foundation has existed for the sole purpose of exploring the mystery and the beauty that is|
|the egg. |
|It is the Foundation's primary objective to continue to build a body of scientific evidence that will shed light on |
|the egg-and-chicken controversy, that most basic of conundrums. The Foundation's long and exciting history began in |
|1865 when Craigorn Shippen discovered the first scientific evidence that the egg came first. |
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|Penguin Warehouse |
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|Welcome to the most respected, domesticated penguin dealer on the Internet! Relax and take a look around our site |
|where you can find information on our company, our products, and what goes into the care of a penguin. Penguin |
|Warehouse, Inc. sells certified purebred penguins, useful penguin books, and many other items to make you and your |
|new pet happy. |
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|Titles from the "Facts About" series |
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|Titles from the "Facts About" series |
|| Facts about Beluga Whales | Facts about the American Civil War | Facts about "Huckleberry Finn" | Facts about the |
|Planet Mars | Facts about Sheldrake the Beneficent | Facts about Biomes of the World | Facts about Ancient China | |
|Facts about Albert Einstein | |
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|Furnetics |
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|Furnetics is the only provider of complete genetic modification solutions. The first genetic engineering Fortune 1000|
|Company, Furnetics continues its tradition of providing safe, effective, and timely alteration services to people |
|around the globe. |
|Please take a moment to discover the wide array of solutions we offer and find which solution is right for you. |
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|The Lunar Travel Agency |
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|The Lunar Travel Agency |
|Moon Beam Enterprise proudly announces the development of the Moon Through innovations and our creative skills we |
|developed several areas of the Moon. Reserve your home in the Sea of Serenity Lunar Colony, Honeymoon at the Sea of |
|Fertility Honeymoon Resort, Rest in Peace at The Sea of Clouds Cemetery, vacation at the Lake of Dreams Lunar Resort,|
|Retire to the Sea of Nectar Retirement Resort, Reserve the right to a Lunar Franchise, send a friend, co-worker, or |
|boss to the Lake of Death Lunar Prison. |
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|Dog Island |
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|Over 2,500 dogs are already enjoying a better life at Dog Island. Separated from the anxieties of urban life, dogs on|
|Dog Island live a natural, healthy and happy life. |
|They live with almost limitless space, and tens of thousands of rabbits, rodents and other natural prey. Surrounded |
|by thousands of other dogs, this is the only place for them to be truly social and create healthy families. |
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|Chemical Castration Bill Becomes Law |
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|Chemical Castration Bill Becomes Law |
|The controversial "Chemical Castration Bill" was accepted into law yesterday. This now provides for chemical |
|castration as the standard punishment for each and every crime or infringement upon the law. It is being hailed as |
|the best determent for crime ever. "I believe it to be an idea whose time has come," said Senator Dale Bumpers from |
|Arkansas. "The American people are finally fighting back against criminals." |
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|Photographs on the Internet .. real or ? |
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|Photographs on the Internet .. real or ? |
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|GenoChoice : RYT Hospital |
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|Thank you for considering GenoChoice to plan the future well-being of you and your family. |
|My name is Dr. Elizabeth Preatner, a prenatal geneticist and embryologist here at GenoChoice. Using our |
|state-of-the-art technologies, you can quite possibly ensure that your child's life may be free of such diseases as |
|cancer, Alzheimer's, and heart disease -- as well as conditions like obesity, aggression, and dyslexia. |
|Our probes and DNA amplifiers can identify these negative genes and eliminate them in your child... all at the |
|pre-embryonic stage! |
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|Build your very own powered aircraft |
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|Build your very own powered aircraft. |
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|The Godsend Institute |
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|The Godsend Institute is a fertility clinic and practice, specializing in the replication of cells for the purpose of|
|creating life from life. We believe those with the power to grant or restore life have an obligation to our community|
|and our world to share that power. At Godsend, we have perfected a procedure by which a single cell could be used to |
|create a genetically identical fetus ?a fetus which could be carried to term and, in effect, be reborn. |
|Godsend is ranked among the leading fertility clinics and research facilities in the world. Our resources are |
|committed to providing exceptional patient care and facilitating continued breakthroughs in the fields of fertility |
|and cell duplication. |
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|Computer Virus Spreads to Human |
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|Computer Virus Spreads to Human |
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|Google Technology |
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|As a Google user, you're familiar with the speed and accuracy of a Google search. How exactly does Google manage to |
|find the right results for every query as quickly as it does? The heart of Google's search technology is PigeonRank? |
|a system for ranking web pages developed by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University. |
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|The White House |
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|The White House |
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|The Vatican Online |
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|The Vatican Online |
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|Boilerplate |
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|Boilerplate was a mechanical man developed by Professor Archibald Campion during the 1880s and unveiled at the 1893 |
|World's Columbian Exposition. |
|Built in a small Chicago laboratory, Boilerplate was originally designed as a prototype soldier for use in resolving |
|the conflicts of nations. Although it was the only such prototype, Boilerplate was eventually able to exercise its |
|proposed function by participating in several combat actions. |
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|Welcome to the eConfessional |
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|Welcome to the eConfessional |
|Please select a sin, start by selecting a category (some sins occur in more than one section). |
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|General Delivery University |
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|General Delivery University |
|This Web site, which provides a comprehensive look over of one of the world's most overlooked virtual universities, |
|should prove to be a welcome surprise to all high school level educators -- teachers and guidance counselors in |
|particular. The site offers a thorough discussion of university Rules and Regulations, including a sample Scholastic |
|Ineptitude Test, a link to the school newspaper, and a discussion of the school's history. |
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|First Genetics |
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|First Genetics |
|"Marty the Mandrill," as we've named him, is also the first genetically engineered organism to show signs of |
|intelligence manipulation through selective chromosome laser enhancement. The result has stunned the science world. |
|Marty is the only primate able to communicate with Homo Sapiens in their own language via typing in fluent English. |
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|Britain for Americans |
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|Britain for Americans |
|This is a guide to Britain written for Americans who may be planning a visit here. Use this guide to help you become |
|familar with the many complex, sometimes strange customs of the British People. |
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|The First Page of the Internet |
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|This is the First Page of the Internet - Everything starts here! |
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|Local officials nearly fall for H2O hoax |
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|Local officials nearly fall for H2O hoax |
|ALISO VIEJO, Calif. - City officials were so concerned about the potentially dangerous properties of dihydrogen |
|monoxide that they considered banning foam cups after they learned the chemical was used in their production. |
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|The Republic of Molossia |
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|The Republic of Molossia |
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|Ziplock bags filled with water rtepell insects |
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|Ziplock bags filled with water rtepell insects |
|What is the deal with the bags of water hanging in restaurants? In the past month I've been enjoying beers on the |
|outdoor patio of various restaurants and noticed large ziplock bags filled with water hanging from the ceiling. A |
|friend told me it is supposed to keep away flies. |
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|RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center |
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|RYT Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center is synonymous with the world's most innovative and extraordinary healthcare. |
|Through its affiliation with Dwayne University Medical College, RYT Hospital is responsible for the cutting-edge |
|research that leads to the clinical treatments of the future. At RYT, medical possibilities become medical |
|breakthroughs. |
|From the first human male pregnancy to the first successful medical application of nanotechnology, RYT |
|Hospital-Dwayne Medical Center has dramatically advanced the art, science, and technology of medicine |
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|The Federal Vampire & Zombie Agency |
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|This site was turned in by a student doing research on vampires. With a subject like vampires. |
|I realize that it is a little tricky to find credible sources - but there really are many sites out there that cover |
|the history of vampire legends in a scholarly manner. |
|Trust me....this is not one of them ... or is it? |
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|The rise and fall of |
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|The Internet was abuzz two weeks ago with news that a multi-billion dollar company called Global Monetary had |
|established a Web presence to promote its plan to implement a "proprietary global system of exchange, customer |
|tracking and profiling." |
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|Welcome To ManBeef |
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|For the last 19 years ManBeef has been the world's leading human meat distributor. |
|We have established a reputation for having only the highest quality human meat products and dedicated customer |
|service representatives. Because we only cater to a select group of people, we try to keep a close relationship with |
|all of our customers. |
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|National Driver's License Records Bureau |
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|Welcome to the National Driver's License Records Bureau web site - where you can search our online database of over |
|220 million U.S. driver's license photos and driver's license information currently on file, absolutely FREE. Search |
|our files with the form below. |
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|The First Male Pregnancy |
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|The First Male Pregnancy |
|Join physicians and scientists around the world in monitoring Mr. Lee's pregnancy online. |
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|Amazing Magic Cyber Camera |
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|Amazing Magic Cyber Camera |
|It's still in the state of testing. But Misrocoft decided to release this beta version to let future customers take |
|an active part in testing. |
|Microsoft has encouraged webdesigners world wide to add this "camera" to private sites, which makes it possible for |
|me to introduce it to you. |
|The Magic "Camera" will activate your screen to make it light sensitive. It will work like a digital camera. This |
|enables you to have a picture on your very own computer. This sounds too good to be true. |
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|Welcome to New Hartford |
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|Welcome to New Hartford, Minnesota. We are a community of 3027 in south central Minnesota. Please enjoy our pages. We|
|have sections focused on town and tourism related information. New Hartford is a comfortable place to settle down. |
|You will really feel at home. You may even think that you recognize some of these places! |
|New Hartford, Minnesota's history dates back to the mid 1800's when it was founded by a group of German and Norwegian|
|immigrants who left Hartford, Connecticut after the great fire of '55. The culture and traditions that the original |
|immigrants brought with them from Germany and Norway remain active today, giving New Hartford a distinctively |
|European feel. |
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|Teaching Zack to Think |
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|Teaching Zack to Think |
|Is your high school teaching students to access the Internet for research? Then it is essential that students also |
|learn how to validate the information. |
|The Internet is a place where you can find "proof" of essentially any belief system that you can imagine. And, for |
|too many students, "If it is on the Internet, it is true." |
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|The Burmese Mountain Dog |
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|The Burmese Mountain Dog |
|The Burmese Mountain Dog is a medium sized, muscular dog originally bred in Burma (Myanmar) to guard Buddhist |
|temples. It was bred to guard the temples, and keep the temples free of rodents and beggars. It is also known as the |
|Burmese Temple Dog. In 1954, a group of Burmese Opium Lords set up a standard for the Burmese Mountain Dog which has |
|remained virtually unchanged ever since. The Burmese Mountain Dog Club of America was established in 1985 to foster |
|the breed in the United States and the world. |
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|Burger King Introduces left-handed Whopper |
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|MIAMI, FL, March 31 -- BURGER KING Corporation today announced the launch of the new Left Handed WHOPPER? which will |
|become available nationwide tomorrow. America's most preferred premium hamburger will feature the trademark build of |
|lettuce, tomato, onions, pickles, mayonnaise, ketchup and 4-ounce flame broiled hamburger patty, but the newly |
|designed sandwich has been re-engineered to fit more comfortably in the left hand, thereby reducing condiment |
|"spills" for left-handed hamburger lovers. It is estimated that more than 1.4 million left-handed customers visit |
|U.S. BURGER KING?restaurants each day. |
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|Feral flamingos of Sacramento's Capitol Park |
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|Feral flamingos of Sacramento's Capitol Park |
|Note that this is a large pdf file to download ... but easy(ish) reading as several illustrations. |
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