Read Something! ARCHIVE Selections offered for the weeks beginning Monday:
03.17.03 MONDAY Pottawatomie Lighthouse TUESDAY The Arabian Nights WEDNESDAY Smallpox in Cleveland THURSDAY Catch a Falling Star FRIDAY Cowboy Photographer SATURDAY How To Track a Hummingbird SUNDAY Early Typewriter History
03.10.03 MONDAY Pre-War Years at Los Alamos TUESDAY Brave Little Tailor WEDNESDAY Weight and Mass THURSDAY LA Origins FRIDAY Wood Type SATURDAY The League of Nations SUNDAY Water Management
03.03.03 MONDAY History of DuPage County TUESDAY The Discovery of Penicillin WEDNESDAY Bird Descriptions THURSDAY Biomimetic Materials and Nanobiotechnology FRIDAY Muguel de Cervantes SATURDAY The Baseball Chronology SUNDAY Seward’s Folly
02.24.03 MONDAY Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier TUESDAY Interpol Fact Sheet WEDNESDAY Vermeer’s Children THURSDAY Mountains of Huatulco and Huamelula FRIDAY Soy Wonder SATURDAY History of Edinburgh SUNDAY Our Fine, Feathery Ferns
02.17.03
MONDAY Fruits and Vegetables Reduce Strokes TUESDAY A Day with the Sun King WEDNESDAY Two Poems on Horace THURSDAY Tracking Turtles FRIDAY The Isle of Eigg SATURDAY Benjamin Franklin SUNDAY What Is Theoretical Cosmology?
02.10.03 MONDAY North America in the Eighteenth Century TUESDAY Great Wall of China: Qui Dynasty WEDNESDAY Vaccine Recommendations THURSDAY Nathaniel Hawthorne Stories FRIDAY Krzysztof Grzymski Excavations SATURDAY The Isle of Wight SUNDAY Mount McKinley
02.03.03 MONDAY Rabindranath Tagore TUESDAY What Is Alzheimer’s? WEDNESDAY History of Wales THURSDAY The Incredible Peanut FRIDAY The Death of Sherlock Holmes SATURDAY Renaissance Food in Tuscany SUNDAY Meet BEAST
01.27.03 MONDAY New York City Urban Neighbors TUESDAY Out of Africa WEDNESDAY Real Glaciers Eat Rocks THURSDAY Seal Sustainability FRIDAY Expansion, Reform, and Communication in the Agrarian Empires of Asia SATURDAY A Version of the Arthurian Legend SUNDAY Comets
01.20.03 MONDAY The Swahili Kingdoms TUESDAY Max Planck Biography WEDNESDAY Chicago’s Harbor THURSDAY Neptune Descriptions FRIDAY Bauhaus Museum of Design SATURDAY Hansel and Gretel SUNDAY Baby Tigers
01.13.03 MONDAY Einstein’s Revolution TUESDAY Vitamins WEDNESDAY Wake Up America THURSDAY Maritime Hunters FRIDAY Lunar Impact Crater Geology SATURDAY Singapore History SUNDAY Father Frost, Russian Folktale
01.06.03 MONDAY Nile Crocodile TUESDAY Ludwig van Beethoven WEDNESDAY Malaria THURSDAY Magnetism FRIDAY Marco Polo and the Mongol Empire SATURDAY Dead Books SUNDAY Football History
12.30.02 MONDAY Laser Nerve Guide TUESDAY Ancient Camels WEDNESDAY Chesapeake Bay THURSDAY History of Food Canning FRIDAY Ganges River Dolphin SATURDAY The Ostrogoths SUNDAY Electrical Activity of the Heart
12.23.02 MONDAY World Time Scales TUESDAY Aesop’s Fables WEDNESDAY La Seine River THURSDAY ICESat Q&A FRIDAY Naming the Tea Tree SATURDAY Persepolis and Ancient Iran SUNDAY Hill Mynahs
12.16.02 MONDAY Afghanistan’s Forgotten Heritage TUESDAY History of the Internet WEDNESDAY Transport Proteins THURSDAY Plague FRIDAY Sapphires SATURDAY Michelangelo SUNDAY Dickens and Christmas
12.09.02
MONDAY Mississippian Mound Builders TUESDAY What Is La Nina? WEDNESDAY Old Manuscript THURSDAY Sabretooths FRIDAY How Wind Turbines Work SATURDAY The Art of Fresco: Color SUNDAY The Yule Log
12.02.02
MONDAY The Pleistocene TUESDAY A Poem a Day WEDNESDAY Salmonella THURSDAY The Latte Stones of Guam FRIDAY Dutch Drawings of the Golden Age SATURDAY What Is a Chicken? SUNDAY W. M. Keck Observatory
11.25.02
MONDAY Pyramid-Builders TUESDAY Dinosaurs Rule WEDNESDAY The Napoleonic Experience THURSDAY The First Thanksgiving FRIDAY Soybean Growth and Development SATURDAY John Snow and Cholera SUNDAY Being Wireless
11.18.02
MONDAY Evening Star TUESDAY Toward a Sustainable Future WEDNESDAY Carbonates: Chemistry THURSDAY Amur River Peoples FRIDAY Damsels and Dragons SATURDAY Egypt: A New Look at an Ancient Culture SUNDAY Mumbai/Bombay History
11.11.02
MONDAY Legacy of Genghis Khan TUESDAY Writing in Cuneiform WEDNESDAY How Paper is Made THURSDAY When Nixon Met Elvis FRIDAY Photosynthesis SATURDAY Leonardo da Vinci SUNDAY Harlequin Ducks
11.04.02
MONDAY Alexander in India TUESDAY The Planet Neptune WEDNESDAY Dinosaurs of the Gobi Desert THURSDAY Leonardo’s Childhood FRIDAY Today in Earthquake History SATURDAY World Soccer Cup 2002 SUNDAY The Motion of Bodies by Sir Isaac Newton
10.28.02
MONDAY Daylight Savings Time TUESDAY Elephant Quick Facts(click "Facts") WEDNESDAY How to Grow Apples THURSDAY Captain Kidd the Pirate FRIDAY The Transistor Museum SATURDAY Ancient Roman Roads SUNDAY The Children’s Hour
10.21.02
MONDAY The Mayo Clinic TUESDAY Ancient Horn of Africa WEDNESDAY Electrochemical Power Sources THURSDAY Brazil History FRIDAY Goat Articles SATURDAY Archimedes Proof SUNDAY The Princess and the Pea
10.15.02
MONDAY The Birth of Democracy TUESDAY What Is El Nino WEDNESDAY Nobel Prize Winners THURSDAY Ancient Chinese Voyagers FRIDAY Nuts as Food SATURDAY Julius Caesar SUNDAY Mount Vesuvius
10.07.02
MONDAY Duke Ellington Biography TUESDAY About Superconductivity WEDNESDAY Hurricane Awareness THURSDAY Europeans Discovery South Florida FRIDAY The Formation of the Milky Way SATURDAY The Ring-Tailed Roarer SUNDAY Genetically Modified Organisms
09.30.02
MONDAY The Piltdown Forgery TUESDAY Andrew Jackson Biography WEDNESDAY Coffee Background THURSDAY The Baghdad Battery FRIDAY British Mammals SATURDAY The Old Clock on the Stairs SUNDAY The Planet Neptune
09.23.02
MONDAY Algae Alert TUESDAY Talking Knots of the Incas WEDNESDAY Seattle History THURSDAY Fiery Dawn FRIDAY Coney Island Early Years SATURDAY The Real Casey Jones Story SUNDAY Viral Workhorses
09.16.02
MONDAY Natural Regions of Peru TUESDAY Sun Dials WEDNESDAY Honey Bee THURSDAY Alfred Bernhard Nobel FRIDAY Civil War Letters SATURDAY Magnesium SUNDAY Snakes of New York
09.09.02
MONDAY Stories for Children TUESDAY The Parthian Empire WEDNESDAY Chaparral Environment THURSDAY Eisenhower Legacy FRIDAY Invention of Radio SATURDAY History of Florida SUNDAY Accelerator Form and Function
09.02.02
MONDAY Why Do Leaves Change Color? TUESDAY Thucydides: Pericles’ Funeral Oration WEDNESDAY An Introduction to Mitosis THURSDAY Vive Lance! FRIDAY Charlemagne, King of the Franks SATURDAY Birth of a Takin SUNDAY Sonnets about Time
08.26.02
MONDAY The Time Machine: An Invention TUESDAY Madam Curie WEDNESDAY Potato History THURSDAY The Great Zambesi Bridge FRIDAY The Great Chicago Fire SATURDAY Explore the American West SUNDAY Causes of the American Revolution
08.19.02
MONDAY Making Pearls TUESDAY Lightning, Big Spark WEDNESDAY Amber THURSDAY Our Year FRIDAY Dendrochronology SATURDAY Gator Pack SUNDAY Carl Sandburg Biography
08.12.02
MONDAY Ancient Carthage TUESDAY What is a Bolide? WEDNESDAY Robert Frost Poems THURSDAY Smoke-Free Home FRIDAY Amazing Adaptable Frog SATURDAY The Kushan Empire SUNDAY Golf Hall of Fame Biographies
08.05.02
MONDAY The Palace of Westminster TUESDAY Radio Modulation WEDNESDAY On Shore in a Foreign Land THURSDAY Types of Forces FRIDAY Biography of al-Abbas ibn Said Al-Jawhari SATURDAY Disneyland Beginnings SUNDAY Benjamin Rush
07.29.02
MONDAY Dragon Birds TUESDAY Impressions of an Indian Childhood WEDNESDAY Ancient Smelting THURSDAY The Game of Buzkashi FRIDAY Voyage to Vailulu’u SATURDAY History of Chocolate SUNDAY Superconductivity Fact Sheet
07.22.02
MONDAY Australian Plants TUESDAY Fiber Optics Glass Ceiling WEDNESDAY Prehistory of Finland THURSDAY Grasshopper and the Toad FRIDAY Early Clocks SATURDAY The Swahili SUNDAY Solar Still Basics
07.15.02
MONDAY Roof of the World TUESDAY Water Basics WEDNESDAY Nairobi National Park THURSDAY Solar Cells Go Organic FRIDAY Black Goats in China SATURDAY The Seven Islands of Mumbai/Bombay SUNDAY Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
07.08.02
MONDAY The Game of Tennis TUESDAY Ant Information WEDNESDAY Finding Lucy THURSDAY River Stories FRIDAY Writing History SATURDAY When Continents Collide SUNDAY The Science of Light
07.01.02
MONDAY Chimpanzee Cultures TUESDAY What Causes Earthquakes WEDNESDAY A Disney Story THURSDAY Tales from the Hive FRIDAY History of Teapots SATURDAY How to Buy a Soccer Ball SUNDAY History of Cairo
06.24.02
MONDAY How Not to Get Hit by a Car TUESDAY Animation Trailblazers WEDNESDAY Classical Japanese Poems THURSDAY Saturn FRIDAY Who Was Henry Hudson? SATURDAY History of Flight SUNDAY Mosquitoes in Your Life
06.17.02
MONDAY Tiger Woods Biography TUESDAY An Overview of Kenya WEDNESDAY Electricity Safety Tips THURSDAY Is There Life on Mars? FRIDAY Climbing Volcanoes in Chili SATURDAY The Code of Hammurabi SUNDAY The Ugly Duckling
06.09.02
MONDAY A Shakespeare Sonnet TUESDAY How Bearings Work WEDNESDAY Volcanoes This Week THURSDAY A Biography of Marco Polo FRIDAY Copper Topics SATURDAY The Laws of Soccer SUNDAY A Roman Poet
06.03.02
MONDAY Tiger Shoes TUESDAY Transportation in the Russian Empire WEDNESDAY Galloping Gyroscopes THURSDAY Tetracycline FRIDAY Egyptian Goose SATURDAY What the Dutch Eat SUNDAY Comet Hunters