Dynamic Directory - March 28, 2020
Revised Stories in the past 30 days
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 | Lewis Powell, Conspiracy Trial Defendant Lewis Thornton Powell was born in Alabama, lived in Florida and served as a Confederate soldier. He became a "Lincoln Conspiracy" Defendant. |
 | Surratt Tavern and Boardinghouse - Appearance in 1865 The Surratt family owned two properties - one, in Surrattsville, and the other in Washington City. |
 | Samuel A. Mudd - Defendant in the Lincoln Conspiracy Trial Samuel A. Mudd was a young doctor with several children when he met John Wilkes Booth in the fall of 1864. |
 | Robert Vijay Gupta - Violinist, Friend of Nathaniel Ayers (Robert) Vijay Gupta, child prodigy and friend of Nathaniel Ayers, is a violinist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. |
 | Joanne Pearce-Martin - Friend of Nathaniel Ayers Joanne Pearce-Martin is principal keyboardist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. |
 | Yo-Yo Ma Plays - Prelude, Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 The Toronto Music Garden is inspired by J. |
 | The Soloist - Homeless on the Streets of LA Los Angeles has a large homeless population. Some of the city's homeless people live in the Skid Row section of town, not far from Disney Hall. |
 | The Soloist - Walt Disney Hall In 1987, Lillian Disney - the widow of Walt Disney - decided to give a gift to the people of Los Angeles. |
| The Wellington Disaster - America's Worst Avalanche It's 110 years since America's largest-recorded avalanche struck the town of Wellington in Washington state. How did this disaster occur? |
 | MakerSpace for the Humanities Guide to using the AwesomeStories Teaching and Learning Platform. |
 | Research Basis - How AwesomeStories Works AwesomeStories guide to how our site works with different learning models supported by educational research. |
 | UserGuide How to use our powerful education tools and the vast amount of material available here! |
 | A Teaching Bridge: Evolution of Bacteria to World War ll A GED® teacher's experience with a lesson plan bridging science to U.S. history |
 | Why Use AwesomeStories? Based on research, expert opinions and the author's years of experience, this story conveys the compelling reasons why AwesomeStories needs to be available to students in every classroom. |
 | The Lorax at AwesomeStories While "The Lorax" is a fictional story, by Dr. Seuss, it contains real-life meaning for today's world. |
 | Hindenburg Burning at Lakehurst As crowds watching the Hindenburg disaster flee the scene of the conflagration, U.S. Navy sailors run toward the Hindenburg to help the injured people. |
 | Pioneering Female Geologists When Florence Bascom taught geology at Bryn Mawr, she was part of the first women's college in America to offer a PhD program for female students. It was her program, at Bryn Mawr, which educated most of America's female geologists for the first third of the 20th century. |
 | Indonesian Palm Oil Plantation Indonesians have cut-down native trees and replaced them with palm oil trees. This has led to environmental damage. |
 | Turing's Letter to Churchill Produces "Action This Day" On the 21st of October, 1941, Alan Turing and three of his Station X colleagues wrote a secret letter to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It caused an immediate reaction from the PM. |
 | Vietnam War Comes to the Living Room Americans became very upset about the Vietnam War when they watched horrifying scenes on their television screens. |
