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The worksheets to accompany Glencoe's 2010 textbook "World History: Modern Times" are finally complete.
You can get them here. This time, we linked to each individual chapter on a single page. We hope this makes it easier for you to navigate. If not, send us your thoughts/suggestions. Movies, movies, movies! We have been getting a huge positive response for our movie reviews. It seems that our visitors love our formatting and the fact that we try to include vocabulary terms and discussion/review questions with each movie review. You can expect to see a steady stream of movie reviews over the coming months. We are trying to flesh out our history listings, as well as provide plenty of general interest documentary films to keep students' minds occupied over the summer. Click here to see the latest. May 2012 was a month of significant political transitions, a landmark corporate acquisition, and a captivating celestial event. Politically, the month was defined by leadership changes. In France, the socialist François Hollande was inaugurated as President on the 15th, defeating incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and shifting the European political landscape. Concurrently, Greece faced profound instability following inconclusive elections on the 6th, which intensified the European debt crisis and raised urgent questions about the country's future in the Eurozone. In the business world, a historic deal was finalized on the 21st: Facebook acquired the mobile photo-sharing app Instagram for approximately $1 billion, a move that was initially met with skepticism but would prove transformative for social media. The month also delivered a spectacular astronomical phenomenon. On the 20th, an annular solar eclipse—often called a "ring of fire" eclipse—was visible across a wide swath of the Pacific Rim, from Asia to the western United States, captivating millions of observers. Finally, in sports, Manchester City secured the English Premier League title in dramatic fashion on the 13th, scoring two injury-time goals to clinch their first championship in 44 years, in what is remembered as one of the most thrilling finishes in football history. |
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