This Week's Facts:
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Web Resources Detail
Women's Suffrage Movement
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Enjoy a Grape Escape to
Your Local Indiana Winery
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Keep Roads Safe: Know
Signs of Drowsy Driving
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Teachers' Resources Bring
Natural History Museum to Classroom
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NWS Feeds Keep You on Top of Local Weather
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 August
18 marks the 89th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Granting
women in the United States the right to vote, the amendment was
first introduced in Congress in 1878 – forty-two years before it
was finally ratified. After years of parades, hunger strikes
and attempts at changing legislation, the right of women’s
suffrage finally passed through the House of Representatives in
May of 1919 and through the Senate in June of that year. The
amendment passed in 1920, when Tennessee became the 36th state
to ratify – a three-fourths majority of the states is needed to
pass a constitutional amendment. Patrons can visit the National
Archives
website to see what related items are held there or to
look at its
Featured Documents page on suffrage.
To view images of the original amendment, check out Our
documents: 100 milestone documents from the National Archives.
The
19th amendment is included in these seminal documents.
For photographs and other images from the women’s suffrage
movement, interested patrons should visit the Library of
Congress
American Memory project. They can also visit American
Memory’s site entitled
Votes
for Women. Here they can view a
timeline
of the suffrage movement and look at both documents and
illustrations relating to women’s suffrage.
Enjoy a
Grape Escape to Your Local Indiana Winery
 The
Indiana Wine
Grape Council was established by the Indiana General
Assembly in 1989 to boost economic development in the State by
establishing successful wine and grape industry through
marketing development and research. Since its beginnings,
Indiana wineries have grown from 9 to 30 and there are more to
come! Funding for the council comes from every bottle of wine
purchased in Indiana. Every gallon of wine sold provides $0.05
for the Indiana Wine Grape Council to promote the wine and grape
industry.
Indiana wineries are established
statewide and offer great wine and a relaxing atmosphere
to Hoosiers of every region. The council not only provides
marketing, but they also assist burgeoning winemakers and grape
growers with
resources on how to
begin the
process of starting a
winery. If you’re interested in more
information
about Indiana wineries or the Wine Grape Council, please visit
their website.
Get ready to enjoy great Indiana wines!
Keep Roads Safe:
Know Signs of Drowsy Driving
 It’s
that time of year again. Kids are going back to school and for
many people, the workload is starting to increase. However,
it’s very important to remember to get enough sleep! Aside from
the multitude of health benefits stemming from a full-night’s
sleep, sleep is also necessary to prevent drowsy driving.
According to the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, early
warning signs of drowsy driving include eyes that won’t focus,
disconnected thoughts and the inability to remember driving the
last few miles. Unfortunately, coffee or soda isn’t enough to
keep you awake and alert for extended amounts of time – there is
no real substitute for actual sleep. In addition to getting
enough sleep,
Medline Plus offers some good tips for staying awake:
try not to drive in your “downtime” (usually mid-afternoon or
late at night), make frequent stops and try to drive with
someone else in the car. They should stay awake, too!
Teachers'
Resources Bring Natural History Museum to Classroom
 The
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History provides online
classroom resources including
Lesson Plans for teachers,
web-based student activities, and other resources for
teaching lessons in Science and Natural History. Though some
resources are related to the museum’s current exhibits, you
don’t need to be at the museum to use all of them. A list of
Anthropology lesson plans includes
Beanbag Population Genetics,
Exploring Historic Cemeteries, and
Teaching Ethnicity through Expressive Style. Lewis
and Clark as Naturalists lesson plans include a website
that allows students to read excerpts from actual journal
entries and browse through the plants and animals collected on
the expedition in 1804 through 1806.
NWS Feeds Keep You
on Top of Local Weather
How can RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, help you with the
weather? Visit the online
National Weather Service
RSS Library. Several weather-related RSS Feeds are
provided, including Severe Weather Watch/Warnings/Advisories,
Local Storm Reports for Indianapolis, and Public Information
Statements for the Weather Forecast Office in Indianapolis. What
is RSS and what does it do? See the helpful links included in
the blue box under RSS Feed/Podcasting. These explain how to
download free RSS Readers for updates and also lead you to
additional video and audio Podcasts from the U.S. Government. |
