• Holiday Center: Groundhog Day
  In recognition of Groundhog Day, February 2, we've selected the best of the Web for teaching about Groundhog Day.
  

James Joyce, Irish author (Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake), born (1882)

Ayn Rand, American author and social critic (Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead), born in Russia (1905)

An Wang, computer technology inventor and founder of Wang Labs, born in China (1920)

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James Dickey, American writer (Deliverance), born (1923)

Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist who first proposed a periodic table of the elements, died at 72 (1907)

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Holly Hunter, American actress (The Piano, Raising Arizona), born (1958)

Gene Kelly, American actor and dancer (Singing in the Rain), died at 83 (1996)

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Dogsled teams successfully reached Nome, Alaska with emergency diphtheria serum after a grueling 675 mile race against time (now commemorated annually in the famous Iditarod Race) (1925)

Battle of Stalingrad ended with the surrender of the German army, a key turning point of WWII (1943)

Female U.S. Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization (1901)

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican War as the U.S. acquired Texas California, New Mexico & Arizona for $15 million (1848)

Lt. Colonel Eileen Collins, became the first female U.S. astronaut to pilot a space shuttle (1995)

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• An Education World e-Interview With Teacher Astronaut Barbara Morgan