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In the late 1800s, Maggie Walker, an African American community leader, helped establish a sanitarium for tuberculosis patients, a community center, and an educational loan fund, among other humanitarian projects. She was also the first woman in the United States to become founder and president of a chartered bank.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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This instructional film demonstrates the very first steps in hairdressing. It teaches you how to hold the scissors and comb correctly, how best to cut your child's hair, and it will give you a method of cutting the hair that is simple to understand and do. Included are demonstrations of how to cut an outline, how to layer, and how to use clippers. Learn hint and tips along the way that have taken John over 30 years to perfect.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Nearly 2 million Muslim pilgrims are in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj, or pilgrimage, to Mecca. The hajj is one of the Five Pillars of Islam, and all Muslims are called to perform it at least once in their lifetime if they are physically and financially able to do so. We visited the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, where children were led through a mock Hajj while Imam Johari Abdul-Malik explained the journey and the various...
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In colorful African garb, storyteller Nandi Nyembe and the dancers from the Mahlatsi Pre-school sing songs and weave fables that take children on an exciting adventure into Africa. Using native instruments to punctuate the stories, she lets the voices of the animals bring the tales to life. Each short fable has an important teaching point to make. Volume 1 includes tales about a greedy spider, a rude baboon, and more!
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
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In colorful African garb, storyteller Nandi Nyembe and the dancers from the Mahlatsi Pre-school sing songs and weave fables that take children on an exciting adventure into Africa. Using native instruments to punctuate the stories, she lets the voices of the animals bring the tales to life. Each short fable has an important teaching point to make. Volume 2includes tales about a kind swallow, a greedy hyena, and more!
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I survived volume 16
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tackles the Children's Blizzard of 1888 in this latest installment of the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling I Survived series.Eleven-year-old John Hale has already survived one brutal Dakota winter, and now he's about to experience one of the deadliest blizzards in American history. The storm of 1888 was a monster, a frozen hurricane that slammed into America's midwest without warning. Within hours, America's...
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
The Absolution The police find out about the crime the way everyone does: on Snapchat. The video shows a terrified young woman begging for forgiveness. When her body is found, it is marked with a number “2”. Detective Huldar joins the investigation, bringing child psychologist Freyja on board to help question the murdered teenager's friends. Soon, they uncover that Stella was far from the angel people claim, but who could have hated her enough...
9) GeoCulture
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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His parents aren't able to take care of Pumbui properly, which makes the little boy an easy victim for a career of crime. That is why Abbot Phra Khru Ba Neau Chai wants to take the boy to the monastery, to educate him and provide him a better future. As all the kids there, Pumpui will learn about discipline and responsibility.
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Pub. Date
[1999]
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English
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November 23, 1999 sees the first performance for an adult audience in the new Royal Opera House. The newly trained ushers are tested during a gala of ballet performed for the construction workers who have worked in the buildng for the past two and half years.
Pub. Date
[2006], c1996
Language
English
Description
Africans listen to the silence and use it as a dimension in which they can improvise, observes John Collins, an English musician and host of this program. Taking off from the peace of nature, the singing cicadas, and the simple routines of the workday, this program explores a kaleidoscope of musical examples from Ghana: children's games and their musical bands; traditional drums; sensual dances; trance dances; animated funeral music; and many other...
Pub. Date
[1975]
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English
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This series dramatizes Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children’s novel about an orphaned girl sent to live in her uncle's lonely house on the Yorkshire moors. In Episode Seven, Colin uses the power of magic and positive thinking to improve his strength, while pretending to still be an invalid. Archibald Craven dreams of his wife in the garden and Mrs. Sowerby sends him a letter requesting his return home. He arrives to find Colin, Mary, and Dickon...
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English
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The latest release in this laughing-and-learning series follows the career of Pop Art icon Andy Warhol as he travels from working-class Pittsburgh to worldwide fame as the first modern-art superstar. It’s a child-friendly introduction to the art of the 1960s, illustrated with Warhol’s soup cans and celebrity portraits as well as the works of contemporaries Rauschenberg, Johns, Oldenburg and Lichtenstein.
19) Cheetah
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Follows a family of cheetas, born on the African plains, from birth until they are two years old, grown up and able to look after themselves.
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