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SITE OF THE DAY ARCHIVE
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it."
- Samuel Johnson

MAY 2023

Previous Archives

DATE SITE OF THE DAY

5/1/23    Manual Agent
   Easily find any pdf manuals online with more than 5602 brands and 742418 files.

5/2/23    Hidden Worlds of the National Parks
   "Combat claustrophobia by taking a virtual tour of some of the country’s most majestic national parks. The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks project from Google Arts & Culture offers virtual, 360-degree tours of five National Park System sites, all guided by real park rangers. The diverse destinations include the Kenai Fjords in Alaska; Volcanoes in Hawai’i; Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico; Bryce Canyon in Utah; and Dry Tortugas in Florida. You can view all the properties from your phone or computer, and if you have a virtual reality headset, you can transport yourself out of your home with an immersive experience."

5/3/23    Second City Improv Classes Online
   "Improv comedy is difficult to do alone. With Second City, you can take a class with other students and master instructors from the comfort of your home. Second City has helped launch the careers of such comedy heavyweights as Steve Carell, Bill Murray, Amy Poehler, and Tina Fey. You can learn in their theaters in Chicago or Toronto, or take classes online."

5/4/23    Women and the American Story
   The New-York Historical Society is sharing its expertise in the form of a free digital curriculum on women’s history in America. The online course materials cover the period from 1920 to 1948, starting with the flappers of the Jazz Age and ending with women in the postwar era. You can view the entire unit, which includes archival photos and documents, on the NYHS’s website.

5/5/23    Milk Street Cooking School
   At the Milk Street Online Cooking School you won’t learn just recipes, you'll learn new ways to approach food and cooking, giving you a reinvigorated enthusiasm for putting dinner on the table. Online cooking classes are also available.

5/6/23    Masters of Tradition: A Cultural Journey Across America
   Presented by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and Esri, this interactive map showcases a collection of arts recognized for excellence by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awards National Heritage Fellowships. Selections feature 400 individual and group fellows who sustain cultural traditions, advocate for folk arts, and mentor other artists and community members. On the map, click red circles to travel virtually to where these fellows are and to learn about their folk art, explore their backgrounds, and see photos of their works.

5/7/23    Ethnologue
   Ethnologue helps you understand more about the people of the world, and how each language community is distinct by catalogging over 7000 languages that are actively used in the world. Whether you’re conducting a comprehensive research project or simply want to know more about a single language, Ethnologue makes it easy for you to achieve your goals by providing clarity, inspiring informed action, and presenting the whole picture.

5/8/23    Citizen Science
   Citizen science allows you to contribute to science no matter where you are. Whether by asking questions, reporting observations, conducting experiments, collecting data, or developing low-cost technologies and open-source code, you and other members of the public can use your talents to help advance scientific knowledge. This resource details ten programs from USGS focused on partner Citizen Science opportunities.

5/9/23    Power Reactor Information System (PRIS)
   The Power Reactor Information System (PRIS), developed and maintained by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for over five decades, is a comprehensive database focusing on nuclear power plants worldwide. PRIS contains information on power reactors in operation, under construction, or being decommissioned.

5/10/23    How Nuclear Power Works
   To some, nuclear energy offers a clean energy alternative that frees us from the shackles of fossil fuel dependence. To others, it summons images of disaster: quake-ruptured Japanese power plants belching radioactive steam, the dead zone surrounding Chernobyl's concrete sarcophagus. But what happens inside a nuclear power plant to bring such marvel and misery into being?

5/11/23    The History of Cartography Project
   The Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison offers this impressive resource detailing the rich history of map-making. Their multi-volume series follows cartography from prehistory to the twentieth century.

5/12/23    Starlink Satellite Tracker
   Calculate when you can see the SpaceX Starlink satellites above your location.

5/13/23    Drive and Listen to Local Radio
   Listen to local radio stations while driving through the cities around the world.

5/14/23    Buy Nearby
   Buy Nearby is a chrome extension that recommends local businesses! While browsing through Amazon or eBay, the chrome extension will show nearby businesses tailored to what you were previously searching for. Help your community during challenging times by supporting the businesses near you.

5/15/23    Google Art Project
   "Experience the world's museums from your home. Get closer to art! Simply select a museum from the homepage and then either choose 'Explore the museum' or 'View Artwork'. Once you are on the main site use the drop-down menus or the side info bar to navigate between artworks and museums. Finally, create and share your collections online."

5/16/23    Curious.com
   "Join Curious.com to learn something new every day with 20,000+ online video lessons on crafts, code, tech, music, health, food, etc. from expert teachers."

5/17/23    Library of Congress: Chronicling America
   "Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690 - present."

5/18/23    Information Please Almanac
   "Compendium of statistics and up-to-date facts and figures on everything you need to know."

5/19/23    Blinking Lighthouse Map
   A Blinking Map of the World's Lighthouses. This map is alive with the beauty of lighthouse signals. The unique light signatures of nautical beacons translate into hypnotic cartography.

5/20/23    The Open Video Project
   The Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.

5/21/23    This Day in Music
   This Day in Music provides information on musicians born on the day of your visit. It includes references to their recordings, gigs, chart positions, and even deaths, along with significant events from this day. Find the #1 / No.1 singles or #1 / No.1 albums from US, UK, German, Canadian, and Australian charts for previous years, as published on this day. Events are added daily from legendary rock and pop artists such as The Beatles, U2, Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, and Led Zeppelin to today's top artists like The Killers, Lady Ga Ga, Cheryl Cole, Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse, and Leona Lewis.

5/22/23    FBI: Wanted by the FBI
   "Protect your family, your local community, and the nation by helping the FBI catch wanted terrorists and fugitives. You can also help reunite missing persons of all ages with their loved ones. Rewards are offered in some cases. Use the Search Center below to find specific cases."

5/23/23    Drop a Raindrop and Watch Where It Goes
   This uses USGS NHDPlus data and their NLDI API to visualize the path of a rain droplet from any point in the contiguous United States to its endpoint (usually the ocean, sometimes the Great Lakes, Canada/Mexico, or another inland water feature). It'll find the closest river/stream flowline coordinate to a click/search and then animate along that flowline's downstream path.

5/24/23    Information Please Almanac
   "Compendium of statistics and up-to-date facts and figures on everything you need to know."

5/25/23    Blinking Lighthouse Map
   A Blinking Map of the World's Lighthouses. This map is alive with the beauty of lighthouse signals. The unique light signatures of nautical beacons translate into hypnotic cartography.

5/26/23    See a Satellite Tonight
   Satellites are visible in the night sky. No telescope is required if you know where to look. Find out here.

5/27/23    More Than Just Parks
   More than Just Parks was created to be the best online resource for everything National Parks and Public Lands. They create visually stunning national park guides, award-winning short films, breathtaking photos, and insightful tips to make your next national park trip the best.

5/28/23    High-Resolution Mars Map
   Check out this high-resolution 3D image of Mars thanks to NASA, Ames Research Center.

5/29/23    Earth Science Picture of the Day
   "The Earth Science Picture of the Day highlights the diverse processes and phenomena which shape our planet and our lives. EPOD will collect and archive photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. The community is invited to contribute digital imagery, short captions, and relevant links."

5/30/23    How Nuclear Power Works
   To some, nuclear energy offers a clean energy alternative that frees us from the shackles of fossil fuel dependence. To others, it summons images of disaster: quake-ruptured Japanese power plants belching radioactive steam, the dead zone surrounding Chernobyl's concrete sarcophagus. But what happens inside a nuclear power plant to bring such marvel and misery into being?

5/31/23    The National Center for Education Statistics
   "The National Center for Education Statistics collects, analyzes and makes available data related to education in the U.S. and other nations."

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DATE	SITE OF THE DAY
5/1/23	Manual Agent Easily find any pdf manuals online with more than 5602 brands and 742418 files.
5/2/23	Hidden Worlds of the National Parks "Combat claustrophobia by taking a virtual tour of some of the country’s most majestic national parks. The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks project from Google Arts & Culture offers virtual, 360-degree tours of five National Park System sites, all guided by real park rangers. The diverse destinations include the Kenai Fjords in Alaska; Volcanoes in Hawai’i; Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico; Bryce Canyon in Utah; and Dry Tortugas in Florida. You can view all the properties from your phone or computer, and if you have a virtual reality headset, you can transport yourself out of your home with an immersive experience."
5/3/23	Second City Improv Classes Online "Improv comedy is difficult to do alone. With Second City, you can take a class with other students and master instructors from the comfort of your home. Second City has helped launch the careers of such comedy heavyweights as Steve Carell, Bill Murray, Amy Poehler, and Tina Fey. You can learn in their theaters in Chicago or Toronto, or take classes online."
5/4/23	Women and the American Story The New-York Historical Society is sharing its expertise in the form of a free digital curriculum on women’s history in America. The online course materials cover the period from 1920 to 1948, starting with the flappers of the Jazz Age and ending with women in the postwar era. You can view the entire unit, which includes archival photos and documents, on the NYHS’s website.
5/5/23	Milk Street Cooking School At the Milk Street Online Cooking School you won’t learn just recipes, you'll learn new ways to approach food and cooking, giving you a reinvigorated enthusiasm for putting dinner on the table. Online cooking classes are also available.
5/6/23	Masters of Tradition: A Cultural Journey Across America Presented by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage and Esri, this interactive map showcases a collection of arts recognized for excellence by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awards National Heritage Fellowships. Selections feature 400 individual and group fellows who sustain cultural traditions, advocate for folk arts, and mentor other artists and community members. On the map, click red circles to travel virtually to where these fellows are and to learn about their folk art, explore their backgrounds, and see photos of their works.
5/7/23	Ethnologue Ethnologue helps you understand more about the people of the world, and how each language community is distinct by catalogging over 7000 languages that are actively used in the world. Whether you’re conducting a comprehensive research project or simply want to know more about a single language, Ethnologue makes it easy for you to achieve your goals by providing clarity, inspiring informed action, and presenting the whole picture.
5/8/23	Citizen Science Citizen science allows you to contribute to science no matter where you are. Whether by asking questions, reporting observations, conducting experiments, collecting data, or developing low-cost technologies and open-source code, you and other members of the public can use your talents to help advance scientific knowledge. This resource details ten programs from USGS focused on partner Citizen Science opportunities.
5/9/23	Power Reactor Information System (PRIS) The Power Reactor Information System (PRIS), developed and maintained by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for over five decades, is a comprehensive database focusing on nuclear power plants worldwide. PRIS contains information on power reactors in operation, under construction, or being decommissioned.
5/10/23	How Nuclear Power Works To some, nuclear energy offers a clean energy alternative that frees us from the shackles of fossil fuel dependence. To others, it summons images of disaster: quake-ruptured Japanese power plants belching radioactive steam, the dead zone surrounding Chernobyl's concrete sarcophagus. But what happens inside a nuclear power plant to bring such marvel and misery into being?
5/11/23	The History of Cartography Project The Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison offers this impressive resource detailing the rich history of map-making. Their multi-volume series follows cartography from prehistory to the twentieth century.
5/12/23	Starlink Satellite Tracker Calculate when you can see the SpaceX Starlink satellites above your location.
5/13/23	Drive and Listen to Local Radio Listen to local radio stations while driving through the cities around the world.
5/14/23	Buy Nearby Buy Nearby is a chrome extension that recommends local businesses! While browsing through Amazon or eBay, the chrome extension will show nearby businesses tailored to what you were previously searching for. Help your community during challenging times by supporting the businesses near you.
5/15/23	Google Art Project "Experience the world's museums from your home. Get closer to art! Simply select a museum from the homepage and then either choose 'Explore the museum' or 'View Artwork'. Once you are on the main site use the drop-down menus or the side info bar to navigate between artworks and museums. Finally, create and share your collections online."
5/16/23	Curious.com "Join Curious.com to learn something new every day with 20,000+ online video lessons on crafts, code, tech, music, health, food, etc. from expert teachers."
5/17/23	Library of Congress: Chronicling America "Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690 - present."
5/18/23	Information Please Almanac "Compendium of statistics and up-to-date facts and figures on everything you need to know."
5/19/23	Blinking Lighthouse Map A Blinking Map of the World's Lighthouses. This map is alive with the beauty of lighthouse signals. The unique light signatures of nautical beacons translate into hypnotic cartography.
5/20/23	The Open Video Project The Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
5/21/23	This Day in Music This Day in Music provides information on musicians born on the day of your visit. It includes references to their recordings, gigs, chart positions, and even deaths, along with significant events from this day. Find the #1 / No.1 singles or #1 / No.1 albums from US, UK, German, Canadian, and Australian charts for previous years, as published on this day. Events are added daily from legendary rock and pop artists such as The Beatles, U2, Pink Floyd, Bruce Springsteen, and Led Zeppelin to today's top artists like The Killers, Lady Ga Ga, Cheryl Cole, Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse, and Leona Lewis.
5/22/23	FBI: Wanted by the FBI "Protect your family, your local community, and the nation by helping the FBI catch wanted terrorists and fugitives. You can also help reunite missing persons of all ages with their loved ones. Rewards are offered in some cases. Use the Search Center below to find specific cases."
5/23/23	Drop a Raindrop and Watch Where It Goes This uses USGS NHDPlus data and their NLDI API to visualize the path of a rain droplet from any point in the contiguous United States to its endpoint (usually the ocean, sometimes the Great Lakes, Canada/Mexico, or another inland water feature). It'll find the closest river/stream flowline coordinate to a click/search and then animate along that flowline's downstream path.
5/24/23	Information Please Almanac "Compendium of statistics and up-to-date facts and figures on everything you need to know."
5/25/23	Blinking Lighthouse Map A Blinking Map of the World's Lighthouses. This map is alive with the beauty of lighthouse signals. The unique light signatures of nautical beacons translate into hypnotic cartography.
5/26/23	See a Satellite Tonight Satellites are visible in the night sky. No telescope is required if you know where to look. Find out here.
5/27/23	More Than Just Parks More than Just Parks was created to be the best online resource for everything National Parks and Public Lands. They create visually stunning national park guides, award-winning short films, breathtaking photos, and insightful tips to make your next national park trip the best.
5/28/23	High-Resolution Mars Map Check out this high-resolution 3D image of Mars thanks to NASA, Ames Research Center.
5/29/23	Earth Science Picture of the Day "The Earth Science Picture of the Day highlights the diverse processes and phenomena which shape our planet and our lives. EPOD will collect and archive photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. The community is invited to contribute digital imagery, short captions, and relevant links."
5/30/23	How Nuclear Power Works To some, nuclear energy offers a clean energy alternative that frees us from the shackles of fossil fuel dependence. To others, it summons images of disaster: quake-ruptured Japanese power plants belching radioactive steam, the dead zone surrounding Chernobyl's concrete sarcophagus. But what happens inside a nuclear power plant to bring such marvel and misery into being?
5/31/23	The National Center for Education Statistics "The National Center for Education Statistics collects, analyzes and makes available data related to education in the U.S. and other nations."

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