Today in History - September 7, 1998 - Google is founded. Larry Page and Sergey Brin met as students at  Stanford and collaborated on a search engine called BackRub. They decided that the BackRub name doesn’t quite have the buzz needed and came up with  Google - a play on the word “googol,” a […]

Today in History - January 20, 1986 - First federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King. Through fifteen years of the persistent efforts of Congress Members John Conyers (Michigan), Shirley Chisholm (New York) and an army of other supports, Martin Luther King Day legislation was passed in 1983. A number of changes were required for it […]

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Durham, NC Things just became a lot better – and easier – for students and educators nationwide.
Shodor, a non-profit organization based in Durham, has rolled out a major redesign and upgrade of its award-winning Web site to make it easier to navigate and explore […]

Just in time for back to school, Teachers’ Domain has expanded resources in Science, Math, Social Studies, Art, and English Language Arts for grades K-12. We have also added a Teachers’ Domain College Edition, which includes resources in science and engineering for higher education, and VITAL New York, K-12 resources for NY state educators. Click here to read the […]

Today in History -August 7, 1944 - Largest electromechanical calculator ever built. The IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC) (also called the Harvard Mark I) was the largest electromechanical calculator ever built and the first automatic digital calculator in the United States. Its size was 51 feet wide and eight feet high and weighted […]