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The Webmuseum
The WebMuseum, Paris is open 24 hours every day for your viewing pleasure. In
this museum you can step up close to the paintings and view them for as long as
you like and there will never be a tourist bus full of people in your way. It
houses hundreds of Europe's most famous paintings from the Gothic to Modern
periods as well as paintings from countries like the U.S. and Japan. The
paintings are in thumbnail size to load quickly, but you can click on them to see
a larger version. If you want information for a school report or project, each
page contains good descriptions of the artist, the painting and the period in
which they lived. If you get tired of being inside, you can take a tour of Paris.
Float down the river Seine and see the Eiffel Tower. You can see all of this and
more when you visit the City of Light at WebMuseum, Paris at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/wm/.
Bugs, bugs, bugs!
If you are crazy about bugs, point your antenna and your favorite Web browser to
Gordon's Entomological Home Page at
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~gjlramel/welcome.html
You will find an on-line collection of all kinds of bugs, from spiders and
insects to arthropods and mites. For some really buggy fun, visit the Insect
Asides, where you will find unbelievable bits of bug trivia as well as insect
recipes! Have a question that's been bugging you about these crawly, creepy
creatures? Here, you can ask an expert anything bug-related. For those potential
ant farmers out there, Gordon has provided a page on caring for the most easily
cared for pets around-bugs! They are cheap to feed, easy to clean up after and
they never bark! Of course, links to other bug-friendly sites abound, and there
is even a Bug Club. So if you're batty about bugs, Gordon's bug pages are a
must-see site on your next WWW journey.
The Lemonade Stand
Remember the lemonade stand you set up last summer in your front yard? Like most
kids, you probably made a few dollars and closed shop after a couple of days. But
what if you were expected to turn it into a profitable business? That's your
challenge at the virtual lemonade stand. Depending on the weather, advertising
and your thirsty neighbors, you might turn into a juice giant or a sour fruit.
Start squeezing at http://www.feist.com/~jmayans/lemonade/
Join the 4Kids Detectives
When you know the answers to these questions, go to 4Kids Detective!. Here are the questions:
- When was the famous painter Paul CŽzanne born?
- How much does it cost to rent "The Lemonade Stand" per day?
- How old is B.J. Pinchbeck?
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Dear Amy: How can I put a picture on my Web page? We don't have a computer lab at school. -Hanna, Rapid City, SD
Dear Hanna: Putting a picture on the Web takes a couple of steps. To get
the picture into digital form so the computer can read it, you have to scan it.
Look in the Yellow Pages for a copy store that has a scanner you can use or ask a
camera store if they can make a photo CD-ROM from your pictures. Remember to have
the picture scanned at 72 dpi so that it will download fast. Once the picture
file is on your computer, you must convert it into one of the image formats so a
Web browser can read it. The file formats are gif and jpeg. The software used to
convert it is free and you can download it from
ftp://ftp.std.com/ftp/vendors/mmedia/lview/lviewpro.zip if you have a PC or
http://www.umich.edu/~archive/mac/graphics/graphicsutil/graphicconverter2.2us.si
t.hqx for Macs. Once the image is converted, add the HTML to your Web page and
upload the image to your Web server.
Dear Amy: Everyone in my class has to choose a country and report on it. Can the Internet help?-Nathan,
Portsmouth, NH
Dear Nathan: B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper at
http://tristate.pgh.net/~pinch13/ is great. You can find help with geography,
math, science, grammar, history, current events and even medicine.
Send your comments or questions about the WWW to Amy at:
Ask Amy, 2021 Dole Center, Lawrence, KS 66045
or askamy@www.4Kids.org
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