I Love It Here!

More Web Sites: Beyond Minnesota
& the Red River Valley

When you use the following links, you are leaving Brendan's Island.
I have made every effort to ensure that they are appropriate for most teens and adults. However:
I have no control over these websites, and therefore am not responsible for their content.
Brian H. Gill.

Americana

• Antiques resources (a directory of antiques related websites and discussion groups.)
• Chicago Links (Chicago Historical Society)
• Chicago's St. Patrick's Day Parade (with music!)
  • Why the Chicago River turns green
• Crazy Horse Memorial
• Culpepper & Merriweather Circus ("America's favorite Big Top circus")
• Northlandz ("Home of the Great American Railway")
• Red Hat Society (women "deciding to greet middle age with verve, humor and elan.") (new 1/1/2004)
• Saint Paul, Minnesota, Winter Carnival and Ice Palace
• Small Town Life magazine
• Talking Presidents (action figures of the last few presidents, and more) (new 2/15/2004)
• Tony Melendez and Toe Jam Music
• Pasadena Tournament of Roses and Rose Bowl Parade (since 1890, Californians showing off their mild weather)
• Walker Bros. Circus (You must have Macromedia Flash Player - and patience - to see and hear their small but fancy site.)
• WWII Memorial
• Yakov Smirnoff (Check out the bio on his site.)

The Funnies

• Calvin and Hobbs
• For Better or For Worse
• FoxTrot (FoxTrot Dot Com is back! - November 2003)
• FoxTrot (at UComics Dot Com)
• Jeff MacNelly (Shoe & Toonville)
• the "Home of Peanuts on the Web"
  (I grew up with Charlie Brown, and still cherish the comic.)

Good Ideas

• American Bison
(they are not extinct!):
• About the American Bison from the Texas Bison Association
• Missouri Bison Association
• National Bison Association
• National Bison Association at Bison Central dot com
• North Dakota Buffalo Association
• Still More Bison Associations!
• Books For Africa (Their goal: to end the book famine in Africa.)
• DefendAmerica (US Department of Defense News About the War on Terrorism:
  • Send your thanks to the US military
• Fallen Patriot Fund to help families of U.S. military personnel killed or seriously injured during Operation Iraqi Freedom. (big, slow-loading home page) (new 06/24/2004)
• Fraud Discovery white collar crime investigation & fraud prevention specialists
  (this page avoids their Flash introduction.)
• Homes for our Troops ("to build specially adapted homes for our severely disabled soldiers and their families.) (new 6/27/2004)
• Minnesota Forest Industries (More than twice as much timber stands in Minnesota in 2004 as is 1936. Learn why.)
• Propane Education & Research Council Consumer Safety Information ("Making a Safe Fuel Even Safer.") (new 5/30/2004)
• The Todd M. Beamer Foundation ("to equip children experiencing family trauma to make heroic choices every day.")

Science & Technology: the Digital Age

• Kartoo (A metacrawler with an animated graphic interface. Just plain fun to use. Requires Flash for best effect.)
• The Internet Archive ("a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form")
• Project Gutenberg ("the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts).")
• Soleau Software ("Non-Violent * Strategy Logic Games * For the Entire Family")
• Tech Enthusiast ("straightforward advice on all things tech")
• TechTV ("about computing, technology, and the Internet")

Science & Technology: Everyday Life

• Futurist Movies (the way the will be was in movies)
• Retrofuture (the way the will be was)
• Segway ("the evolution in mobility")
• Tech Enthusiast ("straightforward advice on all things tech")
• TechTV ("about computing, technology, and the Internet")
• Yesterday's Tomorrows (the future isn't what it used to be)

Science & Technology: Aviation, Space Flight, and Astronomy

• Chuck Yeager "the official website of an aviation legend" (new 03/06/2004)
• NASA:
• Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn & Titan
• Mars Exploration Program
• Mars Exploration Rover Mission
• The Moon Trees Apollo 14 carried seeds to the moon and back. NASA scientist Dave Williams has a list of many of these "Moon Trees," planted across the USA and the world: and is trying to find the rest.
• NASA Home Page
• Sky and Telescope (their new & improved site)
• Starchaser Industries (UK) ("Your Future in Space")
• StarDate Online ("Your Guide to the Universe")
• XCOR Aerospace (USA) ("Safe. Routine. .... Reusable. Nontoxic propellants.")

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