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Can you identify the presidents? Here's your chance to find out at FunBrain's Show Me the People. Try guessing the presidents again with Name That President. Play Presidential Hangman and try guessing the names of the Presidents of the United States. What is it like to be President of the United States? Two awesome sites worth exploring to help get a feel for this top job are National Geographics' "Inside the White House". and PBS Kids Democracy Project "President for a Day". The Internet Public Library has an abundance of information on each president at. Click on the president of your choice. World Book's US Presidents and the Presidency is a great site that profiles the history of the Presidency, the office of president and vice-president, articles about the presidents, portraits of the first ladies, and quizes on the presidents, vice-presidents, and first ladies. You may have to check under Archived Features - World History and Culture if it's not in the Feature of the Month. The Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery Hall of Presidents offers you a chance to view an official painting or casting of our presidents with information about its artist with its standard tour or you can take a virtual tour and "walk" through the spaces and select specific portraits for more information and larger images. Get to know Abraham Lincoln through a very detailed timeline of his life from The History Place Presents Lincoln at http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/. The History Place has a wonderful collection of Presidential portraits, famous audio dramatic moments from FDR to the present, a George Washington picture gallery, history of John F. Kennedy, and impeachment proceedings of Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton. Just scroll down the page to the Presidents of the United States. Find out all about our Presidents from the White House site. Look at the list on the left and click on the president you want to find out about. George Washington loved his home at Mount Vernon. Take a virtual tour of it at http://www.mountvernon.org/ and learn more about Washington by checking out the links there. How much do you know about the presidents? Take an online quiz at http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/tf-lb-pday.html to find out. Here's another online quiz put together by World Book at http://www.worldbook.com/fun/presidents/html/presquiz.html. You may have to click on the Archived Features - World History and Culture and select the quiz on the right you want to take. Got your thinking cap on? Check out your presidential trivia as you play "Who is That?" with FunBrain at http://www.funbrain.com/who/index.html. To make this more challenging you can choose your own difficulty level. For presidential crafts, activities, and games, ChildFun.com at http://www.childfun.com/themes/pres.shtml has quite a selection. Take a tour of the White House with Spotty, President Bush's English Springer Spaniel. Make a log cabin for Washington and Lincoln with About.com at http://craftsforkids.about.com/parenting/craftsforkids/library/spdays/blfeb22nd.htm for Washington and http://craftsforkids.about.com/parenting/craftsforkids/library/spdays/blfeb12th.htm for Lincoln. Be sure to check out the "Other Things to Do for each." For LOADS of more sites
to visit about Lincoln, Yahooligans has a massive listing at Background
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