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| This collection of Knowledge Cards pays tribute to forty-eight inspiring women who have exhibited the courage and determination to reach beyond the ordinary and expected, often braving seemingly insurmountable sexual and political tyrannies in the process. Working in such varied fields as aerospace, the performing arts, literature, sports, and peace; the women profiled here have had in common the passion and drive, the insight and endurance, to make deep and lasting contributions in their respective fields. With portraits on one side and profiles on the other, these 48 fact-filled Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information—all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards! Discover the most important and interesting facts about these influential people in a concise, stress-free compilation. A quick and stimulating supply of information, perfect for students, teachers, history buffs, and the purely inquisitive, this deck is sure to spark your curiosity and encourage you to delve deeper into this compelling subject. |
The courage and accomplishments of the men and women represented in this collection of Knowledge Cards—from educator, editor, and writer W. E. B. DuBois (cover) to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., from athletes Jesse Owens and Althea Gibson to musical giants Leontyne Price and Duke Ellington, from noted authors James Baldwin and Zora Neale Hurston to pioneering aviator Bessie Coleman—have changed the world in ways even they could not have predicted. Created in association with The Library of Congress. With portraits on one side and profiles on the other, these 48 fact-filled Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information—all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards! Discover the most important and interesting facts about these influential people in a concise, stress-free compilation. A quick and stimulating supply of information, perfect for students, teachers, history buffs, and the purely inquisitive, this deck is sure to spark your curiosity and encourage you to delve deeper into this compelling subject. |
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PO-102 Great African Americans
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| True or False? Ella Fitzgerald got her start in music when, on a dare, she sang “Judy” at an amateur night competition at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Can you name the jazz musician whose primary instrument is bagpipes? Do you know who wrote the song "Lullaby of Birdland"? Lillie Mae Jones became a star jazz singer, though she changed her name first. Who was she? Can you list the players on the seminal jazz album Kind of Blue? The forty-eight cards in this invigorating quiz deck feature multipart questions that reveal enough knowledge about the players, tunes, composers, and trivia of jazz to engage everyone from the aficionado to the neophyte. As an additional feature, listening suggestions for albums and CDs that relate to the subject of each card constitute an excellent library of jazz, urging you to try out some tunes you may not know or encouraging you to put on some old favorites. Sample card answer: True. She won $25, too. |
Have you ever wondered who said “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration”? (Thomas Edison, elaborating on his reputation as “a fiend for work.”) This intriguing collection of Knowledge Cards answers this question and forty-seven more, with illuminating background on some of the most quotable quotes of all time and brief life sketches of their originators. Includes quotes by Martin Luther King Jr., Cicero, Chief Joseph, Lenny Bruce, Anne Frank, Charles Dickens, and W. C. Fields—a wide-ranging sampler of wit and wisdom. These 48 fact-filled Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information—all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards! Discover the heights of historic wit and wisdom in this stimulating compilation. An inspiration to the writer, philosopher, dreamer, student, teacher, or language lover, this deck is sure to spark the imagination, and may even inspire you to feats of personal creation. |
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| Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? / Thou art more lovely and more temperate: . . . The words are as familiar and full of comfort as a warm bath, but they have lost none of their power to thrill. You may well know that their source is Sonnet 18. But did you know that Shakespeare never meant for the general public to read them? Each card in this deck of 48 offers an excerpt from the oeuvre of a great poet--Blake and Plath, Yeats and Millay, Dylan Thomas and Andrew Marvell are among the sources--on one side. The other side names the poem and the poet, with absorbing, insightful notes about his or her life and works. Deeply satisfying to the solitary reader, these cards can also form the basis of a brisk game of Q&A, as your friends wrack their brains to identify the authors of tantalizingly familiar-sounding stanzas. |
The Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus is like no other wordbook. Rather than merely presenting collections of words meaning more or less the same thing, it offers analyses of those semi-synonyms, and examples of usage in context, so that the user ends up with a word that means exactly what he or she wants to say. Use the Right Word! draws on this fine resource to make a stimulating, enlightening multiple-choice Q&A game. Each card’s front features a sentence with a hole in it and a selection of words with which one might fill the hole. The card’s back specifies the word that is precisely correct, then gives a lucid explanation of why it is and why the other words just aren’t quite. As something to read, this deck is absorbing and offers considerable food for thought; as a multiplayer game, it will induce the meekest of word lovers to shout the correct word before another player does so. Size: 3 1/4 x 4". |
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