Judy Kuster's fun home page

JUDY KUSTER'S FUN HOME PAGE

I am a professor emerita from the Department of Communication Disorders at Minnesota State University, Mankato. The following links represent a variety of personal interests. If you heard about Y2K and the concern about the milleneum bug check this out.

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ADOPTION

AdoptioNetwork Homepage
Comeunity - Support for unique families: adoption and children's disabilities

ARTS AND CRAFTS IDEAS

Artsy
- A visit to the Louvre in France.
- Salvadore Dali museum in St. Petersburg
- Cave paintings at Vallon - Pont-d'Arc.
- The National Portrait Gallery exhibitions, education, gallery collections, publications, calendar of events and more.
- National Gallery of Art
- Taking the Long View from the Library of Congress - 4,000 pictures dating from 1851 to1991 including panoramas of sports, beauty contests, and agricultural life, among many others.
Craftsy
- Wonderful Stitches On Line Sampler Stitch Patterns Now Available for Needlepoint, Quilt-Stitch and Cross-Stitch Decorative Stitches.
- Origami

TRAVEL

Places to Go (and things to do)
- A tiny glimpse (119K jpeg) of Mankato in October.
- A visit to the White House.
- National Cathedral
- Links to the Past, information and news from the National Park Service programs in archaeology, ethnography, historic landscapes, historic structures, history, and museum management.
- An exhibit of The Dead Sea Scrolls
- Pompeii Forum
- Online autopsy of an Inca Teenager sacrificed five centuries ago by Inca priests in Peru and discovered in1995.
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology houses treasures of prehistoric and historic cultures from all over the world.
- National Museum of Women in the Arts
- treasure hunting
- Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry
- The National Geographic Society online.
- Government of Ireland, read about the economics, literature, music, folklore, sport of Ireland, etc.
- Guide to Virginia Civil War Battlefields & Sites
- Pyramids: The Inside Story
- Mysteries of the Nile, a self-guided tour through the Land of the Pharaohs.
- National Park Foundation includes information on every U.S. National Park.
- Parks and History Association includes an online gallery of photos from national parks and historic sites.
- American Birding Association
- provides historical data and road maps for the "medieval fortifications of Germany."
- Country Studies "from the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.. There are already close to a hundred countries.
- Anne Frank House
- The Ten Boom Museum - Corrie Ten Boom's "The Hiding Place."
- Lewis and Clark by National Geographic.
- Ghost Towns
Places to Stay
- AirBnB
- Internet Guide to Hosteling
- Accommodations and Travel Gold contains connections to travel information for all over the world.
Ways to Get There
- Discounted Air Fares
- MapQuest contains an interactive street guide that accesses maps anywhere in the world and TripQuest for mapping out driving directions in the continental US, Canada and Mexico.
Weather
- The Weather Channel
Miscellaneous
- TravelASSIST Magazine
- How far is it between?
- Time zone converter
- Worldtime interactive atlas, time information and public holidays around the world.
- Travlang's Translating Dictionaries, a collection of foreign language dictionaries.
- Unclaimed Airline Baggage Center allows you to purchase items. Be sure also to visit the "What Is It?" section.

RECIPES

Recipe Archive Index
And for those with no time to cook, fast food facts
The Kellogg's site includes recipes for cookies, breads, side dishes, dinners, etc.
Christmas recipes
The Culinary Connection, search or browse your way through thousands of recipes.
Cookie Recipes
eatchicken.com
The Vegetarian Epicure
Nabisco Recipes
Wacky Uses of common household products.

KEEPING IN TOUCH

Phone Spell, enter a phone number and this site will give you easy ways to remember it.
Electronic Greeting Cards
Finding People on the Internet
- Switchboard
- Zaba Searchhas over 3.6 million email address and is growing - where I look first. Includes a reverse phone lookup

BASEBALL

Science of Baseball interactive exhibits, articles, and activities

ESPECIALLY FOR THE "KIDS"

BOOKS, MOVIE SCRIPTS,TV, ETC.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 minutes
Star Wars Trilogy: Official Website
Mr. Bean includes "reviews," photos, and video clips from Mr. Bean's Ultimate Disaster Movie.
Newspapers and online News
- USA Today
- The Washington Post
- ABCNEWS.com - news stories and video clips from around the world.
- Audio transmission of NPR's daily interview program, Fresh Air - interviews with famous writers, actors, directors, cultural figures.

GENEALOGY

Your Personal Family History: Learning About Genealogy is filled with valuable resources.
The Ultimate Beginner's Guide To Genealogy - very helpful information
The Morman church's genealogy website is VERY busy!!
Social Security Death Index
Links to Census sites
Free Census Finder links to free Census records online.
A good Genealogy homepage
GenForum
Civil War
- An Illinois Soldier - Private Jefferson Moses of Company G, 93rd Illinois Volunteers, kept a diary during the Civil War.
Obituaries and short biographies of many famous people.
Find a Grave
Family History searchable databases
U.S. Gazetteer Files congressional districts, places, counties, county subdivisions, census tracts, American Indian areas, school districts, state legislative districts, urban areas, and ZIP Code tabulation areas (ZCTAs).
GeneaNet, a searchable list of surnames dating before 1850.
Ancestry search
National Archives search page
Library of Congress's American Memory Collection - a growing repository of text, photographs, maps, moving images, including manuscripts of over 2900 narratives based on interviews with average people around the US as a project of the Federal Writers' Project from 1936-1940.
U.S. GENWEB Project - amazing!!
Family Tree Searcher. Enter your ancestor information just once to search your ancestry at multiple online genealogy databases.
Genealogy: Advice for Effective Searches. Answer a series of simple questions and get free, customized advice on the most effective next steps in your genealogy search.
The Highland Clearances - between about 1785 and the late 1850's, landowners in the Scottish Highlands evicted small farmers, using the land for sheep farms. My Scotch-Irish roots may have emigrated to America in the late 1780's,
My heritage
Freedom: A History of U.S. by PBS.
Township Map of Dane County - 1873
Wisconsin Historical Society
Some direct family links

NOSTALGIA

The Games We Used to Play in the 50s and 60s.
The Big Cartoon Database
K-Tel - bringing you the hits of the (insert decade here).
Hotwheels Collectors
Literature and Culture of the American 1950s - a course I'd like to take!

FAMILY CONNECTIONS

Andrew Kuster wiki.
Bethany Lutheran College
Andrew Overn Home page.
Family photos
Kuster Kid Pictures
Opa's 70th class reunion - Winfield, Kansas, 2001

QUOTATIONS (and ways with words!

Bartlett'sFamiliar Quotations
Ye Olde English Sayings
Poets.org site includes a listening booth where you can hear poems read by their authors.
Puns
Cliche Finder
Acrophobia, where you can match linguistic wits online in this acronym game.

FOR MY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHING FRIENDS

Dr. Bob's Interesting Science Stuff for kids ages 10 and older
Newton's Apple
Science Learning Network science resource for K-8 teachers students.
Neuroscience for Kids
Social studies lesson plans and resources
Art ideas for K-12
Education Place contains resources for K-8 teachers and students, including a searchable database of lessons plans, 3 interactive games, weekly brainteasers, and online projects for teachers.
Study Web

MISCELLANEOUS LINKS I LIKE

Certified Doctor helps you verify that a specialist is board certified or search for a physician in your area.
Natural Handyman
PBS Online
NYPL Digital Library Collections
Internet Museum of Flexi/Carboard/Oddity Records - paper and/or plastic records that came on cereal boxes, in magazines, etc. are online!
All About Mozart
The British Monarchy
Anomalies - the strange and unexplained.
Anagram Genius
FreeTranslation.com - foreign language text or web pages HTML Cheat Sheet + Free PDF Download by Matt Banner.
HTML5 Periodical Table by Robert Mening
HTML for Beginners by Scott Chow offers a tutorial on basic HTML, including HTML5 tags, as well as a step-by-step guide to creating a simple webpage so that students can see HTML in action. Also provided - free email support.

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last updated January 30, 2018

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