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Need Activities to Occupy Kids and Teens This Summer?

GALILEO can help! We know children and teens will be enjoying the outdoors for most summer days, but what about those rainy days when they’re stuck inside or when it's 100 degrees outside? GALILEO resources offer quite a few fun activities for…

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Celebrating Flag Day

On Flag Day, we celebrate the adoption of the United States flag. You can read the history of the United States flag and read more about the establishment of Flag Day in Encyclopædia Britannica. Learn more about the flag from the Federal…

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Georgia History Ebooks now available in GALILEO

The Georgia History Ebooks from the University of Georgia Press, which includes early and seminal works on Georgia history and culture, is now available at http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=gaeb or through the GALILEO website. An informational…

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Go Ride a Bike!

May is National Bike Month. If you're interested in getting fit, saving some gas money, or just having some fun, cycling can be the way to go. To learn about bicycles and cycling, look in MasterFILE Premier in GALILEO. Just search for bicycle or…

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May 4: 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Rides

On this day in 1961, a group of activists left Washington, DC by bus in order to travel through the South and challenge segregation at bus stations and other facilities. The actions of the Freedom Riders led to desegregation of interstate travel,…

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