January 27, 1888. 33 explorers, teachers, map-makers, financiers, and other well-traveled men officially incorporated the National Geographic Society in Washington, DC. The organization would become the largest nonprofit scientific and educational institute.

Generic grid sheets with students names on them are useful for checking off homework and for classroom management tasks like behavior. You can make these with any spreadsheet.

Make your web browser fly. If you have enough free memory on your system you can set up a ram drive and use it as a disk cache with your browser. Items retrieved from the cache will be at the speed of your systems' memory.

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