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CVN's The World Needs Heroes
Heroes Resources Find Your Heroes Today by lilBunny, CVN Deputy and jdb_educator, CVN Editor
Our Definitions links and research for searching for heroes.
Definitions
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/heroes
http://users.erols.com/nolan/heroes.htm This second URL provides a different definition and the writer's personal heroes.
USA
http://usa-hero.com -- A good source for American heroes
Christa McAuliffe, http://usa-hero.com/mcauliffe_christa.html John Wayne http://usa-hero.com/wayne_john.html Lena Horne http://usa-hero.com/horne_lena.html Martin Luther King, jr. http://usa-hero.com/king_martinl.html
Canada:
http://canada-heros.com/ -- A good source for Canadian heroes
Robert Service http://canada-heros.com/service_robert.html Michaelle Jean http://canada-heros.com/jean_michaelle.html Anne Murray http://canada-heros.com/murray_anne.html Gordie Howe http://canada-heros.com/howe_gordie.html
Lots of games and the famous tv show come up. We present two active links:
Unicef game:
http://www.unicefgames.com/heroes/frames_large.html
Heroes- TV Series
http://www.nbc.com/heroes/
Peace Heroes
http://www.peaceheroes.com/list.htm Some of the links don't work, but othes do with nice stories and some photos.
Greek Roman and Mythical Heroes
http://www.mythweb.com/heroes/jason/index.html#index
This page starts with Jason and the Argonauts on short illustrated pages with the entire list of heroes below the entry page.
http://www.fristcenter.org/site/exhibitions/exhibitiondetail.aspx?cid=792
This site offers a nice descriptiion wuith stories in a 34:45 minute recorded audio tour and has a quiz to find out which Greek hero you are most like.
http://www.pantheon.org/areas/heroes/
Encyclopedia Mythica defines Heroes and provides a wide range of heroes and short articles to explore.
http://heroesofhistory.com/ offers short biographies of historical heroes, bibliographies and links for
additional research.
In addition there are sections on
The Values of heroes, Reading, offering key books to
find and read. Links for additional research on these
heroes pages provide hours of fun exploration and only await your click.
CNN Heroes celebrates"Everyday People Changing the World"
CNN is about ordinary heroes with Story | Speech | How to help
sections for each person. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cnn.heroes/index.html
Searching with ask.com, we found
Jamaican National Heroes
http://www.jis.gov.jm/special_sections/Heroes/Heroes.htm
Philippine Nationl Heroes
http://park.org/Philippines/centennial/herolist.htm
Very short biographies. Some with no more than a name and an image with birth and death years.
http://www.betterworldheroes.com/ is dedicated to a daughter-sister-friend and has 1000 Heroes considered to " Be a Hero for a Better World
every act of compassion makes a difference..." Bios are brief, with illustrations and interesting advertisement links.
One leads to a charity working with AIDS in Africa.
Merchant Marine Heroes
http://www.usmm.org/heroes.html Winners of awards and a brief explanation of the valor of >each awardee.
http://www.imahero.com/education.html offers
Hero History
Hero Timeline
Hero Clubhouse™
Hero Books
Hero Photos
Hero Links
"IMA Hero™ Collection is owned and distributed by StarRise Creations. StarRise Creations was founded in 1999 to create fun products to educate and inspire people of all ages.
Our goal is to design educational tools for people to learn while they are having fun."
It is a suitible site for children and includes a section on "who's your hero".
Answers range from: Mom, Dad, to
friends, and historical figures.
The reasons given are
well worth reading.
United Flight 93 Heroes
http://www.unitedheroes.com/whotheywere.html
The victims on flight 93 have brief biographies posted.
Flight 93 was the one where the passengers overwhemed the terrorists and prevented more people from being killed. More on the flight itself may be read at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_93
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