To become an instant expert on all things about the Year of the Ox, go to http://science.gmu.edu/~jwang/china/culture.html for a complete discussion of how the first Chinese New Year came to be, why red is the good luck color and what is going on with all these firecrackers.
Teachers who want to be one step ahead of their students might want to look at the "Golden Legacy" curriculum designed for the third, fourth and fifth grades in California, at http://www.kqed.org/fromKQED/Cell/golden/glmenu.html.
POTUS, that's president of the United States, is a site within the wonderful Internet Public Library. Find it at http://ipl.sils.umich.edu:80/ref/POTUS/.
Here you can grab background information, election results, Cabinet members, presidency highlights, and some odd facts on each of the presidents. There are even links to audio and video files.
While there, browse around the Internet Public Library; it is the first public library of and for the Internet community.
The site began in a graduate seminar in the School of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan two years ago, and now has a full-time staff, complete with grants and a $450,000 budget.