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Moving Image		 Winter
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:56:43

For those plants and animals that don't migrate south for winter, a lot of preparation goes into getting ready for winter. When it comes to dealing with winter, plants and animals know things we humans don't.

(Relevance: 48048)   Find Similar Resources		Winter -- New England
Ecology/Energy
Seasons -- New England
Natural history -- New England

Dataset		 test
Science, Dataset

The six-sided beautifully intricate structure is a snow crystal not a snow flake. A snowflake is an aggregate of snow crystals.

(Relevance: 5332)   Find Similar Resources		Census of Marine Life
Farming/Agriculture

Still Image		 The Chemistry of Snow Crystals
MPBN: Quest Series, Still Image, 0:03:04

The shape and chemistry of a snow crystal often changes within a few hours of falling to the ground. Pukak is depth hoar. Surface hoar is a feathery type snow crystal that grows on top of snow.

(Relevance: 4836)   Find Similar Resources		Depth hoar
Snowflakes
Surface Hoar
Ecology/Energy

Moving Image		 Climate Change: In Our Backyard
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:56:45

Using close-to-home examples, the views of leading scientists come alive as they show how climate change can affect almost every aspect of our lives - and in turn, how we affect the climate.

(Relevance: 3680)   Find Similar Resources		Climatic changes
Ecology/Energy

Moving Image		 Wilson Snowflake Bentley
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:01:13

In 1885, Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley became the first person to photograph a single snow crystal by connecting a microscope to a bellows camera. He discovered that no two were alike.

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Snowflakes
Wilson Snowflake Bentley

Moving Image		 Spring
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 00:58:03

Because spring comes so late to northern New England, things have to happen quickly and profusely. Spring is the time of year that wildlife and plants come to life again and get right to the business of creating new life.

(Relevance: 2662)   Find Similar Resources		Spring -- New England
Seasons -- New England
Natural history -- New England
Ecology/Energy

Text		 All About Snow
Science, Text

Searchable information about snow, including facts, definitions, questions and answers, as well as links to other snow related websites.

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Snow
Snowflakes
Blizzards
Avalanches

Text		 Vessels built in Brunswick between 1781 and 1877
Maine Historical Society, Text

List of vessels built in Brunswick between 1781 and 1877. This list, compiled from records at the custom houses at Bath and Portland, documents nearly a century's worth of shipbuilding in the Brunswick region.

(Relevance: 1486)   Find Similar Resources		Shipbuilding -- Maine -- Brunswick
Ships -- Maine

Moving Image		 Bodies In Motion: The Biomechanics of Sports
MPBN: Quest Series, Moving Image, 0:54:36

Using athletics, QUEST takes a fresh look at the way our bodies move. Bridging the gap between research and the playing field, coaches, trainers and athletes themselves discover how to optimize performance and what to do when injury causes that performance to fail.

(Relevance: 1218)   Find Similar Resources		Biomechanics
Sports -- Physiological aspects
Human mechanics
Human locomotion

Text		 Letter about a raid on an Abenaki village
Maine Historical Society, Text

This letter was written by Johnson Harmon and Joseph Heath to Col. Goffe recounting a raid on the settlement at Norridgewock where Jesuit priest Father Sebastien Rasles (Rale) lived.

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Dummer's War,1721-1727 -- Manuscripts
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Goffe
Harmon, Johnson
Heath, Joseph
Indians of North America -- Maine -- History
Jesuit missions -- Maine -- Norridgewock
Manuscripts
Minot, Stephen
Missions -- Maine -- Norridgewock
Native Americans
Rale, Sebastien
Rasles, Sebastien
Rasles, Sebastien, 1657-1724

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