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The cinnamon teal (Spatula cyanoptera) is a species of dabbling duck found in western North and South America. It is a migratory species, travelling to northern South America and the Caribbean during the Northern Hemisphere's winter. The cinnamon teal lives in marshes and ponds, and feeds mostly on plants. It has a typical length of 16 in (41 cm), with a wing span of 22 inch (56 cm) and a mass of 14 oz (400 g). The male has bright reddish plumage with a duller brown coloration on the female. The bird feeds predominantly by dabbling, with its main diet being plants and sometimes molluscs and aquatic insects. This cinnamon teal was photographed at the Parrot World animal park in Crécy-la-Chapelle, France.Photograph credit: Clément Bardot

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• News article:

Andersen, David; Witter, Lameen. [ADD WEB LINK HERE "Former Marine, Go Daddy CEO Talks About His Rise to Success"], Marine Corps News, February 17, 2006. Retrieved on June 2, 2006.

• Web site:

Hansen, James E.; R. Ruedy, M. Sato, and K. Lo (December 15, 2005). [ADD WEB LINK HERE GISS Surface Temperature Analysis Global Temperature Trends: 2005 Summation.] NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Retrieved on September 28, 2006.

• Press release:

Hollywood Foreign Press Association (May 25, 2006). "HFPA Announces Timetable for 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards". Press release. Retrieved on June 13, 2006.

• Journal:

Bailey, David H.; Borwein, Peter & Borwein, Jonathan M. (June 25, 1999), "The Quest for Pi", Mathematical Intelligencer (Berlin: Springer-Verlag) 19 (1): 50–57, ISSN 0343-6993

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Useful reference links for school articles

• The Bunting & Lyon Blue Book gives substantial coverage of private schools (it covers 1,000 schools).
• Great Schools Web site reproduces data collected apparently as part of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Noroton's First Rule of Wikipedia Researching: Always assume Wikipedia already has an article on it.

Other

• A nicely formatted list of schools: List of schools in Geelong

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Notes

What can be said for an encyclopedia that is sometimes right, sometimes wrong, and sometimes illiterate? When I showed the Harvard philosopher Hilary Putnam his entry, he was surprised to find it as good as the one in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He was flabbergasted when he learned how Wikipedia worked. “Obviously, this was the work of experts,” he said. In the nineteen-sixties, William F. Buckley, Jr., said that he would sooner “live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.” On Wikipedia, he might finally have his wish. How was his page? Essentially on target, he said. All the same, Buckley added, he would prefer that those anonymous two thousand souls govern, and leave the encyclopedia writing to the experts.

In The New Yorker (2006):