20th Century Day by Day
The ultimate chronicle of an incredible century!
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Our Price: $699.95
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From the Wright Brothers' first flight to the Apollo moon landing ... from votes for women to the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa ... from the fall of the czar of Russia to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union ... it's all here in one dynamic program that chronicles the achievements of the most progressive era in humankind.
Bring the entire scope and sweep of this amazing era with the events that shook the world and the people that made them happen. From the famous to the infamous, read the stories of the people who most influenced the events of the century and track their lives on a unique scrolling timeline that let's you see how different events relate to each other.
Key Features
- Track the events of the century day by day, month by month
- 6,000 news stories each written with a "you are there" style to make history as exciting as today's news headlines
- 2 million words of text
- 100 biographies
- 90 archival sound clips
- 70 video clips and 3,000 color and black-and-white photos
- Powerful search features
Reviews
"Amazingly thorough. ... Solid content and well-chosen multimedia provide an expansive look at history in a format that is both engaging and appealing."
-- School Library Journal
"A fascinating reference."
-- Family PC: Best Software for Families recommendation
"Deliciously retro interface - a shadowy newsroom with a cluttered desk and bulging file drawers - gives the hunt for history a cozy feeling. Grade A+."
-- Parenting
"More entertaining than most TV shows ... if my history classes had been this entertaining, I might have actually attended them. Five stars."
-- PC Computing
"Day by day, month by month, year by year, DK Multimedia's Chronicle of the 20th Century CD-ROM provides a vivid, comprehensive record of the age we live in. With more than 6,000 news stories, video and audio clips, animated maps, biographies, thematic articles, powerful search capabilities, and a 3-D newsroom interface, this CD-ROM is an entertaining and useful reference to this amazing era of human history."
-- Amazon.com