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What Would Sacagawea Do? Take The Challenge!

Sacagawea (Image credit: The Bettman Archive)

How did Sacagawea become a hero? Encarta columnist Martha Brockenbrough lets you find out what you would have done in her shoes.

Other featured columns by Martha Brockenbrough:

•	How Can You Tell If Someone Is Lying?

•	When All Else Fails: Dating Tips From The Animal Kingdom

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How Do You Tell a Democrat from a Republican?

Thomast Nast political cartoon (Image credit: Culver Pictures)

Democrats and Republicans fight like cats and dogs, but is there really much difference between them? Columnist Tamim Ansary has some thoughts on the topic.

Other featured columns by Tamim Ansary:

•	Are Political Campaigns Getting Nastier?

•	Literature: Why Read the Classics?

•	More columns by Tamim …

Meet Our Columnists

Tamim Ansary

Tamim is author of the critically acclaimed memoir West of Kabul, East of New York and 38 nonfiction books for children.

Martha Brockenbrough

Martha lives, writes, and plays in Seattle. She is author of It Could Happen to You: Diary of a Pregnancy and Beyond.

Columns Archive

Ever Wonder?

•	Astrology: Serious Science or Strictly for Fun?

•	How Can You Tell If Someone Is Lying?

•	9 Monsters Rated: Which is Scariest?

•	Why Do We Have to Get Old?

•	The Mysteries of Amelia Earhart

•	What Really Causes Crop Circles?

•	Can You Increase Your Willpower?

•	Why Do Knuckles Crack?

•	Whatever Happened to the Metric System?

•	Does Bigfoot Exist?

•	Which Are Smarter, Cats or Dogs?

•	Why Are Stocks Worth Anything?

•	What's Your IQ?

•	How to See a Ghost

Science and Nature

•	When All Else Fails: Dating Tips From the Animal Kingdom

•	10 Great Scientific Discoveries

•	Beyond Spider-Man: Super Gross Superheroes and Villains

•	Making Sense of Dreams

•	3 Bugs You Should Love

•	The Strange Truth About Twins

Education and Learning

•	Unlocking the Mysteries of Great Teaching

•	Many Kinds of Smart

•	How to Succeed at School: A Former Teacher Tells All

•	Classic Toys: Playthings with Staying Power

•	How Your Memory Works

•	Emotional Intelligence: What Cartoons Can Teach

•	Friends 101: Why Friends are Important, and How You Can Help Your Child Succeed

•	Back to School: 3 Resolutions for the 'Other New Year'

•	Kids and After-School Time: Filling the Void

•	Mirror, Mirror, What Should We Teach?

•	Kids Today: Dumb and Dumber?

•	More Art, Better Schools

•	Computers in Schools: Are We There Yet?

•	Debate Secrets and Embarrassing Lessons

•	Know It All: What Should Everyone Learn?

•	Literature: Why Read the Classics?

•	Say So Long to Summer: Is More School Better School?

•	6 Things That Are Right With Schools

•	The Skinny on School Lunches

•	The Student-Teacher Connection: A Vital Link to Learning

•	What Did You Learn in School Today? A Parents' Guide to Homework Help

•	Are Teachers Overpaid?

•	The Trouble with Testing

•	Homework: Too Much of a Good Thing?

•	Education Standards: An Impossible Goal?

•	Power Learning: Can You Beef Up Your Brain?

•	The Cold Facts

•	The Physiology of Fear, or Why Everyone's a Little Chicken

•	Lefties: Sinister or Special?

•	When Good Food Goes Bad

•	The Strange Truth About Twins

Language

•	Are Old Languages Worth Saving?

•	Grumpy Martha's Guide to Grammar and Usage

•	Grammar Lessons for Pop Stars

•	Does IM Make U Dum?

•	Why You Should Keep a Journal

Society

•	Deconstructing Freedom

•	What Would Sacagawea Do?

•	9/11 Revisited: An Afghan American Perspective

•	2 Political Parties? Why Not 50?

•	How Do You Tell a Democrat from a Republican?

•	Are Political Campaigns Getting Nastier?

•	September 11th and Beyond: What Do We Teach the Kids?

•	What Does It Mean to Be Patriotic?

•	History's Great Peacemakers

•	Giving Away Millions: It's Only Human

Et Cetera

•	The Truth About UFOs

•	The Secret Truth Behind Groundhog Day

•	'Tis the Season to be Sickly

•	What Makes a Sport 'Olympic'?

•	Conspiracy Theory: Who's Controlling History?

•	Are You Beautiful? Why Looks Matter

•	Meat on Legs: The Story of the Turkey

•	The Greatest Mistakes of All Time

•	How to Make $67 Billion a Year

•	Daylight-Saving Time: What's the Point?

•	Why We Decorate Trees, and Other Christmas Questions

•	5 Achievements That Deserve Nobel Prizes but Don't Get Them ... Yet

•	Fashion: 1 Fib and 3 Truths

•	Who's Afraid of Friday the 13th?

•	A Teen's Taxing Questions

•	What's in a Name? More Than You Think

•	Urban Legends: Lies We Love to Tell

•	The Secret to Happiness

•	History's Greatest Hoaxes (and How to Avoid Being Hornswoggled)

•	The Funniest Jokes in History

•	The Trouble With Love (Stories)

•	The Best Mother's Day Gift Ever

•	Land of the Weird: 8 Kooky Roadside Attractions

•	Are You Rude? 4 Accidental Goofs

•	How to Win at Trivia Games

•	14 Things You Can Learn at a Wedding

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