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Anderson-Newham, an early learning supervising librarian and storyteller, provides menus for library storytime programs with children, with a focus on preschool storytimes. She describes how children
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Electronic music instruments weren't called synthesizers until the 1950s, but their lineage began in 1919 with Russian inventor Lev Sergeyevich Termen's development of the Etherphone, now known as the
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