Interesting websites
Please be aware that many of these websites change and may even disappear. Don't be surprised if links suddenly stop working.
Courtesy Tom Holloway & Jean Thompson
Midhurst U3A and what's going on in the town, click herePhotography websites, click here
Open Writing The daily Web magazine Open Writing which brings words written by University of the Third Age members to a world-wide audience. Open Writing is a just-for-fun Web site. The only money involved is that which webmaster forks out annually to keep the site running. http://www.openwriting.com:80/
The Massachusetts Intitute of Technology Open Course Ware is so good it merits yet another mention. FREE downloadable courses and course materials on an astonishing range of subjects can be found at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/index.htm
Education Index
http://www.educationindex.com/education_resources.html seems to have everything for any subject groupLanguages websites click here
Italian Cookery lessons in Italy click hereStatistics of all kinds click here
Current affairs
The website http://www.climatecrisis.net/aboutthedvd gives a review and purchasing details on 'An Inconvenient Truth'
Download today's newspapers free on, for example www.elpais.es or http://www.lemonde.fr/ or the English-version Syria Times at syriatimes.
For up to date international news try Lycos at http://www.lycos.co.uk/
City Tours http://www.paris.org A city tour of Paris. Available for many other cities – try .newyork
Egyptology Finally, just for fun, and to impress your friends, try www.touregypt.net/index.html or http://www.discoveringegypt.co.uk/
Holidays in Romania Holiday offers in Romania, take a look at http://www.lindastravel.ro/
Maps Download your route to the place you wish to visit at http://www.multimap.com/ - or locate it by putting in the postcode. (Don't know the postcode? Multimap will find it for you)
Explore the world with updated information at sea-and-sky at http://www.seasky.org/ - for a heavenly view of earth and information about satellites try http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/RealTime/JTrack/3D/JTrack3D.html
or get Google Earth at http://earth.google.com/Create your own sheet music and parts for your choir with http://www .cakewalk.com/Crowthorne Choral Society, http://www.crowthornechoral.org.uk/
Visual Arts- Frimley & Camberley Society of Arts, http://www.fcsaonline.org.uk/East Berks Operatic Society, http://www.ebos.org.uk/
History Old newsreels restored at http://www.britishpathe.com/
A wide selection of history information at bbc.co.uk/historvHistory Groups and their Leaders: We now have an exciting new website! Click on http://u3ahistorygroups.pbwiki.com/ Exchange ideas and newsletters - links to lots of worldwide resources for History and Archaeology
Science & Technology Science and Technology Groups will find excellent talks by many eminent scientists on the Royal Society website. The section on Climate Change is especially recommended and is suitable for general meetings http://www.royalsoc.co.uk/page.asp?id=4607
Sci/Tech Groups: The website of the Institute of Science in Society - http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ - seeks to promote science responsible to civil society and the public good, independent of commercial and other special interests, or of government control.
Philosophy Groups: An introduction to Western Philosophy, a work in progress written for busy beginners (not philosophisers) can be found at http://u3awesternphilosophy.pbwiki.com/ (A special thanks to Bruce Cameron U3ANorthern Rivers, Australia) 'public'. Password is "Socrates".
For Older Women A new website from Third Age Press with some excellent links to organisations of particular interest to older women -- clickon http://www.wwwow.info/
