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"I Can't Believe This Stuff is On-Line!"

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - March 12, 2002 (INB) -- Before the Internet, if you wanted to examine the world's most famous original manuscripts, you had to be a scholar. If you wanted to see art from the ancient world, you had to visit a museum. And if you wanted to stare at a dinosaur - like "Sue" - you had to buy a ticket and stand in line. No more - if you know where to look.

http://www.AwesomeStories.com shows you where to look. Not just through millions of unorganized, digitized national treasures that now reside on-line but also through millions of scanned documents, pictures, maps and graphics that universities and libraries have made available for everyone's use. With this newly launched web site at your fingertips, you can explore the background of famous stories with all the original documents you need at the precise moment you need them.

Three years in the making, http://www.AwesomeStories.com started as a law firm project. Carole Bos and her partners at the Grand Rapids firm of Bos & Glazier thought it would be a good idea to create a web site that didn't tout their business but helped people learn the real story behind famous trials. Using the same technique they use in court to teach juries, Bos and her team worked nights and weekends to create an interactive learning tool. When their initial site (LawBuzz.com) was launched, without advertising or sponsors, they were immediately inundated with e-mails asking for more stories.

With heavy use of Macromedia Flash^TM to introduce its 8 channels, AwesomeStories helps you effortlessly find what many people have never seen. For example:

• FDR's draft of his famous "infamy" speech -
  http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/fdr/pg1.gif

• The derringer that killed Abraham Lincoln -
  http://www.awesomestories.com/history/index2.htm

• The actual iceberg that collided with Titanic -
  http://www.uscg.mil/lantarea/iip/pics/theberg.jpg

• The axe Lizzie Borden allegedly used to kill her dad and stepmother -
  http://www.awesomestories.com/famous_trials/index2.htm

• The official reports and photographs of the Challenger disaster -
  http://www.awesomestories.com/disasters/index2.htm

• The exploding Hindenburg -
  http://www.awesomestories.com/disasters/stories/hindenburg/hindenburg_ch6.htm

• A silent movie of Wilbur Wright demonstrating flight to Europeans - http://www.awesomestories.com/history/stories/history_flight/history_flight_ch7.htm

Thousands of other famous places
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g100000/g182874.jpg and items http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/decp1.jpg are linked within the site. E-mails to AwesomeStories often ask: "How did you find this stuff on-line?!"

A highlight of AwesomeStories.com is the Click2Flicks channel. http://www.awesomestories.com/movies/index2.htm

Whether its featured movies are current box office hits (like "We Were Soldiers") or favorite videos (like "Erin Brockovich"), the site fills a need the public always has to see the real people involved. Long after the studios have disabled their official web sites, the story behind the movie is still available at AwesomeStories.

Cutting through the maze of irrelevant and inappropriate web sites, AwesomeStories.com brings speed and convenience to the learning process. By assembling URLs to some of the most important, relevant, on-line material in one place, and organizing those links around an interesting story, this new web site uncovers for popular culture what was once available only for scholars.

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