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**Today In History** Start off every day by browsing important events, celebrity birthdays, famous deaths and world holidays that have occurred on the same day. Developed by Down-Shift, Today in History is a native iPad app that delivers all the trivial and historical information you can handle about any given day.



**MyCongress** is a portal to detailed information about your elected U.S. Congressional officials. Track their news, video and Twitter feeds. Look up their official Open Congress profile or contact them directly. MyCongress helps you get in touch with your government.



**World Customs & Cultures** It includes customs, cultural information, and facts on over 165 different countries. Easily browsable by flag, by index, or just by scrolling the countries.

Each country is broken down into these separate cultural fact groups: Greetings, Communication Style, Personal Space & Touching, Eye Contact, Views of Time, Gender Issues, Gestures, Taboos and Law & Order



The first digital news publication with original content created every day exclusively for the iPad. Built from scratch by a team of top journalists and designers, The Daily covers the world: breaking news, sports, pop culture, entertainment, apps, games, technology, opinion, celebrity gossip and more. The Daily has the depth and quality of a magazine but is delivered daily like a newspaper and updated in real-time like the web.

Great stories, photos, video, audio and graphics come alive the more you touch, swipe, tap and explore. The customized sports section allows you to follow your favorite teams’ scores, pictures, headlines – and even players’ tweets. The Daily includes:

• Over 100 pages of original content every single day of the year

• Original HD videos

• 360-degree photos you can explore by swiping

• Immersive photography

• Interactive charts, info-graphics and clickable hot spots

• Saving articles to read later

• Sharing Web-friendly versions of articles via Twitter, Facebook and e-mail

• Your favorite sports teams’ scores, news and photos

• In-app commenting — including audio comments

• Your local weather

• New crossword and sudoku puzzles every day


 * [[image:con.jpg width="118" height="113" align="left"]]The Constitution **

Senator Sam Ervin pulled one out of his pocket during the Watergate Hearings... Now prepare to own any legal debate with a copy of the US Constitution on your iPhone or iPod Touch!

**Show of Hands** is an easy-to-use real-time ANONYMOUS polling application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and now the iPad too. Poll topics include politics, ethics, pop-culture, sports, parenting, health, humor...whatever seems interesting. Two or three new questions are added daily, and make for great dinner table discussion topics!