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Free Resources From Thomson Gale Celebrate, Educate During Hispanic Heritage Month

With 41.3 Million Hispanics in the United States, Need for Hispanic Heritage Month Resources Grows

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Sept. 12, 2006 – Today in the United States, Hispanics make up 14 percent of the population, an increase of 17 percent in the past four years. With more than 41.3 million Hispanics in the United States and a projected population growth that will account for 46 percent of all United States population growth over the next 20 years*, Hispanic Heritage Month continues to gain significance in today’s multicultural world.

From September 15 to October 15, 2006, Thomson Gale, part of the Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by offering free or trial access to a wealth of reliable resources, educational activities, and authoritative information about the history, influence and achievements of the Hispanic culture . Also included with these resources is information on Thomson Gale’s Opposing Viewpoints print series and its Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center. Both versions of this dynamic online library of current event topics include issues facing today’s Hispanic culture, such as immigration.

Visitors to www.gale.com will find activities, biographies, links, music, a quiz, a timeline and featured Thomson Gale titles to complement classroom learning and assignments about Hispanic history, culture and people:

Throughout Hispanic Heritage Month, visitors to www.gale.com will be given a free trial of two of Thomson Gale’s Spanish-language databases, Consulta and ¡Informe! . Consulta is a Spanish-language collection of references, magazines and primary documents that can be searched using an English or Spanish menu. With full-text articles from the most popular Spanish-language magazines, ¡Informe! is specifically designed to meet the research needs of Spanish-speaking users and researchers looking for quality Spanish reference material.

For more information, contact Vanessa Birch at vanessa.birch@cengage.com.

* "Inside America’s Largest Minority: TIME POLL OF U.S. HISPANICS. (The 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America)."  Time 166.8 (August 22, 2005): 56.  InfoTrac OneFile. Thomson Gale. 17 July 2006 <http://find.galegroup.com/menu/>.

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Posted on: September 12, 2006, 12:41 pm Category: Activities, Events

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