Contents contributed and discussions participated by Kelly O'Neill
National Maritime Digital Library - 5 views
Royal Geographical Society - 1 views
Russian Geographical Society - 0 views
Mapping the Republic of Letters - 1 views
Nightingale polar area mortality diagram - 1 views
Voyeur Tools: See Through Your Texts - 0 views
Locals and Tourists - a set on Flickr - 3 views
Health and Wealth of Nations - 4 views
Orthodox Calendar - 0 views
Skinboat Journal: Louis Choris and the Uncertainty of the Past - 1 views
The Decade in Design - 2 views
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As a visual learner I often find myself thinking about ways to organize the vast quantities of information I consume as an historian into manageable pieces without losing sight of all the ways in which one bit of information might be linked to lots of others. While in a sense visually overpowering, this timeline is also one of the most elegant solutions I have encountered to the problem of visualizing the connections between multiple themes or ideas, and multiple events or moments in time. The use of color allows me to recognize immediately which are the dominant categories (paradigm, society, media, personae, brands) and understand something about the significance of each of the events listed in the bottom columns. Even better would be if one could select/visually isolate a particular theme or event, but otherwise what a rich, creative solution to the problem of managing complex content in a timeline!
The Mariners' Museum - 1 views
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For over seventy-five years, the history of the ocean and its relationship with humankind has been told and displayed in one of the largest maritime museums in the world. In 1930, The Mariners' Museum was brought to life by Archer Milton Huntington, son of railroad and shipping magnate Collis P. Huntington, who founded Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company just a few miles from the Museum. [Located in Newport News, VA]
European Voyages of Exploration - 0 views
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The modern world exists in a state of cultural, political, and economic globalisation. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries two nations, Portugal and Spain, pioneered the European discovery of sea routes that were the first channels of interaction between all of the world's continents, thus beginning the process of globalisation in which we all live today. This tutorial introduces the student to these two pioneering nations, their motivations, their actions, and the inevitable consequences of their colonisation. This tutorial also examines the geographical, technological, economic, political, and cultural patterns of that era.