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David Hilton

The Virtual Museum of Canada - 0 views

www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/B4452ED5E5A69BE5FE29C1377C79A0

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  • David Hilton on 22 Sep 09
     
    "As an endless source of discoveries, virtualmuseum.ca is a unique interactive space that brings together Canadian museum collections and riches in a variety of thought-provoking and instructive contents. It's your window on current museum news and your reference guide to plan your next outing. Enter your Canadian museum space." OK!
  • David Hilton on 22 Sep 09
     
    As an endless source of discoveries, virtualmuseum.ca is a unique interactive space that brings together Canadian museum collections and riches in a variety of thought-provoking and instructive contents. It's your window on current museum news and your reference guide to plan your next outing. Enter your Canadian museum space
anonymous

Top 10 Archaeological Discoveries of 2012 « Indiana Jen - 10 views

indianajen.com/...aeological-discoveries-of-2012

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  • anonymous on 17 Dec 12
     
    We have this edition in the library. 
Adele L

Rare Discovery: Engraved Gemstone Carrying A Portrait Of Alexander The Great - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...090915101147.htm

History Social Studies Ancient Civilizations Archaeological Discoveries

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  • Adele L on 24 Sep 09
     
    A rare find at Tel Dor, Israel. Alexander the Great identified as the engraved image on gem, believed to have been commissioned durring the Hellenistic period in history.
David Hilton

Social Studies Homework Help - 5 views

school.discoveryeducation.com/...ial_studies_homework_help.html

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  • David Hilton on 18 Nov 10
     
    Free resources from the excellent Discovery Education site. 
Aaron Shaw

European Voyages of Exploration - Home Page - 8 views

www.ucalgary.ca/...index.html

history education europe exploration interactive c15th c16th

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  • Aaron Shaw on 18 Feb 10
     
    "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. "
Tony Searl

100 Incredible YouTube Channels for History Buffs | Online College Tips - Online Colleges - 16 views

www.onlinecollege.org/...ube-channels-for-history-buffs

history youtube

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  • Tony Searl on 26 Oct 09
     
    If you love history, or just want to learn more about it, YouTube has exactly what you need. Always up to the challege of providing thorough, accurate information, YouTube delivers channels from leading names in historical studies, from The Smithsonian to the Discovery Channel. You're sure to find just the right information you need for your lecture, lesson plan, or perhaps just your personal viewing pleasure.
Rob Jacklin

Tripline - 16 views

www.tripline.net

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  • Rob Jacklin on 19 Apr 11
     
    At its most basic level, Tripline is a way for you communicate by putting places on a map. That's a very human activity that has been happening for thousands of years. It's also a way for you to easily ask and answer questions about your favorite places and topics and the best way to tell your travel stories. And just like in the movies, the Tripline player gives you an animated line moving across the map with a soundtrack. That's appropriate, because our journeys are our own epic tales of discovery and adventure. Press play and see for yourself.
Bob Maloy

NASA Earth Observatory - 4 views

earthobservatory.nasa.gov

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  • Bob Maloy on 10 Feb 20
     
    Images, stories, and discoveries about the environment, Earth systems, and climate that emerge from NASA satellite missions, in-the-field research, and models
Michael Servetus Research

Michael Servetus Research - 1 views

www.michaelservetusresearch.com

Servetus Unitarian Renaissance Europe Medicine History Discovery research librarian

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  • Michael Servetus Research on 29 Mar 13
     
    Hello, after 18 years of research on Michael Servetus ( genius from Renaissance, first European that described the pulmonary circulation, theologian and defender of Tolerance)we developed this website. http://www.michaelservetusresearch.com . We tried it would be educative, academic, and also scholarly in some areas. We present a chronology, study on the 10 new works & primary sources from documents we found. Also many links and resources that I will share here as soon as they are in English. Thanks for checking.
Betiana Caprioli

British Army war diaries 1914-1922 | The National Archives - 13 views

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/...war-diaries-ww1.htm

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  • These records are the war diaries of the first three cavalry and the first seven infantry divisions of the British Army in the First World War.
  • The digitised diaries cover activity in France and Belgium.
  • You can search the records in Discovery, our catalogue, by filling in the form below.
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  • Betiana Caprioli on 16 Jan 14
     
    Recently released diaries.
David Hilton

The Staffordshire Hoard - 0 views

www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk

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  • Denis MOOTZ on 24 Sep 09
     
    Discovery of largest Saxon treasure hoard...may require rethink of 'Dark Ages'.
  • David Hilton on 25 Sep 09
     
    How amazing is this find! Three times the size of Sutton Hoo. And found by an unemployed bloke with a metal detector. Isn't it about time we stopped using the Gibbonesque term 'Dark Ages'? I think there's increasing evidence that the 'Dark' and 'Middle' Ages (it's defined in terms of ancient & modern - how rude!) were not the backstep that most people have assumed. Feel free to disagree! (Sorry for the continuing bonhomie, I'm still on holidays).
David Hilton

Collection: EGYPTE - 0 views

www.flickr.com/...72157604759777683

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  • David Hilton on 06 Jul 09
     
    This is a set of photo collections taken by Emma from Chamagne in her travels in Egypt. The French have a glorious history of historical discovery in Egypt and Emma has taken up the legacy well. Some sexy pics of the pyramids.
David Hilton

Primary Sources: Tools for Discovery - 13 views

www.yale.edu/...tools.html

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  • David Hilton on 28 Sep 09
     
    A very good guide for students on how to do digital primary source research.
Ed Webb

How we remember them: the 1914-18 war today | openDemocracy - 6 views

www.opendemocracy.net/...ber-them-the-1914-18-war-today

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  • After the war, however, the problem of reintegrating into society both those who had served and those who had lost, and finding a narrative that could contain both, found one answer by an emphasis on the universality of heroism. A British society that has since the 1960s grown increasingly distant from the realities of military service - whilst remaining dedicated to it as a location for fantasy - has been unable to move on from this rhetorical standpoint
  • The war's portrayal has always been shaped by contemporary cultural mores, and commemorative documentaries demonstrate just how much the relationship between the creators and consumers of popular culture has changed over the last fifty years. For the fiftieth anniversary of 1914, the BBC commissioned the twenty-six part series The Great War, based around archive footage and featuring interviews with veterans. There was an authoritative narrative voice, but no presenters. For the eightieth anniversary, it collaborated with an American television company on a six-part series littered with academic talking-heads. For the ninetieth anniversary, it has had a range of TV presenter-celebrities - among them Michael Palin, Dan Snow, Natalie Cassidy and Eamonn Holmes - on a journey of discovery of their families' military connections. These invariably culminate next to graves and memorials in a display of the right kind of televisual emotion at the moment the formula demands and the audience has come to expect.   The focus of these programmes - family history as a means of understanding the past - is worthy of note in itself. It is indicative of the dramatic growth of family history as a leisure interest, perhaps in response to the sense of dislocation inherent in modernity
  • The search for family history is usually shaped by modern preconceptions, and as such it seldom results by itself in a deeper understanding of the past. The modern experience of finding someone who shares your surname on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, taking a day trip to France and finding his grave (perhaps with a cathartic tear or few) might increase a person's or family's sense of emotional connection to the war, and may bring other satisfactions. Insofar as it is led not by a direct connection with a loved one, however, but by what television has "taught" as right conduct, it can seldom encourage a more profound appreciation of what the war meant for those who fought it, why they kept fighting, or why they died.
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  • Projects such as The Great War Archive, which combine popular interest in the war with specialist expertise, and which recognise that an archive is different from a tribute or a memorial, suggest that it is possible to create high-quality content based on user submissions.
  • the exploitation of popular enthusiasm to encourage thought, rather than to enforce the "correct" opinion
  • It is certainly true that the 1914-18 war is popularly seen as the "bad war" and 1939-45 as the "good war." I think the one view is sustained in order to support the other. Although no expert, it seems to me that in reality the two world wars were marked more by their similarities than their differences (Europe-wide military/imperial rivalry causes collapse of inadequate alliance system > Germany invades everywhere > everywhere invades Germany). However, there is an extreme reluctance in Britain to admit that WW2 was anything other than a Manichean struggle between the elves and the orcs, so WW1 becomes a kind of dumping-ground for a lot of suppressed anxiety and guilt which might otherwise accrue to our role in WW2 - just as it might in any war. So we make a donkey out of Haig in order to sustain hagiographic views of Churchill. "Remembrance" of both wars continues to be a central feature of British public consciousness to an extraordinary, almost religious degree, and I think this has a nostalgic angle as well: if "we" squint a bit "we" can still tell ourselves that it was "our" last gasp as a global power. Personally I think it's all incredibly dodgy. "Remembrance," it seems to me, is always carried out in a spirit of tacit acceptance that the "remembered" war was a good thing. Like practically all of the media representation of the current war, Remembrance Day is a show of "sympathy" for the troops which is actually about preventing objective views of particular wars (and war in general) from finding purchase in the public consciousness. It works because it's a highly politicised ritual which is presented as being above politics and therefore above criticism. All these things are ways of manipulating the suffering of service personnel past and present as a means of emotionally blackmailing critics of government into silence. I reckon anyway.
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