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Michelle DeSilva

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Virtual Tour - 3 views

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    The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.
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    The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.
Alessandro Boninsegna

TURISMO SCOLASTICO CON HISTORIA - 2 views

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    TURISMO SCOLASTICO con Historia: visita a Belriguardo (FE), con aula didattica + Ferrara; visita ai musei di Finale Emilia (MO) con aula didattica + Modena; visita ai musei di Pieve di Cento (BO) con aula didattica + Bologna; visita ai musei di Massa Lombarda (RA) con aula didattica + Ravenna; visita al museo di Atina (FR) con aula didattica + Cassino agenzia viaggi e tour operator Carpe Viam: http://www.carpeviam.it/ EDUCATIONAL TOURS with History: visit Belriguardo (FE), with classroom + Ferrara; visiting museums in Finale Emilia (MO) with classroom + Modena; visit the museums of Pieve di Cento (BO) with classroom + Bologna; visiting museums in Massa Lombarda (RA) with classroom + Ravenna; visit the museum of Atina (FR) with classroom + Cassino travel agency and tour operator Carpe Viam: http://www.carpeviam.it/
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Explore Anne Frank's hiding place - 8 views

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    A virtual tour of the secret annex where Anne Frank and her family hid from the Nazis.
Kristen McDaniel

Virtual Tour of Hagia Sophia - Περπατήστε στην Αγία Σοφία, 3D από τον υπολογι... - 20 views

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    3D views of Hagia Sophia, interactive - very cool. :)
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    This is also another great resource to tour the Hagia Sophia. This source also has tours of several other places http://www.3dmekanlar.com/en/hagia-sophia.html
Lance Mosier

George Washington's Mount Vernon - Virtual Mansion Tour - 1 views

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    Virtual Reality Tour of Mount Vernon
Ben Pope

Examples of Virtual Tours and Electronic Field Trips - 13 views

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    virtual tours from many cultures/periods.
David Korfhage

History Tours - world - 20 views

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    Google Earth tours about historical events and figures
chris crawford

Inca trail and machu picchu virtual tour - 11 views

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    Tour of Machu Picchu and Inca Trail. Interactive map
Charles Byrne

The Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc - 5 views

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    An excellent self guided, self paced virtual tour of these caves in France. Perfect resource when teaching about the cave people.
Brian DeGraaf

Wherigo > Tools for creating GPS-enabled adventures - 0 views

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    Currently avalible for GPS enabled Pocket PC devices and the Garmin Colorado and Oregon models. From Groundspeak, Inc. The makers of Geocaching.com and Waymarking.com
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    "Wherigo is a platform that allows you to build location based GPS experiences on your computer and play them in the real world. Imagine playing Zork, Secret of Monkey Island or Myst, but in the park around the corner, or on the beach during your family vacation. Rather than clicking the mouse and selecting a location to move your character, you physically move from one location to the next to advance the story. Rather than searching for puzzle clues on a screen, you look for them in the real world. Using Wherigo, you can create interactive tours, adventure games and puzzles... the possibilities are endless."
Ed Webb

Modern art was CIA 'weapon' - World, News - The Independent - 6 views

  • The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War. In the manner of a Renaissance prince - except that it acted secretly - the CIA fostered and promoted American Abstract Expressionist painting around the world for more than 20 years.
  • in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete.
  • The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was founded in 1947. Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organisations. They joked that it was like a Wurlitzer jukebox: when the CIA pushed a button it could hear whatever tune it wanted playing across the world.
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  • Initially, more open attempts were made to support the new American art. In 1947 the State Department organised and paid for a touring international exhibition entitled "Advancing American Art", with the aim of rebutting Soviet suggestions that America was a cultural desert. But the show caused outrage at home, prompting Truman to make his Hottentot remark and one bitter congressman to declare: "I am just a dumb American who pays taxes for this kind of trash." The tour had to be cancelled.
  • This philistinism, combined with Joseph McCarthy's hysterical denunciations of all that was avant-garde or unorthodox, was deeply embarrassing. It discredited the idea that America was a sophisticated, culturally rich democracy. It also prevented the US government from consolidating the shift in cultural supremacy from Paris to New York since the 1930s.
  • If any official institution was in a position to celebrate the collection of Leninists, Trotskyites and heavy drinkers that made up the New York School, it was the CIA.
  • Moscow in those days was very vicious in its denunciation of any kind of non-conformity to its own very rigid patterns. And so one could quite adequately and accurately reason that anything they criticised that much and that heavy- handedly was worth support one way or another
  • As president of what he called "Mummy's museum", Rockefeller was one of the biggest backers of Abstract Expressionism (which he called "free enterprise painting"). His museum was contracted to the Congress for Cultural Freedom to organise and curate most of its important art shows. The museum was also linked to the CIA by several other bridges. William Paley, the president of CBS broadcasting and a founding father of the CIA, sat on the members' board of the museum's International Programme. John Hay Whitney, who had served in the agency's wartime predecessor, the OSS, was its chairman. And Tom Braden, first chief of the CIA's International Organisations Division, was executive secretary of the museum in 1949.
  • "It was very difficult to get Congress to go along with some of the things we wanted to do - send art abroad, send symphonies abroad, publish magazines abroad. That's one of the reasons it had to be done covertly. It had to be a secret. In order to encourage openness we had to be secret."
  • Would Abstract Expressionism have been the dominant art movement of the post-war years without this patronage? The answer is probably yes. Equally, it would be wrong to suggest that when you look at an Abstract Expressionist painting you are being duped by the CIA. But look where this art ended up: in the marble halls of banks, in airports, in city halls, boardrooms and great galleries. For the Cold Warriors who promoted them, these paintings were a logo, a signature for their culture and system which they wanted to display everywhere that counted. They succeeded.
Deven Black

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust - 13 views

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    A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust offers an overview of the people and events of the Holocaust. Extensive teacher resources are included."> This is a cached version of http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm. Diigo.com has no relation to the site.x


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musée du quai Branly: highlights visits - 2 views

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    "the musée du quai Branly carried out the 3D digitisation of several hundred objects. The 3D flash tour invites you to discover a selection, accompanied by cards and detailed descriptions. "
Christina Briola

Interactive Exhibits - John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum - 8 views

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    Interactive sites: Moon Exploration Cuban Missile Crisis White House Diary--JFK's daily schedule while in office JFK Timeline Integrating Ole Miss Virtual Museum Tour
Christina Briola

HistoryBuff.com - 3 views

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    Welcome to HistoryBuff.com, a nonprofit organization devoted to providing FREE primary source material for students, teachers, and historybuffs. This site focuses primarily on HOW news of major, and not so major, events in American history were reported in newspapers of the time. In addition, there is information about the technology used to produce newspapers over the past 400 years. Our latest addition is panoramas of historic sites in America.
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    Site has primary sources, newspaper archives, reference libraries and narrated tours of historic sites.
Fulgencio Murcia Belmonte

Jheronimus Bosch - the Garden of Earthly Delights - 3 views

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    Tour interactivo. Espectacular
Ian Gabrielson

Searching for China: a Full WebQuest - 16 views

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    " China is a majestic* country (note: links followed by * go to a dictionary definition) with a long and interesting history. If, like most people in the Occidental* world, you've never been to this fascinating land, you might want to take a brief tour. Go ahead and walk a few kilometers of The Great Wall or step foot into The Forbidden City or voyage to the Yellow Mountains. But beyond these tourist stops lives another, more complex, China. Currently, the people of China are experiencing great economic and social upheavals*. Such things as the situation in Tibet, Tiananmen Square massacre, and a scandal about treatment of orphans have brought some people to call for boycotts against China. Being faced with the task of understanding something as complex as a nation, you might want to give up. Sometimes in life you have that choice. But to give up trying to understand the China would mean giving up chances to benefit financially, to help people, to save some of the world's natural and artistic treasures, to protect the safety and security of millions of people, or to enlighten people's lives with greater religious insight. You see, you can't give up. So, if you're ready to begin, you might want to read a Travel Advisory before embarking* on our journey."
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