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David Hilton

Home - Trove - 8 views

trove.nla.gov.au

australia primary sources sources images documents c19th c18th c20th trove archives

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  • Sol Hanna on 02 May 10
     
    A searchable database of Australian newspapers from 1802 - 1954.
  • Simon Miles on 09 Jul 10
     
    Also includes links to pictures and photos, diaries and letters, maps and audio.
  • David Hilton on 19 Apr 12
     
    Trove: Find and get Australian resources. Books, images, historic newspapers, maps, archives and more.
Mark Moran

Web Guide to the U.S. Civil War - 19 views

www.findingdulcinea.com/...The-Civil-War.xa_1.html

civil war c19th united states history civil war gettysburg

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  • Mark Moran on 25 Jan 10
     
    An annotated guide to 35+ of the best Web sites about the U.S. Civil War, including deep links to a trove of primary resources, such as solders' records, first-hand accounts, photographs, etc.
Michael Sheehan

Learning Never Stops: Exploring Colonial Williamsburg Online - A Treasure Trove of History - 1 views

seekoutlearning.blogspot.com/...onial-williamsburg-online.html

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  • Michael Sheehan on 07 Mar 13
     
    Explore the history section of the Colonial Williamsburg website. Students will find it engaging and interesting.
Annabel Astbury

14 May 1928 - IN 2001 A.D. The Home of the Future - 8 views

trove.nla.gov.au/...79493205

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  • Annabel Astbury on 19 Oct 12
     
    "The future men and women will have no fear of their clothes clashing with the color schemes of their apartments, as they are changeable at will by means, of multi-colored masked lamps."
David Hilton

Victoria and Albert Museum - 0 views

www.vam.ac.uk/index.html

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  • David Hilton on 04 Jul 09
     
    This site has a treasure trove of sources and resources on European history from all periods. Beautiful images and some podcasts, etc too.
jhbensco

resourcesforhistoryteachers / FrontPage - 1 views

resourcesforhistoryteachers.pbworks.com/...FrontPage

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  • jhbensco on 24 Sep 18
     
    This is a massive trove of free resources and information, based on the standards for the Massachusetts History Curriculum. It was created and is maintained by Bob Maloy of UMass Amherst and various students in the school of education.
Javier E

The Panda Factories - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...-breeding-death-captivity.html

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  • from the beginning, zoos saw panda cubs as a pathway to visitors, prestige and merchandise sales.On that, they have succeeded.
  • Today, China has removed more pandas from the wild than it has freed, The Times found. No cubs born in American or European zoos, or their offspring, have ever been released. The number of wild pandas remains a mystery because the Chinese government’s count is widely seen as flawed and politicized.
  • Because pandas are notoriously fickle about mating in captivity, scientists have turned to artificial breeding. That has killed at least one panda, burned the rectum of another and caused vomiting and injuries in others, records show. Some animals were partly awake for painful procedures. Pandas in China have flickered in and out of consciousness as they were anesthetized and inseminated as many as six times in five days, far more often than experts recommend.
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  • Breeding in American zoos has done little to improve genetic diversity, experts say, because China typically sends abroad animals whose genes are already well represented in the population.
  • Yet American zoos clamor for pandas, and China eagerly provides them. Zoos get attention and attendance. Chinese breeders get cash bonuses for every cub, records show. At the turn of the century, 126 pandas lived in captivity. Today there are more than 700.
  • Kati Loeffler, a veterinarian, worked at a panda breeding center in Chengdu, China, during the program’s early years. “I remember standing there with the cicadas screaming in the bamboo,” she said. “I realized, ‘Oh my God, my job here is to turn the well-being and conservation of pandas into financial gain.’”
  • Kimberly Terrell, who was director of conservation at the Memphis Zoo until 2017, said, “There was always pressure and the implication that cubs would bring money.” She noted that zoo administrators insisted on inseminating its aging female panda every year, despite concerns among zookeepers that it was unlikely to succeed. It never did.
  • “The people who actually worked day to day with these animals, who understand them best, were pretty opposed to these procedures,” she said. The zoo said its breeding efforts followed all program requirements.
  • The Times collected key documents and audiovisual materials from the Smithsonian archives and supplemented them with materials obtained through open-records requests. The trove, which spans four decades, includes medical records, scientists’ field notes and photographs and videos that offer crucial evidence of breeding procedures, side effects and the conditions in which pandas were held.
  • They show that the riskiest techniques happened in the program’s infancy, but that aggressive breeding continued at the National Zoo and at other institutions for years. A panda in Japan died during sperm collection in 2010. Chinese breeding centers, until recently, separated cubs from their mothers to make the females go back into heat.
  • This panda proliferation has prompted debates among zoo workers and scientists over whether it is ethical to subject animals to intensive breeding when they have no real prospect of being released into the wild. But those discussions have largely played out privately because researchers and zookeepers said that criticizing the program could hurt their ability to work in the field.
  • when a species is on the verge of extinction, conservationists sometimes make a last-ditch effort to save it.
  • with pandas, zoo administrators take chances again and again simply to make more cubs, while keeping the grimmest details from the public.
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