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Slavoj Žižek visitou a Liberty Plaza, em Nova Iorque, para falar ao acampamento de manifestantes do movimento Occupy Wall Street (Ocupe Wall Street), que vem protestando contra a crise financeira e o poder econômico norte-americano desde o início de setembro deste ano.

Amazing photos of the Berlin wall.

Historic pictures of the Berlin Wall plus web cams from around the world.

I made a powerpoint presentation on a lot of aspects of the Berlin wall 1961-1989. This powerpoint presentation consists of pictures, graphics and maps with only a bit of text. This powerpoint can be used to illustrate your story about the relevance and impact of the Berlin wall:

A multimedia site from the German magazine Der Speigel, with pictures of the building of the Berlin Wall, as well as some then-and-now comparison pictures.

A model of the Berlin Wall in Google Earth, from virtual Berlin

Chronological ordered PowerPointPresentations including PPT's on the Berlin Wall

PPT about the Bernauerstrasse, the commemoration street of the Berlin Wall

From its construction in 1792, until the 1902 renovation that shaped the modern identity and functions of the interior of the White House, the fourteen paintings of this series examine the history of a national icon. Through meticulous research and tireless attention to detail, numerous sources inspired the brush of Peter Waddell to create a vision of the White House as it was, and to gain an appreciation of the nineteenth-century house and the men and women who lived and worked within its walls.

" 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."

Website for one of the Congressional leaders of the Robin Hood Tax movement

If only those smart-stupid Wall Street Bankers had had access to resources like these... and the humility to study them.

These posters might be useful for your classroom walls. Hilarious.

This is funny. They're a series of humorous tweets from history - hard to explain but very funny. They're not strictly speaking useful for teaching but I'm going to print them out, laminate them and put them up on the classroom walls.

An excellent resource to gain insight into the city of Constantinople before those wicked Turks blew the walls down. You can click on different features to add them as layers to the map. That makes no sense; anyway it's really cool.

The Golden Horde is best known as that part of the Mongol Empire established in Russia. Originally, however, it consisted of the lands Genghis Khan (1165-1227) bequeathed to his son Jochi (1184-1225): the territories west of the Irtysh River (modern Kazakhstan) and Khwarazm (consisting of parts of modern Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan)