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Tom March

Nicholson Cartoons : - 0 views

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shared by Tom March on 18 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Tom March on 18 Apr 09
     
    In 1976 the Financial Review offered Nicholson a job doing daily cartoons and six months later The Age in Melbourne recruited him. Nicholson worked at The Age for the next seventeen years.
Marita Thomson

Visual Storytelling: New Language for the Information Age | Brain Pickings - 1 views

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shared by Marita Thomson on 03 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Marita Thomson on 03 Jul 12
     
    Visual Storytelling: Inspiring a New Visual Language, from the fine folks at Gestalten, gathers the most compelling work by a new generation of designers, illustrators, graphic editors, and data journalists tackling the grand sensemaking challenge of our time by pushing forward the evolving visual vocabulary of storytelling.
Van Weringh

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shared by Van Weringh on 16 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Van Weringh on 16 Nov 10
     
    Awesome videos
  • Van Weringh on 16 Nov 10
     
    Some very clever and funny history videos, great as a starter. Love the 'This plague is Bubonic B U B O N I C".
tmps tmps

Great Wall of China - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 12 views

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shared by tmps tmps on 19 Apr 10 - Cached
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 19 Apr 10
       
      Add questions
    • Vince McCafferty
      Vince McCafferty on 19 Apr 10
       
      I bet it took lots of cement to put it together
  • The first was built in the 5th century BC
    • Tom March
      Tom March on 19 Apr 10
       
      I wonder what that looked like
    • Sue McDonald
      Sue McDonald on 19 Apr 10
       
      where was it built?
  • The first was built in the 5th century BC.
    • btwopae
      btwopae on 19 Apr 10
       
      not much left eh?
    • raniferns
      raniferns on 19 Apr 10
       
      Massive
    • btwopae
      btwopae on 19 Apr 10
       
      ok
  • ...28 more annotations...
  • didn't see it.[4]
    • Multivac 11
      Multivac 11 on 19 Apr 10
       
      So you can't see it from space!
    • joel_aarons
      joel_aarons on 19 Apr 10
       
      So he says!
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Apr 10
       
      This certainly suggests it is a great urban myth!
    • btwopae
      btwopae on 19 Apr 10
       
      Of course you can't see it,imagine how relatively thin it would look from space.
  • The Great Wall stands 5 people wide and 20 people high
  • The current wall was built during the Ming Dynasty
    • purple lephant
      purple lephant on 19 Apr 10
       
      How long was the Ming Dynasty?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Apr 10
       
      Was it named after someone? When was it in relation to other eras? eg middle ages
    • Sue McDonald
      Sue McDonald on 19 Apr 10
       
      Ming dynasty was 1368- 1644
    • Multivac 11
      Multivac 11 on 19 Apr 10
  • he first was built in the 5th century BC
    • John Obuch
      John Obuch on 19 Apr 10
       
      I wonder what it looked like?
  • The first was built in the 5th century BC.
    • Vicki Dunn
      Vicki Dunn on 19 Apr 10
       
      How long ago was that?
    • btwopae
      btwopae on 19 Apr 10
       
      a long time
  • Neil Armstrong
  • enemy attacks
  • The First Emperor of China started the Qin Dynasty
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Apr 10
       
      What year was this? How many dynasties were there?
  • Little of this wall remains
    • sheryl ecker
      sheryl ecker on 19 Apr 10
       
      Why is so little left?
    • Sue McDonald
      Sue McDonald on 19 Apr 10
       
      it was the rabbits.
  • Builders used materials nearby so some parts of the wall were made out of mud, straw, and twigs
    • John Obuch
      John Obuch on 19 Apr 10
       
      How did they do it?
    • corinne mcgaffin
      corinne mcgaffin on 19 Apr 10
       
      maybe it was created by the same aliens that built the pyramids!?!
    • corinne mcgaffin
      corinne mcgaffin on 19 Apr 10
       
      Does anyone have a picture or link to pictures of the Chinese emperors?
  • The First Emperor of China started the Qin Dynasty
  • Qin Dynasty
    • joel_aarons
      joel_aarons on 19 Apr 10
       
      Pronounced "Chin"
    • btwopae
      btwopae on 19 Apr 10
       
      But is it Die nasty or Din asty
  • Thousands of workers lost their lives from giant falling stones, exhaustion, disease, animal attacks, and starvation.
    • Vicki Dunn
      Vicki Dunn on 19 Apr 10
       
      Which animals?
    • sheryl ecker
      sheryl ecker on 19 Apr 10
       
      probably the rabbits!
  • The wall begins at Shanhai Pass and ends in Lop Nur.
    • Jessica Patti
      Jessica Patti on 19 Apr 10
       
      Does anyone know a good map where a could locate these places?
    • Multivac 11
      Multivac 11 on 19 Apr 10
       
      Google earth
  • Great Wall of China
    • Dale McInerney
      Dale McInerney on 19 Apr 10
       
      Can you see it from space?
  • 6400 kilometres
    • alvina Lim
      alvina Lim on 19 Apr 10
       
      That's incredible. Imagine the hard work put into it...
    • btwopae
      btwopae on 19 Apr 10
       
      same for the pyramids
  • Thousands of workers lost their lives from giant falling stones, exhaustion, disease, animal attacks, and starvation.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 19 Apr 10
       
      I wonder if these were paid workers, volunteers, slaves??
  • of China started the Qin Dynasty
    • julie jellis
      julie jellis on 19 Apr 10
       
      cool
  • The workers who lost their lives were buried in the Great Wall.
  • stretching approximately 6400 kilometres long
  • China
  • China
  • During the Ming Dynasty, major reconstruction work took place, where sections of the Wall were built with bricks and stone instead of earth.
  • most famous wal
  • During the Ming Dynasty, major reconstruction work took place, where sections of the Wall were built with bricks and stone instead of earth.
  • The First Emperor
  • farther north than th
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