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"Arab Gateways: A resource for Australian students and teachers explores some of the history, geography, economics and culture of the Arab region. It promotes understanding of the cultures, values, beliefs and diversity of peoples of the Arab region."

"Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world. Explore cultural treasures in extraordinary detail, from hidden gems to masterpieces"

google has photographed many musum exibits and art galeries around the world in super high resolution. Pretty cool.

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world - North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Africa, Central and South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania and the Pacific

The History, Language and Culture of Pharaonic Egypt

A series of multimedia books on topics such as 'Where's the best place to live', 'Great Barrier Reef', 'Rights and freedoms/human rights', 'Popular culture post-war', 'Australian family homes', 'National Sorry Day, 'The White Australia Policy, 'The Cold War', 'Conscription', '1967 Referendum'

Launched in March 2009, The Making of Modern Australia is a cross-platform people's history of postwar Australia. What began as an interactive website is now also a major four-part TV documentary series on ABC TV and a book of the same name, written by series narrator William McInnes.

This short film showing Havana in the 1930s was shot by André de la Varre, the long-time cameraman and cinematographer for American traveler, photographer and filmmaker Burton Holmes. In those days, Havana was a flourishing and fashionable city dubbed the "Paris of the Caribbean," attracting an ever increasing number of tourists. André de la Varre's film portrays Havana as the "exotic capital of appeal," which pretty much sums up its essence during those days.

thanks Simon a lovely little film.