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Rachel Robison

Virtual Tour of Chartes Cathedral, France - 0 views

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    This is a very thorough site about the Chartres Cathedral. The "Learn and Reconstruct" section has many interactive panoramas and pictures, and the "About the Project" link gives a lot of historical information about the cathedral.
westonconley

Gregorian Chant Notation - 0 views

shared by westonconley on 07 Nov 12 - No Cached
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    Learn how to read the medieval Gregorian Chants.
chandlerbeaman

Chuang Tzu - 0 views

Great Works Assignment 4: Chuang Tzu Objectives: * Students will investigate the great work and analyze information in order to find answers to the crossword clues. * Students will apply their ne...

started by chandlerbeaman on 07 Nov 12 no follow-up yet
cbalkman

Gargoyles - 0 views

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    Enjoy learning about the most interesting accessory of Gothic architecture--the gargoyle! This resource is complete, concise, and has great visuals.
jberry13

Metropolitan - 0 views

shared by jberry13 on 17 Oct 12 - No Cached
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    Search the term within the page and read the paragraphs that contain the term. The term "metropolis" may also be useful to learn more about this term.
chandlerbeaman

Seven Liberal Truths - 0 views

Objectives: * Students will investigate the key term and analyze information in order to find answers to the crossword clues. * Then students will apply the historical term to a modern day puzzle b...

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started by chandlerbeaman on 17 Oct 12 no follow-up yet
kamiko adcock

The Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria - 0 views

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    A good resource on learning about the 3 boats that Columbus used to sail to America
Lisa Halverson

Matt J. Rossano: How the Myth of the Flat-Earth Dogma Started the Religion-Science War - 0 views

  • Lactantius was a fourth-century pagan convert to Christianity who took particular delight in arguing against pretty much everything any pagan philosopher ever said, including that the earth was round.
  • Cosmas Indicopleustes
  • tealthily misrepresent a few church fathers as flat-earthers (Basil, Chrysostom) and to argue that the non-flat-earthers were a few brave soles swimming against a colossal tide.
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  • rigen, Ambrose, Augustine, Clement, and Aquinas
  • . It was a classic fight of good vs. evil, progress vs. regress, ignorance vs. enlightenment -- just what the papers needed to sell copy
  • There never was a flat earth dogma
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  • They fabricated a false history highlighted by a non-existent dogma and used them to brand religion as unceasingly reactionary, dim-witted, and anti-science.
  • Claiming that science and religion have known only unrelenting warfare betrays one's ignorance of history and possibly one's social/political agenda.
  • tarting a war on false pretenses is nothing new. But when a few nineteenth-century academicians declared a science-vs.-religion war, they did us all a disservice.
  • John W. Draper (1811-188
  • Christianity was currently opposing progress because it has always been an impediment to science, reason, and progress. An especially egregious example of this was the Church's insistence on a flat earth,
andybee

Justinian mosaic - 0 views

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    If you want to learn more about why Justinian was such a great leader, refer to this video about the mosaic that was created for him.
Luis Hernandez

Aristotle (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views

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    Born in 384 B.C.E. in the Macedonian region of northeastern Greece in the small city of Stagira (whence the moniker 'the Stagirite'), Aristotle was sent to Athens at about the age of seventeen to study in Plato's Academy, then a pre-eminent place of learning in the Greek world.
Taylor Abegg-Lawrence

Magna Carta - National Constitution Center - 0 views

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    JOHN, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Count of Anjou, to his archbishops, bishops, abbots, earls, barons, justices, foresters, sheriffs, stewards, servants, and to all his officials and loyal subjects, Greeting.
Lisa Halverson

Education - Right Question Institute - 1 views

  • Question Formulation Techniqueâ„¢ (QFTâ„¢
hnc82492

The History and Biology of Parchment - 1 views

shared by hnc82492 on 19 Sep 12 - No Cached
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    Read to learn about parchment!
Andrea Grant

Abundance in food in Mesopotamia - 1 views

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    This learning resource described how ancient Mesopotamia gained an abundance of food which led to their advancements in creativity.
kamiko adcock

The Huns - 0 views

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    asians and brutality, that's the huns! learn more here
Kamila Yourstone

Phillip II - 0 views

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    A great resource to learn more about the father of Alexander the Great.
maxxxxx

Statue of a Kouros - 0 views

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    The Greeks learned to quarry stone and plan the execution of large-scale statues from the Egyptians, who had been working very hard stones for centuries. The pose of the kouros, a clear and simple formula, derives from Egyptian art and was used by Greek sculptors for more than a hundred years.
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