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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Egyptian Hunting Party
The hunting scenes are very numerous among their paintings, and the devices for capturing birds and beasts seem to have been as vaarious as they are in modern times. - Goodrich, 1844
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fibula
A brooch, consisting of a pin, and of a curved portion furnished with a hook. The curved portion was sometimes a circular ring or disc, the pin passing across its centre and sometimes an arc, the pin being as the chord, of the arc. The...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Monk Copyist
The monks also became copyists, and with great painstaking and industry gathered and multiplied ancient manuscripts, and thus preserved and transmitted to the modern world much classical learning and literature that would otherwise have...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Roman Soldiers
The distinction between rank and unit type doesn't seem to have been as precise as in a modern-day army, in which a soldier has a separate pay-grade, job description, and assigned unit.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Ruins of Susa
An image depicting the ruins of the ancient city of Susa, in modern-day Iran.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sarcophagus of Scipio
Sarcophagus, plural Sarcophagi, is a kind of stone used among the Greeks for making coffins, and so called because it was believed to have the property of consuming the flesh of dead bodies deposited in it within a few weeks. Hence a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Syrian Women
Indoor costume of modern Syrian Women. - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Syrian Women
Outdoor costume of modern Syrian Women. - Encyclopedia Britannica, 1893
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Rosetta Stone
A fragment of an Ancient Egyptian text, which provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Wall of Rome
Constructed by Aurelian and rebuilt by Honorius. The material is concrete faced with brick; thickness, 13 feet; greatest height, 58 feet. This is still the wall of the modern city, although at present no effort is made to keep it in...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Adam Sedgwick
One of the founders of modern geology.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Adam Smith
A medal with Adam Smith's profile image. He is cited as the father of modern economics and capitalism.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Alexander of Bulgaria
Alexander Joseph of Battenberg (April 5, 1857 - November 17, 1893), the first prince (knyaz) of modern Bulgaria, reigning from April 29, 1879 to September 7, 1886.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Baron Von Humboldt
(1769-1859) "A German traveler and naturalist, the founder of the modern science of physical geography." -Foster, 1921
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Benito Pablo Juarez Garcia
Benito Pablo Juarez Garcia (1872) was a Zapotec Amerindian who served five terms (1858-1861 as interim), (1861-1865), (1865-1867), (1867-1871), and (1871-1872), as President of Mexico. For resisting the French occupation, overthrowing...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Catherine Ii
Catherine II was the Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. Under her reign, the Russian Empire expanded and was modernized under Western European standards.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Fernando De Soto
Hernando de Soto (Jerez de los Caballeros, Badajoz, Spain, c.1496/1497-May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who, while leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, was...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Giovanni Cimabue
This portrait was painted by Giotto. It is of Giovanni Cimabue. This man is considered the first modern painter who lived in the 13th century.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Giuseppe Mazzini
An Italian patriot who helped bring about the modern Italian state in place of the several separate states.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hannibal
Hannibal's Passage of the Alps. Hannibal determined to carry the war into Italy. To do this, he had to fight his way through Spain and cross the Alps, which were regarded as an impassable barrier between Italy and the North. In this he...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Immanuel Kant
A German philosopher and scientist. Kant is generally considered one of the greatest and most influential thinkers of modern Europe and the last major philosopher of the Enlighenment.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: James Hutton, m.d.
James Hutton MD was a Scottish geologist, physician, naturalist, chemist and experimental farmer. He is considered the father of modern geology.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Johann Herbart
(1776-1841) German philosopher and founder of modern pedagogy.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: King John
John (24 December 1167 - 19 October 1216) reigned as King of England from 6 April 1199, until his death. John acquired the nicknames of "Lackland" for his lack of an inheritance as the youngest son and for his loss of territory to...