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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...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Louis Pasteur
This picture is based upon a photograph of a painting which has won great fame during recent years. The artist has represented Pasteur, the celebrated scientist, busily at work in his laboratory, recording the results of his microscopal...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 - May 24, 1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal book, De revolutionibus...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Simon De Montfort
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (1208 - August 4, 1265), was the principal leader of the baronial opposition to King Henry III of England. After the rebellion of 1263-1264, de Montfort became de facto ruler of England and called...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Burial of 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: Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (December 14, 1546 - October 24, 1601), was a Danish nobleman famed for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Hailing from Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Dean Howells
American realist author and literary critic. He is famous for The Wedding Journey, A Modern Instance, The Rise of Silas Lapham, Annie Kilburn and A Hazard of New Fortunes.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Tyndale
William Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tindall or Tyndall; (c. 1494 - 1536) was a 16th-century Protestant reformer and scholar who translated the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day. While a number of partial and complete Old...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, born Benjamin D'Israeli, (21 December 1804 - 19 April 1881), was a British Conservative statesman and literary figure. He served in government for three decades, twice as Prime...
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