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Google Cultural Institute: 1914: When the World Changed Forever
Photographic view of some of the key items from the exhibition launched by York Castle Museum in 2014 on the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I.
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Google Cultural Institute: Electric City: The Neons of Hong Kong
Take a look at the vibrant neon signs that have been a dominant part of Hong Kong's culture for almost one hundred years in this online exhibition.
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Google Cultural Institute: Evacuation and Liberation of the Auschwitz Camp
Photographic exhibit details the evacuation and liberation of the Auschwitz camp in January 1945 by the Soviet 100th Rifle Division.
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Google Cultural Institute: Favorite Technologies of the 1950s
Photographic essay recalls some of the best technological advances of the 1950s in cooking, personal hygiene, radio, laundry, television, transportation, and more.
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Google Cultural Institute: Freedom for Baltic States
Photographic exhibit showcases the Baltic graffiti on the Berlin Wall among others. The West Berlin side of the Wall became the "largest canvas in the world".
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Google Cultural Institute: Hallasan Mountain
Exhibit shows records of volcanic eruptions of Hallasan Mountain in Jeju Island, South Korea.
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Google Cultural Institute: Louis Xiv
Slideshow provides historic images of King Louis XIV of France.
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Google Cultural Institute: Museum of the Great Patriotic War
Photographic exhibition showcases primary source documents and artifacts from World War I on display in the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War.
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Google Cultural Institute: Photographs From the Warsaw Rising
Photographic exhibit highlights events from the Warsaw Rising in 1944.
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Google Cultural Institute: Remember
Online multimedia exhibit represents three sides to the World War II tragedy: the Nazi perpetrator, the victim of the Nazis, and the Soviet liberator. Find out what could have happened if German Nazism had won.
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Google Cultural Institute: Separated by History
Through personal accounts, photos, and videos this project documents the separation of families in Poland in the years 1939-1989.
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Google Cultural Institute: Sharpeville Massacre
Illustrated story explores the tragic event that took place in South Africa in 1960 when police opened fire on a "peaceful" protest against the pass laws thus becoming known as the Sharpeville Massacre.
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Google Cultural Institute: Shifting Poland
Pictorial essay portrays the extensive territorial changes of Poland immediately after World War II and its new role in Europe.
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Google Cultural Institute: Soweto Riots
Photographic exhibit showcases the Soweto Riots, a series of protests against the instruction of Afrikaans as a language in local schools.
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Google Cultural Institute: Steve Biko: Final Days
Photographic exhibit explores the final days of Steve Biko, the South African black rights campaigner and anti-apartheid activist who died in 1977 at the age of 31.
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Google Cultural Institute: Steve Biko: Legacy
Photographic exhibit commemorates the legacy of the late anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Berlin Job
In this photographic exhibit, correspondent Peter Millar reports on the collapse of communism and life behind the Berlin Wall in East Berlin.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Chairs of Old Parliament House
Online display explores the meaning of the old chairs of the Parliament House to Australia's democracy.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth Ii
Learn about the youth of Queen Elizabeth II, her accession to the throne, and subsequent coronation through this photographic essay from the Google Cultural Institute.
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Google Cultural Institute: Ve Day Celebrations
On May 7, 1945, the formal act of military surrender was signed by Germany, ending World War II in Europe. This pictorial essay highlights the celebrations that took place in London the next day marking VE Day.
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Google Cultural Institute: We Know This War by Heart
Pictorial narrative of Portugal's role and position in the Great War. The exhibition shows the main events of the history and impact of the Great War in Portugal.
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Google Cultural Institute: Visions of Division 1945 1989
Photographic account of the Cold War in Germany, from the Berlin blockade to the fall of the wall in 1989.
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Google Cultural Institute: World Wonders
Use Google tools to explore hundreds of world sites. You can wander around the sites, almost as though you are really there, and learn about the history, architecture, and culture that make each site so significant. Some of the...
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Google Cultural Institute: Trial and Execution
Photographic exhibit details the capture, trial, and execution of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elana for crimes committed during the Romanian Revolution.