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Google Cultural Institute: Treason Trial
This illustrated report recounts the 1956 Treason Trial, a trial in which 156 people were arrested and accused of treason in South Africa.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Origins of the Internet in Europe
Pictorial essay explores the beginnings of the World Wide Web in Europe originating with the work of Henri La Fountaine and Paul Otlet in 1895.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Liberation of Bergen Belsen
A pictorial history of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British troops in April 1945 includes stories, quotes, and primary source documents.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Hand of Captain Hook
Exhibit examines John Webber's portrait of Captain James Hook.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Brief biographical sketches of colorful characters in Australia's colonial past.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Fall of the Wall
Pictorial essay combines photos and video to tell the story of the fall of the wall in Berlin in 1989.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Fall of the Wall: Revelation Not Revolution
Photographic and video discussion attempts to answer the question "Why Did the Berlin Wall Fall in November 1989?"
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Google Cultural Institute: The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Photographer Steve Eason from Getty Images Archive presents a pictorial essay of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Establishment of the United Arab Emirates
Photographic exhibit showcases historic moments that formed the United Arab Emirates.
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Google Cultural Institute: First Post Apartheid Elections
In April 1994, South Africans, for the first time, were able to cast their vote in a national election. View this illustrated account of Nelson Mandela's landslide victory.
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Google Cultural Institute: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
Manuscript artworks accompanied by descriptions that were part of a museum art exhibit on Medieval and Renaissance food. The exhibit looked at how food was portrayed in art from those times.
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Google Cultural Institute: Mocanita Last of the Carpathian Forestry Railways
Pictorial essay showcases the history and construction of the Vaser Valley Railway of Viseu de Sus in Romania.
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Google Cultural Institute: Years of Change
A visual chronology of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of the Cold War, in East Germany from diary excerpts, historical snippets, and photographs. The German Reunification period ran from 1989-1991.
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Google Cultural Institute: Witold Pilecki
Photographic essay tells the story of the life and actions of Polish soldier Witold Pilecki, a member of the resistance movement and the underground Home Army during World War II.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Rivonia Trial
In this pictorial narrative, learn about the landmark Rivonia Trial in which leading opponents of apartheid went on trial for sabotage. Often referred to as "the trial that changed South Africa."
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Google Cultural Institute: The Statue of Liberty
The human adventure and construction of the Statue of Liberty, designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, is told through a series of enlightening photographs.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Women at the Revolution of 32
Multimedia collection explores the women's role in the Constitutional Revolution of 32 in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo.
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Google Cultural Institute: Witness to War
Photographic collection illustrates key events in the years following the declaration of Irish Independence in 1919.
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Google Cultural Institute: "To My Peoples!"
Virtual photographic exhibition helps solve the riddle of "who began and who wins the war?"
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Google Cultural Institute: 1918 1941 Nelson Mandela: Early Life
Multimedia collection documents the early life of Nelson Mandela from his birth in 1918 until 1941 when he moved to Johannesburg.
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Google Cultural Institute: A Slave Pen Journey
Take an online journey through a Kentucky slave pen in the 1830s.
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Google Cultural Institute: Atomic Bombing in Nagasaki Destruction of a City
Pictorial essay of the Japanese city of Nagasaki before and after the atomic bombing in August 1945.
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Google Cultural Institute: Bicentenary of the Dutch Constitution
Online exhibition provides a summary of the start of Dutch Independence and celebrates 200 years of the Constitution of the Netherlands.
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Google Cultural Institute: Books for Mandela
Nelson Mandela was saddened to think that the children of today do not read avidly and feared that it would lead to their histories being lost. This is a collection of books with inscriptions written personally to Nelson Mandela.