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University of Chicago Press: Leonardo, the Last Supper
Brief summary of Pinin Brambilla Barcilon and Pietro C. Marani's book Leonardo, The Last Supper. Includes images selected from the book showing the restoration of Leonardo's The Last Supper.
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University of Chicago Press: Chicago's Urban Nature: Architecture and Landscape
Offers an audio visual overview highlighting an excerpt from the book "Chicago's Urban Nature" by Sally A. Kitt Chappell. This book showcases and illustrates Chicago's architecture and landscape.
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University of Chicago Press: Chicago's Urban Nature: Architecture and Landscape
Offers an audio visual overview highlighting an excerpt from the book "Chicago's Urban Nature" by Sally A. Kitt Chappell. This book showcases and illustrates Chicago's architecture and landscape.
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University of Chicago: The Great Lakes: Our Legacy, Our Future
This 2001 exhibit focused on the EPA's Great Lakes National Program Office's work to ensure the protection and restoration of the Great Lakes in the areas of chemical contamination and habitat loss.
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University of Chicago: History of Yerkes Observatory
Read about the history of the Yerkes Observatory, which was run by the University of Chicago. This observatory houses one of the few research grade refractors in the world. The observatory was closed in October 2018 and discussions were...
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Ancient Mesopotamia: The First Farmers [Pdf]
In this lesson our class can try an experiment to show how constant irrigation, with repeated evaporation of water that left salts in the soil, eventually ruined much farming land in southern Mesopotamia.Learners can fill a clear glass...
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Oriential Institute: An Ancient Pull Toy From Ancient Mesopotamia
Learn about an acient pull-toy that the Mesopotamian children used and how it relates to achievements of this era including the invention of the wheel.
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Ucsmp: Polygon Plotter
This interactive applet allows you to manipulate polygons using matrices.
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Oriental Institute: The Striding Lion Puzzle (Artwork From Ancient Babylon)
Try and put together a scrambled picture of a striding lion which is artwork from Ancient Babylon.
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Oriental Institute: The Striding Lion From Ancient Babylon
View the famous Striding Lion from Ancient Babylon and discover interesting history and facts.
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Oriental Institute: A Relief Sculpture From Khorsabad in Ancient Mesopotamia
View an ancient monumental scene from Ancient Mesopotamia and learn interesting facts about the monument.
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University of Chicago: Media Theory Keywords Glossary: Architecture
Student-authored essay about the various meanings of architecture and architectural principles.
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Plutarch: Life of Coriolanus
Read "The Life of Coriolanus" from Plutarch's "The Parallel Lives." With editor's notes and notes from the website publisher Bill Thayer.
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University of Chicago: Reflector and Refractor
From the Yerkes Observatory Virtual Tour web site. Compares and contrasts reflecting and refracting telescopes. A link from the page leads to a second page which explains why most modern research telescopes are reflecting telescopes.
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University of California: Mausoleum of Hadrian
This site from the University of California contains a brief section of information on the Mausoleum of Hadrian, also with pictures. Not too in-depth, but rather interesting to check out.
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Encyclopeaedia Romana: The Doryphoros of Polyclitus
This site provides a picture and description of Polyclitus' most famous work. Includes ancient commentary of this important work of art.
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University of Chicago: 1920s Prohibition 18th Amendment
This site is from the University of Chicago Library. Prohibition was a grand idea gone awry. This project looks at the implications and consequences of the 18th amendment and asks students to create their own ideal piece of federal...
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Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica: Don't Be Too Flaky
After reading some facts about the properties of water, students conduct experiments to measure the relative densities of water, ice and snow and submit the results to the website.
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Encyclopedia Romana: Arch of Augustus
This site from the Encyclopedia Romana provides a short but informative description of the arch of Augustus which no longer stands but was erected in the Roman Forum. Gives coin evidence of the arch as well as literary evidence.
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The Founders' Constitution: Statement by Hugh Williamson
A short statement by Williamson given during a debate in Congress (1792) on Article 1, Section 9, Clause 4 of the Constitution.
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Univ. Of Chicago: Lost Treasures From Iraq Slideshow
The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago has assembled a collection of resources aimed at helping to recover treasures from Iraq's National Museum that were looted in the spring of 2003. This slideshow contains examples of...
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University of Chicago: French Verb Conjugator
Quick and easy conjugator from the University of Chicago - type in the verb and see the conjugation - user can choose from the 6 common tenses: Present(default), Simple Past, Future, Conditional, Imperfect, Subjunctive. Must input...
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University of Chicago: The Golden Ratio Activities
Many activities for the classroom involving the golden ratio.
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The Oriental Institute Museum: Life in Ancient Mesopotamia [Pdf]
Because archaeologists cannot take home all the objects they unearth, they must make detailed, accurate drawings of their finds, so that these artifacts can be studied in the future.