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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Monday, August 29, 2011
London Low Life
London Low Life
"This is an engaging and timely resource...with the potential to change the way we have approached the Victorian period and imagined life in London"
Rosalind Crone, Open UniversityThis collection brings to life the teeming streets of Victorian London, inviting students and scholars to explore the gin palaces, brothels and East End slums of the nineteenth century’s greatest city.
From salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thoroughfares offers an unparalleled insight into the dark underworld of the city. Children’s chapbooks, street cries, slang dictionaries and ballads were all part of a vibrant culture of street literature.
This is also an incredible visual resource for students and scholars of London, with many full colour maps, cartoons, sketches and a full set of the essential Tallis’ Street Views of London – a unique resource for the study of London architecture and commerce. We also include George Gissing's famous London scrapbooks from the Pforzheimer Collection, containing his research for London novels such as New Grub Street and The Netherworld.
Topics covered include:
- the underworld
- slang
- working-class culture
- street literature
- popular music
- urban topography
- ‘slumming’
- Prostitution
- the Temperance Movement
- social reform
- Toynbee Hall
- police and criminality
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Military History Encyclopedia on the Web
Military History Encyclopedia on the Web
Welcome to HistoryOfWar.org. We aim to make our site your first call for information on any aspect of military history. If we don't have what you want,then contact us via our military history discussion forum or contact us directly
Currently we have 3,945 articles, 1,530 pictures, 370 maps, 357 unit histories and over 2,775,700 words in original articles. We don't just cover the best known conflicts, although we do have good coverage of the First and Second World Wars, the Napoleonic Wars and now the American Civil War.
We now open a new section of the site, a day-by-day history of the Second World War, covering the 2,214 days of the war from the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 to the Japanese surrender in Hong Kong on 16 September 1945 (two weeks after the surrender in Tokyo Bay), and currently containing 5,276 individual facts.
Check our recent articles page (last update 2 June 2011) to see what we are doing at the moment. New articles will also be announced on our Blog, our forum and our mailing list (sign up using the form at the base of this page).
Our section of reviews of new book and DVD releases was last updated on 30 May 2011.
In 2006 we ran our first two themed months, on the Napoleonic Wars, where we more than doubled our coverage of the period, and more recently on the American Civil War. Our first theme of 2007 was on War in the Air. The first day of the War in the Air theme also saw us post our 1,000th article, on the Supermarine Spitfire Mk XII. Our 2,000th article is a look at the German battlecruiser Von der Tann, part of our recent focus on the First World War. Our 3,000th article looks at the battle of Truillas (22 September 1793), a Spanish victory early in the War of the First Coalition.
We have now added our two millionth word, in our biography of the Roman general Manius Aquillius (died 89/88 B.C.), our 1000th battle - the battle of Rivoli of 14 January 1797, and our 500th military aircraft, the Kawasaki Ki-48 Army Type 99 Twin-engined Light Bomber (Lily)
Friday, April 22, 2011
NASA - NASA Featured Images and Galleries
NASA - NASA Featured Images and Galleries
Image of the Day
The Water Planet
Viewed from space, the most striking feature of our planet is the water. In both liquid and frozen form, it covers 75% of the Earth’s surface. It fills the sky with clouds. Water is practically ...
Alaska’s Susitna Glacier
Like rivers of liquid water, glaciers flow downhill, with tributaries joining to form larger rivers. But where water rushes, ice crawls. As a result, glaciers gather dust and dirt, and bear ...
Nile River Delta at Night
One of the fascinating aspects of viewing Earth at night is how well the lights show the distribution of people. In this view of Egypt, the population is shown to be almost completely concentrated ...
Browse and Search NASA Image Galleries
NASA Image Exchange →
Not a collection in itself, the NASA Image Exchange is a search engine that pulls images from across NASA's Web space.
Dryden Image Gallery
A collection of images and multimedia on NASA aircraft, aeronautics facilities and research.
Kennedy Multimedia Gallery →
Images and video from the Kennedy Space Center, including shuttle launches and landing, crew training and satellite launches.
NASA - NASA Featured Images and Galleries
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Earth Image of the Day
Drought and Heat Create Hazardous Fire Conditions in Texas →
This temperature map shows the extremely warm temperatures that helped create hazardous fire conditions in Texas in April.
Mission Images
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Lincolniana at Brown
The Lincoln Collection at Brown had its beginnings in September 1855, when a young Westerner arrived at Brown, after a three-day journey from Indiana, to pursue an East Coast education. He could hardly have known it then, but John Milton Hay was to bring a lot more than his wit to the university he grew to love in the generations that followed his 1858 graduation.
In the early part of the 20th century, when the University was planning to build a new library to replace its existing outmoded structure, Andrew Carnegie offered to pay half the cost of construction if the University would name it in honor of John Hay, its most distinguished alumnus, then recently deceased. To President Faunce, the answer was simple and obvious. Hay’s devoted service in the Lincoln White House as Assistant Private Secretary to the President (for more about this, see the online exhibit “John Hay’s Lincoln”) rendered the idea of a Lincoln collection another self-evident decision for the University, but finding a Lincoln collection of sufficient depth and importance proved to be something of a challenge. In 1920, President Faunce learned that Hugh McLellan was about to put his father’s sizeable Lincoln collection up for auction. The McLellan Collection was then one of the five most distinguished Lincoln collections in the world. Faunce prevailed upon John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Class of 1897, to purchase the collection as a donation to the University. Rockefeller then funded the outfitting of a special room in the Hay Library to house the McLellan Collection, with cases designed by Hugh McLellan and made from quartered oak. Within five years, the McLellan Collection had outgrown this small space, and an adjoining room was furnished to match the first, providing additional space.
The McLellan Collection has been supplemented over the years by some major gifts of Lincoln and related materials, increasing the collection to more than five times its original size. During his lifetime, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. remained the principle benefactor of the collection, collecting and donating additional manuscripts, books, portraits and prints. The papers of Rush Christopher Hawkins, which included a number of Lincoln manuscripts, came to the University in 1948 with the collections of the Annmary Brown Memorial. In 2006, a major bequest from Maury A. Bromsen, the late Boston book dealer, added hundreds of prints, books, pamphlets and museum objects to the collection, along with a portrait of Lincoln by one of his associates, the printing plates for an important series of Confederate etchings and manuscripts of Civil War generals George B. McClellan and P.T.G. Beauregard. More recently, the collection has been the beneficiary of the interest and attention of Douglas W. Squires, Class of 1973. In the interim, the Library has received numerous other small donations of material pertaining to Lincoln and the Civil War; we encourage interested patrons to consult the Library’s A to Z list of Special Collections for details on some of these.
The Hay Library’s Lincoln rooms remain today much as they were when first set up in the 1920s, although they are no longer actively used as research space. They house a permanent display of paintings, sculpture and objects from the Lincoln Collection, and may be viewed upon request. Materials from the Lincoln Collection are made available for research use in the Hay Library’s main reading room. For further information or to arrange for a tour of the Lincoln rooms, please contact: hay@brown.edu.
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Photoshop Tutorials and Flash Tutorials - Tutorialized
Photoshop Tutorials and Flash Tutorials - Tutorialized
Categories of Tutorials include....
- 2D Graphics
- 3D Graphics
- Web Design & Development
- Business Applications
- Business Development
- Databases
- Desktop Programming
- Operating Systems
- Video Editing
- Miscellaneous
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
http://www.archives.org/
Archives.org find something interesting * Music * Government Public Records * Video Footage * Download Movies * Free Images * Newspaper Archive * Archive Photos * Online Radio Stations
Monday, November 9, 2009
TinEye Reverse Image Search
So Cool.......HSM
What is TinEye?
TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata or watermarks. For some real TinEye search examples, check out our Cool Searches page.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
NYPL Digital Gallery | "America's National Game:" The Albert G. Spalding Collection of Early Baseball Photographs and Drawings
"America's National Game:" The Albert G. Spalding Collection of Early Baseball Photographs
Over 500 photographs, prints, drawings, caricatures, and printed illustrations from the personal collection of materials related to baseball and other sports gathered by the early baseball player and sporting-goods tycoon A. G. Spalding. This collection includes 19th-century studio portraits of players and teams of the day, rare images, photographs, and original drawings.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
About - World Digital Library
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.
The principal objectives of the WDL are to:
- Promote international and intercultural understanding;
- Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet;
- Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences;
- Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.
Monday, April 6, 2009
Gerd Arntz Web Archive
Really wanted to add some images to remember this site but snagit and jing weren't working......HSM
Saturday, February 14, 2009
About VIA
VIA (Visual Information Access) is a growing online union catalog documenting the arts, material culture, and social history. VIA contains descriptive records and images representing paintings, sculpture, photography, drawings, prints, architecture, decorative arts, trade cards, rubbings, theater designs, maps and plans. Participating repositories include archives, museums, libraries, and other collections throughout Harvard University. New material is added to VIA daily.
To receive monthly email messages highlighting the materials from contributing Harvard repositories, including updates on major VIA collections and advice on searching for these materials, subscribe to the viainfo mailing list. Go to the HUL Electronic Discussions Lists web page at http://hul.harvard.edu/hullists/ for subscription information
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