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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Egyptian Ball Game

For Students 9th - 10th
Some of the Egyptian female sports were rather of a hoydenish character, as the game of ball, in one picture of which we are instructed that the loser was obliged to suffer another to ride on her back. - Goodrich, 1844
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Egyptian Ball Game

For Students 9th - 10th
Some of the Egyptian female sports were rather of a hoydenish character, as the game of ball, in one picture of which we are instructed that the loser was obliged to suffer another to ride on her back. - Goodrich, 1844
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Victors at the Olympic Games

For Students 9th - 10th
From a very remote period, the Greeks had been accustomed to engage in contests of strength and agility during their times of festivity, and also at the funerals of distinguised persons. Iphitus conceived the idea of establishing a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Roman Die

For Students 9th - 10th
A small cubed marked on its faces with spots numbering from one to six, used in gaming from being thrown from a box or hand.
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Aaa Math: Fraction Parts Eighths

For Students 3rd - 5th
This lesson describes eighths and gives practices and games identifying various amounts of eighths. Also shows other fractions visually.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pancratium

For Students 9th - 10th
An athletic game, in which all the powers of the fighter were called into action. The pancratium was one of the games or gymnastic contests which were exhibited at all the great festivals of Greece; it consisted of boxing and wrestling,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lampadephoria

For Students 9th - 10th
Lampadedromia, torch-race, and often simply, Lampas, was a game common throughout Greece. At Athens we know of five celebrations of this game: one to Prometheus at the Prometheia, a second to Minerva at the Panametheia, a third to Vulcan...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Plan of Olympia, 776 445 Bc

For Students 9th - 10th
A plan of the ancient Greek sanctuary of Olympia, the site of the Olympic Games. Olympia is near the Peloponnese city of Elis. The plan shows the location of the stadium, gymnasium, temple, and other ancient features, including buildings...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Boxing

For Students 9th - 10th
The Olympic games were of greater efficacy than the Amphictyonic Council in promoting the spirit of union among the various branches of the Greek race, and in keeping alive a feeling of their common origin. They were open to all persons...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cestus

For Students 9th - 10th
The thongs or bands of leather, which were tied round the hands of boxers, in order to render their blows more powerful. The cestus was used by boxers in the earliest times, and is mentioned in he Iliad; but in the heroic times it...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cestus

For Students 9th - 10th
The cestus used in later times, in the public games, was a most formidable weapon. It was frequently covered with knobs and nails, and loaded with lead and iron. Figures with the cestus frequently occur on ancient remains. They appear to...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Desultor

For Students 9th - 10th
A rider in the Roman games, who generally rode two horses at the same time, sitting on them without a saddle, and vaulting upon either of them at is pleasure. The annexed woodcut shows three figures of desultores. - Smith, 1873.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Egyptian Ball

For Students 9th - 10th
Some of the Egyptian female sports were rather of a hoydenish character, as the game of ball, in one picture of which we are instructed that the loser was obliged to suffer another to ride on her back. Some of these identical balls have...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Egyptian Chess

For Students 9th - 10th
The game of chess, or draughts.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Egyptian Hunter

For Students 9th - 10th
Hounds were also used to pursue game, as may be perceived from the subjoined representation of a huntsman carry home his prey. - Goodrich, 1844
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Foot Race

For Students 9th - 10th
The Olympic games were of greater efficacy than the Amphictyonic Council in promoting the spirit of union among the various branches of the Greek race, and in keeping alive a feeling of their common origin. They were open to all persons...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Greek Coin

For Students 9th - 10th
In the reign of Philip of Macedon, the coinage of Greece had attained its full development, having a perfect reverse. One of the earliest specimens of the complete coin is a beautiful medal struck at Syracuse, with the head of Proserpine...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hurling the Javelin

For Students 9th - 10th
The Olympic games were of greater efficacy than the Amphictyonic Council in promoting the spirit of union among the various branches of the Greek race, and in keeping alive a feeling of their common origin. They were open to all persons...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Isthmian Crowns

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nemian and Isthmian games occurred more frequently than the Olympic and Pythian. They were celebrated once in two years, the Nemian in the valley of Nemea between Phlius and Cleonae, and the Isthmian by the Corinthians, on their...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Abraham Whipple

For Students 9th - 10th
Abraham Whipple (26 September 1733 - 27 May 1819) was an American revolutionary naval commander. Whipple was born near Providence, Rhode Island and chose to be a seafarer early in his life. He embarked upon a career in the lucrative West...
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The Nobel Prize: Relativity

For Students 9th - 10th
After a brief introduction, this site provides information on special relativity include sections such as The Michelson-Morley Experiment, The Postulates of Special Relativity, Lorentz Transformations, The Twin Paradox, Energy is...
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Etc: Comparative Projections of Asia, 1800 1899

For Students 9th - 10th
A map using comparative map projections of Asia, as part of a hemisphere and on a Mercator's projection, to illustrate European misconceptions of land claims during territorial colonialism. In the 19th century, European powers were...

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