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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Standard Time Belts, 1898
A map from 1898 showing the Standard Time Belts in the contiguous 48 states as they were then established. "The main body of our country is so broad from east to west that more than three hours are required for rotation to carry it past...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Standard Time Belts, 1903
A map from 1903 of the United States showing the time zones as they were then established. "The heavy dotted line shows the arbitrary divisions of time in the United States. The plus and minus marks on either side of the meridian lines...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: A Roman Standard Bearer
From a gravestone of the first century A.D. The standard consists of a spear crowned with a wreath, below which is a crossbar bearing pendant acorns. Then follow, in order, a metal disk. Jupiter's eagle standing on a thunderbolt, a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Roman Eagle
Eagle, as a military standard, was adopted by the Romans, and even by nations preceding them in history. The Persians, in the time of Cyrus the Younger, bore an eagle on a spear as a standard. The Romans for some time used the eagle, the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Signa Militaria
Signa Militaria, military ensigns or standards. The most ancient standard employed by the Romans is said to have been a handful of straw fixed to the top of a spear or pole. Hence the company of soldiers belonging to it was called...
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This website is the portal for information put out by the North Carolina State Board and the Department of Public Instruction. In addition to the usual information on curriculum, employment and licensing, reports, events, and assessment,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Africa, 1904
"Africa - Second only to Asia in point of size, the continent of Africa, including the islands contiguous to its shore, has an area of 11,854,000 square miles, yet is the least important of all the great divisions of the globe, judged by...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Europe, 1898
A map showing Europe in 1898. "Europe is composed of twenty or more independent states or countries, in nearly every one of which the people differ from those of others in language, customs, and standards of living...In Europe [there...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Railroads in United States, 1910
A map from 1910 of the United States showing the railway network and connecting steamship lines. This map distinguishes the transcontinental railroads and secondary lines, and shows the standardized time zones used in 1910. The clock...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Aquilifer
An Aquilifer was the Roman soldier in charge of carrying the standard for his unit.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Drachma
The principal silver coin among the Greeks. The two chief standards in the currencies of the Greek states were the Attic and Aeginetan. - Smith, 1873. This image shows Attic Drachma.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Drachma
The principal silver coin among the Greeks. The two chief standards in the currencies of the Greek states were the Attic and Aeginetan. - Smith, 1873. This image shows Aeginetan Drachma.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Roman Coin
The so-called Republican, the earliest coinage, began at an early period of Roman history, and subsisted till about 80 B.C. Its standard metal was copper or bronze, an alloy of copper. - Chambers, 1881
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Signa Militaria
Various standards of military units of Rome in the Gallic War.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Catherine Ii
Catherine II was the Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796. Under her reign, the Russian Empire expanded and was modernized under Western European standards.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Brown
In 1859, John Brown collected a small body of men, white and black, in the mountains of Maryland. He made a sudden attack upon Harper's Ferry, where there was a United States arsenal, which he seized and held for a few hours. The attack...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Mc Kinley
In the general election of 1896, the principal question at issue was the financial policy of the country. William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, was the candidate of those who 'demanded the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Profile Bust of Thucydides
Thucydides was a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century B.C. war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 B.C. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" due...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Richard H. Dana
(1815-1882) Author of Two Years Before the Mast and the standard manuel for sea law The Seaman's Friend.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Standard Time Belts, 1901
A map from 1901 of the United States showing the time zones as they were then established.
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Nc School Report Cards
This website is the portal for information put out by the North Carolina State Board and the Department of Public Instruction. In addition to the usual information on curriculum, employment and licensing, reports, events, and assessment,...