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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Cymbalum
A musical instrument, in the shape of two half globes, which were held one in each hand of the performer, and played by being struck against each other. The cymbal was a very ancient instrument, being used in the worship of Cybele,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Needles and Pins
Needles and pins, chiefly aken from originals in bronze, vary in length from an inch and a half to about eight inches. - Anthon, 1891
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pyxis
A casket, a jewel-box. Quintilian produces this term as an example of catachresis, because it properly denoted that which was made of box, but was applied to things of similar form and use made of any other material. In fact, the caskets...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bust of Shakespeare
The bust in the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon. This half-length statue on his memorial must have been erected within six years after Shakespeare's death in 1616, it is believed to have been commissioned by the poet's...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Charles Morris
Commodore Charles Morris, USN (1784 - 1856) was a U.S. naval administrator and officer whose service extended through the first half of the 19th century.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Eleazar Williams
A dark mystery shrouds the fate of the eldest son of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette, who was eight years of age at the time his father was murdered by the Jacobins. After the downfall of Robespierre and his fellows, it was...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Elisha Kent Kane
Elisha Kent Kane (28 February 1820 - 16 February 1857) was a medical officer in the United States Navy during the first half of the 19th century.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Hannibal
Hannibal's Passage of the Alps. Hannibal determined to carry the war into Italy. To do this, he had to fight his way through Spain and cross the Alps, which were regarded as an impassable barrier between Italy and the North. In this he...
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Etc: Clip Art Etc: Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf Von Moltke
Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke (October 26, 1800 - April 24, 1891) was a German Generalfeldmarschall. The chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years, he is widely regarded as one of the great strategists of the latter...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: James Gillespie Blaine
James Gillespie Blaine was a U.S. Representative, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, U.S. Senator from Maine, two-time United States Secretary of State, and champion of the Half-Breeds.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John C. Calhoun
A portrait of John C. Calhoun, one of the leading United States Southern politicians and philosopher from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun was an advocated for states' rihgts, limited government, and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John C. Calhoun's Grave
John C. Calhoun (March 18, 1782 - March 31, 1850) was a leading Southern politician and political philosopher from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. He is perhaps best known as the first Vice President to resign...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Caldwell Calhoun
John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 - March 31, 1850) was a leading United States Southern politician and political philosopher from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Mary I
Mary, the fourth and penultimate monarch of the Tudor dynasty, is remembered for returning England from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism. To this end, she had almost three hundred religious dissenters executed; as a consequence, she is...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Odo of Bayeux
Odo of Bayeux (c. 1036 - February 1097, Palermo), Norman bishop and English earl, was the half-brother of William the Conqueror, and was for a time second only to the king in power in England.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Peter I
Known as Peter the Great, he was at first a joint ruler with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V, who died in 1696. Peter then ruled alone until 1724, whenceforth he ruled jointly with his wife, Catherine I.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Gladstone
He assisted in the making of history for nearly half a century, and is, in some respects, the most remarkable, if not the greatest, man in Europe. -The Popular Cyclopedia, 1888
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Elizabeth I of England
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 - 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Peter I of Russia
Peter I the Great or Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov (June 1672-8 February 1725) ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May 1682 until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his weak and sickly half-brother, Ivan V. Peter carried...