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Unesco: Spain: Historic Centre of Cordoba
Cordoba's period of greatest glory began in the 8th century after the Moorish conquest, when some 300 mosques and innumerable palaces and public buildings were built to rival the splendours of Constantinople, Damascus and Baghdad. In the...
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Alice Ramsey and Crew
EyeWitness to History offers stories of early exploits of the automobile, based on writings from the turn of the 20th century.
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Unesco: Iran: Gonbad E Qabus
The 53 m high tomb built in ad 1006 for Qabus Ibn Voshmgir, Ziyarid ruler and literati, near the ruins of the ancient city of Jorjan in north-east Iran, bears testimony to the cultural exchange between Central Asian nomads and the...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Rhode Island: Nelson W. Aldrich House
Federal-style home of Aldrich, a U.S. Senator and one of the most powerful men in Washington around the turn of the 20th century. Today home to the Rhode Island Historical Society.
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Men Awaiting Deportation, Ellis Island, 1902
This lesson examines government reports that urged restrictions on immigration to America at the turn of the nineteenth century.
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Zitkala Sa, 1898
A photograph and an autobiographical excerpt about the changes experienced and challenges faced by Native Americans at the turn of the twentieth century.
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First Hoisting of the Stars and Stripes . . . On Cuban Soil, 1898
Eighteen primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the problems and opportunity of domestic and international expansion around the turn of the twentieth century.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Parthenon
The Parthenon is a celebrated temple at Athens, consecrated to Athena or Minerva, the protectress of the city, built on an elevated rock near the Acropolis, and has always been regarded as the most exquisite and perfect example of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Georg Brandes
(1842-1927) Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian literature from th 1870s through the turn of the 20th century.
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Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Music in the Renaissance: Lute
16th Century Lute, made in Germany; later turned into a guitar.