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Economics. 10 Ways JAPAN is 10 Years Ahead of the World. Virtual Field Trip Apps and Websites. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski. Free Cursor Downloads - Cursors-4U.com. The Google Search FAQ: How to Find Anything and Everything. It seems that everyone Googles these days.

The Google Search FAQ: How to Find Anything and Everything

After all, it is a top search engine. And with that, Google offers some enhanced search features that can be very helpful in finding what you need easier and faster. Here are a few basic and not-so-basic ways that you can use those extra Google Search features. Wakelet: Save, curate and share the things you love. The History of Kobe Beef in Japan. Attribution Generator. Wikimedia Deutschland – Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.

Attribution Generator

V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23/24 10963 Berlin E-Mail: info@wikimedia.de Website: Telephone: +49 (0)30-219 15 826-0 Fax: +49 (0)30-219 158 26-9. Future Tech. Curation Tools and Platforms. Best Websites. Primary Source Collections. The Coolest Sites on the Web. Short Stories. 100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything. Posted by Site Administrator in Online Learning May 7th, 2009 Learning new skills and expanding your knowledge doesn’t have to cost you an arm and a leg.

100 Amazing How-To Sites to Teach Yourself Anything

There are loads of free resources on the Web that can help you find instructional videos, tutorials and classes to learn a wide variety of skills from fixing basic car problems to speaking another language. With 100 sites to choose from, you’re bound to find something here that will help you learn just about anything you could want. General Tutorials These sites offer a wide range of tutorials and videos. Around the House. Internet Slang words - Internet Dictionary - InternetSlang.com. And here are more, some beyond the Pale. NOW. Arcane Languages, Alphabets, And Fonts. How To Make an App With No Programming Experience (Updated Guide) AutoDraw. Testi. LEARN SOMETHING NEW: Best Learning Tools.

Apps to try. Writers First line Generator - start your story with a compelling opening. AdFly - The URL shortener service that pays you! Earn money for every visitor to your links. Magazine. Useful Tools. Copyright stuff. Util. Best Websites for Teaching & Learning 2017. Bestapps16. Wordage.info - Free Thesaurus Tool for Word Discovery - Expanded Thesaurus, Reverse Dictionary Lookup. ... Home - PDF Books Free. Beautiful, Decorative, and Sometimes Crude: Illuminated Manuscripts and Marginalia. Illuminated manuscripts are manuscripts that are covered with painted ornaments presented under several forms.

Beautiful, Decorative, and Sometimes Crude: Illuminated Manuscripts and Marginalia

These documents are perhaps most commonly associated with the European Middle Ages. Nevertheless, the concept of, and the techniques used for, the production of the illuminations were introduced at a much earlier period of time. In addition, there are a few surviving manuscripts from the Late Antique period which have illuminations in them. Early Examples of Illuminated Manuscripts. EdWebet #75 - Digital Literacy. American Museum of Natural History. Public Domain & Creative Commons Stuff. Creative Commons. Dictionaries and Reference Tools. Crosswords : Tools and Resources. Science and technology. History + archeology. Herramientas Online. Google Keep. 1800's Biographies (Scroll down for Specific Resources) Drawing / graphic tools. Films / Vidéos. StartPage Search Engine.

Panoramica App 2.0. English - Movies / News. Browse - TAMI. Browse for Videos by Topic Not sure what you're looking for?

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Start out by exploring the categories below for footage from your hometown, to see what Texas looked like in the past, or check out some of your favorite Texas icons. Genre, or Film Type At TAMI, "genre" describes more than the categories of feature films that we all know and love, such as western, action, or comedy. Our collections contain a whole range of moving image production types, from advertisements to government films to home movies.

What type of film do you want to watch today? Texas Locations View a variety of types of films that feature various regions of the state. Cultural Heritage & National Archives. Australia. Video killed the radio star. Presentation Tools. Name Every Shade of the Rainbow With This 'Color Thesaurus'. Driving along the highway in Didcot, England, you may notice something strange: the road signs point the way to places like Neverland and Middle-earth.

Name Every Shade of the Rainbow With This 'Color Thesaurus'

The names of these and other fictional locales from literature were seamlessly added to road signs by an artist/prankster using Transport Medium, the official font of British road signs. After some sleuthing, BBC News found the man responsible, who spoke to the outlet on the condition of anonymity. Infographies/visualisations. Japan. 150+ Educational Websites For Lifelong Learners – Medium. Infographic & Flowchart. AT 2017. HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH. Creative Inspiration. Visual Hunt. Film History Before 1920. The Lumiere Brothers and the Cinematographe: The innovative Lumiere brothers in France, Louis and Auguste (often called "the founding fathers of modern film"), who worked in a Lyons factory that manufactured photographic equipment and supplies, were inspired by Edison's work.

Film History Before 1920

They created their own combo movie camera and projector - a more portable, hand-held and lightweight device that could be cranked by hand and could project movie images to several spectators. It was dubbed the Cinematographe and patented in February, 1895. The multi-purpose device (combining camera, printer and projecting capabilities in the same housing) was more profitable because more than a single spectator could watch the film on a large screen. They used a film width of 35mm, and a speed of 16 frames per second - an industry norm until the talkies.

Advice & Repairs. People Japan. Grab Bag. Procrastination Portal. The Best Websites On The Internet. The internet is a big place, with a lot of content.

The Best Websites On The Internet

Astronomy & Physics. eBooks, PDFs, Film & Archives. Archives. Resources. Flight Simulator. Android. Googley goodness. Tools. Leadership LIBRARY. 30 Interesting Websites You Probably Haven’t Heard Of. How to Use Firefox Addons. Even though Firefox usage has been on the decline over the last few years, it’s still in second place behind Google Chrome in terms of usage.

How to Use Firefox Addons

The main reason behind that is add-ons. Firefox can be customized in a million different ways, something no other browser can replicate to that level. Websites useful or fun. Top 10 Lists. The Harvard Classics: Download All 51 Volumes as Free eBooks. Every revolutionary age produces its own kind of nostalgia.

The Harvard Classics: Download All 51 Volumes as Free eBooks

Faced with the enormous social and economic upheavals at the nineteenth century’s end, learned Victorians like Walter Pater, John Ruskin, and Matthew Arnold looked to High Church models and played the bishops of Western culture, with a monkish devotion to preserving and transmitting old texts and traditions and turning back to simpler ways of life. It was in 1909, the nadir of this milieu, before the advent of modernism and world war, that The Harvard Classics took shape.

Compiled by Harvard’s president Charles W. Download 448 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s catalog The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. Or you could pay $0 to download it at MetPublications, the site offering “five decades of Met Museum publications on art history available to read, download, and/or search for free.” If that strikes you as an obvious choice, prepare to spend some serious time browsing MetPublications’ collection of free art books and catalogs. You may remember that we featured the site a few years ago, back when it offered 397 whole books free for the reading, including American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915; Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical Drawings from the Royal Library; and Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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