World History. History. Gilded Age New York. New York has had lots of crazy-rich families.
But few were as mysterious as the Wendels, siblings born in the 19th century who never married, rarely socialized, and grew old together behind brick walls inside the last private mansion on Fifth Avenue. Their father made his fortune in fur and real estate. In the 1850s, like other wealthy city residents at the time, he built himself and his family a big house on fashionable, once-residential Fifth Avenue, at 39th Street. With all their money, you would expect the Wendel siblings—brother John and his six (some sources say seven) sisters—to live it up among high society in late 19th century New York.
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100 Years of Conflict: 30 Graphics That Explain the Last 100 Years - Made From History. We compiled this piece to explain the key global events of the last 100 years to coincide with the centenary of World War One.
We’ve used a variety of graphics, timelines and data visualisations to explain the chain link of events that lead us to global politics as they are today. If you want to make further suggestions on what we can work in, let us know on the comments. By 1914 Europe was divided by two major Alliance systems: The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria Hungary and Italy and the Triple Entente, between France, Russia and Great Britain. Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World. Since the dawn of recorded history, we’ve been using visual depictions to map the Earth, order the heavens, make sense of time, dissect the human body, organize the natural world, perform music, and even concretize abstract concepts like consciousness and love. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World (public library) by investigative journalist and documentarian Scott Christianson chronicles the history of our evolving understanding of the world through humanity’s most groundbreaking sketches, illustrations, and drawings, ranging from cave paintings to The Rosetta Stone to Moses Harris’s color wheel to Tim Berners-Lee’s flowchart for a “mesh” information management system, the original blueprint for the world wide web.
It appears that no great diagram is solely authored by its creator. Most of those described here were the culmination of centuries of accumulated knowledge. Most arose from collaboration (and oftentimes in competition) with others. American Indian Histories and Cultures - Adam Matthew Digital. Colonial House . Interactive History. Truganini, bushranger - Hindsight. Newspaper: Intelligence reached town yesterday of a horrible outrage committed at the Coal Mining Company's station at Cape Patterson by two of the Van Diemen's Land Blacks ...
Shirley Westaway: The first I knew of Truganini in Victoria was when I found she was a member of a party where one of our ancestors had been wounded. James Boyce: I don't know why Truganini pursued the acts of resistance that she did at Port Phillip, but you don't see your family members being killed before your eyes, you don't see a whole way of life ravaged, your community broken up without a massive effect on you. Lyndall Ryan: We have to remember that Melbourne is pretty well surrounded by a war zone by the early 1840s.
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Global agrochemical and fertiliser corporations are also pushing their products on farmers. To find out more about WDM’s agribusiness campaign click here The scramble for Africa saw European colonisers carve up most of the continent’s land and extract valuable natural resources. Seed andchemicalsSeed andagrichemicalsFertiliser andexplosives To invest US$50 million to expand its operations over the continent over the next ten years. To invest US$500 million to expand to a US$1 billion business in Africa over the next 10 years.
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