Europe’s Top 25 Castles – The Best Castles in Europe
There is something about castles that inspires awe and at the same time touches a gentler, more romantic side in each of us. And if you want to visit and tour some of the best castles in the world, then Europe should be your destination as this continent certainly has more than its share. Here are the top 25 castles in Europe, in no particular order. 1.
inklewriter - Education
Education inkle is looking to bring interactive stories to the classroom, and give teachers free and simple get-stuck-right-in software to use with their students. From within a web-browser, the inklewriter will let students make and play interactive stories with no programming required. Why make stories interactive anyway? The way our stories work is simple: the reader is given the text of a story in a small chunks, and after each, they get to make a decision about what happens next.
The History of Costume - Index #1
Click On Picture To Enlarge It (100K). Plate # 1 - Egyptians, Moors, Turks Plate # 2 - Ancient Near East - Assyrian, Persian, Egyptian Plate # 3 - Ancient Near East - Assyrian, Persian, Egyptian Plate # 4 - Ancient Judah Plate # 5 - Ancient Greece
20 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools
Google Apps are collaborative, which makes them highly powerful. They offer opportunities for students to engage unlike ever before. Here are 20 ideas.
Roman Entertainment
As of July 1, 2013 ThinkQuest has been discontinued. We would like to thank everyone for being a part of the ThinkQuest global community: Students - For your limitless creativity and innovation, which inspires us all.
A Wonderful App for Students to Showcase Their Learning
August 21, 2015 30hands is an excellent app to use with students in class. You can use it for a wide variety of purposes from creating demos and tutorials to crafting visually appealing presentations and videos. Students can use it to create multimedia productions showcasing their learning in the form of a slideshow with audio narration, or through an audio-enhanced image portfolios to mention but a few examples. Given its intuitive interface and simple layout, 30hands can be used with different age groups.
Photolog: British Museum
Royal Lion Hunt bas-relief details, Mesopotamian Collection ‘Photolog’ is a new series of posts with predominant focus on photographs rather than text. I’ll be posting a selection of images from my photographic endeavors that are mostly around travel, nature, landscape and urban photography.
Stone Age Poison Pushes Back Dawn Of Ancient Civilization 20,000 Years
By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 07/30/2012 03:08 PM EDT on LiveScience The late Stone Age may have had an earlier start in Africa than previously thought — by some 20,000 years. A new analysis of artifacts from a cave in South Africa reveals that the residents were carving bone tools, using pigments, making beads and even using poison 44,000 years ago.
Pubes in Ancient Athens
You’ve heard of Nipples at the Met so today let me introduce Pubes in Ancient Athens. Kouros (Aristodikos), found in Mesogeia (Attica), c. 510-500 B.C., marble. National Archaeological Museum, Athens Poseidon, found in the Gulf of Livadostra (Boeotia), c. 480 B.C., bronze. National Archaeological Museum, Athens Zeus/Poseidon, found off Cape Artemision (Euobea), c. 460 B.C., bronze.
Colossal statue of Neo-Hittite warrior king found
The Tayinat Archaeological Project in southeastern Turkey continues to prove itself a bonanza of Bronze and Iron Age archaeological wonders. To last year’s roaring lion sculpture that once guarded the gates of the citadel of Kunulua (aka Kinalua), capital of the Neo-Hittite Kingdom of Patina (ca. 1000-738 B.C.), we can now add the top half of a colossal statue of Patina’s warrior king Suppiluliuma. The statue is the head and torso of the king, depicted with a neatly curled beard and head of hair. His wide eyes are made of inlaid white and black stone. His arms are bent at the elbow, forearms extended and hands clenched in tight fists.
