Top 10 Toilets Through Time It’s not glamorous, but everybody needs to do it. From Romans gossiping on the loo to medieval royal bottom-wiping, to the invention of our modern flushing toilet, here are 2,000 years of toilet history! *Updated November 2017* 1. The best preserved Roman loos in Britain are at Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall. Visit Housesteads Roman Fort 2. These deep cesspits sat beneath the Norman castle at Old Sarum, probably underneath rooms reached from the main range, like private bathrooms. Visit Old Sarum 3. Henry II made sure that Dover Castle was well provided with garderobes. Medieval nobility would likely have a ‘groom of the stool’ – an important servant within the household responsible for making the experience comfortable for his employer, and bottom wiping! Visit Dover Castle 4. At Goodrich Castle there’s a whole tower dedicated to doing your business. Visit Goodrich Castle 5. Garderobes are quite common in medieval castles, but urinals are a little more unusual. Visit Orford Castle
listentoamovie.com Prelinger Archives : Free Movies : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive by Rick Prelinger Home Movies from the Prelinger Archives. For more information see the Prelinger Archives by Highway Safety Films, Inc Emphasizes the danger of attacks on children, dramatizing typical approaches. by St. Bunker Hill, LA - "waiting to be leveled, to make way for a new world of concrete steel and glass" Shows old homes on Bunker Hill, destruction and reconstruction favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 3 reviews ) by MPO Productions Set at the 1956 General Motors Motorama, this is one of the key Populuxe films of the 1950s, showing futuristic dream cars and Frigidaire's "Kitchen of the Future." favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 31 reviews ) Topics: Futurism, Automobiles: Advertising, Gender roles by Handy (Jam) Organization Sales training film for duPont Film Division (cellophane), featuring an angel and devil monitoring the activities of bakery salesmen on earth, and explaining how packaging helps to sell food. by Sutherland (John) Productions by Davis (Sid) Productions
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An Introduction to 100 Important Paintings with Videos Created by Smarthistory If you have an interest in how the internet has widened the very concept of education, you may well know about Google's Art Project, a digital wealth of free visual art information and viewing opportunities we've featured before. And you more than likely know about Khan Academy, the highest-profile producer of educational videos on the internet. Now, from the combined power of their learning resources comes this collection of video introductions to over 100 important paintings. Ranging from between two to nine minutes and covering works of art created in eras from 575 B.C.E to the Second World War, these brief but intellectually dense and visually rich lessons bear the label of Smarthistory, "a multimedia web-book about art and art history" that merged with Khan Academy in 2011. Just above, we have Vincent van Gogh's 1889 The Bedroom, a painting that, in the words of the artist himself, "ought to rest the brain — or rather, the imagination." Related Content:
5 Quick and Easy ways to use YouTube in class with the sound turned off! - Teach English Spain YouTube is a wonderful resource for language teachers and learners. When I mention this to trainee teachers, many of them assume I am only talking about YouTube clips which have been specifically created for language learners. When this happens, I’ll show them a few simple ways to use authentic YouTube clips for speaking practice. These activities can be used if you have access to interactive whiteboards, desktop projectors, laptops or let your learners use their mobile devices in class. Remember the old adage: a picture tells a thousand words. Well, a quick and simple way to use YouTube clips with your learners is to turn the sound off and focus on the images. 1. Type of video: Any clip with physical movement and actions. Language focus: Tenses and questions using tenses Film is primarily a visual medium. Watch the clip with the sound turned off and pause at regular intervals. Let your learners take control of the pause button so they can practise asking questions in different tenses. 2.
Archival: Science ~ A Curated Stock Media Collection #1943739 Deutsch Español Français Polski Português Русский Suomi Ten Great Tech Tools for Social Studies Lessons Over the last decade I've written about a lot of excellent resources for social studies lessons. Over time some of those tools have faded away and others have moved to the forefront of my top recommendations. Here's my current list of ten top tools for social studies lessons. Timeline JS Timeline projects as as old as history classes themselves. StoryMap JSStoryMap JS is produced by the same people that make Timeline JS. Google's VR Tour CreatorGoogle's VR Tour Creator is a free tool that enables anyone to create virtual reality tours that can be viewed online and in the Google Expeditions app. Google Expeditions Google's free virtual reality application that lets students virtually tour more than 800 places around the world. Anchor.fm If you have ever considered making a current events podcast or a history podcast, Anchor.fm makes it easy to do that. Metaverse Studio With Metaverse Studio students can create augmented reality games and tours.