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A LIVE 24x7 Interactive African Wildlife Safari

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The M16: a history in pictures Virtual Japanese House - Japanese Houses - Virtual Culture Virtual Japanese House How to Play Choose the answer to the question from among the three objects displayed at the bottom.Drag the object of your choice onto the picture and drop it in the right place. This game is based on houses in the fourth decade of the Showa era (mid-1950s to mid-1960s). You'll need the Flash plugin before you can start. Retrotechtacular: Examining Music in 1950’s Russia If you had told 12-year-old me that one day I would be able to listen to pretty much any song I wanted to on demand and also pull up the lyrics as fast as I could type the artist’s name and part of the title into a text box, I would have a) really hoped you weren’t kidding and b) would have wanted to grow up even faster than I already did. The availability of music today, especially in any place with first world Internet access is really kind of astounding. While the technology to make this possible has come about only recently, the freedom of music listening has been fairly wide open in the US. However, the landscape of musical freedom and discovery has been quite different in other corners of the world, especially during the early years of rock ‘n roll. But the draw of music tends to upstage politics. Someone soon figured out that x-ray film was a good medium for making records. These bootlegs were fittingly referred to as “bones” or “ribs” by those in the know.

History Globe In 1606, some 105 adventurers set off from England to try and establish the first permanent English colony in the New World. They settled in what is now the state of Virginia and called their colony first James Fort, and then James Towne, in honor of James I, the King of England. The early years of the colony were nearly a total disaster. You are the Captain of the Jamestown Colony: Can you do any better than the real colonists? Scoring Factors: After you make all your decisions, you will receive a report on the state of your colony based on these factors: Food: How well can you provide it for your colonists? Make History: You will get to compare your colony to the historical Jamestown at the end. Good luck and Godspeed!

Benches | Architectures As mentioned a while back, I’ve been trying to find a way to classify the numerous ‘Design with Intent’ and architectures of control examples that have been examined on this site, and suggested by readers. Since that post, my approach has shifted slightly to look at what the intent is behind each example, and hence develop a kind of ‘method’ for suggesting ‘solutions’ to ‘problems’, based on analysing hundreds of examples. I’d hesitate to call it a suggestion algorithm quite yet, but it does, in a very very rudimentary way, borrow certain ideas from TRIZ*. Basics of the DwI Method, v.0.1 1. 2. 3. An example This example is one that I’ve covered extensively on this blog: the most common ‘solutions’ are, generally, very unfriendly, but it’s clear to most of us that the ‘wider scope’ mechanisms are, ultimately, more desirable. Sleeping on a bench in Hyde Park, London. Introduction A number of benches in a city-centre park are occupied overnight or during parts of the day by homeless people.

Virtual tour of the Pole. You've arrived at the South Pole after about a 3-hour plane ride from McMurdo. A panoramic view just as you get off the plane. Photo: CARA/Greg Griffin Jump ahead to the imagemap of the South Pole Station. Actual quote from papers given to you: South Pole is an inherently dangerous place. The station is at an elevation of 2,900 meters; however the equivalent pressure elevation, based on polar atmospheric conditions, will vary from 3,300 to 4,000 meters. From 1955 until 1999, the Navy [Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6)] flew various aircraft in support of the U.S. Here is an example of a ski-equipped plane that is not an LC-130 -- it's a Cessna 180 operated by Adventure Network, a private Canadian company. Some brief history: The geographic South Pole (90 degrees South) has long been a prized goal of Antarctic explorers. U.S. Sun, Wind, and Temperatures! Sun -- During the winter at the South Pole, the Sun never rises. More cold facts...

The Woobie A "woobie" is a name for any type of character who makes you feel extremely sorry for them. Basically, the first thing you think to say when you see the woobie is: "Aw, poor baby!" Woobification of a character is a curious, audience-driven phenomenon, sometimes divorced from the character's canonical morality. A story with the Woobie allows the audience to vicariously experience relief from some pain by fantasizing about relieving the Woobie's pain. , or a Linux installer

Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolutionary War Washington as a Captain in the French and Indian Warby Junius Brutus Stearns c. 1851 The British defeated the French and their Native American allies in the French and Indian War (1754-1763). The result was British control over much of North America. But the war had cost England a great deal of money and Parliament decided it was time for the colonies to pay a share for their own defense. To raise money, Parliament passed the Stamp Act in 1765. This law required the purchase of tax stamps to buy paper. The colonists were outraged. The colonists had always considered themselves Englishmen. But many new taxation measures, such as the Sugar Act and Townshend Acts followed. The Bloody Massacreengraving by Paul Revere, 1770 The people of Boston were most outspoken and violent in their reaction to taxes. In 1773 the East India Company was granted a virtual monopoly on the importation of tea. Parliament responded with the "Intolerable Acts." Skirmishes in late 1775 led to the capture of Ft.

My Bed My Bed is a work by the English artist Tracey Emin. First created in 1998, it was exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1999 as one of the shortlisted works for the Turner Prize.[1] It consisted of her bed with bedroom objects in a dishevelled state, and gained much media attention. Although it did not win the prize, its notoriety has persisted. Inspiration[edit] The idea for My Bed was inspired by a sexual yet depressive phase in the artist's life when she had remained in bed for four days without eating or drinking anything but alcohol.[2] When she looked at the vile, repulsive mess that had accumulated in her room, she suddenly realised what she had created. [edit] The artwork generated considerable media furore, particularly over the fact that the bedsheets were stained with bodily secretions and the floor had items from the artist's room, such as condoms, underwear with menstrual blood stains, other detritus, and functional, everyday objects, including a pair of slippers. See also[edit]

Readings & Flowcharts Search Outline of History Prehistory — Prehistory, the rise of civilization, and the ancient Middle East to c.500 B.C.E Prehistory to c.3000 BCE — Unit 1: Prehistory and the rise of Civilization to c.3000 B.C.E. FC1 — Biological, Cultural, and Technological Evolution in History FC2 — A Possible Scenario of Human Evolution FC3 — A Possible Scenario for the Evolution of the Family and Gender Roles FC4 — The Birth of Agriculture and its Effects FC5 — The Domestication of Animals and its Effects FC6 — The Rise of Cities and Hydraulic Civilizations (c. 8000-3000 BCE) FC6A — Festive Dancing and its importance in History FC6B — The Evolution of Early Civilized Warfare FC7 — The Birth of Writing and its Impact FC8 — The Birth of Metallurgy and its Impact The ancient Middle East — Unit 2: The ancient Middle East (c.3000-323 B.C.E.)

Hoe het is om te leven met kleptomanie | VICE | Netherlands Alle illustraties door Michael Dockery Ik ben in het Vaticaan en ik kijk naar het zoveelste schilderij van de kruisiging. Een balpen van dertig euro glijdt via mijn mouw naar mijn jaszak en maakt het totaal van mijn buit zo'n 125 euro aan katholieke prulletjes. Voor mij betekent het niks. Ik knik naar de non achter de toonbank en loop naar buiten. Ik werd gediagnosticeerd met kleptomanie. Veel kleptomanen hebben het over de 'kick' van het stelen. Boeken verpesten levens. Je denkt vast dat ik wanhopig zoek naar manieren om mijn criminele gedrag op een intellectuele manier te verklaren, maar fuck it. Ik ben nog steeds geschokt als mensen negatief reageren op het feit dat ik steel. Bovendien kies ik mijn doelwitten goed. Ik heb een keer een lading sierkussens gestolen van een casino, deels uit wrok, deels uit verveling. Ook jatte ik een tijdlang planten uit cafés en restaurants. Dankzij al mijn andere psychische aandoeningen, heb ik weinig last van schuldgevoelens.

Hortum Machina, B, the garden that rolls across the city – We Make Money Not Art Hortum Machina, B on Hampstead Road in London. Photo by William Victor Camilleri Passersby reactions to Hortum Machina, B. Photo by William Victor Camilleri Although they don’t have what we call ‘nervous systems’, plants are actually smart and sentient. Their prototype Hortum machina, B (Garden machine, Bucky) is a large geodesic sphere that moves around the city according to the plants’ whims and physiological needs. The mobile ecosystem has a robotic core wrapped in twelve garden modules. The structure uses harmlessly inserted electrodes to measure the plant’s physical responses to the variation in their immediate environment and networks the plants together. Inspired by Buckminster Fuller’s Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth, this cybernetic life-form is part of reEarth, a broader research project that explores new forms of bio-cooperative interaction between people and nature, within the built environment. Interactive Architecture Lab, Hortum machina, B Hi William and Danilo!

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