World History Encyclopedia (formerly Ancient History Encyclopedia) A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France: the weird and wonderful history of man-made borders. This week, a farmer in the Belgian town of Erquelinnes caused an international ruckus when he moved a stone standing in his tractor’s path.
This stone marked the boundary between Belgium and France. By moving it 2.29 metres, he expanded Belgium’s territory. We must assume he had driven around it before — the stone was placed on this site in 1819, as part of the proceedings that established the Franco-Belgian border in 1820 after Napoleon’s defeat. For the farmer, it stood in the way of his tractor. For the governments of France and Belgium, it was an active international border. This story suggests a fragility to borders that contradicts their apparent solidity in an atlas or on Google Maps.
Radiooooo: Discover the Musical Time Machine That Lets You Hear What Played on the Radio in Different Times & Places. Radio has always been a fairly transportive medium.
During the Great Depression, entire families clustered round the electronic hearth to enjoy a variety of entertainments, including live remote broadcasts from the glamorous nightclubs and hotels where celebrity bandleaders like Count Basie and Duke Ellington held sway. 1950s teens’ transistors took them to a head space less square than the white bread suburbs their parents inhabited. During the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese stations played homegrown renditions of the rock and soul sounds dominating American airwaves. The Radiooooo.com site (there’s also a version available for the iPhone and Android) allows modern listeners to experience a bit of that magical time traveling sensation, via an interactive map that allows you to tune in to specific countries and decades. The content here is user-generated.
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Newgrange, Ireland Despite the fact that road builders ran into the monument in the XVII century, people started to research this mysterious landmark only three centuries later. Dolmens of North Caucasus, Russia Here on the mountain slopes stands small houses built of flat stones. Tikal, Guatemala Petra, Jordan. Library Lydia.
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The websites below are not intended only for history teachers but for anyone interested in taking a journey back into history.Some of them provide document search that allows you to search into the most important historical documents from well known and trusted archives.
You will also find timelines documenting the major historical events or if you like maps then you can track back the history on maps. All these resources are free to use and do not require any download or software installation.Just browse through the selection below and click on any title to access the webpage. Make sure you share them with your students and colleagues as well. 1- Look Back Maps This is a website that allows users to view historical pictures of various locations on Google Maps, search for specific locations and even add images.
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