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National Gallery of Art: gallery guides - Gallery guides serve as the foundation for our online tours. Selected guides are available in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Select a link above for indexes of gallery guides by language, or select a guide from the following index by school.
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Milestones in Taiwan's history * - Important milestones from the early 1600s to the present. Originally, Taiwan was settled by people of Malay-Polynesian descent, who initially inhabited the low-lying coastal plains. They called their island Pakan. Here is a detail of an old Dutch navigati...
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National Gallery of Art: Dutch Still Lifes - Paintings depicting aspects of the natural world were so characteristic of the Netherlands that, during the seventeenth century, the Dutch words stilleven and landschap were adopted into English as "still life" and "landscape." Before...
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Hudson River History Tour * - The Hudson Valley Virtual History Tour. Travel through time as you explore the Hudson River and Hudson Valley. You'll be connected to photos, museums and stories about the celebrated history of this region of New York.
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National Gallery of Art: british and american history - Sophisticated Europeans from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries deemed "history painting" to be the supreme achievement in the visual arts. In addition to imaginatively re-creating actual events from the past, history paintings also il...
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Monocots vs. Dicots * - Traditionally, the flowering plants have been divided into two major groups, or classes,: the Dicots (Magnoliopsida) and the Monocots (Liliopsida). Many people take this separation into two classes for granted, because it is "plainly obvious", b...
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Financial Multimedia * - This page references pictures and video clips which cover finance topics. This media is rather large in size and requires a great deal of patience or a rapid Internet connection to view. You are free to use pictures and video downloaded from this site for...
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Pima Indians: Pathfinders for Health * - read the history of this tribe who has lived in the Sonoron Desert of southern Arizona for at least 2,000 years and learn about their recent issues with diabetes. History paints a colorful portrait of the American Indians who live today in the Gila River...
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World History Archives: The Americas as a whole * - Documents for the history of Native Americans Documents for the retrospective history of the Americas as a whole Documents for the contemporary political history of the Americas as a whole Documents for the economic history of the Americas as...
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World History Archives: History of Iraq * - The retrospective history of the Republic of Iraq The contemporary political history of the Republic of Iraq The economic history of the Republic of Iraq The working-class history of the Republic of Iraq The social history of the Republic of I...
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