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C. Iuli Caesaris Commentariorum de Bello Gallico Liber Primus. Book one of Julius Caesar's commentary on the Gallic War
Book one of Julius Caesar's commentary on the Gallic War. In Latin. C. Iuli Caesaris Commentariorum de Bello Gallico Liber Primus

Finding the Celtic
Finding the Celtic is an experiment to create an online digital humanities collaboratory for Celtic Studies funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. It will enable users to locate, access, and annotate resources for Celtic Studies, to share their work and research, and to enable digital publication. There are three main aspects to the start-up phase of the Finding the Celtic ("FtC" for short) project, which will be last from May 2007 - May 2008: * To configure and adapt the COLLEX digital collaboratory to handle data resources related to Celtic Studies (for those who are technically-minded, this is essentially defining the appropriate metadata schema and tailoring the code to handle it) * To add information visualization extensions to COLLEX so that the data resources can be visualized in graphical representations * To compile a sample database of digital resources from the multiple disciplines that intersect at Celtic Studies (i.e., history, archaeology, literature) so as to demonstrate the ability of the system to meet the diverse needs of the humanities The project will focus on "classical" Celtic materials (particularly from Hallstatt to medieval periods). The primary data resources and the exhibitions that will be created from those components are meant to encourage lively discussion about the notion of "Celticity" - can we identify aspects of culture (whether material or literary) that indicate Celtic identity? How do these elements compare and contrast to the culture of others near or removed in space and time?

Friends of Tibet
Friends of Tibet (INDIA), is a Tibet Support Group (TSG) formed in Dharamsala on March 9, 1999 with members from all over the world with an intention of informing people the unique cultural and religious identity of the Tibetan people and for working towards preserving the identity and assuring the survival and human rights of the Tibetan people.

gnawa stories
Somewhere in Morocco. Between African Shamanism and Islam. Between primitive traditions and modernity. At the crossroads of Globalism. You will find the Gnawa. Mystical Musician Healers from Morocco. From marginalized subculture to "official" representatives of Moroccan culture, many Gnawa have undergone a dramatic transition in the past decade. This is the first multimedia website project of its kind dedicated to the Gnawa. Mixing video, audio, photographs and text, Gnawa Stories takes you inside the uncharted waters of this secret world, and explores the Gnawas' commitment to connect with their traditions while adapting to a new Global Age.

Hyperwar - a collection of the Second World War
A multimedia collection of material related to the history of the Second World War, completely cross-referenced via hypertext links. Topics include:
Diplomatic & Political Documents of WWII

Military/Service Histories

Pacific Theater of Operations

World War II Acronyms, Codewords, & Terms

Probing the Man behind the Mahatma: analyzing the life and works of Mohandas Gandhi
A UNC course exploring the life, works and acts of Mohandas Gandhi. We attempt to evaluate Gandhi on his own terms; we try to tell his story by looking at his works and acts. By doing so, we try to gain an understanding of what motivated him to act, what constituted(/and constitutes) Gandhian philosophy, and whether we can emulate his means of initiating political change through "satyagraha" - truth struggle - and "ahimsa" - non violence - today. We engage in a dialogue with Gandhi to understand our own lives, times and crises.

Soviet Archives - Two
In this archive are files relating to a Library of Congress exhibit of materials from the (Then - in 1992) newly opened Soviet archives. The images do not comprise the complete documents; they are sample pages from the documents.

The Philatelic Digital Library Project
The Philatelic Digital Library Project was concived to work closely to the Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders and the Project Gutenberg to create, organize and preserve a philatelic literature collection. All the books published by the project will follow Project Gutenberg's Standards.

The World's Oldest Living Second Lieutenant
The World War II Service of William L. Hurley, Intelligence Evaluation Officer, U.S. Army Air Corps. 1942-1946 by William Enestvedt, grandson April 3, 2003

Transoxiana

Journal de Estudios Orientales
Electronic - Full-Text Open Access

Escuela de Estudios Orientales
Universidad del Salvador

United States Army and World War II
PDF versions of over forty of the official U.S. Army Histories of World War II (the "Green Books") including a chronology, all major theaters, pictorial histories, and "campaign brochures" for all major campaign.

World War II Primary Source Document Collection and the Pearl Harbor Archives
A voluminous archive containing original documents regarding all aspects of the war.
There are several complete books and several hundred individual documents, all original material relating to WWII. The Pearl Harbor Archives hold more than 5,000 pages of documents, exhibits, and testimonies surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor.

WWI Detainees in Hot Springs, NC
From 1917 through 1918, the grounds of the Mountain Park Hotel in Hot Springs, North Carolina housed German civilians who were in the United States during World War I. These civilians were comprised of the crews of the German commercial ships which had taken cover in American ports when Great Britain declared war on Germany in 1914. Included in the group were members of a German orchestra who fled Tsingtao (Qingdao today) China, and a photographer, Adolph Thierbach. They sought refuge in New York Harbor for three years before being designated "enemy aliens" and transported to Hot Springs for internment. Very little is known about Herr Thierbach other than what can be gleaned from the photographs he took during his incarceration at the detainee camp. He chronicled the detainees' stay in the Mountain Park Hotel, the building of the actual detainee camp, and the construction of the unique German village built on the grounds by the detainees. He photographed the “Tsingtao Orchestra” before and after concerts given for local residents, cricket games played on the grounds of the hotel, the reconstruction of a bridge destroyed by flooding, and detainees who served in the local fire department. Tragically, also included are photographs of the headstones marking the graves of the forty Germans who died during a typhoid epidemic. Eventually Herr Thierbach put all of his photographs into an album and captioned them. This project is a recreation of Herr Thierbach's photographs including translations of the original German captions. Many of the buildings in these photographs no longer exist, and those left are not known locally by the names in Herr Thierbach's album. Within this digital collection we have attempted to faithfully reproduce his work as he created it. The Madison County LIbrary, located in Marshall, North Carolina, created this website through a special grant and owns the photos in this archive.