Artifacts and Stories of Historical Interest from the Cizewski, Lovetere, Musbach, and Robinson Families
Artifacts and Stories of Historical Interest from the Cizewski, Lovetere, Musbach, & Robinson Families. This is a collection from the military service of Anson Croman (Union) and the American Civil War, Philip Lovetere and World War One, Felix A. Cizewski (Europe) and Ralph E. Robinson (Pacific) and World War Two, and the immigrant experiences of Angelina and Leonardo Giordano and Philip Lovetere (from Sicily), and Felix J. Cizewski (from Poland then part of Tsarist Russia). The collection includes original primary source documents and personal stories.
Austria Information Switchboard
Austria is a hilly land with lots of pastures, meadows and mountains. The capital is Vienna at river Danube.
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?
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
La Bibliotheque electronic du Quebec
Textes d'auteurs appartenant au domaine public. French site of online texts.
Renaissance Dance Database
The goal of this project is to create easy access to existing online resources for studying dance during the Renaissance in Europe, and also to provide a repository for resources not already hosted elsewhere.
The Euro- Information Website
Accurate and current information about the European Economic and Monetary Union single currency- the Euro. There are high resolution images of euro banknotes and coins- previous, current and future national designs and common designs and a special section devoted to the 2-euro commemorative circulation coins. Keep up to date on the latest design changes and news about the upcoming Euro Area expansion with The Euro's RSS Feed. Gain a greater insight into the background of the Euro and some other helpful tidbits of information by reading The Euro- FAQ sheet. Send an email with your questions, suggestions, requests and accolades to jrichard@ibiblio.org. Enjoy your visit!!
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.
William Butcher's Jules Verne Collection
A full-text collection of scholarly articles and books, in English and French, on the life and works of the French novelist. Hundreds of colour images, thousands of footnotes and hundreds of thousands of words of original research and translation by the specialist most cited online, with additional contributions from Ray Bradbury, Arthur C Clarke and Michael Crichton.
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.
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