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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Head of Mummy of Ramses Ii
The mummy was discovered in 1881, in an underground chamber near the site of Thebes. With it were the coffins and bodies of more than a score of royal personages. They had all been taken from their tombs and placed in the vault to...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Mason Locke Weems
Mason Locke Weems (October 11, 1756 - May 23, 1825), generally known as Parson Weems, was an American printer and author. He is best known as the source of some of the apocryphal stories about George Washington, including the famous tale...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Sebastian Brant
A famous German humanist and satirist, famous for Das Narrenschiff.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General Sherman
William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 - February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator and author. He served as a General in the Union Army during the American Civil War (1861-65), for which he received...
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Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography: American Indians: Black Hawk
Scroll down to the portrait of Black Hawk to read a brief biography of this famous Native American chief. From the Smithsonian Institution.
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Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography: American Indians: Black Hawk
Scroll down to the portrait of Black Hawk to read a brief biography of this famous Native American chief. From the Smithsonian Institution.
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Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography: American Indians: Black Hawk
Scroll down to the portrait of Black Hawk to read a brief biography of this famous Native American chief. From the Smithsonian Institution.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Anacreon
Though Anacreon has been famous as the poet of wine and love, few geniune fragments of his songs have come down to us. Those which pass under his name belong to his Greek imitators in later times. Specimens are given here in relief after...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pyrrhic Dance
The most famous of all the war-dances of antiquity, is said to have received its name from one Pyrrichos, or, according to others, from Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles. Critical scholars, however, content themselves with a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: The Discus Thrower
Also known as Discobolus. The Discus Thrower is a famous, ancient bronze statue that demonstrates a man participating in an ancient sport.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Adelina M. C. Patti
Famous opera singer of the 19th century.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Adelina Patti
(1843-1919) Spanish/Italian opera singer and famous soprano.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Admiral David G. Farragut
(1801-1870) Senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War and is famous for the Battle of Mobile Bay.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Admiral David G. Farragut
Admiral Farragut, born at Campbell's Station, near Knoxville, Tenn., July 5th, 1801, died in Portsmouth, N. H., August 14th, 1870. He was appointed to the navy from his native State, and as a midshipman saw active service as early as...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Albrecht Durer
(1471-1528) German painter, printmaker, and theorist famous for his engravings.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Alessandro Scarlatti
A Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantanas.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Alfred Tennyson
Famous poet who wrote The Lady of Shalott.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Alfred the Great
The king of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred is famous for his defence of the kingdom against the Vikings.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Amerigo Vespucci
(1454-1512) Famous Itlaian cartographer, whom the Americas were named after.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Amerigo Vespucci
(1454-1512) A famous Italian merchant and cartographer who explored to the Americas and wrote about the journey.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Anthony Comstock
Comstock served in the Civil War and created the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. He is also famous for the Comstock law and the term comstockery meaning censorship because of perceived obscenity or immorality.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bartholomeus Van Der Helst
(1613-1670) Dutch painter famous for his portrait work.