Pop-ups, banner ads, grammar mistakes ... these are all signs of an untrustworthy website. With the handy Legit-O-Meter poster, scholars can now double-check their sources to ensure accurate, reliable information. The color-coded poster...

In 1874, The New York Herald falsely claimed that several animals escaped from the Central Park Zoo, and panic ensued. Using the helpful infographic, pupils discover more instances of fake news throughout history, from as far back as 63...

An audio slideshow narrated by the set designer for the Tony Award-winning musical "The Light in the Piazza." Discusses the set designer's art as well as the designer's inspirations for the sets, both the exterior scenes of Florentine...

Discover the collection of paintings at the National Gallery. There are various activities that allow the visitor to learn more about art and perform research. Videos are available to see paintings from a unique perspective.

A broad selection of images featuring indigenous Australian art can be found on this site by Picture Australia. By clicking on individual images you'll find high quality photographs as well as a brief description.

View the artwork for a U.S. postage stamp issued in 2005 to commemorate classical singer Marian Anderson. With a short passage on her awards and international singing career.

Greek and Egyptian mythology, the story of the Lion King, and the legend of King Arthus are just some of the ways these resources explore the different cultural interpretations of heroes. Then learn the stories of Cinderella, as well as...

An image of "Performance of Alceste in 1674", created by Jean Le Pautre in 1676 (Engraving, 308 x 427 mm).

An image of "Frenzied Romans at the First Performance of Hernani", created by Jean-Jacques Grandville in 1830 (Lithograph, 250 x 180 mm).

An image of "St Zenobius Performs a Miracle (predella 4)", created by Domenico Veneziano, c. 1445 (Tempera on wood, 28 x 32 cm).

An image of "Oriane Endavours to Perform Feats of Magic in the Garden of Apolidon", created by Karel van Mander the Elder from 1595-1600 (Pen and brown ink, brown wash, 272 x 496 mm).

Great tips for anyone auditioning for a part in a play or performance. Links to other articles if you need further advice.

Digital cartoon of a woman performing a traditional Japanese tea ceremony.

The act of reclining at meals. The Greeks and Romans were accustomed, in later times, to recline at their meals; but this practice could not have been od great antiquity in Greece, since Homer always describes persons as sitting at their...

Ancilia carried by Salii. The sacred shield carried by the Salii, and made of bronze. The original ancile was found, according to tradition, in the palace of Numa; and, as no numan hand has brought it there, it was concluded that it had...

Auletris.- Performer on the double flute or diaulos. (From a Greek red-figured vase; 5th century B.C.)-Whitney, 1902.

A wind instrument, anciently made of horn, but afterwards of brass. Like the tuba, it differed from the tibia in being a larger and more powerful instrument, and from the tuba itself, in being curved nearly in the shape of a C, with a...

A musical instrument, in the shape of two half globes, which were held one in each hand of the performer, and played by being struck against each other. The cymbal was a very ancient instrument, being used in the worship of Cybele,...

Cattle doctors are exhibited performing operations upon sick oxen, bulls, deer, goats, and even geese. - Goodrich, 1844

Halteres were certain masses of stone or metal, which were used in the gymnastic exercises of the Greeks and Romans. Persons who practised leaping frequently performed their exercises with halteres in both hands; but they were also...

These words, besides denoting absolute nakedness, were applied to any one who, being without an Amictus, wore only his tunic or indutus. In this state of nudity the ancients performed the operations of ploughing, sowing and reaping. The...

A harp, was of oriental origin. The performances of sambucistriae were only known to the early Romans as luxuries brought over from Asia. - Smith, 1873

There are instances mentioned, however, where even women performed the wager of battle; in which case, to equalize the conditions, the man was placed in a pit waist-deep, with his left hand tied behind his back.-Myers, 1905

Flavius Josephus was a strange amalgamation of Jew, Greek, and Roman, admittedly not what he should have been, either as a teacher of Mosiac law, as a patriot, or as a public man; and yet he performed successfully what he could not have...