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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Charlemagne
(742-814) Christian Emperor. Time of rule was known as Carolingian Renaissance during which he built palaces and churches, and promoted Christianity, education, agriculture, the arts, manufacturing and commerce
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: George Peabody
(1795-1869) American merchant and philanthropist, most noted for his donations to education in the South and to promote arts and sciences.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Victor Rocheport
A journalist and statesman, born in Paris, France, Jan. 30, 1830. After attaining a liberal education, he engaged with the Paris "Figaro" as a writer of dramatic and art criticism, and later became a memeber of the editorial staff.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: George Iii, King of England
George III (1760-1815). The first two Hanoverian kings were ignorant of English politics and obliged to rely on their ministers. Moreover, they cared more for Hanover than for England. But George II had English ideas. He was born and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
A German educator and educational reformer, born in Zurich, Switzerland, Jan. 12, 1746; died in Brugg, Feb. 17, 1827.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John W. Keely
Keely was an inventor of a motion motor and used etheric technology.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Maria Montessorri
(1870-1952) Italian doctor and educator best known for the development of the Montessori method of education.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William T. Harris
(1835-1909) American educator and United States Commissioner of Education.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William Torrey Harris
Harris was an educator. He was commissioner of education during President Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, and Roosevelt's terms.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642) was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Griffin
In heraldry, the griffin is a fabulous animal, with the head and forefeet of an eagle, and the body, hind legs, and tail of a lion. The head is represented with pricked ears, symbolical of its vigilance. In mythology, the griffin was a...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Philip of Macedon
Philip became king of Macedonia in 359 B.C. He was viewed as he best educated man of his time.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Winged Bull From Nimrud
The Sumerian word lama, which i rendered in Akkadian a lamau, refer to a beneficient protective female deity. The correponding male deity wa called alad, in Akkadian, sedu. In art they were depicted a hybrid, a winged bull or lion with...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Alfred Thayer Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840-December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy flag officer, geostrategist, and educator.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Andrew Dickson White
An educator and diplomatist, born in Homer, New York, Nov. 7, 1832.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White (November 7, 1832 - November 4, 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, author, and educator, best known as the co-founder of Cornell University. In 1869 White gave a lecture on "The Battle-Fields of Science", arguing that...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Archbishop Warham
William Warham (c. 1450 - August 22, 1532), Archbishop of Canterbury, belonged to a Hampshire family, and was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, afterwards practising and teaching law both in London and Oxford. Later he took...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Arthur Latham Perry
An educator and author, born in Lyme, New Hampshire, Feb. 27, 1830.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Arthur Thomas Quiller Couch
A Cornish writer, who published unter the pen name of Q. Born in Cornwall, he was educated at Newton Abbot College, at Clifton College, and Trinity College, Oxford and later became a lecturer there.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Benjamin Ide Wheeler
American educator and professor at Brown University, Harvard, and Cornell University teaching philology and Greek.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Charles W. Eliot
Educator who became president of Harvard and presided over a period of great growth which included the introduction of the elective system and the teaching of women.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Charles William Eliot
(1834-1926) American educator and academic and president of Harvard University.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Daniel Coit Gilman
Daniel Coit Gilman (July 6, 1831-October 13, 1908) was an American educator.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Daniel Wilson
(1816-1892) Scoto-Canadian educator and archeologist