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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: Edward Ii
Edward II, (April 25, 1284 - September 21, 1327?) of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. His tendency to ignore his nobility in favour of low-born favourites led to constant political unrest...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Valeriano Weyler
Valeriano Weyler Nicolau, marques de Tenerife (17 September 1838 - 20 October 1930) was a Spanish soldier. Weyler was born at Palma de Majorca on 17 September 1838 to a Spanish mother and a German father, who was a military doctor, and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edward Ii of England
Edward II, (April 25, 1284 - September 21, 1327) of Caernarfon, was King of England from 1307 until he was deposed in January 1327. His tendency to ignore his nobility in favour of low-born favourites led to constant political unrest and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Leo Xiii
Pope of Rome, son of Count Ludovico Pecci, born in Carpineto, Italy, March 2, 1810. In 1818 he entered the Jesuit college at Viterbo, later studied at the Collegio Romanio, and taught philosophy in German College.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: William of Wykeham
William of Wykeham (1320 - 27 September 1404) was Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England, founder of Winchester College and of New College, Oxford, and builder of a large part of Windsor Castle.
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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: 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: James Fenimore Cooper
The celebrated novelist, James Fenimore Cooper, was born at Burlington, New Jersey, September 15, 1789. Having received his early education from a private tutor, he, at the age of thirteen, passed to Yale College, and after three years...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Reverend Dr. Blair
Clergyman and educator, known for the College of William and Mary.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Morgan Dix
Morgan Dix (born November 1, 1827 in New York City; died April 29, 1908) was an American priest, "divine" (a theologian) and religious author. The son of John A. Dix and Catherine Morgan, he was educated at Columbia College and the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: New Haven, 1919
A street map of the business district of New Haven Connecticut, from the Official Automobile Blue Book (1919), showing the college campus and city hall, the suggested Blue Book routes in the city, and the streetcar lines and railroads.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Auburn and Lewiston, 1919
A road map of Auburn and Lewiston, Maine, from the Official Automobile Blue Book (1919), showing the Androscoggin River, major roads, bridges, railroads and stations, parks, cemeteries, college grounds, and major landmarks.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Plan of Nottingham, 1903
A plan of the English city of Nottingham from 1903, showing roads, railways and railway stations, parks, cemeteries, the castle, colleges, churches, museums and various buildings and other important places.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Virginia the Old Dominion, 1921
A pictorial map of Virginia from 1921, showing its capital, Richmond and other major cities and inland waters. It also gives the population for each city shown. It also contains pictorial representations of Houdon's Statue of Washington,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Bishop Fox
Richard Foxe (sometimes Richard Fox) (c. 1448 - 5 October 1528) was an English churchman, successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, Lord Privy Seal, and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Edward Everette
This distinguished American was born in 1794, at Dorchester, near Boston, Massachusetts, entered Harvard College in 1807, and took his degree in 1811. -The Popular Cyclopedia, 1888
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: General George H. Sharpe
General Sharpe, born in Kingston, N. Y., February 26th, 1828, was graduated at Rutgers in 1847; studied law at Yale College; was admitted to the bar in 1854, and practiced until he entered the army in 1861 as captain in the Twentieth New...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: George Washington (1789)
The Electoral College elected Washington unanimously in 1789, and again in the 1792 election; he remains the only president to receive 100% of electoral votes. John Adams was elected vice president. Washington took the oath of office as...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: John Cardinal Fisher
John Cardinal Fisher (c.1469 - 22 June 1535), from 1935 Saint John Fisher, was an English Catholic bishop, cardinal and martyr. He shares his feast day with Saint Thomas More on June 22 in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and 6 July...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Justin Smith Morrill
Justin Smith Morrill (April 14, 1810 - December 28, 1898) was a Representative and a Senator from Vermont, most widely remembered today for the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Leo Xiii
Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903). Archbishop, bishop, cardinal, chamberlain of the Sacred College, and Pope.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Maximilien Robespierre
Maximilien Francois Marie Isidore de Robespierre (6 May 1758 - 28 July 1794) is one of the best-known figures of the French Revolution. He studied at College of Louis-le-Grand in Paris and became a lawyer. His supporters called him "The...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Pope Gregory Vii
Pope Saint Gregory VII (c. 1020/1025 - May 25, 1085), born Hildebrand of Soana (Italian: Ildebrando di Soana), was pope from April 22, 1073, until his death. One of the great reforming popes, he is perhaps best known for the part he...