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Columbia University: What Is Mechanical Engineering
An overview of the field of mechanical engineering with a focus on the career areas available to those with a mechanical engineering background or experience.
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Columbia University Libraries: The Papers of John Jay: The Jay Treaty
A solid narrative explaining Jay's previous experience as Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the 1780s, this website from Columbia University Libraries in New York offers a succinct account of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation,...
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Epistolae: Medieval Women's Letters
A substantial body of sources documenting the religious, economic, and political lives of powerful women in medieval Europe. Both the original Latin and the translations appear for each source.
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The Song Dynasty in China (960 1279)
A look at the Song Dynasty that answers the question: "Does modernity begin with the Song dynasty?" Author discusses economic growth, commercialization, urbanization, and intellectual life while studying a 12th-century scroll.
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Columbia University: The Ibm 1401
The IBM 1401 Data Processing System was IBM's first affordable general-purpose computer. It was introduced in 1959 and was IBM's first computer to sell over 10,000 units. This site describes the history of the 1401, the technology that...
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Columbia University: Amiens Cathedral Project
See Amiens Cathedral as if you were standing there in person. Check out interior and exterior photographs, computer renderings, 360 degree simulators and more.
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Columbia University: Asia for Educations: Recording the Grandeur of the Qing
Regular inspections of the Chinese empire were once recorded onto scrolls. Several of the scrolls are available to view on this site and include interactive activities.
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Columbia University: Institute for Research in African American Studies
A website dedicated to studying African-American culture and history. Website includes information about the courses at the university as well as archived historical documents.
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Columbia University: Asia for Educators: Timeline of Chinese Inventions
This printable timeline details the ancient inventions that dramatically changed Chinese society and the world. Topics include early books, printing techniques, tea, silk, gunpowder, playing cards and paper.
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Columbia University: East Asia in Geographic Perspective
Humans have a great capacity to accommodate to changes in physical environments. Flood, drought, and even global warming lead pragmatic peasants and farmers to assess current ways of operating and seek ways to maximize production....
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Columbia University: The Interaction of Islam and Hinduism
This article discusses the development of religious culture within India. Because Islam and Hinduism are the most prominent religions within the country you will learn how each religion has had an influential impact on the other....
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Asia for Educators: China: Ancestral Rites and Divination
Chinese ancestral rites and divination between 4000-1000 BCE.
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Asia for Educators: Outline Maps
The outline maps are designed to be used as transparencies that can be overlaid on an overhead projector to demonstrate the diversity of China's physical and cultural geography. Copies can be printed out and reproduced also for student...
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Columbia University: The Beatles: Lists and Essays
Personal page devoted to the classic music of the Beatles. Includes photos, essays, discussions and reviews. Good resource page.
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Columbia University: Neurons
Images of the different types of Neurons based on structure. Images are labeled but not given their names. Would work well for review of different types.
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Intensive Organic Chemistry: Arenes and Aromaticity
Lecture notes from Chapter on Arenes & Aromaticity. Can be downloaded using Adobe Acrobat.
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Multiple Memory Systems
Good overview of how the brain remembers, and its system redundancy.
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A Center at Columbia on Mind, Brain, and Memory
Article skims across issues in brain research relevant to memory as it introduces the University's center for brain research.
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Drug Mechanisms and Brain Function: The Antipsychotic Experience
Article on the effect of certain drugs on human personality. Article's foundation is in anti-psychotic research.
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The Era of Wars: Onin War
In this page there is information pertaining to the Onin War and the factors that influenced it.
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The Imparfait vs. the Passe Compose Ii
This site from London's Transport Museum provides a series of six exercises covering Le Passe Compose (Avoir and Etre), L?Imparfait, Le Present, Le Futur, Le Conditionnel. Students can print out their answers to check them, and they are...
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Columbia University: Asia for Educators: Basho: Master of Haikai and Haiku
Article traces the evolution of the haiku and the contribution of Matsuo Basho, a seventeenth-century master of the form.
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Columbia University: Slope Intercept Form
This site from the Columbia University in the City of New York provides brief information on the slope-intercept form, and then has four helpful examples on the subject. Each example goes through the steps involved and arrives at a...