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Sky Map
http://www.sky-map.org/
A detailed sky map that is generated automatically using
a database with the basic characteristics of space
objects. The collection contains images of
galaxies, globular clusters, nebulas, clustered of
galaxies, and quasars. One can also see real
photographies of the sky, by means of the Sloan Digital
Sky Survey that provide detailed optical images.
New data is released annually.
Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
NASA provides each day a different image or photograph
of our universe along with a brief explanation written
by a professional astronomer. An archive of the
pictures can be found at:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
NASA Photos and Videos
http://nasaimages.org/
When completed this site will contain a comprehensive
web archive of space imagery and videos created in
partnership between Internet Archive and NASA.
The National Archives on Google Video: NASA
History of Space Flight Motion Pictures
http://video.google.com/nara.html
A selection of films preserved
in the National Archives that offer a visual record of
the history of the U.S. Space program, providing
coverage of such significant events as Dr. Robert
Goddard's early rocket designs; astronaut John H.
Glenn's first manned orbital space flight in the
Friendship 7 spacecraft; the Apollo 11 lunar mission;
the exploration of deep space and other planets; and the
role of female astronauts in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Several of the titles chosen have been cited at domestic
and international film festivals or have received awards
for excellence in photography and documentary
filmmaking.
Sky in Google Earth
http://earth.google.com/sky/skyedu.html
Watch this short video to learn
how to use Google Earth to view the sky. Download
the free Google Earth software, and then click on the
sky button to view the sky above your current location
and to search for stars, planets, constellations and
more.
WorldWide Telescope
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
The WorldWide Telescope is free
desktop software that takes "millions of the best
images captured by the world's greatest ground and space
telescopes, like the Hubble, and morph them seamlessly
to allow users to take interactive tours of space."
(K. Zetter, Wired, 2-28-08). Users can pan and
zoom across the night sky in a virtual trip through the
universe. Created by Microsoft Research and
released in May 2008, the virtual telescope has four
modes: Sky, Earth, Planets, and Panoramas.
It also lets people call up related data, stories, or
context about what they're seeing from sources online.
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Internet Archive: Free Audio Books & Poetry
http://www.archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry
Listen to free audio books and poetry recordings.
This library of audio books and poetry features digital
recordings and MP3's from the Naropa Poetics Audio
Archive, LibriVox, Project Gutenberg, Maria Lectrix, and
Internet Archive users.
The Internet Archive was
founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose
of offering permanent access for researchers,
historians, and scholars to historical collections that
exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes
texts,
audio,
moving
images, and
software as well as
archived
web pages.
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Wanna Work Together? (Creative Commons)
http://dotsub.com/films/wannawork_1/index.php?autostart=true&language_setting=en_768
A three minute, closed-captioned video explaining some
differences between "All Rights Reserved" and "Creative
Commons" copyright terms.
CinemaSports: Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/details/cinemasports
Cinemasports is the Iron Chef of Filmmaking. Teams have
10 hours to complete a movie with a list of ingredients.
Finished movies screen the 11th hour, the very night
they are created. CinemaSports movies are
available from the Internet Archive.
The Internet Archive was
founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose
of offering permanent access for researchers,
historians, and scholars to historical collections that
exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes
texts,
audio,
moving
images, and
software as well as
archived
web pages.
Babbel: Learn New Languages Online
http://babbel.com/
Babbel is an interactive language-learning online
community. Registration is free, and one can
choose to learn English, Spanish, German, French or
Italian. Vocabulary words are spoken aloud, a
picture of the word is displayed, and the text of
the word is displayed. Once you learn a word, it
goes into your vocabulary portfolio. You can
choose to join up with an online study partner, and can
choose to communicate using microphones or chat.
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Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Reading
Room
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
You can find more than one million pictures among these
digitized collections, ranging from
historical photographs and architectural drawings to
advertising labels and posters from all over the world.
To see lists of images on popular topics--such as
Architecture, History and Events, and People-- and
focusing on images for which there are no known
copyright restrictions, click here:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/listguid.html#related
National Archives on Google Video:
United Newsreel Motion Pictures
(1942-1945)
http://video.google.com/nara.html
During World War II, the United
States Government financed its own newsreel for overseas
viewers. This selection of government produced
newsreels, deposited in the National Archives, averaged
10 minutes in length and consisted of several short
stories concerning allied military operations in the
various theatres of war, as well as stories of events
taking place on the U. S. home front. Note: Scroll
down to get to the newsreels' section of the webpage.
Open Vault Historical News Videos
http://openvault.wgbh.org/
OpenVault, launched by public television station WGBH in
Boston, offers access to video clips and interview
transcripts drawn from programming created between 1968
and 1993. The archive is designed to encourage educators
and scholars in higher education to incorporate these
materials into classroom curricula and outside study.
Note: Video clips require QuickTime to run.
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American Memory*
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
"The Library of Congress' American Memory project is a
free and open collection of written and spoken words,
sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps,
and sheet music that document American history and
creativity."
Artcyclopedia*
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
"Artcyclopedia links users to online collections of
museums from around the world, with the unique ability
of allowing users to locate museums by the names of
artists they have collected or specific titles of works
of art owned by the museum."
Canadian Museum of Civilization*
http://www.civilization.ca/collect/csintroe.html
"Search or browse more than 200,000 digital images of
cultural objects, porcelains, glass, and textiles."
Internet ArtResources
http://www.artresources.com/
A
gateway to art and artists, galleries and exhibitions.
Up-to-date information on current and future art shows,
emerging artists and world-renowned masters in the fine
arts as well as modern artisans working in every
imaginable medium, including wood, glass, metal and
stone. Searchable image catalog has 11,000+ images
in the archives.
Metropolitan Museum of Art*
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has been
around since 1870, and its permanent collection is
comprised of more than 2 million works of art and
cultural objects. The online image collection is
comprised of more than 6,500 important works, including
the entire European Paintings and American Paintings and
Sculpture collections. The image collection is one
of the most scholarly in existence, with extensive
physical descriptions, provenance notes, and detailed
views of signatures and inscriptions."
National Gallery of Art*
http://www.nga.gov/collection/
"Search the National Gallery's extensive collection of
paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on
paper that spans more than 600 years of history from the
Middle Ages to the present day. Bibliographies,
exhibition histories, and provenance records are
attached to many of the works."
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm
Provides free and open online access to over 550,000
images digitized from primary sources and printed
rarities in the collections of The New York Public
Library, including
illuminated manuscripts,
historical maps,
vintage posters,
rare prints and
photographs,
illustrated books,
printed ephemera, and more.
Smithsonian Institution*
http://www.si.edu/
"Explore the world's largest complex of museums and
other affiliated collections via the Smithsonian portal.
The Smithsonian collections own more than 136 million
artworks, objects, and specimens, and each museum
maintains its own Web site, usually comprised of
thousands of online images and hundreds of educational
materials."
Timeline of Art History*
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/splash.htm
"The curatorial, conservation and education staff of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City produce the
Timeline, which is an easy-to-use geographical,
chronological, and thematic representation of art
history. Users can compare and contrast works of
art from around the world, with accompanying thematic
essays and maps, putting each work of art in cultural
and historical context."
*Links and annotations by Thomas R. Caswell, museum studies
librarian at the University of Florida.
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Internet Archive: Live Concerts
http://www.archive.org/details/etree
The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to
preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible
for current and future generations to enjoy in a
lossless, downloadable format.
The Internet Archive was
founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose
of offering permanent access for researchers,
historians, and scholars to historical collections that
exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes
texts,
audio,
moving
images, and
software as well as
archived
web pages.
CBS News on Customized DVDs
http://www.amazon.com/60minutes
http://www.CustomFlix.com/60minutes
Create a customized DVD from the CBS News archives, one
of the world's largest repositories of news content and
historical footage. The archive includes some of
the best reporting and footage from World War II, the
Cold War, the Kennedy assassinations, the Civil Rights
movement, the space program, the Vietnam War, Middle
East conflicts, the 9/11 attacks, and other important
news events. Your compilation DVD will be produced
on-demand and shipped to you.
"The Mike Wallace Interview"
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/film/holdings/wallace/
Access over 60 editions of "The Mike Wallace Interview."
The University of Texas Austin makes these original ABC
broadcasts free online with no sign-in required.
Wallace interviews personalities such as former
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Supreme Court
Justice William O. Douglas, labor leader Walter
Reuther, former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and
surrealist painter Salvador Dali. There are links
to the videos and to their transcripts.
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Internet Archive: Spirituality & Religion
http://www.archive.org/details/audio_religion
Listen to sermons and lectures concerning religion and
spirituality, such as
Tse Chen Ling Buddhist Lectures,
The Bible Podcast,
Sermons & Religious Lectures. The Internet Archive was
founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose
of offering permanent access for researchers,
historians, and scholars to historical collections that
exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes
texts,
audio,
moving
images, and
software as well as
archived
web pages.
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Swami Vivekananda on Hinduism, 1893
http://www.udeps.com/Vivekananda.html
This YouTube video provides the voice and text of a
speech by Swami Vivekananda's on the topic of Hinduism
given on September 11, 1893.
American Rhetoric
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/
Database of 5000+ full text, audio and video
streaming versions of public speeches, sermons, legal
proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other
recorded media events. Includes "Top 100"
political speeches of the 20th century, movies speeches,
and Rhetoric of 9-11.Ful
dotSUB
http://dotsub.com/
Free website that encourages users to add subtitles to
video clips in English and other languages in order to
make these videos accessible to the hearing impaired and
speakers of foreign languages. Offers a list of
free videos that have been subtitled in various
languages.
American Women Through Time
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-timeline.html
A detailed timeline, from
prehistory to the 20th century, that has about 800 links
to relevant online sources, such diaries and letters,
photo collections, and lectures by historians.
Also includes links to other timelines on Women's
History.
l
text,
audio, and video database of the 100 most significant
American political speeches of the 20th
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