Cuban Missile Crisis
The world has never come closer to the brink of nuclear war than it did during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, one of the most dramatic episodes in U.S. diplomatic history. Discover the tense sequence of events that took place during the Cuban Missie Crisis.
Northwest Homesteader: A Curriculum Project for Washington Schools
This packet provides materials that relate to the history of homesteading in Washington state. In many respects homesteading was a national story, born of an era when the United States was both agrarian and expansionist. The major themes of this packet invite teachers and students to think about how regional, state, and local history fit within the broader American context.
Building Nature: Topics in the Environmental History of Seattle and Spokane
This project shows how certain documents—business records, booster brochures, newspaper articles, city plans, engineering surveys and political campaign literature, to name a few—testify to the environmental history of urban places. The documents in this packet focus on trade, city boosters, urban design and planning.
Evergreen State: Exploring the History of Washington's Forests
This curriculum packet consists of information and primary documents related to the history of Washington's forests. These materials are intended to provide students with an opportunity to investigate attitudes toward and uses of this natural resource. Middle school students may find some of the documents to be challenging reading, but most of the documents could profitably be used in a middle school, high school, or university course about the history of the Pacific Northwest.
La Cité de Dieu, après-demain ? (audio)
Quand Rome est mise à sac le 24 août 410, des voix se lèvent s’interrogeant sur les raisons d’un tel désastre et sur le devenir de Rome. Demain qu’adviendra t-il de la Roma aeterna ? Déconcerté par ce pillage et soucieux d’éclairer les jugements, Saint Augustin décide alors de mener à bien son projet déjà ancien de composer une fresque théologique.
Il compose ainsi La cité de Dieu, œuvre qui oppose la cité terrestre et la cité céleste et qui
La prochaine éthique biomédicale (audio)
Sujet de controverse depuis des années, la bioéthique soulève encore aujourd’hui de nombreuses interrogations : faut-il immanquablement se conformer aux lois bioéthiques? Peut-on faire abstraction des revendications individuelles ? Est-il toujours possible de trouver des arguments éthiques fondateurs pour dire non ?
Pour Véronique Fournier la pratique du terrain, rendue effective avec l’ouverture du Centre Ethique de l’Hôpital Cochin, peut apporter des éléments de r
Portrait of Susan Wallace
Portrait of Susan Wallace, wife of General Lew Wallace.,From back of photograph: Susan Elston Wallace [Mrs. Lew] copy of picture in locket [Wallace Study, Crawfordsville] labeled "carried by Gen. Wallace during Civil War". [Copy made for Mabel Major by Haas, Photographer, 8/15/53.]
Title Page from Parry Manufacturing Company Catalog
The page shows a drawing of the company's facility in Indianapolis where they built carriages and wagons. Company officers are listed in the upper right corner. The lower left corner gives the cities where the company has branches.
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille - L’addictologie, sa place dans la cité. (audio)
CNIPsy 2010 Marseille : 7ème Congrès National des Internes en Psychiatrie (CNIPsy). Thème : «Mauvais genre»
Titre : CNIPsy 2010 Marseille - L’addictologie, sa place dans la cité : réflexion partagée avec les usagés ou … il était une fois la RDR marseillaise.
Résumé : En prenant le pouvoir sur leur prise en charge, les usagers de drogues ont transformé les approches des médecins : la réduction des ri
Session : Dépendance - Drogue - Addictologie.
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Enquête scientifique sur « le génie » des artistes - Jean Pierre Mohen (audio)
Une conférence de l'UTLS au lycée
Enquête scientifique sur « le génie » des artistes
Lycée Maurice Ravel (64480 Saint-Jean de luz)
Avec Jean Pierre Mohen (Directeur de la rénovation du Musée de l’homme)
Partenariat Région Aquitaine
Body builders — planarian worms point the way to understanding tissue regeneration
Scientists at The University of Nottingham have discovered the gene that enables an extraordinary worm to regenerate its own body parts after amputation — including a whole head and brain.
Their research into the Planarian worm is another piece in the scientific jigsaw that could one day make the regeneration of old or damaged human organs and tissues a real possibility.
Health Care Entrepreneurship
Thunderbird School of Global Management Professor Steven Stralser, Ph.D., talks about innovation and entrepreneurship in health care. Learn more about his 10-week course at http://www.thunderbird.edu/healthcare.
Mapping the Human Genome - Ten Years After
The "Mapping the Human Genome: Ten Years After" event took place on Tuesday, February 22, at Sanders Theatre at 4 p.m.
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Endo 2 Tech Paper Presentation 3/5
Anderson et al., 2006: paper presented by Endometriosis 2 team in 20.380, Spring 2011 (Q&A)
Unit 2A notes Part 2
What is Black History Month Part 3 of 4
This video is part 3 of 4. This part of the series covers Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who became the first black woman president of Liberia and John Sentamu who is the first Arch-Bishop of the Church of England. (1:07)
Nek Chand, Self-Taught Recycled Artist from Northern India
An interview with Nek Chand, a self-taught artist.
As a young man in his spare time, Chand began collecting materials from demolition sites around the city. He recycled these materials into his own vision of the divine kingdom of Sukrani, choosing a gorge in a forest near Sukhna Lakefor his work. The gorge had been designated as a land conservancy, a forest buffer established in 1902 that nothing could be built on. Chand’s work was illegal, but he was able to hide it for
