1.012 Introduction to Civil Engineering Design (MIT)
1.012 introduces students to the theory, tools, and techniques of engineering design and creative problem-solving, as well as design issues and practices in civil engineering. The course includes several design cases, with an emphasis on built facilities (e.g., buildings, bridges and roads). Project design explicitly concerns technical approaches as well as consideration of the existing built environment, natural environment, economic and social factors, and expected life span. A large design ca
The US Industrial Growth (Pre-Civil War)
This video is accompanied by text. "In the eighteenth century, British inventors perfected a series of machines for mass production of textiles, which initiated the European Industrial Revolution and gave Britain a head start in industrial production. For many years, the British carefully guarded their industrial secrets, forbidding the export of machines or even descriptions of them and restricting the departure of informed mechanics. The British could not keep its secrets forever, and in 1789,
National Atlas of the United States
This is a primary source of U.S. maps and geographic information. Zoom in on your state and make your own map by selecting features to display: cities and counties, roads and rivers, population and 109th congressional districts, crops and livestock, amphibians and butterflies, air and water quality, ...
Barry Goldensohn Reads Selected Poems Poet Barry Goldensohn reads “The Hundred Yard Dash Man,” “Back Roads,” and “Driving Westward to San Diego,” and speaks with Jana Prikryl about his life and work.
Anita Bonita, ¡Hay un pájaro en tu cabello! This is a Spanish translation of “Franny B. Kranny, There’s a Bird in Your Hair!” Eisenhower and Khrushchev Relations with The Soviet Union - Eisenhower and Khrushchev The 44 Presidents Of The United States Get Directions on Google Maps 4.645 Selected Topics in Architecture: Architecture from 1750 to the Present (MIT) Political Borders of Germany from 1789 to 2005 U.S. Frontier Roads ; Trails from 1820 - present Holocaust in Film and Literature, Lec 16, German 59, UCLA Holocaust in Film and Literature, Lec 17, German 59, UCLA Holocaust in Film and Literature, Lec 18, German 59, UCLA [Finished] Chinese landscape Chinese landscape The Internationalization of Spanish Companies: Ferrovial, The Rise of a Multinational Primary sources on copyright in five jurisdictions 1450-1900 Cultures of knowledge : an intellectual geography of the seventeenth-century republic of letters
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Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, confusion and conflict swept through the Kremlin as several Soviet politicians struggled to claim control of the nation. Nikita Khrushchev eventually emerged as the new Russian leader and promptly started the process of "de-Stalinizing" the country. In a speech before the Communist Party Congress, Khrushchev acknowledged the criminal activity that took place during the Stalin era, and suggested that he might relax policies "so different countries cou
This video is accompanied by text. "Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, confusion and conflict swept through the Kremlin as several Soviet politicians struggled to claim control of the nation. Nikita Khrushchev eventually emerged as the new Russian leader and promptly started the process of "de-Stalinizing" the country. In a speech before the Communist Party Congress, Khrushchev acknowledged the criminal activity that took place during the Stalin era, and suggested that he might relax
In this video you will see photos of all 44 Presidents Of The United States from 1789-2009. Classical music plays in the background, and then Leann Rimes sings the National Anthem.
Customize your directions on Google Maps. Drag & drop the default directions to your preferred roads or highways, get walking or public transit directions.
This class is a general study of modern architecture as a response to important technological, cultural, environmental, aesthetic, and theoretical challenges after the European Enlightenment. It focuses on the theoretical, historiographic, and design approaches to architectural problems encountered in the age of industrial and post-industrial expansion across the globe, with specific attention to the dominance of European modernism in setting the agenda for the discourse of a global modernity at
No narration in this video. Only an ever-changing map that shows how Germany changed between 1789 to 2005.
U.S. Frontier Roads & Trails from 1820 - present. Major trails and roads are traced using maps, slides, and narration.
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German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature is a course that provides insight into the History of Holocaust and its present memory through examination of challenges and problems encountered in trying to imagine its horror through media of literature and film.
About the Professor:
Todd Presner is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies. His research focuses on German-Jewish intellectual and cultural history, the history of media,
Course Description:
German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature is a course that provides insight into the History of Holocaust and its present memory through examination of challenges and problems encountered in trying to imagine its horror through media of literature and film.
About the Professor:
Todd Presner is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies. His research focuses on German-Jewish intellectual and cultural history, the history of media,
Course Description:
German 59: Holocaust in Film and Literature is a course that provides insight into the History of Holocaust and its present memory through examination of challenges and problems encountered in trying to imagine its horror through media of literature and film.
About the Professor:
Todd Presner is Associate Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies. His research focuses on German-Jewish intellectual and cultural history, the history of media,
A view of a valley dotted with rice paddies and building. In the foreground a large compound can be seen between two forested hills. Part of a large river can be seen in the background in front of a mountain range.
View of a valley dotted with buildings. In the center is a large forested hill surrounded by rice paddies and tree lined roads. On top of the hill is a clearing with a series of monuments. In the background a large river can be seen in front of a rising mountain range.
Move over, Italy. Rafael del Pino is here to claim Spain’s rightful spot as a major European player in the global infrastructure market. Founded by del Pino’s father in 1952 as a builder of sleeper cars for trains, Ferrovial has diversified into a conglomerate with a hand in construction, real estate, road bui
This website is “a digital archive of primary sources on copyright from the invention of the printing press (c. 1450) to the Berne Convention (1886) and beyond”. Funded by the AHRC, this ambitious and extensive database includes digital images and commentary for key texts in the evolution of intellectual property law pertaining to five modern jurisdictions: Britain, Germany, France, Italy, the United States. Documents include “privileges, statutes, judicial decisions, contracts
Cultures of Knowledge is the website of a project funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation. The project website is hosted by the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford, whose partners in the project include institutions in the UK; Wales; Hungary; the Czech Republic; and Poland. The aim of the project is to catalogue and edit the Bodleian Library's archives of correspondence of some of the 17th century's leading men of science, and make these widely available to international scholars.
