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Islam: Empire of Faith
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"Online companion to the PBS film about the faith, culture, innovation, and people of the Islamic empires."
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http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/ |
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Victorian Architecture: 1840 to 1900
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Despite the annoying pop-ups, this site has a well-organized and well-annotated collection of information about Victorian architecture. Find illustrations, links, and good discussions about styles such as Italianate, Gothic Revival, Shingle, Romanesq ...
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http://architecture.about.com/cs/timeline/a/victorianstyles.htm |
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The History of Costume
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A collection of 500 costume images consisting of "historical dress from antiquity to the end of the 19th century." The 125 pages of images are from the book "History of Costume" printed in 1861 in Munich. Images have a "Victorian" perspective that do ...
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http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/COSTUME1_INDEX.HTML |
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The Victorian Web
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Includes information about authors from the Victorian era and background information about the society. Has contextual links for authors which provide information on those authors' politics, religious beliefs, bibliographies, as well as symbolism and ...
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http://www.victorianweb.org/ |
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Aspects of the Victorian Book
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This site explains how the mechanization of the industrial revolution and increased literacy changed publishing during 19th-century England. This site discusses penny dreadfuls, yellow backs, children's books, magazines, and novels.
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http://www.bl.uk/collections/early/victorian/intro.html |
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BBC Historic Figures: Queen Victoria
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A brief biographical account of Queen Victoria (1819-1901), the longest reigning monarch in British history.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/victoria_queen.shtml |
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The Lewis Carroll Scrapbook Collection
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This site presents "an original scrapbook that was kept by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Better known as Lewis Carroll, the Victorian-era children's author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' ... Dodgson was a lecturer in mathematics at the Univer ...
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http://international.loc.gov/intldl/carrollhtml/ |
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St. Simons Island Light - ipl2's Lighthouses: A Photographic Journey
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"This light sits at the southern tip of St. Simons Island at 101 12th Street. Its tower is 104 feet tall and has a 129 step cast-iron spiral staircase which can be climbed as part of the lighthouse tour. This light replaced the original 1810 light wh ...
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http://ipl.org/div/light/ATL/StSimonsIs.html |
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Squirrel Point Light - ipl2's Lighthouses: A Photographic Journey
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"This 25 foot tall octagonal, wood tower with attached signal building sits on the southwest point of Arrowsic Island along the eastern side of the Kennebec River. The 1-1/2 story wood framed Victorian style keeper's house was built the same year as ...
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http://ipl.org/div/light/ATL/SquirrelPt.html |
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Panoramic Maps Collection: 1847-1929
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"Panoramic maps are nonphotographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Although not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective." ...
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http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html |
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