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national library of new zealand – hindsight
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Celebrating creativity, cultural heritage and creative freedom. Tag Archives: national library of new zealand. Amy Brown: Ruins of the Nurses’ Home 1931. Ruins of the nurses’ home, Napier, after the 1931 Hawke’s Bay Earthquake. Creator unknown: Photographs of Napier and Hastings after the 1931 earthquake. Ref: 1/4-017193-G. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http:/ natlib.govt.nz/records/22520125. Ruins of the nurses’ home 1931. Lost dog, patent leather kitten heels, cashmere coats.
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History - Mountainview High School Library
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Mountainview High School Library. Mountainview High School Library. Homework and Subject Help. Library Catalogue (from within school only). Study and Exam Advice. History websites and databases. There are some great online resources for studying history. Click on the links below or the buttons on the right to directly access specific databases. Excellent information and resources on Russian History. This website devoted to information on ANZAC day and Gallipoli. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Histo...
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Richard Hulse: March 2014
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My thoughts about technology. Sunday, March 23, 2014. Radio NZ Browser Stats - March 2014. Here is another lot of browser and OS stats for www.radionz.co.nz. Size of Content Library. The audio library now contains 27,000 hours of material, all of it searchable from www.radionz.co.nz/audio. That is 179,000 items, most of which are downloadable and embeddable. We also just partnered with DigitalNZ. Who now have a copy of most of our audio metadata, and update it each night with new content. Any opinions (i...
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zenlan
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Apps for Microsoft Office. A series of apps that let you select text and use it to search many of the world's largest and richest archives to find images that you can then embed in your document. Textual information is displayed for each image allowing you to copy and paste for use as captions, descriptions and licence notices. Each image also provides a link to it's own page online so you can hop over to explore it further. Your text can be searched as written or with common words eliminated. Culture Co...
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About | CEISMIC
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What is UC CEISMIC? UC CEISMIC provides a single place to understand, remember and research the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011; a place where other communities can learn from our experiences. CEISMIC is an archive built to preserve the knowledge, memories and experiences surrounding the 2010 and 2011 Canterbury earthquakes. The archive brings together images, video, audio, and documents from a wide range of organisations and individuals, and makes them easily searchable. What are we looking for?
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BibliOdyssey: The Hermetic Touchstone
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Monday, June 03, 2013. Images from 'Hermetischer Probier Stein.'. By Oswald Croll (Kroll or Crollius). Is drawn out and applied to its proper use, not drousily passed over in noxious Silence, as is by Vulgar Herbarists. Too frequently done.". Oswald Crollius, 1609 *. Touchstone: "Black, silica-containing stone used in assaying to determine the purity of gold and silver." *. Hermetischer Probier Stein.'. 1649 by Oswald Kroll is online in full at Herzog bibliothek Wolfenbüttel. Translates approx. to:.
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BibliOdyssey: Japanese Falconry
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015. These woodblock illustrations of falcon. Training come from a mid-1860s. Album called 'Ehon Taka Kagami'. The Illustrated Mirror of Falconry). Was a Kano painter, printmaker, and illustrator, the son of a Samurai. At the age of six he entered the studio of Utagawa Kuniyoshi. 1887), an attempt to show a variety of traditional Japanese and Chinese painting styles, was widely appreciated in Europe, and was issued with English captions for the export market. Very much worth seeing!
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BibliOdyssey: The Cephalopoda
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010. In 1898, the steamship Valdivia. Left Hamburg for a nine month scientific voyage to the Atlantic, Indian and Great Southern oceans [ map. Known as the German Deep-Sea Expedition. The mission was led by Leipzig University Professor of Zoology, Carl Chun. And investigated chemical, zoological and physical characteristics encountered in the oceans during the voyage. Resembled the famous HMS Challenger. And like the Challenger. Volumes in English for the first time. Head, funne...
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