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Ohio History Center Groundbreaking photographs

open access: yes, 1966
Governor James Rhodes used an Ohio-shaped shovel to turn the first earth for the new Ohio History Center, shown here on on August 22, 1966. The Ohio Historical Society (now the Ohio History Connection) moved to the new building, located near the Ohio ...
Ohio History Connection
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Benjamin Robins's New Principles of Gunnery and the Response From the British Mathematical, Educational, and Military World of the Mid‐Eighteenth Century

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses to what degree Benjamin Robins's discoveries in his book New Principles of Gunnery, 1742, affected the British mathematical, military, and educational world of the mid‐eighteenth century. While it drew praise and critique from Europe, especially from the notable mathematician Leonhard Euler, his mathematical theories were
Samuel Dodson
wiley   +1 more source

An Overview of the Rock Art of AlUla: Tracing Changes in Content and Form Across 12,000 Years of Human History

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

16th Annual West River History Conference featuring Dakota Territory and Early Statehood, October 16, 17, 18, 2008, Historic Hotel Alex Johnson, Rapid City, South Dakota

open access: yes, 2008
16th Annual West River History Conference held in Rapid City, South Dakota, October 16-18, 2008. File contains cover, title page, about the conference, and table of contents for the published volume of papers.
West River History Conference
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Between the Indian Ocean and the Gulf: Ceramics From Ḥattā Oasis in the Emirate of Dubai

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents the ceramic finds from archaeological investigations conducted in 2024 at two settlements: ‘Islamic Village' and Suhaila 2, one of a number of mountain villages of the Late Islamic period within the Ḥattā Oasis: a high‐altitude exclave in the Emirate of Dubai. The sites are located on the northeastern slopes of Jabal Qallāt
Seth M. N. Priestman   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Education and science museums. Reflections in Italy and on Italy [PDF]

open access: yesJCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 2008
The educational function of science museums was born with the first naturalistic collections ever, flourished in 16th-century Italy. The pedagogic thought and the educational experimentations carried out in approximately five century of history have ...
Paola Rodari
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The Century atlas, New York, western part.

open access: yes, 1897
Map shows late nineteenth century New York counties, canals, railroads, cities, towns, military posts, battle grounds; gas fields, points of interest, roads, canals, railroads, military facilities, city layouts, and Native American reservations on insets.
Century Company
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The Late Agricultural Development of Central Arabian Oases—Archaeobotanical and Archaeozoological Studies of the al‐Kharj Oasis

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Children on steps of Ohio History Center

open access: yes, 1970
This photograph of children on the steps of the Ohio History Center was taken around 1970. At a press conference held in November 10, 1964, Governor James Rhodes announced financing for the construction of a new archives, library, and museum building ...
Ohio History Connection
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