16.Professor BERTHOLDO´S BACKGROUND FADE
COOL LINKS
Even at its inception in the mid-1800s, photography was difficult to define. It encapsulates art, science, and communication—three disciplines that don't always coalesce. While the exhibitions in Helios: Online Photography showcase the medium's documentary nature and varying techniques, the photographs make an impression with their sheer artistry.
Save Our Sounds aims to save a part of U.S. history by restoring and copying historical recordings of the nation's significant speeches, songs, and stories. The project will focus on 140,000 holdings from the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress, which extend from the end of the 19th century to today and range from pow wow and polka music to speeches and slaves' oral histories.
In a 1950 book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, four British children entered a magical world through the back of a wardrobe. Millions of readers followed, and C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia took its place as classic children's literature. The Narnia website encompasses nearly every aspect of these seven stories from their creation and settings to their characters and illustrations. "Discover the Chronicles" includes a summary and chapter for each episode, including the first chapter to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. (Don't be confused: the site arranges each book according to the story's chronology and not according to its date of publication. Thus The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is listed as the second book, not the first.) Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy Pevensie are presented along with other beloved characters in "Meet the Narnians," and some of the myths that fed the author's imagination are explained here too.
Aeronautics has come a long way in the last century: In 1903 a manned biplane designed by brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright made history when it took off into the air, flew for 12 seconds, and landed 121 feet away. Sixty-six years later, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked around on the Moon. In the last two decades the Mir space station was launched, an unmanned robot explored the surface of Mars, and an orbiting space telescope captured the image of a planet outside of Earth's solar system.
