An endangered languages database.


LSA/CELP Endangered Languages Data Summary

Everything you ever wanted to know about England and its history, from the collections of the British Museum.


Collect Britain > Putting History in Place

An excellent site on the volcanos and vulcanology of Canada.

Volcanoes of Canada

The Harvard Law School Library has about 1 million documents relating to the Nuremberg Trials (1945-1949) and is in the process of digitizing them to be accessed on this site.


This web site contains:
6755 digital photographs of pages of Case 1 trial documents and related evidence file documents (including all of the prosecution trial documents in the collection, two-thirds of the defendants' trial documents, and some of the NO evidence file documents).
Analytical data on all trial documents and related evidence file documents for NMT 1 (U.S.A. v. Karl Brandt et al.) and NMT 2 (U.S.A. v. Erhard Milch), and most of these documents for NMT 4 (U.S.A. v. Oswald Pohl et al.).
The keyed text of the first seven days of court proceedings in the Case 1 trial transcript (through December 13, 1946: approximately 500 pages).
A complete introduction to the project, the documents, and the trials worked on so far.
A search engine for all the documents that have been analyzed so far (5842 in all).
A search engine (including full-text queries) for that portion of the Case 1 transcript currently available.
Links between these various elements.



Nuremberg Trials Project

The Rock Paper Scissors Society was created as a harmless way of resolving disputes. Here you can read about their history, and explore their site.


About the World RPS Society

A document on the history of playing cards in Europe. The history includes the origins, gambling laws and other interesting facts.

Introduction of Playing Cards

This is a museum devoted to clay pipes. Located in Amsterdam, it houses archaeological collections, a research library, and does publications. The title translates to Pipe Cabinet, I think.

National Pipe Collection

Here is the College Park Aviation Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution. It covers unique aircraft, a 1919 airmail hanger, and aviation history.

College Park Aviation Museum

Here is the Bata Shoe Museum of Toronto, Canada. Here they have a variety of collections of shoes from ancient times to the present. The web site also has fun facts about shoes and footwear.

The Bata Shoe Museum

This is an ambitious project. A fully searchable online database of the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London from 1674-1834. The entire database should be online by 2004, currently only 22,000 trials from 1414-1759 are present.


The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834

A very interesting view of Victorian London, complete with ghosts, cemeteries, photographs, and a bibliography.

City of Shadows

Global Museum has an excellent jobs page, a wonderful bookshop and a lot of museum news. I highly recommend this enjoyable web site.

Global Museum

Great site for finding work in museums. Job search includes US and UK.


Museum Jobs - recruitment for museums, libraries, museums, galleries - job vacancies, internships

Here is Jim Davila's blog on Ancient Judaism. A lot of interesting information, including links to the Iraqi Museum debacle.


PaleoJudaica.com

Here is a collection of photographs and information on the Chinese in California, 1850-1925. The exhibit includes primary source materials as well as printed material such as broadsides, sheet music, etc.

The Chinese in California, 1850-1925 (American Memory, Library of Congress)

This site allows one to get a close up view of the Unicorn Tapestries, using the mouse to magnify sections of it.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Unicorn Tapestries

The Detroit Publishing Company (DPC) online exhibit here at the Henry Ford Museum explores Western America as seen through the camera of William Henry Jackson. Included are photographs of the earthquake damage in San Francisco, and a pueblo in New Mexico.

Detroit Publishing Company Online Exhibit, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village

This is a wonderful collection of Japanese maps from the 17th century onward. The Insight java Client program allows the user to download GIS functionality in order to fully understand the maps.

Japanese Historical Maps from the East Asian Library, UC Berkeley

This medical museum is located in Cleveland, at Case Western Reserve University. They have an extensive research collection on medical history, and the online exhibits include information (and pictures) on the smallpox epidemic in Cleveland (1902), medical instruments, and dissection of humans. Not to be looked at during lunch. :(

Dittrick Medical History Center Online Exhibits

Here is the British National Railway Museum. It has collections, education, and other interesting links.

NRM - National Railway Museum