Home Page BACKGROUND DESIGN ELEMENT A gallery of views of ancient Rome; oil on canvas, 1758, by Pannini The Granger Collection MUSIC Orchestral Suite No. 2 Associated Production Music Scientist Claims Earth is Incredibly Ancient! PICTURE The Allegheny Mountains (c) Byran Allen, Superstock PICTURE Limestone World Book Photo PICTURE Erosion © Charles R. Belinky, Photo Researchers
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: A Revolutionary Site PICTURE Benjamin Franklin in 1778 at the court of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette The Granger Collection PICTURE The Death of Marat (1793), an oil painting on canvas by Jacques Louis David; The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium SCALA/Art Resource PICTURE French Revolution, color engraving Corbis-Bettmann PICTURE Thomas Jefferson; Oil painting on canvas (1805) by Gilbert Stuart The Granger Collection PICTURE Thomas Paine Corbis-Bettmann PICTURE The guillotine World Book Illustration PICTURE Marie Antoinette Hulton-Getty/Tony Stone Images
Diary of Jack Mulgrew, a Continental soldier DESIGN ELEMENT Mushrooms World Book Illustration
DESIGN ELEMENT Needle World Book Illustration DESIGN ELEMENT Potatoes World Book Illustration PICTURE George Washington; Oil painting on canvas (1796) by Gilbert Stuart The Granger Collection PICTURE Detail of the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775 (1775), an engraving by Amos Doolittle. The Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut DESIGN ELEMENT The flintlock musket World Book Illustration PICTURE The Battle of Bunker Hill (1775), actually fought on Breed’s Hill, was the first major battle of the Revolutionary War. World Book Illustration PICTURE The Spirit of ’76. Detail of an oil painting on canvas (about 1875) by Archibald M. Willard. Original of the Spirit of ’76 hangs in the Selectman’s Room, Marblehead, Massachusetts
MUSICIAN SEEKING WORK PICTURE Mozart Corbis-Bettmann Centennial of the Reign of Czar Peter PICTURE Peter the Great RIA-Novosti from Sovfoto BACKGROUND DESIGN ELEMENT St. Petersburg Art Resource |