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TQ99:
Elenco Partecipanti Italiani
Segnaliamo un gruppo di lavori elaborati per il concorso
Think Quest, da gruppi con almeno un componente italiano.
Questo č solo un primo gruppo; invitiamo i partecipanti a segnalarci il loro lavoro, in
modo da poterlo comunicare su queste pagine.
NB: Riportiamo in rosso i tre
semifinalisti italiani dell'edizione 1999 del premio:
Visitate le loro pagine per incrementare il loro
punteggio!
http://library.advanced.org/10875
Virtual Restoration
This site provides students the opportunity to take a virtual walk inside the Carracci's
Cloister in Bologna, Italy and the Spanish Pavilion from the 1937 World Exhibition in
Paris. VRML technology is used to rebuild environments that were destroyed or are no
longer in existence. Join this project by submitting a restoration of your own, and become
a virtual architect!
http://library.advanced.org/10981
Dinos
There are several theories on what killed the dinosaurs. Five theories of extinction are
presented: temperature, death by suffocation, wiping out by egg muck, supernova explosion,
and impact theory. A map of the world pinpoints locations where dinosaur fossils have been
found. An explanation of what DNA is, what it does, and why we cannot recreate dinosaur
DNA like they did in the movie Jurassic Park.
http://library.advanced.org/18291
Virtual Restoration
By rebuilding historic sites that are in ruins or no longer exist, the visitor to this
site takes a virtual journey through a lost culture. Understand cultural history by
rebuilding the past. Using VRML, his site sets out to completely rebuild the Cloister
frescoes painted by Carraccis in San Michel in Bologna, Italy, the Spanish Pavilion at the
1937 Paris World Expo, and Italia. Some of the site is in English, Italian, and German.
http://library.advanced.org/19760
Welcome to Fashion Passion
This site examines fashion trends in order to identify the changes in women's roles in
twentieth century society. The sketchbook provides a look at day and evening fashion and
explains the historical trends. View the decades section and learn what was happening at
the time and what roles women played during that time period. The site is in English,
Italian, and French.
http://library.advanced.org/23685
Dealth Penalty
Dripping blood and rotating skulls "welcome" you to this site on the
controversial subject of capital punishment, or the right of the government to take a
human life. Available in both English and Italian, explore the history of the death
penalty from ancient times to the present. There is a gruesome section on methods applied
and a collection of movies, books, and lyrics about this topic. Should the death penalty
be illegal? What do you think?
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