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National Space Centre Education - Living and Working in Space

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These items are made for manned space flight and some have even flown in space. The presenter talks the students through the equipment, how it is designed to cope with the harsh conditions of Earth orbit and adapted to suit the needs of the astronauts.

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National Space Centre Education - Ask the Expert

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Have you been asked these questions and not been able to give an in-depth answer? Here is a chance to find out more by linking to the Commander at the National Space Centre. Give your class the opportunity to ask our Team directly, via distance learning.

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The presence of Spain in the United States is an extraordinary adventure that began in 1513 and reached into the 19th century. Spanish explorers and voyagers explored a vast area of the territory that today forms the United States of America.

The Grand Canyon was discovered by García López de Cárdenas, who was sent on an exploratory mission by Vázquez de Coronado

Autor - Borja Cardelús ©. Para el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación del Gobierno de España. www.borjacardelus.com
Créditos de las ilustraciones y de las fotografías © - Borja Cardelús, Eshter Merchán, Bernardo Lara, Juan Carlos Arbex

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Explorations and Voyages - Google Arts & Culture

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The presence of Spain in the United States is an extraordinary adventure that began in 1513 and reached into the 19th century. Spanish explorers and voyagers explored a vast area of the territory that today forms the United States of America.

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On 5 November 1900, Walther and Wilhelmina von Hallwyl leave Stockholm and begin a long journey accompanied by a couple of their daughters and their husbands and Wilhelmina's lady's companion, Miss Ida Uhse. They spend more than four months in Egypt before continuing on to Palestine. In this exhibition we follow them through bazaars and luxury hotels and as they sail up the Nile all the way to Sudan. Please click on the images and then on "details" if you want to read longer texts and diary excerpts.

FROM SWEDEN TO EGYPT

5 Nov. Departure from Stockholm

6 Nov. Arrival in Berlin

9 Nov. Departure from Berlin for Naples. The 46 hour long train trip goes past Munich, Innsbruck, the Brenner Pass, Verona and Milan. After that to Rome, before reaching Naples.

12 Nov. Arrival in Naples

13 Nov. Visit to Pompeii

14 Nov. Going on board the steamship Irene for the crossing of the Mediterranean.

17 Nov. Arrival in Port Said, Egypt.

CONVENIENCES

Around the turn of the 19th century the hotels in Cairo had all the conveniences a European tourist could ask for, with running water, electricity and lifts.

The hotels were the basis for tourism and for the social life of the upper classes. That is where you would find good restaurants, bars, parties and balls.

The von Hallwyl family were repeatedly invited to dinner at the Gezirah Palace by the Swedish Consul-General, one occasion being Christmas dinner.

MODES OF TRANSPORT

Prior to the 1850s, travellers on the Nile had to hire their own boat and crew but starting from the late 1850s there were passenger steamships to Aswan.

The service for tourists developed quickly and a railway was built from Cairo all the way to Minyah, but hiring a more expensive and slower dahabeya (a traditional sailing vessel) had the highest status.

The von Hallwyl family hired their own steamship, which would have been the next best option.

ON THE NILE, DEC 27-JAN 16

27 Dec. From Cairo to Al Badrashin

28 Dec. Up the Nile

29 Dec. Via Beni Suef to Girga

30 Dec. Minya

31 Dec. Beni Hasan

1 Jan. El-Hag Kandeel

2-3 Jan. Asyut

4 Jan. Sohag

5 Jan. Abydos

6 Jan. Qena

7-8 Jan. Dendera

9 Jan. Towards Luxor

10-16 Jan. Luxor

GOING BACK

8 Feb. Abu Simbel

9-21 Feb. Aswan

22 Feb. Visit to Bisharin camp

27 Feb. Train to Luxor and then on for approximately 650 km to Cairo.

1 Mars. Back in Cairo

PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS

Some of the photographs in the von Hallwyl's album from their journey to Egypt have been taken by members of the family, but most of them were purchased from a professional photographer. This was common practice, as few people owned a camera.

Nearly all the photos purchased on this journey come from the same studio: Photogr. Artistique G. Lekegian & Co. The person behind that studio, G. Lekegian, was an Armenian photographer and artist, who moved to Cairo from Constantinople. We do not know much about him as a person. His first name may have been Gabriel. His studio was very successful. It was located opposite the large Shepheard Hotel and over the course of 30 years, up until the 1920s, they sold vast numbers of photographs to European and American tourists.

Lekegian's studio maintained a high level of artistic quality. They would photograph sights and tourist attractions, but also captured images of everyday life in Cairo in a sympathetic and vivid way.

THE LAST DAYS IN CAIRO

1 Mars. Cairo. It has rained.

2-9 Mars. Go shopping in the bazars, go to dinners, the opera, parties.

11 Mars. Back to the Pyramids.

18 Mars. Visit the wife of the Dutch General Consul.

21 Mars. Visit the mother of the Khedive.

24 Mars. To the Egyptian Museum. Buy "idols".

27 Mars. Dinner with General Consul Östberg.

28 Mars. Continue to Palestine.

Producer - Sara Dixon
Form and photo - Erik Lernestål

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Fifth Centennial of Vasco Núñez de Balboa's discovery of the Pacific Ocean.

The South Sea, the 'Spanish lake' or the Pacific Ocean, regardless of the names they were given, went on to be extensively navigated and mapped.

In the picture, Gunter sector, eighteenth century.

Video of the exhibition 'The Exploration of the Pacific Ocean: 500 years of History' in the Naval Museum at the Casa de América. All items are the property of the Naval Museum.

Exposición virtual - Esta exposición virtual está realizada con fotografías de fondos propiedad del Museo Naval.
Exposición física - La exposición física, comisariada por el Museo Naval de Madrid con sus propios fondos, se puede visitar en la Casa de América, hasta el 2 de febrero de 2014.
Comisarios de la exposición - José Manuel Sevilla López; María Pilar de San Pío Aladrén; María del Carmen López Calderón. Con la colaboración de María Vigón Tabar y José María Moreno Martín.
Creación de la exposición virtual - Olivia Piquero, Coordinadora Web y Responsable de Comunidades Online de Casa de América www.casamerica.es
Patrocinadores - Telefónica, Navantia, Ministerio de Defensa, Armada Española, Fundación Jorge Juan, Fundación Ramón Areces, Tecnobit, Fundación Museo Naval, Alvargonzález, Naviera Armas, Baleária, Boluda Corporación Marítima, Naviera Elcano, Grupo Ibaizábal

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The Exploration of the Pacific Ocean: 500 Years of History - Google Arts & Culture

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Fifth Centennial of Vasco Núñez de Balboa's discovery of the Pacific Ocean. The South Sea, the 'Spanish lake' or the Pacific Ocean, regardless of the names they were given, went on to be extensively navigated and mapped. In the picture, Gunter sector, eighteenth century.

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Space Exploration - Google Arts & Culture

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The out-of-this-world history of humans in space