An overview of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and various other structures and monuments that could be considered as equally important.

Recording of Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen's "11 september." The text is from a document called "What is MIR?" which was sent out illegally in Chile in 1974 and from the appeal of MIR two years after the taking over by the junta, on September 11, 1975. A left-wing party, MIR stayed in Chile in order to contribute as efficiently as possible to the building of the opposition. Other sound material also includes sounds from a typewriter and a demonstration at Bastad, Sweden in September 1975 at a tennis match between Sweden and Chile with more than 4,000 participants. The text is taken in small excerpts from the document in Spanish, English, Swedish, Danish, French, Dutch, and Icelandic. The piece consists of three sections overlapping each other gradually, which shows the relationship between the spoken words and the immediate danger connected with that text. The first section "as a spontaneous statement," deals with the document at its direct background: the silence is broken, in spite of the danger connected with the writing, manifolding papers that criticize the politics and methods of the junta and discuss the strategy of the opposition. The second section deals with the document as a medium of discussion. At …

Photograph of the front of a white, two-story house located between 606 and 612 S. May in Palestine, Texas. It has decorative woodwork along the two-story porch and a two-story bay window on the side.

A brief overview of atomic and nuclear energy and the related sciences.

An overview of explorers and their voyages of discovery.

Recording of Stefan Beyst's Aguiro for tape.

Map shows known geography, settlements, ports, and coastal detail in early seventeenth century North America and South America. Includes illustrations of sea monsters, ships, and cultural observations. Insets: [Map of the Arctic Circle showing] "Groenlandi & Islandia" and [Map of the Antarctic Circle showing] "Terra Australis incognita." Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.

Map shows known extent of North and Central America, the West Indies and the northern part of South America; California as an island; large lake called Buttons Bay in the vicinity of the Great Lakes region. Includes text notes. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.

Map shows "Louisania" [French Louisiana], "Tecas" [Texas], New Navare and New Mexico, "Great Space of Land unknown," settlements, and areas of Native American habitation. Inset: [Map of Baffin's Bay, Hudson's Bay and adjacent lands]; in upper left corner: "This scale is half of the other." Includes dates and names of explorers. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not indicated.

Map shows southeastern portion of the North American continent as "Florida," the "Lucaye Ins." off the coast on "Florida" map; on second map, Persia, the Red Sea, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt and Ethiopia. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.

Map shows the extent of Spanish Florida with settlements encompassing majority of southeastern portion of the North American continent. Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.

Overview of the Apollo 13 and 14 missions.

Overview of the animals of the Ardennes plateau of north-central Europe.

An overview of astrology and the characteristics of each sign of the zodiac.

An overview of automobile racing.

Overview of Belgian participation in the Olympic Games since 1900.

Information on occupations and choosing a career.

An overview of Belgian cooking and selected recipes.

General information and overview of Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral), Florida.

General overview of house plants and garden or ornamental plants.

General overview of house plants and garden or ornamental plants.

An overview of the history of Brussels, and descriptions of selected historic buildings.

Photograph of a car being unloaded from a ship in Belgium. A sign on the ship reads "Beware of Propeller, Opgepast Voor De Schroeven." The note on the back reads, "The car being unloaded at Ostend, Belgium."

Map of the coastline along the western part of the Gulf of Mexico, starting in the south (left) at a point labeled "La Desconoscida" and ending in the north (right) at "C[iudad] Escondido." Segments of the coastline are shaded in red, yellow, and green, with labels for river mouths, ports, islands, and other points along the coast.