Site Represents a site. Show Point true Place The town or city Minsk Country Russian Empire Organiser United Kingdom Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource British Expedition to Minsk to Observe the Total Solar Eclipse of 21 August, 1914 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 21/08/1914 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 6 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived tsee Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource am619@st-andrews.ac.uk Description An account of the resource An expedition team sent by the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee traveled to the Russian Empire, but their agenda for the eclipse was clouded out. They were also forced to leave their equipment in the Empire due to the start of the First World War, to be forwarded back to England following its conclusion. <p><a href="https://eclipse-history.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/how-the-start-of-world-war-1-disrupted-the-1914-total-solar-eclipse-expeditions/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read article</a>.</p> Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,53.9,27.56667; Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT