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• Historic Print (L): Unicycle juggling act

  
  CyclingMarket.Com — Authority: 141
  Historic Print (L): Unicycle juggling act Historic Print (L): Unicycle juggling act This is a museum quality, reproduction print on premium paper with archival/UV resistant inks. The framed work is single matted (ivory), under acrylic glass, with a hanging wire. Date: c1923. Subject: Clowns–1920-1930. ...
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• Eight More Washington State Newspapers Added to the Library of Congress Chronicling America Webste

  
  Eastern Washington Genealogical Society Blog — Authority: 117
  From the Washington State Library blog : On Friday, December 18, more than 42,000 historic newspaper pages from 8 Washington newspapers were contributed by the Washington State Library to the Chronicling America web site , hosted by the Library of Congress...More pages from other newspapers around ...
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• Photo Quote

  
  Doodlemeister's Weblog — Authority: 119
  “A good photograph raises questions that are not answered.” Dorothea Lange, 1895-1965 National Archives, Records of the Social Security Administration
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• NARA hearing on Capitol Hill...

  
  The Posterity Project — Authority: 415
  On Wednesday, the House Information Policy, Census and National Archives Subcommittee held an important hearing on the nations public records entitled, " History Museum or Records Access Agency? Defining and Fulfilling the Mission of the National Archives and Records Administration ." The hearing largely focused on ...
  6 days ago

• Is open source a train anyone can stop?

  
  ZDNet Government — Authority: 126
  This past decade the software community has experienced significant turmoil and success. Linux, a mainstream operating system is proof you can monetize open source software with application service and support around the world.
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• Who Moved My Page?

  
  Intel Software Network Blogs — Authority: 525
  I think of the Internet as one eternal bulletin board. People keep posting things out on the board and often just walk away - at least I hope they do so my links/bookmarks always work. Yeah - right! There will always be content that is moved or deleted (with the owner never leaving any info on where it went - its just ...
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• A.D. 2012, The Art of Video Games exhibit in Washington D.C.

  
  Sir Arthur's Den — Authority: 116
  If the world wont end before with a huge and yet wee galactic fart, in 2012 there is a date to pin down on the agenda for who will be lucky enough to be around Washington D.C. In the United States capital city, and more exactly at the prestigious Smithsonian American Art Museum , the exhibit The Art of Video Games ...
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• Classic Concert Film, "The T.A.M.I. Show" to Arrive on DVD

  
  Music News Net — Authority: 139
  MUSIC NEWS - Long in our vhs library, one of the rarest / coolest rock events ever captured on film, the 1964 concert known as The T.A.M.I. Show , that featuring performances by the Rolling Stones, James Brown, Chuck Berry, the Beach Boys, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, the ...
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• Classic Concert Film, “The T.A.M.I. Show” to Arrive on DVD

  
  Sell Off Music — Authority: 163
  Warning : file_get_contents(http://ecs.amazonaws.com/onca/xml?Service=AWSECommerceService&AWSAccessKeyId=0J51E5EDX3J5QE6XHDG2&AssociateTag=selloffmusic-20&Operation=ItemSearch&SearchIndex=All&ResponseGroup=Small,Images&Keywords=DVD+Releases) [ function.file-get-contents ]: failed to open ...
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• On Braxton Bragg – 1

  
  Wig-Wags — Authority: 111
  W. J. Wood called Braxton Bragg the “most complicated of all the Confederacy’s generals.”(1) A graduate of the academy , where he excelled, he displayed skills as an administrator and adept trainer of troops. He had seen action in the Mexican War and was heralded as a war hero for his actions commanding ...
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• Webcast: Dr. Mark Ozer on the Litvak Legacy

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  Calling all Litvaks - and everyone else - to a great webcast by author Dr. Mark N. Ozer of "The Litvak Legacy." Ozer spoke at the Library of Congress on October 15, 2009; view the 54-minute talk here . His talk focused on his book, which documents the contributions of Lithuanian Jews to the English-speaking world ...
  1 week ago

• A legislative roundup...

  
  The Posterity Project — Authority: 415
  Late Friday afternoon I learned of some news about an important bill and a Congressional hearing currently on the calendar that will be of interest to those of you who follow legislative issues related to archives and public records: First, Lee White at the National Coalition for History reports that Sen. Thomas ...
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• Will librarians go the way of Kirkus and E&P—and this bird—if students don’t use them often enough?

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 654
  As if the Kirkus and E&P shutdown announcements aren’t enough for traditionalists, here’s a warning for savvy librarians eager to avoid the fate of this bird —if they want to stay at an academic or public library rather than end up in the corporate world. Project Information Literacy ’s recent paper ...
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• Library of Congress: Yiddish radio webcast

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  Scholar Henry Sapoznik of the Yiddish Radio Project spoke on the Yiddish radio phenomenon at the Library of Congress. View the webcast - "Hear, O Israel: Yiddish-American Radio 1925-1955" (recorded in October 2009) - here . Sapoznik says Yiddish radio existed only in America. At one time, 180 stations were ...
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• Video: Yiddish melodies in swing

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 526
  "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" - one of the greatest Yiddish songs - is performed by a host of performers of all backgrounds via this clip from the Yiddish Radio Project. Listen here to A musical montage of various recordings of "Bei Mir" by Guy Lombardo, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman (who played it at Carnegie ...
  2 weeks ago

• The LOC and Chronicling America

  
  History Tech — Authority: 118
  The push by the Library of Congress to digitize primary documents continues. Together with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the LOC has posted the 1,000,000th newspaper page at its sweet Chronicling America site . Chronicling America’s charge is to enhance access to America’s historic newspapers ...
  2 weeks ago

• Before GPS - Map Making on Horseback

  
  Free Technology for Teachers — Authority: 545
  The History Channel in collaboration with the Library of Congress host a series of short videos called This Weeks Hidden Treasure . One of the videos that I watched this morning is called Mapmaking... on Horseback . Mapmaking... on horseback is a short video in which a curator from the Library of Congress ...
  2 weeks ago

• Manmohan, ‘evidently’ the proud father (Capital Buzz)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 723
  New Delhi, Dec 6 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is one proud father. The latest to take note, that too at the White House state dinner thrown by the Obamas, was US envoy Timothy J. Roemer.Having shared the table with Manmohan Singh and two of his daughters, Roemer told scribes after returning to India: [...]
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• Holiday Books: Baseball

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  A trove of artifacts and photographs from The Library of Congress, home to the world’s largest baseball collection.
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• Holiday Books: Baseball

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  A trove of artifacts and photographs from The Library of Congress, home to the world’s largest baseball collection.
  2 weeks ago

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