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• Subversive Historian - 01/05/10

  
  uprisingradio.org — Authority: 137
  Listen to this segment | the entire program The Indictment of Dr. Benjamin Spock Back in the day on January 5th, 1968, Dr. Benjamin Spock alongside four others was indicted for conspiring to violate the Selective Services Act of 1948. The influential pediatrician and author of the best-selling book ...
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• Historians Against the War (For Progressives Only, Libertarians Not Welcome)

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 601
  In 2003, Historians Against the War (HAW) seemed a promising opportunity to bring together antiwar historians of all political persuasions. And, in fact, many libertarian historians joined with liberals, socialists and others on the left to oppose the war. Such an ecumenical political organization had rarely appeared ...
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• Ship historian, naval architect Thomas C. Gillmer dies at 98

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 953
  Thomas Charles Gillmer, 98, a historian of ships and a naval architect who designed the Prides of Baltimore and other period replica vessels, died Dec. 16 at the Hospice of the Chesapeakes Mandrin House in Harwood, Md. He had dementia.
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• Joe Sacco’s New Book

  
  Muslim Media Network — Authority: 140
  Graphic novel on IDF ‘massacres’ in Gaza set to hit bookstores By The Associated Press Fans say graphic novelist Joe Sacco has set new standards for the use of the comic book as a documentary medium. Detractors say his portrayals of the Palestinian conflict are filled with distortion, bias and hyperbole. ...
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• New Year’s Resolutions for 2010

  
  RootsMagic Blog — Authority: 99
  Welcome to 2010!  Now that 2009 is in the past , and in the spirit of the new year, we’d like to present our resolutions for 2010.  While losing 20 pounds would be great for us personally, as a company our goals are a little different. RootsMagic Updates When we spent over three years in rewriting RootsMagic ...
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• Underwear Bomber “Establishment Controlled Patsy!”

  
  The Betrayal — Authority: 154
  Alex talks with author, journalist, lecturer, historian, and expert on false flag attacks Webster Tarpley about the underwear bomber. Tarpley is the author of several important books, including Obama: The Post Modern Coup and Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biography, both available at the Infowars Store. ...
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• Margaret Garritsen deVries, 87; IMF economist and historian

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 953
  Margaret Garritsen deVries, 87, an economist and historian at the International Monetary Fund, died of pneumonia Dec. 18 at Suburban Hospital. She lived in Bethesda.
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• Toad Busters banned from gassing pests

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A group fighting to keep cane toads out of Western Australias Kimberley says it is being stopped from using carbon dioxide to gas the pests because bureaucrats have told them it is too cruel. Kimberley Toad Busters has labelled the Department of Environment and Conservations (DEC) refusal to sanction the use of ...
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• The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

  
  Bitten by Books — Authority: 154
  A book whose pages are empty of everything except a woodcut of a dragon with the word “Drakulya” and a set of letters, yellowed with age, are both found in her diplomat father’s library. Even more intriguing, the letters are all addressed to “My dear and unfortunate successor.” Finding those sets the ...
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• Mary Blair concept art showcased in “Walt Disney’s Peter Pan”

  
  JimHillMedia.com — Authority: 432
  Jim Hill reviews the latest volume in the Disney Archives storybook series. Which is illustrated with paintings that this Disney Legend created for the Studio’s 1953 release ...( read more )
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• Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer

  
  The Writer's Quotes — Authority: 136
  “He was just an average-looking fellow — it’s not like he was Kobe Bryant or anything. But when he opened his mouth he was like Charlton Heston playing Moses.” – Claudette Colvin, a civil rights pioneer, on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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• Following The Historical Jesus, Following The Real Jesus

  
  Exploring Our Matrix — Authority: 577
  Although many have found the historical Jesus a figure they could not follow in the way they had once been able to follow the "Christ of faith," it struck me recently that in some ways following the historical Jesus - i.e. making Jesus as understood and accessible through historical study a central component of ones ...
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• Professor John Burrow

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 955
  Academic who focused his talents on the development of the historians craft over 2,500 years
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• Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

  
  2009 Artist Quote of the Day — Authority: 127
  British Historian C. Northcote Parkinson Cyril Northcote Parkinson (July 30, 1909 – March 9, 1993) was a British historian and author of some sixty books. Besides his numerous works on British politics and economics, he also wrote historical fiction, often based on the Napoleonic period, and sea stories. He is ...
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• Historians discover threshold to Cleopatra’s mausoleum (re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  London, Dec 26 (ANI): Turning a new leaf in ancient Egyptian history, historians have solved the biggest riddle dealing with world’s most famous couple, Antony and Cleopatra-how they spent their last hours together.More than 2,000 years since Antony and Cleopatra walked the earth, a team of Greek marine ...
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• Historians discover threshold to Cleopatra’s mausoleum (re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  London, Dec 26 (ANI): Turning a new leaf in ancient Egyptian history, historians have solved the biggest riddle dealing with world’s most famous couple, Antony and Cleopatra-how they spent their last hours together.More than 2,000 years since Antony and Cleopatra walked the earth, a team of Greek marine ...
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• Historians discover threshold to Cleopatra’s mausoleum

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  London, Dec 24 (ANI): Turning a new leaf in ancient Egyptian history, historians have solved the biggest riddle dealing with world’s most famous couple, Antony and Cleopatra-how they spent their last hours together.More than 2,000 years since Antony and Cleopatra walked the earth, a team of Greek marine ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• US Office of the Historian, Bureau of Public Affairs Release of Foreign Relations, 1969-1976, Volume XXXI

  
  eNewsChannels — Authority: 139
  Washington, DC /eNewsChannels/ — The U.S. Department of State released today Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XXXI, Foreign Economic Policy, 1973-1976. This volume documents the major decisions of Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford in the realm of foreign economic policy, ...
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• Another Day, Another FRUS Volume

  
  The Skeptical Bureaucrat — Authority: 433
  Today, the Office of the Historian announced the release of another volume in the Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series covering the Nixon-Ford years. Yesterday it was Global Issues , today its Foreign Economic Policy. Read it here . Keep them coming! Heres the press release ( Release of Foreign ...
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