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• Objectors to war have descendants, too

  
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  Cindy Freed at the group blog In-Depth Genealogist calls attention to a Civil War database of Pennsylvanians whose religious convictions prevented them from accepting a draft to serve in the Union army. Her title ("Bet Youve Never Researched This") may grate on those with lots of Quaker ancestors, or those from the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nerd level up

  
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  After purchasing a lava lamp Wednesday, I’ve noticed my mood chill out. The blue bubbles of lave bounce off each other in a kind of boring but weirdly relaxing way and have somehow inspired me to actually do something. Considering the fact that my end of year exams are only a week away, you’d think that I’d do ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tips & Ideas for Visiting Our Nation’s Capital with Kids, Round 2

  
  Uncharted Parent — Authority: 112
  Last summer, I ran a list of 12 Uncharted Tips for visiting Washington, D.C. with kids. We just returned from another visit to the city in which I lived and worked for ten years, and we were able to delve a bit deeper into its many offerings. Each trip back with the kids is a [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Oz X-Files : “authenticated sighting”, “appear to be inexplicable”, USA “very interested”, page 1

  
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  With the permission of the National Archives of Australia (on behalf of the Commonwealth Government of Australia), I’ve uploaded searchable PDF files containing over 10,000 pages of Australian UFO documents to a directory at the link below. Some highlights from that collection are given in the post below (article ...
  3 weeks ago

• Researching ‘old’ as well as ‘new’ kinds of money in West Africa

  
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  Sophie Mew, Project Curator, Money in Africa I’ve been working on the Money in Africa research project to understand how coin and note currencies were introduced to the coastal regions of Africa and how their usage had spread widely by the close of the nineteenth century. With two former British West African ...
  3 weeks ago

• Q&A: anyone know where i can get brand name printed on my racing seats?

  
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  Question by illest_z : anyone know where i can get brand name printed on my racing seats? i got some replica racing seats for my car,and i would like to print "recaro" on the top of em anyone know of any places around southern California where theyll do that kind of stuff? thanx Best answer: Answer by Hank ...
  3 weeks ago

• Files that may shed light on colonial crimes still kept secret by UK

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Classified papers from end of empire, including on Mau Mau uprising and Chagos islanders, still withheld, despite pledges Secret government files from the final years of the British empire are still being concealed despite a pledge by William Hague, the foreign secretary, that they would be declassified and opened to ...
  3 weeks ago

• British officials predicted war – and Arab defeat – in Palestine in 1948

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Declassified UK reports document build-up of conflict, Jewish publics endorsement of their leaders pro-terrorist stance and declare armies of Arab states were Palestinians only hope The British government knew from the moment it planned to withdraw its forces from Palestine more than 60 years ago that partition of ...
  3 weeks ago

• 7 Things to Do When You Only Have One Day in DC

  
  Travel Hag — Authority: 99
  Washington, DC visitors often have just one day to visit the city. They may be in town for a conference, or visiting friends locally, and the Capital city sites must be crammed into one single free day. Sadly, most choose one site, maybe two and the time is gone. Washington, [...] The post 7 Things to Do When You ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gas Stealers and Electric Cars: The National Archives Goes "Searching for the Seventies"

  
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  Fuel shortages in the seventies made gas theft very popular. This father and son g ot serious about protecting the fuel in their Buick Skylark . Portland, Oregon, April 1974. (David Falconer/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)
  4 weeks ago

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