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uprisingradio.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
Listen to this segment | the entire program The Occupation of Alcatraz Back in the day on November 20th, 1969, a group of nearly eighty Native peoples sailed to the abandoned island of Alcatraz and occupied it. Once upon the grounds of the former federal penitentiary, the activists issued a proclamation [...]
Family Research (Free subscription) | yesterday
A University of Calgary instructor is drawing attention to the nearly 8,000 Canadian nurses who served in the two world wars but often remain forgotten in the November ceremonies honouring the country’s war heroes. for more click here
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Another Atlas exclusive essay written by the indefatigable historian Fjordman. This the third and final part of his history of geology and planetary science. Part one can be read here and part two here. A History of Geology and Planetary Science Fjordman Auroras in the Northern Hemisphere are called northern lights; in the Southern Hemisphere southern lights. They appear as arcs, clouds and streaks...
montgomeryadvertiser.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Alabama has experienced dramatic changes since the end of World War II, but two factors beginning with the letter "A" were among the most important, according to a noted state historian and author.
Peak Energy (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
The New York Times has an article on historical observations of anthropogenic climate change - Ben Franklin on Global Warming . In the 1780s, Thomas Jefferson opined in his “Notes on Virginia” that “both heats and colds are become much more moderate within the memory even of the middle-aged,” expressing views articulated as early as 1721 by Cotton Mather: “Our cold is...
Harper's Magazine (Free subscription) | 42 minutes ago
[W]hen we talk about lying, and especially about lying among acting men, let us remember that the lie did not creep into politics by some accident of human sinfulness. Moral outrage, for this reason alone, is not likely to make it disappear. The deliberate falsehood deals with contingent facts; that is, with matters that carry no inherent truth within themselves, no necessity to be as they are. Factual...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery.
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Abba - Syriac word meaning father, used to denote a religious superior Abbe - Originally an abbot; but now an ecclesiastic devoted to teaching literature Abbess - Governess of a nunnery Abbey - Residence of monks or nuns. The dwelling of an abbot. A church attached to a monastery. Abbot - Head of a society of monks Jacob Abbot (born 1803, died 1879), a Congregational minister, and for four years professor...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) at the National Gallery of Art has announced the appointments of members for 2009–2010. They include Bert W. Meijer, Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut, Florence/Universiteit Utrecht (emeritus), as Samuel H. Kress Professor; Miguel Falomir, Museo Nacional del Prado, as Andrew W. Mellon Professor; and...
Chicago news (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery.
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A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery.
The Pulitzer Project (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Angle of Repose Wallace Stegner 569 pages What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward the novelist and illustrator, and not Oliver Ward the engineer, and not the West they spend their lives in. What really interests me is how two such unlike particles clung together, and under what strains, rolling downhill into their future until they reached the angle of repose where I knew them....
Love Undefiled (Free subscription) | yesterday
George Wiegel in the Cube and the Cathedral in describing the demographic suicide of Europe quotes British historian Niall Ferguson who calls it the greatest: "sustained reduction in European population since the Black Death of the 14th Century." (Eurabia? New York Times Magazine, April 4, 2004).
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Onion November 14, 2009 ESCONDIDO, CA—Spurred by an administration he believes to be guilty of numerous transgressions, self-described American patriot Kyle Mortensen, 47, is a vehement defender of ideas he seems to think are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution and principles that brave men have fought and died for solely in his head. "Our very way of life is under siege," said Mortensen,...
Corporate Engagement (Free subscription) | yesterday
Originally posted 1 November 2008 I am a very big fan of Studs Terkel I devoured many of his books when I was young. Not only was he a fantastic oral historian with a real empathy with everyday Americans and a tremendous ability to bring them alive on paper but Terkel was also a great expert on the blues of Chicago, in particular, the incomparable Mahalia Jackson and Big Bill Broonzy. For me Terkel...
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contemporary | 11/10/2009
Following close on the heels of the hugely successful India Art Summit held in Delhi, came our very own Art Expo '09 at the Nehru Centre in Mumbai from 25-27 September, an event that brought about mixed emotions to begin with, but as the programme entered it's second day, the murmurs seemed to subside in intensity and at the conclusion, all participants and visitors should have come away a satisfied...
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