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January 30, 2008
The Library of Congress and the Foundation Center, in a joint partnership, have recently compiled a new web-based fundraising guide to help the preservation community save the nation's millions of at-risk artifacts for future generations.
The guide, "Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums," is available for free download at the Library of Congress web site: http://www.loc.gov/preserv/ .
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January 10, 2008
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Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
January 31, 2008
It is not often that the announcement of a lieutenant colonel's retiring makes it into the pages of The Washington Post. But then again, it is not often that an Army officer is the subject of a lengthy New York Times Magazine profile or the author of an acclaimed history, Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons From Malaya and Vietnam (University of Chicago Press, 2005), to say nothing of a contributor to the widely discussed The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Fiel
Source: NYT
January 31, 2008
CERRITOS, Calif. — Robert Olson hardly looks like the head of a smuggling ring specializing in Asian antiquities.
On Wednesday morning, barefoot, dressed in a white T-shirt and stained, fraying black slacks, with receding white hair and a gap where his lower front teeth should be, Mr. Olson, 79, still appeared stunned that a dozen federal agents showed up early one morning a week ago to search his apartment here in this suburb southeast of Los Angeles.
The agents took f
Source: Dallas Morning News
January 30, 2008
A group of Methodists is stepping up efforts to force a church vote in July on whether Southern Methodist University has the right to lease out land for the George W. Bush Presidential Library and policy institute.
A regional mission council of the United Methodist Church gave SMU permission in March to lease out part of the campus for the library. SMU remains in exclusive negotiations for the complex. As part of those negotiations, school and church officials said, SMU requested a
Source: AP
January 30, 2008
An archaeological dig in downtown Berlin has uncovered evidence that the German capital is at least 45 years older than had previously been established, authorities said Wednesday.
During excavation work last week in the Mitte district, archaeologists uncovered a wooden beam from an ancient earthen cellar, said Karin Wagner of the city-state's office for historical preservation.
It was in exceptionally good condition, having lain under the water table for centuries, and
Source: Telegraph (UK)
January 31, 2008
Elected politicians from Germany’s far right NPD party have refused to stand and honour the victims of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi party.
The German dictator became Chancellor 75 years ago on Wednesday, and many small ceremonies of remembrance for the millions killed by the Nazis were held across the nation.
But in the parliament building of the eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, six members of the NPD, or National Democratic Party, refused to take part in a
Source: AFP
January 29, 2008
A team of US archaeologists has discovered the ruins of a city dating back to the period of the first farmers 7,000 years ago in Egypt's Fayyum oasis, the supreme council of antiquities said on Tuesday.
"An electromagnetic survey revealed the existence in the Karanis region of a network of walls and roads similar to those constructed during the Greco-Roman period," the council's chief Zahi Hawwas said.
The remnants of the city are "still buried beneath t
Source: BBC
January 30, 2008
A team of archaeologists from the University of Exeter has found a Roman fort dating from the 1st Century AD in fields in Cornwall.
Several items of pottery have been excavated and a furnace which may have been used to smelt minerals.
Researchers said the find at Calstock, close to a silver mine, could show for the first time the Romans' interest in exploiting Cornish minerals.
Source: WaPo blog
January 30, 2008
There's more to Sen. Edward Kennedy's endorsement of Barack Obama than meets the eye. Apparently, part of the reason why the liberal lion from Massachusetts embraced Obama was because of a perceived slight at the Kennedy family's civil rights legacy by the other Democratic presidential primary frontrunner, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).
Sources say Kennedy was privately furious at Clinton for her praise of President Lyndon Baines Johnson for getting the 1964 Civil Rights Act
Source: Scott W. Johnson at frontpagemag.com
January 30, 2008
Charles Enderlin is the France 2 Jerusalem correspondent who broadcast the incendiary account of the death of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura at the hands of Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip in September 2000. Based on film footage provided by a Palestinian cameraman, Enderlin's report has become infamous among students of Arab propaganda both for its destructive effects and for its probable falsity. The al-Dura affair now bids to join the Dreyfus affair in the French hall of shame.
Source: AP
January 30, 2008
A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected an alleged Nazi death camp guard's challenge to a final deportation order by the nation's chief immigration judge.
A panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled there was no basis to John Demjanjuk's challenge of a December 2005 ruling that he could be deported to his native Ukraine or to Germany or Poland.
Source: Jim Al-Khalili at the website of the Guardian
January 30, 2008
[Jim Al-Khalili is a professor of physics at the University of Surrey; he is the 2007 recipient of the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Prize.]
Watching the daily news stories of never-ending troubles, hardship, misery and violence across the Arab world and central Asia, it is not surprising that many in the west view the culture of these countries as backward, and their religion as at best conservative and often as violent and extremist.
I am on a mission to dismiss a c
Source: American Libraries website
January 18, 2008
The Library of Congress announced January 16 that it has teamed with the photo-sharing website Flickr to broaden public access to the 14 million photographs and other visual items in LC’s collections.
The pilot project is beginning with 3,000 photos from two of the library’s most popular collections—the George Grantham Bain Collection, featuring the photographic files of one of America's earliest news picture agencies, and Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photo
Source: Telegraph (UK)
January 30, 2008
Denmark's Royal Library is risking the wrath of Muslims with plans to display controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked violent protest throughout the Islamic world two years ago.
The 12 caricatures of Islam's founder were published in Danish newspapers in September 2005 triggering riots and violence which claimed the lives of over 50 people.
Copenhagen's Royal Library – founded by King Frederik III in 17th century – is courting a new controversy by cl
Source: Washington Times
January 30, 2008
The Army will not be allowed to replace the cracked monument at the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery without first reporting to Congress on repair options and getting lawmakers' approval.
The requirement was included in an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act signed Monday by President Bush.
Sen. Daniel K. Akaka, Hawaii Democrat, introduced the amendment in September, after The Washington Times reported the Army was nearing a decision t
Source: Spiegel Online
January 28, 2008
Hiitler's military courts were notorious for their liberal use of the death penalty. Now, a courthouse in Berlin where Nazi judges sentenced hundreds of Third Reich dissidents to die has been converted to an apartment building. Not everyone is happy about the switch.
The view from the loft apartments in the newly renovated apartment building is as idyllic as it gets in Berlin: a lovely lake with ducks and swans paddling about, all surrounded by vibrant green parkland. It's the kind
Source: http://www.wdef.com
January 29, 2008
Chattanooga's Medal of Honor Museum is getting a face-lift.
The museum's collection was severely damaged by water and mold in it's previous storage facility.
But, now those damaged items are being salvaged.
World War II veteran Roberta McDevitt says, "Handling these things brings back certain memories, some of them good, some of them bad."
Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed
January 29, 2008
A professor of politics and political theory at Gazi University, in Ankara, Turkey, was convicted on Monday of insulting the memory of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the modern Turkish Republic, and was given a 15-month suspended prison sentence.
The professor, Atilla Yayla, had been charged by the public prosecutor in the coastal city of Izmir, Turkey, following comments he made during a public panel discussion there in November 2006.
Speaking by telephone from
Source: NYT
January 30, 2008
This spring, Bostjan Troha and 50 of his friends from across the former Yugoslavia plan to celebrate the official 116th birthday of the former dictator Josip Broz Tito with a pilgrimage in boxy Yugoslav-era Fico cars to Tito’s Croatian birthplace and his marble tomb in Belgrade.
To mark the occasion, Mr. Troha has hired a Tito impersonator and dozens of child actors, who will wear Yugoslav partisan berets, wave Yugoslav flags and applaud enthusiastically after the impersonator’s add
