Ma.gnolia: Meredith's Bookmarks Tagged With "history"

The Whitechapel Club

meredith — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:31:57 PDT

Defining Chicago's newspapermen in the 1890s.

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IBM and the Holocaust

meredith — Sat, 03 May 2008 08:35:20 PDT

IBM and the Holocaust is the stunning story of IBM's strategic alliance with Nazi Germany -- beginning in 1933 in the first weeks that Hitler came to power and continuing well into World War II. As the Third Reich embarked upon its plan of conquest and genocide, IBM and its subsidiaries helped create enabling technologies, step-by-step, from the identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.

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Tags: holocaust, history, corporate

Walking Around New York City's Ethnic Neighborhoods

meredith — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:07:13 PDT

This list is for those who enjoy exploring the worlds that are within New York.

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Tags: newyork, travel, history

Who Is That Man, Anyway?

meredith — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:41:53 PDT

A photographic tour of the statues, monuments, and memorials of Washington DC.

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Tags: dcarea, history

Washington D.C. Memorials

meredith — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:36:31 PDT

A pictorial directory w/ 100's of memorials, monuments, statues & other outdoor art or historical markers in the Washington D.C. area & beyond. A guide for tourists, vacationers & other visitors to D.C.. A resource for travel agents & tour guides.

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Tags: dcarea, history

Old Pictures

meredith — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 17:04:07 PST

We have compiled a collection of thousands of the most important photographs of the last 150 years; pictures of our struggles, trials, and triumphs. We can only fully understand our history by gazing into the eyes of the people that made that history. Their eyes will tell a story that no words can.

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Tags: history, photography

300 Years of Espionage

meredith — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:11:30 PST

Profiles of several dozen spies from throughout history, mostly males. Found this while trying to find the International Spy Museum's website, this is a pretty interesting alternative!

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Tags: history

Deaf Students in a Segregated School System

meredith — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 23:55:39 PST

Kendall Division II was only for the Black Deaf students to attend. Previously, the District sent its black deaf children to a school in Baltimore, Maryland. This school was relocated to the Gallaudet campus and housed in the old gymnasium.

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Tags: deaf, dcarea, history

Paleo-Future: Lost and Stolen Time Capsules

meredith — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:40:11 PDT

The 10 most wanted time capsules. Since the list's creation in 1991, two have been found. [via laze.net]

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Tags: history

Niemöller Quotation

meredith — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:53:18 PDT

This page pursues the origin of the quotation 'First they came for the communists, but I wasn't a communist, ...', by Martin Niemoeller. It was compiled by Harold Marcuse, a professor of German history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Tags: holocaust, history, literature

Gallaudet Video Library

meredith — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:37:30 PDT

Collection of historical videos from the Deaf community, including the full Deaf Mosaic library as well as antique movies from as early as the 1920s.

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Tags: deaf, history

Rosetta Stone: Endangered Languages

meredith — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:25:35 PDT

The creators of the popular Rosetta Stone language learning sets also offer their services to help communities record and preserve their dying languages.

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Tags: language, education, history

Disability History Museum

meredith — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 09:29:35 PDT

Includes a library of text and images as well as education resources.

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Tags: disability, history

Now and Then

meredith — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:15:36 PDT

I love "then and now" photographs - I have a whole bunch of those books on my Amazon wishlist. This is an online version of that, with 500 images and growing. [via yahoo picks]

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Tags: history, photography

Kilduff's Movie Theatre Index Survey

meredith — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:46:17 PDT

Cool historical postcards from locations around the Baltimore area - not just movie theaters, rather including all kinds of places.

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Tags: dcarea, history

Medical History of American Presidents

meredith — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:55:48 PDT

This website tabulates the illnesses of American presidents and other notable people.

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Tags: history, health

Photographs from NASA Missions 1960-1972

meredith — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:01:43 PDT

Collection of vintage space photographs, ending with the final lunar landing of Apollo 17 in 1972.

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Tags: space, photography, history

Institute for Historical Review Directory

meredith — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:25:46 PDT

A large collection of articles about various revisionist viewpoints, with considerable attention paid to the Holocaust and to Jews in general.

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Tags: history, holocaust

Shorpy

meredith — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:35:35 PDT

A photo blog about what life was like a hundred years ago, using antique photographs.

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Tags: photography, history

100 Years Ago Today

meredith — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:20:47 PST

Amusing news from a century ago. Don't miss the "female arms will become fins" (6 Mar 1907) item.

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Tags: history, funny

Footnote

meredith — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:50:59 PST

Access millions of original documents, most never seen on the web before.

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Tags: education, history

The Authentic History Center:

meredith — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:13:22 PST

The Authentic History Center is comprised of images of artifacts and historic sounds from American popular culture.

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Tags: history

Military Historical Tours

meredith — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:28:00 PST

Offers trips to places that are not ordinarily accessible by civilians, including Iwo Jima - I think they are the only tour company that goes there. Also trips to Vietnam, Midway, WWI battlefields in Europe, and more.

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Tags: travel, history

Old Houses in Fairfax County near the W&OD Trail

meredith — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:57:30 PST

Places to visit while you take a walk.

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Tags: history, dcarea

Historic Fort Belvoir

meredith — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 18:42:37 PST

History of the Belvoir Peninsula from prehistoric times to the present day, including the establishment of Camp A.A. Humphreys and, later, Fort Belvoir.

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Tags: history, dcarea

Television Obscurities

meredith — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:09:54 PST

Home to an ever-expanding collection of oddities, curiosities and relics from television's past and present. Inside these pages you'll find some fifty articles covering subjects like short-lived programs, unsold pilots, lost television promos and much, mu

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Tags: history, media, retro

The Lost Cosmonauts

meredith — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 08:14:54 PST

Listening to the skies in early 1961, weeks before Yuri Gagarin... two students were startled by a sound...heard clearly and unequivocally...a failing heart and the last gasping breaths of a dying cosmonaut.

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Tags: history, fringe, technology

CivilWarPhotos.Net

meredith — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:42:16 PST

I wonder if the people in these pictures ever dreamed we'd be looking at them over 100 years later. Did they understand a camera enough to know the permanence? Could they have fathomed the Internet and digital pictures?

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Tags: history

Old Istanbul

meredith — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:17:34 PST

Photographs from Turkey between 1900-1920.

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Tags: turkey, history

The Earhart Project

meredith — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 23:20:36 PST

Research and documentation about what really happened to Amelia Earheart, stemming from extensive research and expeditions to where she was last heard from.

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Tags: history, women