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POPSA GREAT SIGHT This article and picture caught my attention. It is amazing when you think about what it would be like to be both deaf and blind, and yet have all other faculties, including a sharp and inquiring mind. Guess I should read the book or get the movie http://www.netflix.com/Movie/The_Miracle_Worker/60004246?mqso=80012394
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POPSNY State Archivist Accused Of Stealing Historic Artifacts Joseph Romito, a lawyer and history buff in Richmond, Va., tipped authorities off after he spotted one of the items for sale on eBay and realized it was supposed to belong to New York state. After searching the suspect's home this past weekend, officials found hundreds of documents and artifacts belonging to the state. Officials believe the theft goes back to 2002, Cuomo spokesman John Milgram said. It's unclear how much Lorello profited from his sales. In some cases he went to trade shows and exchanged the state's items for others, authorities said. But officials said in just two sales of Davy Crockett Almanacs he received more than $5,000.
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POPSJudge Orders White House to hold Emails Bush Administration lawyers are arguing strongly against the decision. They protest the decision, of a federal judge, when it should be remembered that Bush owes his Presidency to a Supreme court decision, after the 2000 election. Maybe they want it to be taken to the Supreme Court. They know some people there.
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POPSPostcards from Auschwitz These photos teach us an important historical lesson: that there is no line separating humans from monsters, a single being can be both, simultaneously. Contrary to the common presumption, you do not lose your humanity simply because you dehumanize others. Even our worst enemies and the most hideous criminals are startlingly normal people. If there is a difference between the good and the bad, it must be that truly good people do not think themselves above being capable of true evil. When we lose sight of that, when we begin to presume our own righteousness, declare those who differ with us irredeemably mad or evil, and excuse our own transgressions on account of our own faultlessness, who is to say that we are any different from these people?
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POPSWould you trust a tweaker with U.S. nuclear secrets? Seems a meth addict, employed as an archivist at Los Alamos, was permitted to take "thousands of pages of highly classified documents detailing the designs of U.S. nuclear weapons" back to her mobile home. Doesn't inspire confidence.
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POPSAnne Frank's Father's Letters Found Most people know of this tragic story, and the diary of a Jewish teenage girl, Anne Frank, that she composed during her 2 years of hiding with her family, from the Nazis. All of them with the exception of her father perished in the concentration camps. These letters provides additional details of their captivity as told from the heart and mind of a husband and father.
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POPSblot this i was stumblupon-ing so I just thought I would clip a little bit here, a little bit there, and so on...
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POPSGeek vs. Nerd vs. Dork I don't know if I agree with everything in here, but the list is pretty spot on for the most part... I definitely define myself as a geek, and match up pretty well with that here :)
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POPSABZU: Masterpieces on the Ancient Near East Huge library on Ancient Near East, Mesopotamia and Egypt. Classical masterpieces of archaeology in PDF format; lots of articles; book reviews; web links and more. From the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.
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