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Reunion With Soul: Launching Love Through Your GPS

Dr. Cara Barker | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: The Love Project: Coming Home, Steve Jobs, Miraculous Demonstration, Bill Courtney, Forwarding Posts, Suicide, Soul Awakening, Outreach, Kindness, The Power of the Web, Good Relations, Redemption, Compassion, Mother Teresa, Everyman, Maxing a Difference, Gandhi, The Cafe, Archives, The Way, GPS for the Soul, Service, Four Cornerstones, Dark Night, Albert Einstein, Gps-Soul, Healthy Living News

Never, ever forget or doubt the difference your GPS makes when you rise above self-doubt or indifference, reclaiming the moment for what needs a voice in your heart.

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PHOTOS: National Archives To Unveil Magna Carta After Repairs

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Video, DC News, National Archives, Magna Carta, David Rubenstein Magna Carta, District of Columbia, Archives, David Rubenstein, National Archives Magna Carta, DC News

WASHINGTON — A 715-year old copy of Magna Carta will soon return to public view at the National Archives after a conservation effort removed old...

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PHOTOS: Ron Pippin's Mythical Archives Uncover Treasures From Land And Sea

Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: La Art, Pirate Ship, Taxidermy, Crafts, Pippin Art, Found Art, Obsolete Gallery, Miniature Art, Ship, Archives, Ron Pippin, Miniature Ships, Ship Building, Miniatures, Arts News

Ron Pippin's works are little treasure chests of everything. From mythical skeletons to historical relics that never were, all his quasi-scientific co...

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Our Cinematic History Is At Stake: Film Archives And Apocalypse In 0's And 1's

Vivian Norris | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Eclai, Metropolis, Film Preservation Digital Film, Film Archives vs. Digital, Anthology Film Archives, Cinemateque De France, Digital, Archives, Digital-Film, Film Preservation, Kodak, Film History, Fritz Lang, Entertainment News

What would it take to wipe out a digital archive? What would it mean when all of our archives of film, books, everything stored in digital form is wiped out during intense solar storm electro-magnetic activity?

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Online Archive Reveals Recorded Voices Of Noted Poets

Thomas Gladysz | Posted 10.20.2011

Read More: Digital Archives, Beat Poets, Archives, Philip Levine, San Francisco, Lawrence Ferlighetti, Poetry, Gary Snyder, Pulitzer Prize, Video, San Francisco News

Poetry is, at its heart and in its origins, an oral medium. To read a poet's work is one thing. To hear a poet read their work is something else altogether.

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Google News Archive and Footnote.com: A Strange Week or Sign of Things to Come?

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 10.21.2011

Read More: Google, Newspapers, Military, Digital, Archives, Family Tree, Genealogy, Technology, Family History, Technology News

This has been a peculiar week in the world of genealogy, ushering in unexpected changes in three online, family history destinations.

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Remembering The Fire That Destroyed NY's Historical Heritage

AP | CHRIS CAROLA | Posted 05.27.2011

Read More: Archives, Fire Anniversary, State Archives, Fire, New York History, 1911 Capitol Fire, New York Library Fire, New York News

ALBANY, N.Y. — The fire started in the Assembly Library and quickly spread down the hall to the nearby New York State Library, finding plenty of...

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The Research Fellowship That Uncovered a New Story of 19th Century New York

The New York Public Library | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, New York Public Library, Research, Fellowships, Archives, Manuscripts, Academia, Scholarship, New York History, New York News

Steven Carl Smith is working on a dissertation about New York City in the 19th century, with a focus on the publishing industry and how it developed.

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Google Launches Holocaust Archive

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yossi Matias, Victims, Photographs, Nazis, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, Museums, Archives, Holocaust Memorial Day, Israel, Holocaust, World War II, Google, Arts News

To coincide with International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), Google and Yad Vashem, an Israeli museum established in the 1950s to preserve t...

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Grant Money for Genealogy Initiatives - Seriously.

Megan Smolenyak | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Government, History, Historical, Budget, Economy, Libraries, Grants, Donald Trump, Archives, Genealogy, Historic Preservation, Family History, Healthy Living News

In these difficult economic times, even the exploding field of genealogy is feeling the pinch. Libraries and archives are convenient (and regrettable)...

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Audit: National Archives At Risk

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Archives Audit, National Archives, Archives, Gao National Archives, National Archives at Risk, Gao, Government Accountability Office, Politics News

WASHINGTON — An audit prompted in part by the loss of the Wright Brothers' original patent and maps for atomic bomb missions in Japan finds some...

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Letting Go of The Past: An Author's View

Lev Raphael | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Letting Go, Therapy, Mental Health, Despair, Libraries, Books, Archives, Disappointment, Failure, Authors, Success, Career, Erica Jong, Author Readings, Career Path, Therapists, Salman Rushdie, Author Tours, The Inner Life, Books News

The freeing up of physical space has also freed my mind. I don't find myself dwelling much any more on the things that didn't happen for me in my writing life, the wrong turns ...

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Biography: The Falsest Art?

Joe Woodward | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Literature, Dorothy Parker, Writing, Literary Biography, Archives, William Faulkner, American Literature, Writing a Novel, Biography, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

I've come to believe that what makes the biography of a writer crackle and pop is knowing as many lies as truths -- the lies they told to others, the lies others told of them, and, most importantly, the lies they told themselves.

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A Picture Of Persistence: How a Photography Collection Was Born

The New York Public Library | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, New York Public Library, Collections, Nypl, Archives, Alfred Stieglitz, Libraries, New York News

In honor of the NYPL's new exhibition, we've asked Julia Van Haaften, the curator who founded our Photography collection 30 years ago, to share the story of the collection's creation.

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ARCHITECTURE: The Hidden Archives Of Philip Johnson, On Sale Now

nytimes.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Sales, For Sale, Drawings, Sketches, Found Art, Unknown-Art, Architecture, Archives, Design, Philip Johnson, Arts News

A huge and previously unknown trove of archival material from Philip Johnson's architectural practice -- including his hand-drawn sketches for towers ...

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Hawaii Asks Obama For Presidential Library, Setting Up Possible Clash With Illionois

AP | By MARK NIESSE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hawaii House, White House, Tourism Culture International Affairs Committee, Presidential Library, Chicago, Illinois, Hawaii, Obama, Honolulu, Barack Obama, Poll, Archives, Chicago News

HONOLULU -- Hawaii lawmakers are asking President Barack Obama to put his future presidential library in the state where he was born and raised. The ...

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Salman Rushdie's Archive: How To Preserve Digital Files?

The New York Times | PATRICIA COHEN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Archives, Libraries, Salman Rushdie Archive, Archives, Books, Librarians, Salman Rushdie, Emory University, Books News

Among the archival material from Salman Rushdie currently on display at Emory University in Atlanta are inked book covers, handwritten journals and fo...

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See HuffPost's Front Pages From Election Day 2008

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Home Page, Election Day November 2009, House, Obama's Election, Off Year Elections, Election Day, Archives, Congress, Election Day 2009, Front Page, Senate, Hillary Clinton, Media News

Browse the front pages from last year's races by clicking on a front page from any given day, then slide the hour to see how the page changed througho...

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True Love in Our Disposable Age

Lisa Guest | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Digital Recorders, True Love, Grandparents, Princess, Archives, Ancesters, Tape, Prostitutes, Disposable Age, Family, Healthy Living News

Some things are worth keeping, no matter the cost or the time and effort involved. Whose voice would you give anything to hear again?

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Bush Data Threatens To Overload National Archives

New York Times | ROBERT PEAR and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Archives, George Bush, Bush Data, Bush Archives, National Archives, Politics News

The National Archives has put into effect an emergency plan to handle electronic records from the Bush White House amid growing doubts about whether i...

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