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From The Archives...An Elephant Never Forgets!THEY SAID IT! TODAY: "The senator from Massachusetts, they say, has not crisply articulated what a Kerry presidency would stand for beyond undoing much of the Bush agenda. ... 'There is a danger in that [ambivalence],' said John D. Podesta, White House chief of staff in the Clinton administration. 'You can't just be against something. [Voters] want a positive vision of where the country is going, and he has to provide that.'" (Jim VandeHei, "Doubts Linger As Kerry Advances," The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39156-2004Jun13.html, 6/14/04) THE INAUGURAL THEY SAID IT! ONE YEAR AGO: "'There's a large...

The International Tracing Service, which stores information about inmates of Nazi concentration camps, will open its vast archives to researchers by next year, a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said Wednesday. The decision to open the files of the Red Cross-run service was made during the committee's annual meeting, held this week in Jerusalem, after years of debate, ICRC director for international law Francois Bugnion said. The German-based and funded organization, which was founded in 1943 by the British Red Cross, has information relating to 17 million deportees, including Jews and non-Jews. Along with the...

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Tech adds to Vietnam Center collection By SEBASTIAN KITCHEN AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Texas Tech recently took delivery of two contrasting collections maintained by Kent State, the Ohio university where the shooting deaths of four student protesters 34 years ago galvanized the nation's anti-Vietnam War movement. Tech's Vietnam Center received the Social Movements Collection, which documents anti-war sentiment throughout the United States during various conflicts, including Vietnam. It also has guardianship of a collection from Voices in Vital America, an organization that sought information about POWs, MIAs and their families. It was during a campus anti-war rally on May 4, 1970, that student...

Thank you to all our Hall of Famers and to all of you who have become part of our Finest Family ... as regular contributors and supporters who drop in every day to say hello and give a 'pat on the back' to the "Freeper of the Day" and the hostesses.  We wouldn't be here without you. : ) We're almost two years old now, and we're still having fun. We hope you are. As promised, for your information and perusal, here is our seventh "Hall of Fame" - a list of all those who've held center stage ......

 The Louisiana Purchase Treaty of 1803. When Thomas Jefferson negotiated the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the deal did not simply add 828,000 square miles to the United States for four cents an acre. It doubled the amount of U.S. property where slavery was allowed. By 1830, one quarter of a million slaves had been moved to Louisiana.The Civil War was not just about slavery, but about the expansion of slavery, which depended on Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas. In that context, the parched paper treaty becomes an important milestone in American. history, said Warren Goldstein, chairman of the history department...

CAOC historians preserve past for the future AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar -- Maj. Gen. Robert Elder discusses current operations with Master Sgt. Paul Witt and Tech. Sgt. Jason Axberg, historians at the Combined Air Operations Center here. The historians use interviews to collect and archive information about air operations in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. General Elder is the deputy commander of the Combined Forces Air Component. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Jeff Bohn) Download HiRes     by Capt. Nicholas J. SabulaU.S. Central Command Air Forces-Forward Public Affairs2/19/2004 - AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar (AFPN)...

In the years immediately following their accession to power in 1917, the Bolsheviks took measures to prevent challenges to their new regime, beginning with eliminating political opposition. When the freely-elected Constituent Assembly did not acknowledge the primacy of the Bolshevik government, Vladimir Lenin dissolved it in January 1918. The Left Socialist Revolutionary Party, which protested the action, withdrew from the Bolshevik coalition in March, and its members were automatically branded enemies of the people. Numerous opposition groups posed military threats from various parts of the country, placing the survival of the revolution in jeopardy. Between 1918 and 1921, a state...

WASHINGTON -- Ever wonder what's in the Pentagon's old war plans? Why, for instance, "Project Cornflakes" was a go in World War II, but Cold War-era plans dubbed "Dropshot," "Broiler," "Sizzle," "Trojan" and "Shakedown" stayed on the drawing board? An upcoming "Top Secret" exhibit at the National Archives building, which houses the revered copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, may answer some questions. Using a new interactive computer program, visitors will be able to inspect spy documents and war plans once limited to officials with special security clearances. While the exhibit itself won't open until next year,...

A friend just pointed me to the waybackmachine site, where you can type in an internet address and see archives of that site - for instance i typed in the addy for freerepublic and was able to see what it looked like going all the way back to Dec 21, 1996. Anyway just thought some of you guys might find it as interesting as i have :)

<p>President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show.</p> <p>Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of Union Banking Corp., a New York investment bank owned by a bank controlled by the Thyssen family, according to recently declassified National Archives documents reviewed by The Associated Press.</p>

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

Last Update: Saturday, September 27, 2003. 4:26pm (AEST)13th Century tablet could lead to lost archives of Ramses II The discovery of a stone tablet detailing diplomatic ties between the ancient Egyptians and Hittites in the 13th Century BC could be the key to the lost archives of Ramses II, according to archaeologists. Discovered at Qantir 120 kilometres north-east of Cairo, the tablet dates back to the time of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses II (1298-1235 BC) and confirms his capital, Pi-Ramses, was in the Nile Delta. "Its the first time that such a written record has been found in the...

Even as he was forming an alliance with Adolf Hitler, fascist dictator Benito Mussolini urged the Vatican to step up opposition to the German leader and even excommunicate him, secret Vatican archives show. "It's absolutely amazing, since it seems to fly in the face of facts, but the proof is there in the archives," Emma Fattorini, a professor at Rome's Sapienza university, told Reuters yesterday. Fattorini, a historian who has been studying the Vatican's archives on relations with pre-war Germany since they were opened to scholars in February, said the documents showed Mussolini had played a double game. Although in...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush, lawmakers and the chief justice of the United States celebrated the rededication Wednesday of the original Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence, which were locked away for two years of preservation work.</p> <p>"Our founding fathers developed a form of representative government that served as a shining example to the rest of world," said House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., at an unveiling of a new exhibit inside the National Archives.. "And this experiment in self-rule has stood the test of time."</p>

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation's history is on display again at the National Archives. After being locked away for two years at an undisclosed location, the original Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence have returned to rotunda of the Archives after undergoing treatment to ensure their longevity. For the first time, all four pages of the Constitution will be on permanent display. Previously, just the first and last pages were. President Bush will help unveil the exhibit Wednesday, with Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and congressional leaders. On Thursday, the rotunda will be opened to the public. The...

The New York Times WEEK IN REVIEW WORD FOR WORD Khrushchev Unplugged From the Middle East to Cubag FROM 1954 to 1965, a faceless bureaucrat named Vladimir Malin was the official note-taker at meetings of the leadership of the Soviet Union. His handwritten minutes, kept in a ledger like that used by Western accountants, were the holy grail of the Central Intelligence Agency's unsuccessful efforts to penetrate the Kremlin. They remained closed until last week, when they were released by archivists at the Russian State Archives of Contemporary History in Moscow.The documents reveal a troubled Presidium struggling to feed its...

The National Archives Opens Additional National Security Council Files Relating to the Nixon Presidency 7/14/03 2:33:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: National Desk Contact: National Archives Public Affairs, 301-837-1700 COLLEGE Park, Md., July 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National Archives and Records Administration has announced that it will open approximately 180,000 pages of materials from the Nixon Presidential Materials Project on Thursday, July 17 beginning at 9 a.m. in Conference Room D at the National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, Md. These newly declassified documents are from the National Security Council (NSC) Institutional Files. These records were...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

New Software to Unravel Stasi Puzzle   The orderly habits of communist bureaucrats have made it easier for new technology to uncover secrets they sought to destroy.   Researchers at Berlin's prestigious Frauenhofer Institute are programming software that will piece together documents destroyed by East German secret police workers as the sun set on the communist era. Everyone knows that if you really want no-one to discover your secrets, the trick is to completely destroy all the evidence. But this concept appears to have been lost on the workers at East Germany's secret police agency, the Stasi, during the...