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Adam Harrison Levy, "Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs," from Design Observer (Nov. 10, 2008)
The story of a mysterious cache of photographs taken of Hiroshima after the detonation of the atomic bomb, which resurfaced in Massachusetts decades later. Some remarkable images.
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Speech by Abbie Hoffman, taped by photojournalist Charles Harbutt
I can't find a date on this thing, but it's really fascinating. Lots of cussing.
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The Blob and I - Books & Culture
A bemused response to some apparently pretty serious factual errors in the discussion by Jeff Sharlet, in his book on "the Family," of the origins of the Steve McQueen movie, "The Blob."
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Moravian College, Undergraduate Conference in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (12-6-2008)
For 2008, this is going to be Dec. 6 (application deadline Nov. 10). In Bethlehem, PA.
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Eduard Iricinschi, Lance Jenott, and Philippa Townsend, "The Betrayer's Gospel (review of Kasser et al., eds., The Gospel of Judas)," The New York Review of Books 53/10 (June 8, 2006)
I'm curious about the authors of this review. Bookmarking to read later.
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Bernard Iddings Bell, "Universities and Religious Indifference," The Atlantic Monthly (Sept., 1932), 316-20.
Bookmarking to read later.
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In 1964, a candidate emerges from the Catholic imagination | National Catholic Reporter
The National Catholic Reporter's piece on Timothy Pettegrew, a fictional character featured in the children's comic series Treasure Chest, published by the rather short-lived Catholic "Commission on American Citizenship."
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Anselm of Canterbury, "Proslogium," "Monologium," "An Appendix in Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilon," and "Cur Deus Homo" (tr. Sidney Norton Deane, Chicago, Open Court 1903)
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung – Wikipedia (in German)
The German-language Wikipedia entry on Vergangenheitsbewältigung, roughly, "coming to terms with the past," usually used in reference to efforts by historians and others to find a way to deal with the legacy of the Nazi period in contemporary German life.
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854)
Was just thinking about the way Virginia Woolf has Mr. Ramsay quote this poem repeatedly in To the Lighthouse, especially the line, "someone had blundered."
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John Heartfield: Listing of Art
John Heartfield was a modernist collage artist who dedicated much of his work to combating Nazi influence. He was German (born Herzfeld); he eventually fled to London and continued his work there.
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Jared Diamond, "The Golden Phonebook," The New York Review of Books (April 13, 2000) (review of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples, and Languages, North Point/FSG)
I don't have access to the full article, but I am bookmarking this because I really want to get hold of it.
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Robert Bellah, "The renouncers," The Immanent Frame (August 11, 2008)
Part of the "Is Critique Secular?" series.
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America in the 1930's. COLOR photographs! - NoNewbs
A very cool little collection of historical photos. A wide variety. Originally posted by a Daily Kos blogger at http://snipr.com/3h95w
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Bonhoeffer's sermon at Fanø, Denmark, 1934: "The Church and the Peoples of the World"
The full text of his famous ecumenical sermon, quoted in a blog post. I'm bookmarking this mainly because the English text of the sermon -- which is brilliant -- is very hard to find online.
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Defence of Poesie (Ponsonby, 1595)
"Now for the poet, he nothing affirmeth..."
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Hans Memling (c. 1430-1494), Last Judgment (triptych altarpiece, betwen 1467-1471)
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CBC.ca - The Greatest Canadian - Top Ten Greatest Canadians - Tommy Douglas
Capsule biography of the first socialist premier of Canada. Posted to Friendfeed by @melmcbride.
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