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American Rhetoric: Dwight D. Eisenhower -- Farewell Address
Eisenhower's brilliant farewell address, January 17, 1961. With audio.
Charles Darwin: Writing Origin 'like confessing a murder' - opinion - 23 November 2009 - New Scientist
An "interview" with Darwin, made up mainly of quotations from his letters, journals and other writings.
Book World: Michael Dirda reviews 'Herge' and 'The Metamorphoses of Tintin' - washingtonpost.com
So ... Hergé really was a borderline Nazi collaborationist, after all. I always suspected something about that clean-cut kid.
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch: review - Telegraph
Eamon Duffy reviews Diarmuid MacCulloch's new book, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (to be released in the US in March 2010).
Fascism’s new faces (and new facelessness) in the ‘post-fascist’ epoch
"These people were proud of their work. They were convinced of being engaged in an act of purification. They called Auschwitz the anus of Europe. Europe had to be cleansed. They were responsible for the purification of Europe. If you cannot get your head round that you will understand nothing at all."
The Longest Walk 2 (commemorates the Longest Walk march of 1978 and the Longest Walk 2 of 2006)
The site includes an archive of scanned documents and probably two hundred photos of the 1978 march, many of them personal.
Listen to the Federalist Papers online
These are in .AAC format. The archive seems to have all 85 papers.
Crime Against Nature - Gay Mormon History
Under the subhed "Shocking Events at the Y," some history of experimentation with so-called aversive therapies (mostly involving electric shocks and pornography) as "treatment" for young gay men.
legacies, a documentary by sean weakland on BYU's sexual aversion techniques
More on BYU's experimental "aversive therapies" (which amounted to torture, basically) as a form of "treatment" for homosexuality.
Welcome to the Portable Antiquities Scheme
A resource for private individuals who discover historic or archaeological "treasures" in England or Wales.
"Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation," an essay by Mitch Horowitz
Archival Sound Recordings from the British Library
An archive of over twenty thousand recorded sounds -- music, nature, historical events, and so forth. Some limitations on access outside the UK. Seen on Dave R.'s Facebook page.
Mennonite Library and Archives - Martyrs Mirror Images
Images of various martyrs scanned from the 1685 edition of the Martyrs' Mirror. Etchings are by Jan Luikens. Image quality varies.
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