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Human rights activists gained access Wednesday to a dictatorship-era military archive that appears to contain long-held secrets about Paraguay's persecution of opponents during Alfredo Stroessner's 1954-1989 rule.
The multimillion dollar archive of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams has been donated to the University of Texas.
The growing popularity of Web-address shortening services like bit.ly creates the potential for a bevy of broken links should one of the providers suddenly cease operations.
"Flying Machine that will Work: Ohio Boys have Solved a Big Mechanical Problem," reads a headline from the Palestine Daily Herald in Texas.
Even from a young age, author Alice Walker was keeping a record.
The University of Massachusetts in Amherst said Friday it would scan, catalog, digitize and put online papers of civil rights movement pioneer W.E.B. Du Bois.
The public can now see thousands of documents and e-mails related to the 2007 mass shootings at Virginia Tech.
A major archive in Germany has purchased 15 custom-made scanners to digitize and catalog a huge collection of virtually untapped Holocaust records.
The governors of a newly opened archive of Nazi-era documents said Tuesday they will consider ending the 60-year role of the Red Cross in running the historically invaluable storehouse.
A vast archive of concentration camp logs detailing Nazi horrors and other German wartime documents formally opened to visitors Wednesday, more than six decades after it was founded to provide information about the victims of the Holocaust.
The names of some 3.5 million people displaced after World War II have been provided to Holocaust memorial groups and museums in the United States, Israel and Poland by a recently opened archive of Nazi-era documents.
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is offering to help survivors and their families navigate a vast Nazi archive that promises to document their persecution and provide clues to the fate of loved ones.
In 1942, 8-year-old Moshe Bar-Yuda walked hand-in-hand with his father to a collection point in his hometown in Slovakia and watched him being shipped off to a Nazi labor camp. The boy never saw him again, and for 66 years was left to wonder about his father's fate.
Norman Mailer was a literary pugilist, attacking his subjects and opponents as writer, debater and cultural provocateur.
The British Library has acquired the archives of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, including his correspondence with leading figures in theater and literature.
After more than 60 years, Nazi documents stored in a vast warehouse in Germany were unsealed Wednesday, opening a rich resource for Holocaust historians and for survivors to delve into their own tormented past.
A vast archive of Nazi-era documents started accepting online requests Thursday for information from victims of Nazi crimes and people tracing relatives — a move meant to speed up an often-slow process.
The commission controlling millions of wartime Nazi records began work Monday on a timetable for making the historical trove available to researchers, but Holocaust survivors complained their own access to the documents may still be restricted.
An international agreement to unseal a long-closed archive of Nazi concentration camp documents for scholarship has won crucial endorsement from Germany, officials said Thursday, giving the accord a majority among the 11-nations overseeing the treasure of historical documents.
The incoming head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and other U.S lawmakers are pressing governments to speed up ratification of an agreement that will open up access to millions of documents from the Nazi era in Germany.
Sixty years after his mother disappeared from the refugee camps of postwar Germany, Sol Factor hopes a vast archive of Nazi documents provides clues that might lead to a reunion, or at least answers.
Google Inc. is expanding its online news index to include stories published years ago, continuing the Internet search leader's recent efforts to create new sales channels for long-established media while it strives to make its own Web site even more useful.
An ongoing lawsuit between a company and a popular archive of Web pages raises questions about whether the archive unavoidably violates copyright laws while providing a valuable service, experts say.
Previously public intelligence documents, some more than 50 years old, have been sealed under a secret agreement between the National Archives and three federal agencies, according to records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
Flashback: Sunday, June 27, 2004 Kenyan-born Obama all set for US SenateFrom the Archives: Kenyan-born Obama all set for US Senate
BBC NEWS | Technology | Tech giants unite against GoogleFrom the BBC article: Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library. Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Book Alliance being spearheaded by the Internet Archive.
10 Ways to Archive Your TweetsDid you know that your tweets have an expiration date on them? While they never really disappear from your own Twitter stream, they become unsearchable in only a matter of days (via American Libraries Direct)
Most Cologne archive documents intact despite collapseThree months after the collapse of Cologne's city archives, experts are amazed by how many of the precious documents have survived the devastating accident.
Optical disc offers 500GB storage A disc that can store 500 gigabytes (GB) of data, equivalent to 100 DVDs, has been unveiled by General Electric. The micro-holographic disc, which is the same size as existing DVD discs, is aimed at the archive industry.
Workers unearth intact Cologne archive cellarsWorkers sifting through the rubble of Cologne's collapsed historical archive have discovered intact storage cellars with a substantial number of undamaged documents, the city announced on Sunday evening.
Cologne archive collapse damages could top €1 billionDamages from the collapse of Cologne's city archive, which destroyed and buried thousands of precious historical documents going back a thousand years, could exceed €1 billion, the magazine Focus reported Sunday.
Sun puts Internet Archive in a box, but will it stay there?The Internet Archive is moving its data to one of Sun's datacenter-in-a-box units, and not a minute too soon. At the rate that print is dying, we'll need to step up the archival pace if we're going to retain our cultural artifacts in the digital age.
Archive Collapse: Last Victim Found as Cologne Effort Switches to HistoryFor over a week, workers at the site of the collapsed archive building in Cologne have focused on finding victim remains. Now, the effort will switches to saving as much of the valuable archive inventory as possible. It is a race against time.
Second body retrieved from collapsed Cologne archiveRescue workers have retrieved the body of a second victim from the rubble of Cologne's historic archive more than a week after the building collapsed.
Finder thinks picture historicA Las Vegas collector believes he has found a hitherto undiscovered early photograph of Ulysses S. Grant, the general most responsible for winning the Civil War who later served as president from 1869 to 1877.
One body found in Cologne archive rubbleEarly Sunday morning, rescuers retrieved one corpse from the rubble of the Cologne historical archive that collapsed Tuesday. The search continues for a second man believed to buried in as much as four metres of debris.
History in Ruins: Archive Collapse Disaster for HistoriansThe collapse of the Historical Archive of Cologne on Tuesday buried more than a millenium's worth of documents under tons of rubble. Archivists and historians hope something can be salvaged, but the future of the city's past is grim.
Cologne mayor: metro 'almost irresponsible' Cologne's Mayor Fritz Schramma on Wednesday called into question further construction of a metro line after the dramatic collapse of city's historical archive left two people missing and a gaping hole where half a block of buildings once stood.
atool: handling archives without headachesHave you ever wrestled with tar(1) and other Unix archive tools? Wondered why every tool has its own arcane syntax and nonstandard behavior? And why on earth is it impossible to use unzip(1) to unpack multiple archive files?
The Muslim Vote-Duke Today Archive: Duke on CameraThe Muslim Vote Professor Jen'nan Read describes factors influencing how Muslim Americans vote.
Anti Islam video Game ???-Muslim Massacre" Creator Apologises And Pulls Game"Muslim Massacre" Creator Apologises And Pulls Game John "wardrox" September 13th, 2008 Is it really Game Over?The highly controversial indie game "Muslim Massacre" has been pulled from the net by its creator in an attempt to say "sorry" for any offence caused.
Google to Digitize Newspaper and Magazine Archives Google has begun scanning microfilm from some newspapers' historic archives to make them searchable online, first through Google News and eventually on the papers' own Web sites, the company said Monday.
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