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Call for Papers: Third Annual Feminist Art History Conference « Enfilade

Third Annual Feminist Art History ConferenceAmerican University, Washington D.C., 9-11 November 2012Proposals due 15 May 2012This conference builds on the legacy of feminist art-historical sc…

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The Oldest Cat Video of All Time? – Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg – Video – The Atlantic

This 1894 film, one of the earliest produced by Thomas Edison’s movie studio, features two cats boxing — but it’s not actually the first recording of a cat in motion.

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Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob, (and Sex) Review | Universal Studios Ca

Average Reviews: (More customer reviews)Are you looking to buy Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob, (and Sex)? Here is the right place to find the great deals. we can offer discounts of up to 90% on Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob, (and Sex). Check out the link below: >> Click Here to See Compare Prices and Get the Best Offers Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob, (and Sex) ReviewI wanted so much to like this book. It’s a real snooze. Every "story" it contains is …  »

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Observations on film art : Pandora’s digital box: Pix and pixels

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Peter Rotsaert and Vico De Vocht examine a digital version of a silent film at the Brussels Cinematek. DB here: Today Dawson City, in the Yukon Territory of Canada, has fewer than two thousand people, but in the 1890s tens of thousands passed through in search of gold. Movies came along too, but the remoteness of the place made it the end of the line for most prints. Many were stored in the basement of the Carnegie Library. In 1929, an enterprising bank worker shifted them to an abandoned swimm…  »

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Judy: A Legendary Film Career Review | Hollywood Bowl Parking

Average Reviews: (More customer reviews)Are you looking to buy Judy: A Legendary Film Career? Here is the right place to find the great deals. we can offer discounts of up to 90% on Judy: A Legendary Film Career. Check out the link below: >> Click Here to See Compare Prices and Get the Best Offers Judy: A Legendary Film Career Review Author John Fricke has made a career out of writing books and appearing on programs about Judy Garland. Fricke is considered one of the "authorities" on Judy. …  »

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A Short History of Film Review | Universal Studios Ca

Average Reviews: (More customer reviews)Are you looking to buy A Short History of Film? Here is the right place to find the great deals. we can offer discounts of up to 90% on A Short History of Film. Check out the link below: >> Click Here to See Compare Prices and Get the Best Offers A Short History of Film ReviewI was wonderfully surprised by A Short History Of Film – it is concise, and yet full of information : probably almost each important fact in the movie timeline is included. The b…  »

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Vidéo Ina – Cinémathèque à Lyon : interviews Henri LANGLOIS, Roberto ROSSELINI et François TRUFFAUT, vidéo Cinémathèque à Lyon : interviews Henri LANGLOIS, Roberto ROSSELINI et François TRUFFAUT, vid…

A l’occasion de l’inauguration d’une antenne de la Cinémathèque française à Lyon, interviews de Henri LANGLOIS, de Roberto ROSSELINI et de François TRUFFAUT. – Archives vidéos Art et Culture Cinéma : Ina.fr

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Judy: A Legendary Film Career Review | Universal Studios Florida Tickets

Average Reviews: (More customer reviews)Are you looking to buy Judy: A Legendary Film Career? Here is the right place to find the great deals. we can offer discounts of up to 90% on Judy: A Legendary Film Career. Check out the link below: >> Click Here to See Compare Prices and Get the Best Offers Judy: A Legendary Film Career ReviewIf you are just discovering Judy Garland, then this book is a must buy. Filled with beautiful photos, first-hand anecdotes, and a well-organized format, the rea…  »

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Mrs. Lincoln, I Presume? Well, as It Turns Out …

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The serene portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln that hung for 32 years in the Illinois governor’s mansion, and the touching tale accompanying it, are false.

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‘Rasputin Was My Neighbor’ And Other True Tales Of Time Travel : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR

There are people who live long enough to create a link — a one-generation link — to figures from what feels like a distant past. And their presence among us shrinks history.

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Mission US 2: Flight to Freedom | EDSITEment

Mission US is a multimedia project that immerses players in U.S. history content through free interactive games.In Mission 2: “Flight to Freedom,” players take on the role of Lucy, a 14-year-old slave in Kentucky. As they navigate her escape and journey to Ohio, they discover that life in the “free” North is dangerous and difficult. In 1850, the

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Valentine’s Meat Juice | The Quack Doctor

Valentine’s Meat-Juice, The Medical World May 1914   The Quack Doctor is not a hearts and flowers kind of person, so was interested to learn of a dark side to this product’s history. Brought into production in Richmond, VA, in 1871, Valentine’s Meat-Juice became popular with orthodox physicians and was advertised in professional publications, including the British Medical Journal. Its inventor, Mann S. Valentine, told of its origins in his A Brief History of the Production of Valentine’s Meat J…  »

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Research Skills Toolkit for graduate researchers « Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine Library

(c) Flickr: AJC1 Need to brush up on your IT and information skills?  Why not come to a Research Skills Toolkit in 8th week? These free 2 hour workshops introduce key software and online tools to streamline your research, hone your searching and information skills and provide opportunities to  meet subject specialists. Topics on offer include: Finding articles, papers, conferences and theses Keeping up to date and current awareness Using Endnote to manage your references Manipulating images usi…  »

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Biography of an Artifact: The Theratron Junior and Canada’s Atomic Age | Érudit | Scientia Canadensis v34 n1 2011, p. 51-63 |

Dans le présent document, j’examine la vie d’un artéfact, en l’occurrence le Theratron Junior. Il s’agit d’une machine de radiothérapie aux lignes racées et à la couleur verte élégante, datant de 1956 et exposée en permanence au Musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada. On le voit actuellement à la lumière des innovations canadiennes, mais le Theratron Junior affiche des caractéristiques et possède une histoire qui nous ramène à plusieurs autres trames narratives concernant la science,…

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Diseases as verbs | Genotopia

Last week I reread Owsei Temkin’s classic essay from 1963, “The scientific approach to disease: specific entity and individual illness,” for a course I am co-teaching on individuality and medicine. (I have not found the Temkin essay online. If you … Continue reading →

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The Chirurgeon’s Library (NEW) « The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice

The Chirurgeon’s Library is a collection of reviews, interviews and recommendations on books relating to the history of medicine, science and the occult. There are three categories: fiction, popula…

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Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland | Facebook

Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland – Facebook home of the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland. Established in 2006 the Centre is a collaboration between University College Dublin and University of Ulster. The Centre is supported by Wellcome Trust. | Facebook

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Progress in medical science and technology? | Medical Museion

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A couple of days ago, historian of science Rebekah Higgitt (curator at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and author of a very good book about 19C Newton-biographers), myself and some other historians of science had a Twitter discussion about whether there is progress in science, and, if so, what we might mean by it. Now, Rebekah has taken the effort to collect the tweets and has posted them on her teleskopos history of science blog. The discussion speaks for itself, and I don’t want to…  »

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Human experiments: First, do harm : Nature News & Comment

In the 1940s, US doctors deliberately infected thousands of Guatemalans with venereal diseases. The wound is still raw.

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Plague Textual Analysis | Blogs | Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science

I wanted to see what happens when you feed a few plague tracts into Wordle and to think about whether or not it would be useful in my course on plagues and epidemics. While I’m not sure if it is useful, the results are interesting.

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Canton’s Class: Using Your Life to Teach Primary Sources

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Talk to any history teacher, whether they teach elementary, middle, or high school and they’ll tell you the importance of using primary source documents in their classroom…and I’m certainly not one to argue!  The biggest challenge for me is finding the right time and place to work the sources into my lessons. It’s admittedly a weaker point in my teaching, and one that I’m always working to improve…however, I created what I think is a great way to introduce the concept of primary sources to …  »

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Using an iPad in History teaching | Kerry Turner

Image by s. yume When the iPad first came out in April 2010 (was it really just over 18 months ago?) I wasn’t blown away. Here was an Apple device (as opposed to a very familiar Windoze one) which was unable to sit comfortably on a school network. It lacked USB ports or a camera, it had no compatibility with Flash and a complete absence of multitasking. This made it a fairly attractive thing to look at, but to me, more of a media player and leisure device. Not useful for teaching then.  It wasn…  »

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Environmental History News

The Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement (GSIHS) thematic Conference for 2012 will take place in All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin, 24-26 February, and is co-organised by the Discovery Programme and the Irish Environmental History Network.
The conference theme is Climate, Environment, Settlement and Society: Changing Historic Patterns in Ireland and will feature a Keynote Lecture by Prof. Michael O’Connell of the National University of Ireland, Galway, entitled: Climate, envir…  »

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‘Enslaved’ killer whales case may mark new frontier in animal rights – The Globe and Mail

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Animal rights group says SeaWorld whales are entitled under the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery

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Christchurch – a city built on buried forests? « envirohistory NZ

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I have been reading Kenneth B. Cumberland’s 1981 book Landmarks recently. The book, which was published in parallel with a television series of the same name,* is a colourful presentation (both in the literal and metaphorical sense)  of Cumberland’s views on New Zealand’s environmental history, supplemented by many photographs and illustrations. Some of the archaeological and [...]

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The Changing Place of Foxes on Prince Edward Island | ActiveHistory.ca

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by Ryan O’Connor I grew up on Prince Edward Island. As a youth I heard stories of the once-booming silver fox industry, which brought considerable wealth to the province in the early 1900s. While fox ranching has long since ceased, one need look no further than the provincial armorial bearings, adopted in 2002, for a reminder of its former significance. Red foxes are native to the woods and fields of Prince Edward Island. (The silver fox is a rare mutation of the red fox.) Despite spending cou…  »

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All Sizzle, No Stake | Alternatives Journal – Environmental Ideas + Action

Image LAST JUNE, I returned to Banff National Park after a long absence. It was good to be back. Banff, Canada’s first and most famous national park, is an important part of my home range. My daughter was born in Banff ’s Mineral Springs Hospital, her birth witnessed by a herd of curious elk just outside the window.

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Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, Afterlives « Time to Eat the Dogs

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Alfred Cort Haddon’s painting of an imagined Malo–Bomai ceremony in pre-contact Credit: Paul Burke Australian National University Last weekend, I attended a symposium, “Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, Afterlives” at the Bard Graduate Center in New York. I will post some reflections about  themes of the conference, starting here with the keynote speech by historian of anthropology, Henrika Kuklick. In her address “Science as Adventure” Kuklick describes a historical shift in th…  »

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The Man Who Invented Yosemite (Hint: It’s not John Muir) | Golden Green | The Back Forty | KCET

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Image from "A Familiar Letter from a Daughter to Her Mother" (1871) by Alice Ives Van Schaack | Image: yosemite.ca.us Only a couple of thousand tourists trekked into Yosemite in 1871, yet they knew what they were coming to see; the sites they visited were predetermined and their responses to them were pre-felt. The magnificent valley may have been well off the beaten path but its falls and domes and meadows were already "sites." That’s why these intrepid travelers had taken the trouble, and in …  »

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EPA moving in on state regulation of drilling

Tweet Tweet Reprinted with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. Not for republication by Wyoming media. U.S. EPA’s decision to truck water to four homes in Dimock, Pa., is just its latest move to bypass state regulation of natural

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A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust-Rescuers

Rescuers of those whose lives were in danger during the Holocaust are considered in this section of A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust.

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The Black & Tans; Franco’s Friends; Life of a WW2 Spy | History Today

Like buses on a wet November night good books on Intelligence are rare – but to have three corkers like these arrive at once is a treat indeed. Intelligence is the hidden hand of history, often only revealing its real role years after the event, and this is certainly true of the trio of books under review.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

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Historic Cities: Maps & Documents

The site contains high resolution maps and documents on the history of historic cities in Europe and in the Mediterranean

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The Battlefield as Classroom – NYTimes.com

How one teacher uses trips to Civil War sites to explain courage, sacrifice and freedom.

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50 stunning Olympic moments No13: Tommie Smith and John Carlos salute | Simon Burnton | Sport | The Guardian

Simon Burnton: Tommie Smith and John Carlos don black gloves and give the Black Power salute on the podium in Mexico in 1968

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The Easter Rising

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This Powerpoint resource on the 1916 Easter Rising summarises the background to the conflict, who was involved and the buildings that took centre stage during the conflict. It also focuses on a little known figure in the Rising, Elizabeth O’ Farrell. The accompanying handout/worksheet is for follow-up pair work – it gives more information about the figure of Elizabeth O’ Farrell and gives pupils questions for research to find out more about her. Source: Dennis Collins Download Elizabeth O’ Farr…  »

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10 People Who Saved Jews During World War Two

Top 10 Lists: During World War Two, many individuals from many countries risked their lives to save various minorities, especially Jews, from the horrors of the Holocaust. This list commemorates 10 of them.

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Hull House closes earlier than anticipated – Chicago Tribune

Jane Addams Hull House Association will be out of business Friday, leaving employees and clients scrambling to fill a void the 122-year-old organization will leave. Despite announcing last week

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Mark Cousins’s "The Story of Film" on Notebook | MUBI

"There have been lots of books that tell the history of the movies, but so far almost no films," Mark Cousins told indieWIRE’s Peter Knegt last September. We should

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Sundance 2012: Ava Duvernay Becomes First Black Woman To Win Best Director Prize For ‘Middle Of Nowhere’ (VIDEO)

Ava DuVernay won the Best Director award at the Sundance Film Festival for her drama ‘Middle Of Nowhere — making her the first black woman to take home the honor.

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MGM REVIEWS – Today In Film History: February 1 – Today In Film History: February 1

Today In Film History: February 1, 1901 Clark Cable was born, star of “Gone With The Wind” (1939).His final film was “The Misfits” which happened to also be Marilyn Monroe’s last completed film. In 1893 Thomas A. Edison completed the first motion-picture studio, named the Kinetographic Theater.

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Dark secrets revealed – the making ‘Swallows and Amazons’ in 1973 | sophieneville

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Sophie Neville as Titty in ‘Swallows and Amazons’ ‘Here we are, intrepid explorers making our way into uncharted waters. What mysteries will they hold for us? What dark secrets shall be revealed?’ The dark secret was that the inky black night scenes had to be shot in Mrs Batty’s barn. At Bank Ground Farm. During the day.  The design team strung up thick light-proof drapes and made the dusty out-building into a studio. The director, Claude Whatham had no choice.  We had quickly run out of interi…  »

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First Listen: Air, ‘Le Voyage Dans La Lune’ : NPR

Commissioned in conjunction with the priceless restoration of the groundbreaking 1902 science-fiction film of the same name, Le Voyage Dans La Lune provides a springily modern supplement to a work of massive historical import.

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