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Rove memo found in Nixon archive WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) -- Even as a 22-year-old, U.S. Republican political operative Karl Rove had a propensity for slicing and dicing the electorate, it was reported Saturday. The New York Times said it found early evidence of Rove's organizational ability tucked inside 78,000 pages of Nixon administration documents released last week by the National Archives. Within those pages is a nine-page memo written in 1973 by Rove, who would go on to become the architect of George W. Bush's rise to political power. Rove outlines for Anne Armstrong, then co-chairman of the Republican...

Wednesday, Feb 14, 2007 (CBC) - Award-winning author and essayist Salman Rushdie got back into the classroom on Tuesday, teaching his first world literature class at Atlanta's Emory University. In addition to counting Rushdie as its writer-in-residence for the next five years, Emory is now also the holder of his literary archive, which includes journals, letters, e-mails, photos, unpublished works and manuscripts - including more than 1,000 typewritten pages from his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses. Asked why he chose to donate his archive to Emory, a school which he had only visited once before for during a 2004 lecture...

BAD AROLSEN, Germany - Within weeks of Hitler's 1933 rise to power, the iron gates slammed shut on inmates of the first Nazi concentration camps. It was the start of an unparalleled experiment in persecution and genocide that expanded over the next 12 years into a pyramid of ghettos, Gestapo prisons, slave labor camps and, ultimately, extermination factories. Holocaust historians are only now piecing together the scattered research in many languages to understand the vast scope of the camps, prisons and punishment centers that scarred German-ruled Europe, like a pox on the landscape stretching from Greece to Norway and eastward...

An al-Qaida-linked extremist group warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that he and the West were "doomed," as protesters raged across the Muslim world to demand more of an apology from the pontiff for his remarks about Islam and violence. The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni Arab extremist groups that includes al-Qaida in Iraq, issued a statement on a Web forum vowing to continue its holy war against the West. The authenticity of the statement could not be independently verified. The group said Muslims would be victorious and addressed the pope as "the worshipper of the cross"...

Just in. I am looking at a picture of the WTC with smoke pouring out of the western tower. Looks like a huge amount of damage. Debris raining down on people in the street.

Here are some links from the FR archives in observance of the fifth anniversary of 9/11/2001 - Threads list of several breaking news items - Latest Articles The first post reporting the attacks by OldEconomyBuyer - World Trade Center Posted on the first anniversary - Associated Press newswire - September 11, 2001 - Chronology of news alerts, bulletins and flashes

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Internet giant Google Inc., is expected to announce that it will offer a free archive service enabling Internet users to search for printed articles back to the 1700s, US newspapers reported. Called Google News Archive Search, the service will direct users to both paid and free content on publishers' Web sites, but will not generate revenues for Google itself, The New York Times said. "Were not focusing on monetization yet," Anurag Acharya, a Google engineer who helped develop the service was quoted as saying by the Times on Wednesday. "This is new territory for us." The company...

The Google News Archive Search, which launched today, will allow consumers to find articles on historical events of interest - such as the England 1966 World Cup win or President Kennedy's assassination - that were written at the time. Searches can be expanded to show coverage from a time period, or be narrowed to articles from a particular publication. The current Google News service offers only a 30-day archive, while the archive service offers access to articles as far back as "the mid-1700s".

VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 1, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The digital photo archive of L'Osservatore Romano is now on-line, replete with papal photos from as far back as 1930. The large-scale initiative now gives both professionals and private individuals access to thousands of photographs of the Pope and the Holy See via the Internet. "It has been an important endeavor of historical reconstruction which called for huge research commitment," Giuseppe Colombara, director of the photographic service of the Vatican paper, said in today's Italian edition of L'Osservatore Romano. The project required L'Osservatore staff to digitalize thousands of photographs which up to now were...

Google bringing search to historical manuscripts Using shape-matching technology Nancy Gohring History buffs can search George Washington's manuscripts online today for terms such as 'revolution', but only thanks to the tireless workers who transcribed the hand-written documents into digital form. Soon, many other hand-written historical documents could be made available for the public to search - and through considerably less effort - if a research project funded by Google and being executed by three universities works out as planned. The project, announced by DCU (Dublin City University) yesterday, started on a whim. DCU professor Alan Smeaton has been working on...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- For every sack of cement that was purchased, for every block of stone quarried and hauled to Rome, architects in charge of building St. Peter's Basilica filled out and filed away receipts and penned detailed notations in thick, bound ledgers. Even every artisan and worker hired, every on-the-job accident, lawsuit and progress report on the construction of the world's largest church were recorded and stored away in a little-known -- but priceless -- Vatican archive. The archives of the Fabbrica di San Pietro, the Vatican office responsible for the basilica's construction matters, certainly do not carry...

    The nation's 115 million home computers are brimming over with personal treasures — millions of photographs, music of every genre, college papers, the great American novel and, of course, mountains of e-mail messages.         Yet no one has figured out how to preserve these electronic materials for the next decade, much less for the ages. Like junk e-mail, the problem of digital archiving, which seems straightforward, confounds even the experts.        "To save a digital file for, let's say, a hundred years is going to take a lot of work," said Peter Hite,...

When I do a search, the only returns I can get are from the previous couple of days. If it is older than that, I simply cannot search them. Is there a problem? Am I doing something wrong?

2004.11 VANNROX BOOKMARK ARCHIVESINCLUDES 2004 ELECTION POSTS BUSH-HATING DEMS MUST FIND NEW WAYhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1270007/posts Candidate's disappearing yard signs reappear - at the dumphttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1206479/posts 'THOUGHT CONTROL' ALLEGED -Teachers who protest anthem to undergo 'retraining'http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189193/posts Al-Qaeda group downs US spy planehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1214458/posts Al-Qaeda group downs US spy planehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1214458/posts NC License Issue Explodes: Illegal Alien Gang Rape Suspects had Valid NC Licensehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1261858/posts US 'will not free' Iraq scientisthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1223366/posts 'Bush likes war, makes and creates war' - (Sentiment abroad)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1203284/posts 'EARLY BIRDS' BACKING BUSHhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1258420/posts A Few of FR's Finest...Every Day...10-27-04...."Writer33 ~ Defining a Conservative"http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1258512/posts CBS FORGES AHEADhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1215359/posts CONGRESS BIGS NIX PROBE INTO 'RATHERGATE'http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1217528/posts KILLER EFFORT TO...

In the latest twist to the document scandal, investigators said the revelation about translators was among several criticisms of America’s ability to deal with the looming al Qaeda threat contained in the “after action” memo on the millennium terror plot that is at the center of the Berger probe. Officials said an appeal to hire more translators familiar with Arabic, Pashto and other key “counter-terrorism” languages at the FBI, CIA and National Security Agency was among 29 proposals to tighten security contained in the report. The report written by former White House counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke also warned of the...

BERLIN – An ugly complex of buildings here that once housed the East German secret police is the stuff of dreams for two Iraqi exiles. The climate-controlled rooms, storing millions of pages of material gathered by Stasi spies - neatly categorized and ready for examination - are the kind of place Hassan Mneimneh and his colleague Kanan Makiya would like to see in Baghdad one day. "What you have here, we can only dream about," says Mr. Mneimneh, who with Mr. Makiya is trying to set up an archive documenting the Baathist regime that could be used to help bring...

My four year old Dell Pentium-III/450MHz PC has become overwhelmed by multi-tasking (I'm a writer/researcher and typically have 6-8 screens open at a time) and crashes at least once a day. In looking at new PCs I find that they no longer offer built-in Zip drives. This is very bad news as I have perhaps 100 zip disks containing needed and irreplacable material. 1. Can one still buy a new PC with a Zip drive? 2. If not, what is the best way to convert all zipped data to CD format, and what accessories are needed? Thanks.

Since its inception, Free Republic has been the world's premeire online gathering place for the discussion of the news, issues, opinions, and just about everything else.There have been several times when the members of Free Republic have posted important breaking news stories first, scooping the outlets of the mainstream media.Some exemplary threads merit mention in what I'd like to call the Free Republic Hall of Fame Threads.I believe this is a good way to remember and share some of the most important discussions that have occured on Free Republic.

At 7:52am EDT, under the innocuous title "World Trade Center," Oldeconomybuyer posted the first thread, writing: CNBC reports a plane has hit the World Trade Center in NY. No details... At 8:04-8:05am EDT on September 11, 2001, the following comments, among many others, appeared on several threads: Holy Cow!! Another plane just hit!! / Another plane just flew into the building! / OMG!!!! Huge explosion out the side!!! / A SECOND PLANE JUST NOW FLEW INTO THE SECOND TOWER!!! / 2 ND EXPLOSION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW / Another plane flew into the second tower. / TERRORISTS!!!! / O' the humanities! What the...

HER dusty file was one of hundreds of thousands of documents stacked in a house in a wealthy neighbourhood of Baghdad. Asma Rasheed married a pilot, lived comfortably in the presidential compound of Saddam Hussein and directed a microbiology programme that was not supposed to exist. Rasheed’s light blue folder has emerged from a huge archive seized by forces loyal to Ahmed Chalabi, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, which opposed Saddam. The archive — a dark who’s who of Iraq — reveals the tiniest details of blandishments and humiliations by a paranoid regime that shared the Nazis’ obsession...

VANNROXFEBRUARY 2003 BOOKMARK ARCHIVES     New reports say Iraq holding U.S. pilothttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820093/posts   China Moves Closer to Placing Man in Space (Their MARS Base getting closer each day!)http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/814216/posts   'Clump of cells' makes a baby-size impression in a broken hearthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/832154/posts   Is torture ever justified?http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/819688/posts   Pittsburgh Ponders Smoking Banhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820147/posts   College Textbook filled with Left-Wing Bias.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820028/posts   Democratic folklorehttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820059/posts   Martin Sheen's 'West Wing' Fantasyhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/831798/posts   Discredited volume on U.S. gun culture going out of printhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820095/posts   Bush refuses to deny 'wrong people' reliefhttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820101/posts   Federal facility accepts Mexican ID at Pelosi's requesthttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/820105/posts   Couple Arrested After...

Freepers seem to be good for obscure political stuff, I need the complete text of the 1996 Nigeria Democracy Act (H. R. 1786), it was a law written proposing sanctions to be levied against Nigeria after the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa in 1995, The law had some very serious implications for oil companies opperating in some of the worlds finer shitholes; I need this information for work unfortunetly every channel has turned up nothing, Virtually none of the bills supporters are still in Congress and a search for the title of the bill just brings up some useless abstracts and...

Read and post commentary on original 9-11 threads HERE in the remembrance archive. Reading these threads still brings back tears and anger, and is a good reminder why the scope of our war must not be determined by apologists and appeasers.

VANNROX Archived Links The following links were collected as interesting from the fall of 2001 up until early June 2002. These links are collected as interesting or as noteworthy for reasons known only to VANNROX. It is my hope that others may use these links and enjoy them as I have. Colonel's letter attacking Bush prompts debate on free speechhttp://www.FreeRepublic.com/focus/news/696687/posts Don't let Alan Keyes Get taken off the airhttp://www.FreeRepublic.com/focus/news/696447/posts Federal Judges who DEFY the Law and violate MANDATORY minimum Sentences imposed by Statute.http://www.FreeRepublic.com/focus/news/696964/posts I Sniff Some Politics (Bush approval rating: 73%)http://www.FreeRepublic.com/focus/news/685803/posts Missile Nuclear Warhttp://www.FreeRepublic.com/focus/news/691251/posts TERROR' LAWYER CAUGHT IN ACT'http://www.FreeRepublic.com/focus/news/694294/posts...