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http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm NEW BEDFORD -- A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on Communism called "The Little Red Book." Two history professors at UMass Dartmouth...

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March 10, 2005 — Imagine if an asteroid plunged into Earth, killing all life in a giant fireball, or hostile aliens from a far-away planet launched an invasion and wiped out all life on our planet? Or what if a mutant, deadly plague spread from person to person and animal to animal and caused...

I was just wondering. If some of the books that the Great Libary of Alexandria were copied, then the originals might still be in circulation. I would like to know if I am correct.

I found this website http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3707641.stm it's about how archaeologists found the site of the Great Library of Alexandria. I thought that people already knew where it was. Didn't Carl Sagan in his first Cosmos episode go to the basement of the Great Library of...

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I have the chance to get a bunch of books for my daughter's elementary (K-5) school library. I'm looking for suggestions of suitable titles that would be suitable for that age range (6-12). I've flicked through the Prometheus books catalog and there are a couple that look suitable, but it is...

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http://www.spr.ac.uk/index.php3?page=onlinelibrary * * * * * * * * * * SPR ONLINE LIBRARY "You can now view and search the full text of all of the Journals and Proceedings published by the Society for Psychical Research. This service is available free of charge to all members. " There is...

The British Government has arranged for everyone in the UK (ie, with a UK based IP address), to have free access to the Cochrane Library online, according to this Guardian article: Cochrane Library online Even without a UK IP you can browse the abstracts.

Maybe some of you who didn't care about the National Museum's destruction will feel something tragic about this: Looters Ransack Iraq's National Library By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent BAGHDAD, Iraq - Looters and arsonists ransacked and gutted Iraq National Library, leaving a...