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    Iraqi Baath Party Record

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    This paper explores the political, legal, and ethical issues at stake in the debate over the custody of the Iraqi Baath Party records. Caswell presents the Iraqi Baath Party records as a lens through which one can view the complexities of cultural property repatriation on a broader scale – and how the current frameworks of repatriation only perpetuate dangerously oversimplified binary thinking. First, a brief outline of the case: During the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, seven million pages of Saddam

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    In 1997 Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel published a short volume to commemorate its 150th anniversary. The book noted: “With Keneseth Israel’s long and significant role in the history of Jewish life in Philadelphia, it is little wonder the synagogue houses one of the most extensive synagogue archives in existence.” The Archives was founded in 1974 at the suggestion of Rabbi Bertram W. Korn, who was a significant historian of American Jewish history, as well as the senior rabbi at KI, and

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    Continuing the previous story this teen has learned about organizing and soon he develops a habit of this whish in the future is a skill that could him get many jobs like a construction superintendent, a real estate agent, an IT project manager, a museum archivist, and much more. Trusting someone isn't just a matter of babysitting or keeping secrets it can completely change the relationship between a teen and his parents which is constructed solely on trust. Parents have all been teens once they've made

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    For the title of my research paper I think I will give a very clear but interesting title I don 't want to make the title very witty or funny because I feel that it could deduct from this significant feature of american history and culture I am thinking of potentially titling the paper “The Bonds of the Confederacy” I hope that my research into the history of confederate war bonds will show that at the time the bonds seemed like a good idea to fund the confederacy but in hindsight the were not

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    Project: The Middle Tennessee History Coalition (MTHC), in collaboration with the Tennessee State Library and Archives the North Carolina State Library, and the University of North Carolina, proposes a project that will digitize the Colonial and State Records of North Carolina. This is a collection of approximately 9,400 documents that cover a period from European settlement to the founding of the United States and beyond. All twenty-six volumes will be digitized. The colonial records of North

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    I've been fairly busy as of late. Notably, yesterday was a pretty interesting day. I'm not exactly feeling well, think I'm coming down with something. How often is it that a Jedi contracts a cold? Just not feeling as spry, I think. My stomach is churning as I type, something is missing, think I might have to take a reprieve sooner rather than later. Maybe I'll be gone for a cycle, maybe I'll be gone for a year. I don't know. I just know that I need to focus on other things. That's not the point of

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    Holocaust and the Moving Image: representations in film and television since 1933, is a collection of essays that grew out of the 2001, Holocaust, Genocide, and the Moving Image: Film and Television Representations Since 1933 symposium held at the Imperial War Museum in London. The conference, was designed to address the historic, social, educational, and psychological relationships bound to the experiences of the Holocaust and film, while reaching forward to actualize the knowledge and expertise

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    The Titanic “Striking the water was like a thousand knives being driven into one’s body.The temperature was 28 degrees, four degrees below freezing.” -(charles lightoller, Titanic second officer.) (Titanic quotes 1). “The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it.” (- Eva Hart, Survivor of the Titanic) (Titanic quotes1). The Titanic, a British luxury liner that

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    Religious Degrees

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    The majority of universities will not require specific su8bjects as prerequisites, therefore individuals do not need to worry if they do not have religious studies as an A-level. However, A-levels in religious studies, philosophy, ethics, languages, history or English will help a candidate’s application. Exact grade requirements will vary between institutions, with some asking for AAB and others asking for 200 UCAS tariff points. Students are advised to check with their chosen universities and degree

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    Philharmonic, where he ultimately revolutionized the role of conductors and the status of American music. The figure to the left demonstrates the joyous atmosphere between Bernstein and his musicians. According to the “calculations” by Barbara Haws, the archivist and historian of the New York Fig. 2. Bernstein (right) chatters with his musicians (“Leonard Bernstein”). Philharmonic, Bernstein “bestowed almost 500,000 . . . hugs” throughout his years of “greeting each musician” before rehearsal began. The

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