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October 31, 2005

Saville Row Tailor blog

english cut: bespoke savile row tailors

Posted by hag at 9:45 PM

DNA/race article

Why Race Isn't as 'Black' and 'White' as We Think - New York Times

Posted by hag at 9:05 AM

October 28, 2005

Using Images in classroom

Images Can Make Powerful Slam Dunk Digital Lessons
Criteria for selecting images, generating questions/brainstorming around an image.

Posted by hag at 11:01 AM

Book: Digital History (creating)

Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web

Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig do it again, this time as a "how to" book (entire contents online at the link) on creating digital history projects.

Posted by hag at 9:28 AM

October 21, 2005

NYTimes: NYPL Illuminated Manuscripts

Illuminated Pages Capturing a Fading World - New York Times

Though Feb. 11, NYPL displays 100 illuminated books. Also displays some books with additional monitor "page-turner" viewers. Includes a girdle bok, "in this case a breviary in a second wood binding designed to be strung from a belt. It is bound upside down so that it resembles a blocky mallet, and it is one of only two dozen known to exist."

Posted by hag at 9:06 AM

October 18, 2005

Tailor Made for History
Williamsburg tailors, seamstresses and mantua makers, general info about 18th century tailors and grament industry.

Posted by hag at 9:08 AM

October 12, 2005

NYTimes: Arctic melt, new coastline article

NY Times
October 10, 2005
The Big Melt
As Polar Ice Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS, STEVEN LEE MYERS, ANDREW C. REVKIN and SIMON ROMERO

CHURCHILL, Manitoba - It seems harsh to say that bad news for polar bears is good for Pat Broe. Mr. Broe, a Denver entrepreneur, is no more to blame than anyone else for a meltdown at the top of the world that threatens Arctic mammals and ancient traditions and lends credibility to dark visions of global warming.

Still, the newest study of the Arctic ice cap - finding that it faded this summer to its smallest size ever recorded - is beginning to make Mr. Broe look like a visionary for buying this derelict Hudson Bay port from the Canadian government in 1997. Especially at the price he paid: about $7.

Complete article at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/science/10arctic.html?pagewanted=print

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