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"This is the website of a major research project funded by the British Arts & Humanities Research Council dealing with concentration camps in Nazi Germany in the pre-war period. The website has a special section with primary sources: "The absence of accessible documentary material has contributed greatly to the widespread lack of knowledge about the pre-war Nazi concentration camps. Key documents are scattered across archives throughout the world, while most published survivors' memoirs have long been forgotten or gone out of print. This website brings together a selection of documents about the pre-war camps, drawn from various archives and libraries. These sources shed light on the SS camps between 1933 and 1939. Documents have been divided into six sections, each focusing on a different aspect of the SS camps, from their emergence (1) and later consolidation (2) under a professional corps of SS men (3), to the conditions inside the camps (4) for different inmate groups (5), as well as the public face of the camps (6). All the documents - as well as several hundred others - appear in: Christian Goeschel and Nikolaus Wachsmann (eds), Before the Holocaust: Documents from the Nazi Camps, 1933-1939 (Lincoln, NE: Nebraska University Press, forthcoming) All documents are translated into English (translation: Ewald Osers). In addition, some documents are available in the German original." "

"10 Fascinating Sealed and Secret Documents"

"With the help of enhanced imagery and an expert in Elizabethan script, archaeologists are beginning to unravel the meaning of mysterious text and images etched into a rare 400-year-old slate tablet discovered this past summer at Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America. Digitally enhanced images of the slate are helping to isolate inscriptions and illuminate fine details on the slate-the first with extensive inscriptions discovered at any early American colonial site, said William Kelso, director of research and interpretation at the 17th-century Historic Jamestowne site (Jamestown map). (Explore an interactive guide to colonial Jamestown.) The enhancements have helped researchers identify a 16th-century writing style used on the slate and discern new symbols, researchers announced last week. The characters may be from an obscure Algonquian Indian alphabet created by an English scientist to help explorers pronounce the language spoken by the Virginia Indians. "Just like finding the Rosetta Stone led to a better understanding of the Egyptians, this tablet is beginning to add significantly to our understanding of the earliest years at Jamestown," Kelso said. It conveys messages about literacy, art, symbols and signs personally communicated by the colonists who used it, he explained. "What other single artifact has been found that has so much to tell?" Both sides of the scratched and worn 5-by-8 inch (13-by-20 centimeter) tablet are covered with words, symbols, numbers, and drawings of people, plants, and birds that its owner or other users likely encountered in the New World. There are differences in the style of handwriting, which may mean that more than one person used the tablet as a sketch pad and possibly for writing rough drafts of documents, Kelso noted. Enhanced Images To help researchers decipher the inscriptions, curators at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum Conservation Institute recently produced enhanced images

"Faltam menos de quatro meses para o novo presidente da República assumir o governo, mas Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ainda não decidiu qual o destino do imenso acervo pessoal que acumulou em mais de sete anos de mandato. Assim que um presidente é diplomado pelo Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE), seus pertences passam a ter interesse documental (organizados pela União), independentemente do chefe do Executivo nacional ter recebido os objetos antes, durante ou depois do mandato presidencial. Os presentes que Lula ganha em suas viagens pelo País e pelo exterior, e também os que são enviados para a Presidência, fazem parte desse acervo. A variedade de itens recebidos é imensa. Vão desde simples camisetas, bonés, peças de artesanato, rosários, santos, quadros, tapetes, bolas de futebol, até colares de ouro cravejados de rubis e brilhantes."

A biblical expert at the University of Chicago, Margaret M. Mitchell, together with experts in micro-chemical analysis and medieval bookmaking, has concluded that one of the University Library's most enigmatic possessions is a forgery. The book, a copy of the Gospel of Mark, will remain in the collection as a study document for scholars studying the authenticity of ancient books.

"Welcome to GreatBuildings, the world of architecture online at the leading architecture reference site on the web. This gateway to architecture around the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects with photographic images and architectural drawings, integrated maps and timelines, 3D building models, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more, for famous designers and structures of all kinds. For up-to-the-moment coverage of the latest buildings, designers, and ideas, GreatBuildings.com is richly cross-linked with ArchitectureWeek, the leading architecture magazine online, and Archiplanet, the community-created all-buildings collection. "

A 13th-century letter from Genghis Khan's grandson demanding homage from the pope is among a collection of documents from the Vatican's Secret Archives that has been published for the first time.

"Kate Ravilious for National Geographic News January 14, 2010 Cleopatra and her kin knew a thing or two about crafting an alluring smoky eye. Now French researchers suggest that the ancient Egyptians' heavily painted eyelids did more than attract admirers-they also protected against eye infections. (Related: "Scorpion King's Wines-Egypt's Oldest-Spiked With Meds.") Artifacts and documents from ancient Egypt show that everyone, man or woman from servant to queen, wore black and green powders coated thickly around the eyes. "People wore it on a daily basis," said study co-author Christian Amatore, from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France. According to ancient Egyptian manuscripts, the eye makeup was believed to have a magical role, in which the gods Horus and Ra would protect wearers against several illnesses. Bacterial eye infections such as conjunctivitus, for example, would have been a common problem along the Nile's tropical marshes. But previous chemical analyses of powder residue, taken from ancient makeup containers, had isolated four lead-based compounds. That would seem to suggest that the makeup was harmful, since lead can be highly toxic to humans. Makeup's "Magic" Required Hard Work Instead, the new study found that the low doses of lead salts in the makeup may have actually had beneficial properties: When the salts come into contact with skin, they boost the body's production of nitric oxide. This chemical is known to stimulate the immune system and help fight off disease-causing bacteria. Based on the amount of the lead compounds in the ancient makeup, a wearer's nitric oxide levels would have increased by 240 percent, the study found. "Two of these chemicals do not occur naturally, and would have taken 30 days of hard work to make," Amatore said. "In my opinion, [the ancient Egyptians] were aware that these compounds brought good health, and they were making them on purpose." The research is detailed in the Jan

"SÃO PAULO - Para João Pedro Stédile, líder do Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), daqui a um século "a sociedade mais desigual do planeta, a brasileira", terá se redimido de suas injustiças. As fronteiras estarão dissolvidas e viveremos em um mundo socialista. Já o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva acredita que em 2090 o Brasil estará na liderança mundial. Na contramão dos dois, o escritor Ferréz supõe que o País sequer vai existir. Para ele, as coisas do jeito que estão só podem caminhar para um cenário de destruição e miséria. "Se plantasse livro, colhia doutor. Está plantando arma, vai colher homicida", diz Ferréz em "O Que Vem Por Aí", quinto e último episódio da série documental "Lutas.doc", que a TV Brasil exibe amanhã, às 23 horas, com reprise na quinta-feira, à meia-noite. Com depoimentos de historiadores, políticos, filósofos e artistas, "Lutas.doc" reflete sobre a violência e suas raízes na história brasileira. Como o próprio nome sugere o episódio "O que vem por aí" fala do futuro. "Só se consegue mudar o futuro com profundo conhecimento do passado", considera o diretor Luiz Bolognesi, produtor e roteirista de "O Bicho de Sete Cabeças" (2001) e "Chega de Saudade" (2007) e parceiro de Laís Bodanzky no Cine Tela Brasil, ex-Cinema Mambembe, há 12 anos levando filmes de graça às periferias do País, atualmente em salas com ar condicionado e 225 lugares. "Hoje temos patrocínio e a abóbora virou carruagem", diz o diretor. As entrevistas exibidas em "Lutas.doc" foram realizadas no ano passado, mas o desenho animado que é intercalado aos depoimentos levou três anos para ser produzido por uma equipe de 60 profissionais trabalhando todos os dias. A série é o embrião de uma animação em longa-metragem com previsão de chegar aos cinemas no primeiro semestre de 2011. No desenho animado "Lutas", o protagonista, cuja voz é do ator Selton Melo, vive 600 anos em quatro fases: é um índ

"The program is designed to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge and understanding of and appreciation for traditional U.S. history. Grant awards will assist LEAs, in partnership with entities that have content expertise, to develop, document, evaluate, and disseminate innovative and cohesive models of professional development. By helping teachers to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of U.S. history as a separate subject matter within the core curriculum, these programs will improve instruction and raise student achievement. "

"Le premier numéro de la nouvelle série de GRADHIVA est consacré à l'anthropologie en Haïti : ses origines, son rôle, ses évolutions récentes, son devenir. Ce numéro double de 272 pages, illustré de nombreux clichés, évoque les rapports étroits entre l'anthropologie et la culture multiforme d'Haïti, à travers l'oeuvre de peintres, d'historiens, d'écrivains, ou d'ethnologues haïtiens. Le dossier analyse le développement d'une anthropologie haïtienne nécessairement liée à la question raciale et à la situation politique singulière de cepays, permettant de mieux comprendre la complexité culturelle et politique de la société haïtienne contemporaine. Il est complété par de nombreux documents d'archives inédits, tels ceux de Michel Leiris ou d'Alfred Métraux, qui furent fascinés par le vodou. Le dossier « Haïti et l'anthropologie » a été coordonné par Carlo Avierl Celius, professeur d'histoire comparée à l'université de Laval. En marge de ce dossier, deux textes essentiels sont proposés : l'un de Marcel Detienne sur le comparatisme en anthropologie et en histoire, l'autre - complété d'un entretien mené par Jean-Luc Bonniol - de René Depestre sur son parcours haïtien."

""Dream of Life", un documental que se proyectó en más de 30 festivales de cine en todo el mundo, muestra algunos momentos del apogeo creativo de la vida de Patti Smith, con películas de archivos y filmaciones de actuaciones recientes capturadas por el fotógrafo de moda y neófito en el cine Steven Sebring. "

"Varsóvia, 28 jan (EFE).- Parece filme, mas são imagens inéditas da Segunda Guerra Mundial, digitalizadas pelo "Canal História" para a série documental "IIGM: os arquivos perdidos", uma série épica apresentada hoje por um daqueles soldados que saiu dos Estados Unidos pensando que matar nazistas "era um jogo"."

"O Museu da Fotografia inaugura hoje a exposição Documentos de um Olhar (confira o serviço completo da exposição), com 94 imagens da coleção de negativos em chapas de vidro do fotógrafo curitibano Arthur Wischral, pioneiro da fotografia documental no país. A exposição, promovida pela Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, traz imagens de Curitiba e de outras cidades paranaenses entre os anos de 1910 e 1964. Nesses mais de 50 anos, Wischral captou mo­­mentos importantes do crescimento de Curitiba e do estado: o dia a dia dos moradores, o processo de urbanização e as obras ferroviárias, além do homem paranaense do interior e do litoral. "

"Toda la información sobre el cine documental y de ficción producido desde 1976 hasta 2011 que tiene vínculos con la última dictadura militar está reunida en La dictadura en el cine, un catálogo disponible en Internet. Ricardo Piglia, Lita Stantic, Gonzalo Aguilar y Fernando Martín Peña reflexionan sobre la función del cine que, sólo en 2010, produjo 30 películas que miran hacia esa época."

"Hay un museo en el interior reseco de Uzbekistán que es conocido principalmente por periodistas y amantes del arte que regresaron de la lejana ciudad de Nukus con una mirada deslumbrada y un relato asombroso, como si hubieran dado con la cueva de Ali Baba. Ahora "El desierto del arte prohibido", un documental de origen estadounidense, trata de atraer la atención internacional sobre el Museo de Arte del Estado de Karakalpakstán y el hecho de que alberga una de las colecciones más grandes del mundo de arte de la vanguardia rusa."

"En el marco del BAFICI se estrena este fin de semana un filme sobre el mítico juicio a los jerarcas nazis que fue financiado y luego censurado por los Estados Unidos. Sandra Schulberg, hija del director, restauró la película el año pasado y ahora llega a la sala de Proa para presentarlo. Un acercamiento al documental de guerra como género propagandístico."

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"Estudos sobre o arquivo Deops-SP revelam como funcionava a lógica da repressão nos tempos da ditadura"