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Re: RAIN 12/07: Lien times and millenial time capsules



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        One hopes that a cubic foot of chad were somehow added before the
seal was applied to the capsule! ;-)

> New York Times 12/06/00
> Nation's time capsule gets packed
> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Time-Capsule.html
>
> Associated Press
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- Soon to be locked into a new time capsule, tucked away
> for
> a century: a cell phone, GI dog tags, a color photo of the Eagle Nebulae
> taken by the Hubble space telescope, a recording of the sound of Louis
> Armstrong's trumpet and a chunk of concrete President Reagan chiseled out
> of
> the Berlin Wall.
> The National Millennium Time Capsule, made of steel, copper and titanium,
> is
> to be packed, sealed and stored in a secure, climate-controlled room under
> the safekeeping of the National Archives, storehouse of the nation's
> records.
> Two exhibit cases full of artifacts that will go into the time capsule
> went
> on display Wednesday at the National Archives in a ceremony at the
> archives'
> Pennsylvania Avenue headquarters.
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