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RAIN 0720 Weekly Update: Archives (19)



New York Times 7/12/02
Getting It Right, F Stop and All
By DAVE KEHR
In Sam Mendes's "Road to Perdition," which opens nationwide today, Jude
Law has a role nearly as juicy as his Gigolo Joe, the elegant android in
Steven Spielberg's "A.I." He's Maguire, a freelance photographer in 1920's
Chicago who specializes in photographing murder victims; for a slight extra
fee, he'll do the killing himself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/12/movies/12FLIC.html


The Cabin 7/15/02
Clinton library construction shifting into high gear
http://www.thecabin.net/stories/071502/sta_0715020032.shtml


The Indiana Gazette 7/17/02
Historic Match
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4753877&BRD=1078&PAG=461&dept_id=151025&rfi=6

New York Times 7/17/02
An Irish Castle for Religious
Manuscripts
By BRIAN LAVERY
DUBLIN, July 16 — For decades one of the world's great collections of ancient religious manuscripts lay slumbering, relatively forgotten, down a quiet leafy avenue in a wealthy residential neighborhood here. It opened to the public with great fanfare in 1957 as the Chester Beatty Library, but in recent years it had become an unappreciated hidden treasure. Only dedicated students and diligent tourists ventured in to see its delicate Egyptian papyri and its beautiful illuminated Korans. On dismal winter days
perhaps one or two visitors came through the doors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/arts/design/17ARTS.html


New York Times 7/17/02
Declassified: A Spy Museum Opens in
Washington
By PHIL PATTON
WASHINGTON — "We were Q," said Jonna Mendez, a former chief of disguise for the Central Intelligence Agency, referring to the British technical expert who came up with whiz-bang weaponry for Agent 007. Mrs. Mendez and her husband, Antonio J. Mendez, are alumni of the C.I.A. Office of Technical Affairs. At what they sometimes call "the Magic
Kingdom," they devised spy gadgets, bogus documents and disguises.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/17/arts/design/17SPY.html


New York Times 7/17/02
Historians Find 1814 Taylor Indictment
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Zachary-Taylor-Indictment.html

CNN.com 7/18/02
Historians find 1814 assault indictment of
ex-President Zachary Taylor
July 18, 2002 Posted: 4:25 PM EDT (2025 GMT)
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (AP) -- Old legal problems have surfaced to taint another president. But the problems are really old -- try 188 years.
Historians said Tuesday that they have found an 1814 indictment of Major "Zachariah" Taylor on charges of assault and battery. Zachary Taylor went on to become the 12th U.S. president in 1848, though he served less than 500 days before dying in office.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/07/18/zachary.taylor.indictment.ap/index.html


BlackVoices.com 7/19/02
The Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society celebrates 25 years
http://new.blackvoices.com/news/bv-history020718.story?coll=bv-news-black-headlines


Reuters 7/19/02
Blues Archivist Alan Lomax Dead at 87 in Florida
Fri Jul 19, 9:41 PM ET
By Dean Goodman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Alan Lomax, a folk and blues archivist whose early recordings of such music legends as Muddy Waters and Leadbelly formed a vitally important piece of American history, died on Friday in Florida, his record label said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020720/people_nm/people_lomax_dc_2


The Canadian Press 7/18/02
New facility to keep old films from combusting
DEAN BEEBY
ADVERTISEMENT
OTTAWA (CP) - They're the most dangerous items in the vast collections of the National Archives of Canada: 5,200 reels of film and 1,500 boxes of photographic negatives
that can spontaneously combust unless handled with extreme care.
They're so dangerous, in fact, that the National Archives is building what amounts to a munitions depot this fall to house the historic collection. The $5.7-million facility will feature up to 30 separate vaults, each designed to contain an accidental spontaneous combustion and limit any damage to a small part of the holdings.
http://www.canada.com/entertainment/story.asp?id={29E8D75B-8360-4CBB-8752-8882C90702C5}
http://www.canoe.ca/LondonNews/lf.lf-07-19-0062.html

The Daily News 7/18/02
A chance connection leads to 'The History of Lincoln Lake'
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4778908&BRD=1625&PAG=461&dept_id=75221&rfi=6


New York Times 7/18/02
Archival Discs Turn Your Living
Room Into Mission Control
By HENRY FOUNTAIN
When HBO broadcast "From the Earth to the Moon," its miniseries about the Apollo program, some critics and viewers thought it was too long. For true space aficionados, however, even a 12-hour series was nowhere near long enough. For these fans, a small company in Charlotte, N.C., has the answer: hours and hours of archival films and television transmissions from Apollo missions, digitally transferred from NASA's
originals and assembled on sets of DVD's.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/18/technology/circuits/18GEE3.html


Washington Times 7/19/02
Clinton library as complex as his presidential legacy
By Frank J. Murray
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — They're finally raising high the roof beam of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library, a triumph over lawsuits, the slings and arrows of "Clinton-haters" (as his friends insist on calling his critics) and the pain of one-time union friends.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020719-817909.htm


Asahi Shimbun 7/19/02
Why wartime documents destroyed
The Asahi Shimbun
U.S. archives prove willful move to destroy war crimes evidence.
The Japanese military, at the behest of top brass, willfully destroyed piles of
official documents soon after Japan's defeat in World War II to throw victors off
the scent in anticipation of the ensuing Tokyo war crimes trials.
The Ministry of War, for example, ordered major field headquarters on Aug. 15,
1945-the day Japan surrendered-to burn documents carrying Emperor Hirohito's
authorization as well as his photographs. It admonished underlings to perform the
task ``with a sense of worship.''
http://www.asahi.com/english/national/K2002071900322.html


Detroit Free Press 7/19/02
Peter Blum: Brewer was tester, historian for Stroh
BY JEANNE MAY
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Peter Blum, who invented the formulas for Stroh's Light and Stroh's Signature beers, died of a heart attack July 12 at Cottage Hospital, Grosse Pointe Farms.
http://www.freep.com/news/obituaries/blum19_20020719.htm


EDP24 7/20/02
Battle to save rare books
They survived 600 years including changes of royal dynasty, two world wars, flash floods and one of the worst storms in living memory.
Now rare medieval books in one of the most famous country hall libraries in England have been damaged by a suspected leaky fire hose.
http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/News/story.asp?t...nline&itemid=NOED20+Jul+2002+00%3A21%3A58%3A963


Edinburgh Evening News 7/20/02
Academic bunkers Scots’ golf invention
claim
A GERMAN academic has ruffled feathers by claiming that Scots did not
invent golf - and that in fact it was first played by the Belgians and Dutch.
Dr Heiner Gillmeister, a historian at Bonn University, who wrote the entry
for golf for the latest Encyclopaedia Britannica, believes that references to
‘golf’ in ancient Scottish documents are misleading.
http://www.edinburghnews.com/scotland.cfm?id=781062002


Dallas Morning News 7/21/02
Letters reveal drama of the Texas frontier
By JOYCE GIBSON ROACH / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
"30,000 acres of land and several ranches, goodness knows how many head of cattle, fine horses and not one dime in our pocket." Such a declaration could be the opening of a historical romance novel, but it isn't. Instead, the lines are from one letter among some 200 Maria von Blücher wrote from the Texas coastal frontier back to parents in Berlin, Germany, in the second half of the 1800s.
http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/books/stories/072102dnbkrev1_corpus.a9d5d.html





Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va