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	The History Guide -- Resources for Historians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Massive list of historical resources chosen by librarian, Margaret Vail Anderson.
		Outstanding interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration among instructors.
		Comprehensive collection of resources on literature, history, art, music, religion, economics and philosophy in the eighteenth century, defined as the period falling in between Milton and Keats.
	www.historyguide.org /resources.html (1295 words)

	Wikinfo \| Dubious historical resources
		The following is a canon of historical resources (often cited as though they were completely historically accurate) which may well be open to a considerable degree of question and must be used with the greatest of care:
		Case in point, lots of things that have been written about the History of China, in particular the post-Song "decline", anything about Zheng He, the 1911 revolution, the interaction between China and Europe in the 19th century, the interaction between China and Europe before the 19th century.
		See historical revisionism for more discussion of the revision of historical opinion.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Dubious_historical_resources (387 words)

	List of dubious historical resources - Academic Kids (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The following is a list of historical resources (often cited as though they were completely historically accurate) that are widely considered to be of questionable historical accuracy.
		Holy Blood, Holy Grail, used by Dan Brown as a resource in writing the novel The Da Vinci Code, which itself is dubious.
		Also in citing historical resources keep in mind that what may generally regarded as truth by one generation of historians, may become extremely controversial by the next generation, who may not only have more complete facts, but may also be looking at the situation with a different set of historical biases.
	www.academickids.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/index.php/Dubious_historical_resources (388 words)

	Historical classification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Historical classification groups the various history topics into different categories according to subject matter as shown below.
		A form of historical speculation known commonly as virtual history, or "counterfactual history", has also been adopted by some historians as a means of assessing and exploring the possible outcomes if certain events had not occurred or had occurred in a different way.
		Lists of false or dubious historical resources and historical myths that were once popular and widespread, or have becomes so, have also been prepared.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Historical_classification (161 words)

	Da Vinci Code: The Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It is found that the principal presuppositions of (i) scientific naturalism, (ii) the primacy of the apocryphal gospels, and (iii) the necessity of a politically correct Jesus are unjustified and issue in a distorted portrait of the historical Jesus.
		Although the Jesus Seminar makes a pretention of speaking for scholarship on the quest of the historical Jesus, it is shown that in fact it is a small body of critics in pursuit of a cultural agenda.
		Then the historicity of a few specific aspects of Jesus' life are addressed, including his radical self-concept as the divine Son of God, his role as a miracle-worker, his trial and crucifixion, and his resurrection from the dead.
	www.leaderu.com /focus/davincicode.html (2178 words)

	PLURALISM
		While it is true that adherents of one tradition may reject the teachings of other religions because they fail to cohere with their own teachings, it does not follow from this that there are no criteria which can be used to evaluate religious traditions.
		Christian salvation is not confined to the historical or geographic extent special revelation has spread, rather it must be available to all cultures, irrespective of age or geography.Salvation is still posited wholly in Christ and his salvific work.
		Jesus of Nazareth was born under the reign of an historical Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and He suffered and died at the hands of another Roman governor, Pontius Pilate.
	churches.net /churches/utmiss/Religionsectlists/PLURALISM.htm (13208 words)

	Socialist Viewpoint ... news and analysis for working people
		This conquest is paid for with the destruction of millions of the world’s innocent people, along with the accumulated wealth of society and wasted human and material resources.
		It was this German revolutionary Marxist who coined the catchphrase which has echoed around the world ever since by revolutionary Marxists everywhere—“Socialism or Barbarism!” In it she argued that the only choice before the human race was an ever deeper descent into barbarism or the overthrow of capitalism by socialist revolution.
		She argued further that the world had reached an historical turning point which demands resolute action by the workers of the world to carry through the revolutionary overthrow of capitalist barbarism and create a socialist world.
	www.socialistviewpoint.org (1627 words)

	Untitled Document
		But the coolest is probably Kate Monk's Onamastikon, which has lists by region for the sole purpose of naming characters.
		Once your list is complete, contact your public relations person and pass it on to him or her.
		There are also the bookseller lists, most notably the New York Times Bestseller List (you may have to register to see this), the BookSense Bestsellers List, and the PW Bestseller List.
	www.blackholly.com /writingresources.htm (3438 words)

	Historicity of Jesus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Misunderstandings of historical method are rife in Francis Beckwith's chapter in the book 'In Defense of Miracles,' and these are typical of all modern apologetics.
		Dennis MacDonald's shocking thesis is that the Gospel of Mark is a deliberate and conscious anti-epic, an inversion of the Greek "Bible" of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, which in a sense "updates" and Judaizes the outdated heroic values presented by Homer, in the figure of a new hero, Jesus (whose name, of course, means "Savior").
		His evidence is surprisingly solid and pervasive, and the implications for the historicity of Christ are profound.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/theism/christianity/historicity.html (1665 words)

	Chaco Culture National Historical Park travel guide - Wikitravel
		Chaco Culture National Historical Park [1] is a major unit of the United States national park system located just outside Navajo Nation in New Mexico.
		The Chaco dwellings were built and occupied primarily between about 850 and 1250 AD, during which time they were the hub of a remarkable network of transportation routes, many of which survive today as the "roads" of Chaco.
		The present park was one of the first units of the National Park System to be formed specifically to protect archaeological resources, being first formed as Chaco Canyon National Monument in 1907 (shortly after Mesa Verde National Park, which also started as a national monument rather than a park).
	wikitravel.org /en/Chaco_Culture_National_Historical_Park (2569 words)

	LINGUIST List 12.1111: Ravin & Leacock, Polysemy
		With reference to different works on contextual representations, they argue that it is still dubious how to extract adequate contextual representation from the local contexts.
		In next two sections, they report their implementation of a methodology (designed by using combinational knowledge resources like MRDs, filters, partial taggers etc.), and describe and evaluate a sense tagger implemented within the methodology.
		Critical evaluation In general the volume provides the readers a broad overview with a historical and issue-based background for the treatment of polysemy, examines and contrasts a range of current approaches, and highlights many unresolved problems in the theoretical understanding of polysemy and the present computational challenges.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/12/12-1111.html (3577 words)

	MN Fisheries
		Historical documents, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources stream surveys, and the 66,000 record distributional database of the James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History (1879-2002) were used to produce a field-usable checklist of the 160 fish species known from Minnesota waters and waters shared with its boundary states and Canadian provinces.
		Lepomis humilis—The orangespotted sunfish was historically present in the Minnesota River, Missouri River, and Lower Mississippi River drainages.
		A list of fishes from Cass Lake, northern Minnesota.
	www.mnacadsci.org /Journal/03_ANewDistributionListOfMNFisheries.htm (10312 words)

	Historical Linguistics Resources
		Resources on the history of the English language
		History of the English Language homepage – a great resource with references on various stages of the language and links to courses, HEL-List archives and information on conferences and
		On the relationship between DNA evidence and theories of long-range historical linguistics Genetic distance and language affinities
	www-personal.umich.edu /~duanmu/ling211/historical.htm (634 words)

	List of conspiracy theories - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of conspiracy theories; it contains theories which are considered to be conspiracy theories by identified authorities.
		Related is the allegation that certain wars which are claimed by politicians to be in the national interest, or for humanitarian purposes, are in fact motivated by the conquest and control of natural resources for commercial interest.
		Countless historical figures have been called "Antichrist" in their times, from the Roman emperor Nero to Ronald Reagan to Javier Solana.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_alleged_conspiracy_theories (6005 words)

	Resources for Community Currency Activists
		2-volume, 3 1/2 hour, fast-paced, non-fiction, historical documentary video throws back the veil of deceit hiding the origins and operations of the corrupt banking plutocracy that owns and rules America, and is gradually and clandestinely imposing a worldwide tyranny on the rest of mankind...from their website.
		Generally their critique is useful, but I am dubious at their oferred "solution." I think I saw this years ago at a conference in Italy.
		Enormous resources have been squandered to distract, mislead, deflect, frighten attention from a deep understanding of the events of September 11th, what actually happened, why it happened, who has benefited, and who is paying the price.
	www.communitycurrency.org /resources.html (8346 words)

	Online Medical Information Sources
		This list is a compilation by Dr. James A. Duke of all botanicals that appear on FDA's GRAS list, a list of food additives that are Generally Recognized as Safe for human consumption by a consensus of scientific opinion.
		This resource provides an alphabetical listing of vascular plants of the world known to be toxic to animals and humans.
		Listings with excellent annotations, from a collaboration of medical school libraries in the Pacific Southwest Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine.
	www.cas.usf.edu /~cdee/online/online_source_list.htm (11649 words)

	Social Democrat Hunchakian Party
		Here the majority of the Armenian people were living under impossible conditions imposed by their Ottoman rulers, as the Great Powers had recognized when they sanctioned reform in Turkish Armenia in Article LXI of the Treaty of Berlin.
		The opponents of the Hunchaks were not willing to see a large part of their nation destroyed in order that the Hunchaks might attain a dubious political goal.
		The size of the annual tribute was assessed according to the resources of the Armenians.
	www.hunchak.org.au /aboutus/historical_nalbandian.html (8961 words)

	Wikinfo \| History
		The events that occurred prior to human records are known as prehistory.
		A form of historical speculation known commonly as virtual history (also called "counterfactual history") been adopted by some historians as a means of assessing and exploring the possible outcomes if certain events had not occurred or had occurred in a different way to that which they did.
		You may also want to see dubious historical resources and historical myths for a list of false beliefs and histories which were once or are now popular and widespread, but which are proven to be false or dubious.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=History (400 words)

	Arguments we think creationists should NOT use
		We don’t claim that this list is exhaustive—it will be updated with additions and maybe deletions as new evidence is discovered.
		for historical and scientific documentation that this alleged discovery is mythological.
		Since there are candidates, even though they are highly dubious, it’s better to avoid possible comebacks by saying instead: “While Darwin predicted that the fossil record would show numerous transitional fossils, even a century and a half later, all we have are a handful of disputable examples.” See QandA: Fossils.
	www.answersingenesis.org /Home/Area/faq/dont_use.asp (4209 words)

	Congressman Sandy Levin (MI12) - LEVIN REPORTS ON HIS TRADE TRIP TO PERU AND PANAMA
		They are in a region close to us geographically and with important historical ties to our nation.
		While so much of Peru is arid, it has important agricultural areas that combine considerable farming of subsistence products, such as rice, sugar cane, potatoes and maize, plus fruits, which are an important source of exports, as are the asparagus and artichokes processed in growing agribusinesses in several coastal areas.
		This has earned the region the dubious distinction of being the most inequitable region on the planet in terms of income distribution, even when compared with less socially developed regions with higher poverty rates.”
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/mi12_levin/pr031406.html (4967 words)

	friendly dictators
		Unwavering "anti-communism" and a willingness to provide unhampered access for American business interests to exploit their countries' natural resources and cheap labor are the excuses for their repression, and the primary reason the US government supports them.
		Meanwhile, the unemployment rate in Morocco is over 20%, and 95% of the population lives in abject poverty, sheltering in makeshift huts in the country's increasingly swollen cities.
		Citing dubious historical ties, in 1975, Hassan took his nation into a war in the Western Sahara that is costing the country over $l million a day.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html (9246 words)

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		All I ask of electronic subscribers is that they not RE-forward my columns until on or after the embargo date which appears at the top of each, and that (should they then choose to do so) they copy the columns in their entirety, preserving the original attribution.
		The Vinsends list is maintained by Alan Wendt in Colorado, who may be reached directly at alan@ezlink.com.
		In spite of the Eurocrats' pathetic pretensions, and their highly dubious claim to represent the imperial legacy of Charlemagne, this rising Euro-imperialism is neither Holy nor Roman.
	www.xmission.com /pub/lists/roc/archive/v02.n315 (3357 words)

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		Cynthia ========= From her ebay listing: the development of Universal's pioneering methods and machinery to produce lenses and prisms in mass quantities and how this compared to the more conventional means of lens and prism manufacture in widespread use by others in the optical industry at the time.
		The military repair manuals that I know of are listed in various places in the file at: http://home.europa.com/~telscope/binbibl.txt I would also be very interested in hearing of other texts used by repairmen, though I believe that any others would be instruction sheets issued by manufacturers.
		I looked into my list of Zeiss numbers (about 3000 numbers listed) and can tell you that the Wien numbers were part of the Jena numbers.
	www.europa.com /~telscope/listp100.txt (20449 words)

	Psy1001 Resources
		These resources are provided for the information of students.
		The following resources have been adapted from material prepared for the text: Psychology, 4th edition by Roediger, Capaldi, Paris, Polivy, and Herman, published by West Publishing.
		The vital STATS newsletter and STATS Spotlight include many interesting articles; Dubious Data Awards provide hilarious reading about the misuse of statistics; Newsclips are more serious examples of mangled and misunderstood data.
	www.psych.umn.edu /courses/psy1001/resources.htm (1527 words)

	Baptist History
		This is most evident when one reads online Baptist history resources: many seem bent on proving that their particular view of Baptist history is the one and only true understanding of Baptist history.
		Whereas Baptists have historically been non-creedal, the fundamentalist leadership of the SBC is forcing creedalism upon Southern Baptists through the forced implementation of the Baptist Faith and Message 2000.
		Whereas Baptists have historically held to the authority of Scripture and looked to Jesus and the Holy Spirit as the criterion for interpreting the Bible, the fundamentalist leadership claims that looking to Jesus and the Holy Spirit as the authority for faith is a liberal position.
	www.yellowstone.net /baptist/history.htm (2027 words)

	Andover Historical Society - Subject Matter Index, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Eighty percent of the town's residents were drawn into this witch hunt.
		Andover also holds the dubious distinction of having the most confessed witches, and the highest number of children arrested.
		Research on Andover witchcraft is ongoing at the Andover Historical Society.
	mysite.verizon.net /vze2t6hv/SMI-Files/SMI-WitchTrials.htm (464 words)

	Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation: Western Civilization, Act II
		Constantinople held the historic function "as the outpost of Europe against the invading hordes of Asia.
		Listed by royal house, excellent articles contain genealogies, maps and links to prehistoric period and Roman period, Anglo-Saxons, Arthur, Medieval Britain, Reformation, myths and legends.
		Offers a brief description of who each historic woman was and what she accomplished as well as useful websites, books, related online resources, and more.
	www.omnibusol.com /medieval.html (13402 words)

	Brad's Page of Steel - Suggested Listening
		I've updated this list to reflect new releases and remove some older, out-of-print releases.
		It has extensive liner notes on the history of the churches involved, the history of steel guitar music within these churches, and the musicians involved.This new CD features the traditional sacred African-American steel guitar music of the Jewel and Keith Dominions of the Holiness-Pentecostal church in Florida.
		His new CD "Dubious Tones" is sure to please fans of contemporary jazz guitar and to increase interest in playing lap steel in such a setting.
	www.well.com /user/wellvis/listen.html (3455 words)

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