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01/08/2009
Heather Woodbury's 'Stripper's History' to Play Steppenwolf (Playbill via Yahoo! News)
Award-winning playwright and solo performer Heather Woodbury returns to the Steppenwolf stage for a one-night-only performance of The Last Days of Desmond "Nani" Reese: A Stripper's History of the World 7:30 PM March 3 in the Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre in Chicago.
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01/09/2009
Freed's You, Nero , a Comedy That Fiddles With History, Opens in CA Jan. 9 (Playbill)
Amy Freed's You, Nero , a new "Roman romp" about leadership, history and playwriting, opens Jan. 9 after previews from Jan. 4 at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA.
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01/09/2009
Bush and Obama's Presidential Meeting Is Unique in History (US News & World Report)
Having four living former presidents is rare in American history.
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01/09/2009
Beaumont High holds History Day competition (The Press-Enterprise)
BEAUMONT - Louis Armstrong's distinctive rendition of "Hello Dolly" resonated through Beaumont High School library Thursday. Ryan Odle, 15, of Cherry Valley, decided to profile the singer as a project for History Day because "I play piano. I've been playing piano for nine years," he said.
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01/09/2009
Robert Fox: Politicians' aids follow a well-worn tradition of burying history (Guardian Unlimited)
Hosting the four presidents past and future at the White House yesterday, George W Bush looked like a man about to be buried by history. With 71% of Americans polled now thinking his performance was dismal, he is down there in the ratings with Warren Harding . But this seems hardly the time for shedding a tear for team W, particularly Vice-president Cheney, they have been doing their ...
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01/09/2009
Cardinal hands Huskies their worst loss in history (Tacoma News Tribune)
STANFORD, Calif. – Jayne Appel had 21 points, nine rebounds and two blocked shots in only 19 minutes, Jeanette Pohlen added 16 points and eight assists and No. 11 Stanford made 14 3-pointers on the way to the largest margin of victory in school history, 112-35 over Washington on Thursday night.
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01/09/2009
BCS National Championship: Florida Gators Meyer, Tebow greatest in college football history? (The Oklahoman)
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Take a snapshot of this and put it in a safe place. You are watching history. You are watching greatness. And not just any old greatness. We’re talking historical greatness. The Florida Gators didn’t just win their second national football title in three seasons Thursday with a 24-14 victory over Oklahoma, the two men most responsible — Florida coach Urban Meyer and ...
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01/08/2009
History Day gets $1.9M gift, Smithsonian partner (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
A $1.9 million gift and partnership with the National Museum of American History will allow the National History Day competition to expand, organizers said Wednesday.
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01/09/2009
January 8th In NYC History (NY1 News)
On this date in... 1965... The world's largest sapphire -- the Star of India -- and other stolen gems come home to New York in the coat pocket of an assistant district attorney. The fabulous stones were stolen from the Museum of Natural History three months earlier.
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01/09/2009
Lingayen Gulf landing history panels in Pangasinan updated (Philippine News Agency)
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan, Jan. 9 (PNA)-—Gov. Amado Espino Jr. led officials and veterans in launching the updated history panels, consisting of rare photographs, maps and paintings about events during the epic Lingayen Gulf Landing 64 years ago,located at the Veterans Memorial Park at the Provincial Capitol grounds here on Friday.
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  • BBC Research & Development - Milestones - History of the department that has been involved in the emergence of technical standards since before the BBC first began broadcasting television in the 1930s
  • Chuck Pharis - Television - Vintage television receiving and broadcast equipment.
  • Early Television Foundation - Early television hardware, restoration tips, database of prewar sets and historical TV information.
  • Early Television: Photo Collection - Personal photo album of Dr. Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, one of the people credited with the invention of television.
  • Ed Reitan's Color Television History - Traces the history of early color television. Includes a number of pictures.
  • Frank's Handheld-TVs - Provides an overview of the history of pocket televisions.
  • History of public broadcasting - Timeline of developments in public TV and radio in the United States.
  • Library of American Broadcasting - University of Maryland 'Broadcasting Pioneers' museum.
  • Museum of Early Video Editing Equipment and Techniques - Contains pictures and explanations on historical electronic editors or television techniques like telecine.
  • MZTV Museum of Television - Toronto-based museum collecting television sets and related memorabilia.
  • NCSU Computer Graphics Lab 1970-78 - Early graphics combining computers and television technology.
  • The Philo T. Farnsworth Archives - Site devoted to the man many believe invented, among other things, television.
  • Television History - The history of television invention from the black and white TV to color TV and digital TV. Includes information on some of the inventors along the way.
  • Television History - The First 75 Years - Features technical information, program guides, timelines, magazine advertisements, inventor biographies and photos of early TV sets.
  • Tubepedia - Pictorials of early iconoscopes, kinescopes, orthicons, vidicons, saticons and other CRTs.
  • tvdawn.com - Information on the recovery of the earliest recordings of television, describing the restoration of these recordings and their history.

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