June 24, 2008
by Joanne Riley
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Announcing the launch of a new social networking site for “humanities practitioners” in Massachusetts, built on the Ning platform. The National Endowment for the Humanities has funded this experiment, with additional support from the Joseph P. Healey Library at UMass … Continue reading
February 5, 2007
by Joanne Riley
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Link: Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive.
December 7, 2006
by Joanne Riley
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The Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program is responsible for the conservation and protection of hundreds of species that are not hunted, fished, trapped, or commercially harvested in Massachusetts. The Program’s highest priority is protecting the approximately 178 species of … Continue reading
October 6, 2006
by Joanne Riley
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Factbites was created by Rapid Intelligence, a content technology company based in Sydney, Australia. Their focus is on computational linguistics, data mining and artificial intelligence. They demonstrate these competencies through "Factbites," a search engine more interested in content analysis than … Continue reading
September 8, 2006
by Joanne Riley
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[…] Years before John Adams put these notions into timeless prose, the people of Massachusetts , from every corner of the Commonwealth, understood and insisted on the first principles of constitutional government. The Massachusetts Constitution coined the phrase “we the people” …. and the people of Massachusetts lived up to it. So let’s toast the people of Massachusetts – North, East, South and West – for their singular role in devising the oldest constitution in the western world! “
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