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...ess to all recorded knowledge. B. Move from paper to digital MIA: But what happens when the materials in a library become more fit for a museum? And what does a library do when it takes a building the size of the Smithsonian (gestures around her) to hold all of its materials? Mark Adams is the public relations coordinator for the World Public Library. Mar...

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... really believe that any national leaders really believe their religions‘ founders if they don‘t practice what has been preached?‖ --―I‘m committe... ... Inquisition, who took different approaches to their faith than did their founders. 55 ―God is shown as both merciful and vengeful in th... ...d Wilson, an Episcopal minister and historian, to write in 1831 that ‗The founders of our nation were nearly all Infidels.‘ But today, perhaps becau... ... think that the Founding Fathers were theists. ―Many of your major founders were against organized religion and they certainly were for separ... ...e Soviet Union with a youth hostel group. Some in the group knew about the Museum of Religion and Atheism. The Intourist guide said it didn‘t exist, ... ...ttempt to prove that atheism was true. He said that when they entered the museum they first saw pictures of primitives worshiping gods in volcanoes ... ... ―I went to Leningrad and Moscow in the mid-80s to look for the museum. All of the exhibits on atheism had been removed. And I understand ... ...equired by other governmental agencies. Cut culture—the orchestras, zoos, museums. But keep the limos for the city council members. Just cut health... ...ies had died out. Saber tooth cats and Tyrannosaurus Rex now only inhabit museums. ―Let us look at the beginnings of evolutionary thinking. S...

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...d a search. Was it an official and prestigious institution? A university or a museum or a government? Sometimes those are our sources of information, o... ...en imagine it coupled to the efforts of the great state archives and private museums who themselves would be free to do the same thing. Think of the p... ...alid constitutional claim to fair use of a painting by photographing it in a museum. Fair use has never been held to be a guarantee of access to copyr... ...(truly a strange return to legalized business monopolies for a country whose founders viewed them as one of the greatest evils that could be borne)? S... ... over the building blocks of science. Following the example of software, the founders of the MIT Registry of Standard Biological Parts had the idea of... ... Thomas Jefferson, vol. XIX, 128–129. 5. See Paul Finkelman, Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson, 2nd ed. (Armonk, N.Y.... ...ca v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984). 18. See Tina Balio, Museum of Broadcast Communications, “Betamax Case,” Encyclopedia of TV (1... ...ications, “Betamax Case,” Encyclopedia of TV (1997), available at http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/B/htmlB/betamaxcase/ betamaxcase.htm (“The Betamax...

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...ne into the creation of any human artifact. All you need to do is to go to a museum. Humans are fascinated by any dead object that was once made b... ...e is jealously guarded and goes to the grave with them. To be later put into museums. And centuries later…marveled at… as examples of lost artisans... ...National Trophy that is so steeped in history and sacred, that it is kept in a museum most of the time is not a sure-fire way to outrage and energize... ... dead things are stored as evidence. Moldering away for decades. A morgue, a museum of dead useless evidence. Evidence that is more important than... ...fe-energy poured into making any artefact, the more it is revered and put into museums. That is also why we obsess and revere old, dead artefacts th... ... And the more these religions try to immortalize their ordinary, once- living founders: the more they wane, and go extinct. The only reason the te...

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...logy, Roy Chapman Andrews' The New Conquest of Central Asia (The American Museum of Natural History, 1932), the ubiquitous 11th edition of the Encyc... ..., linguistics, and microcomputer hardware and software. He is one of the founders of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts an... ...up straight. No respectable dragon slouches! Han Chung-li is one of the founders of the Great Society. You should all hope one day to be as great...

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... but, fortunately for them, nothing constrained the PC to the hunches of the founders. Apple did not even know that VisiCalc was on the market when it... ...qs.org/faqs/ atari-8-bit/faq/ (last visited Apr. 23, 2007); Computer History Museum, Timeline of Computer History: 1977, http://www.computerhistory.or... ...e, e.g., Old-Computers.com, IBM PC-Model 5150, http://www.old-computers.com/ museum/computer.asp?c 274 (last visited Apr. 20, 2007). 10. See W L. ...

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...d Johnnie whom Sammie dined with, he’d gotten a vague answer: “Some people with the museum, I believe.” ***** “Wiley.” Wiley Buckley’s... ...ng fathers weren’t uptight Protestants like yours,” she said. “Although Savannah’s founders — Oglethorpe’s crowd — did have some good ideas, like ba...

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...e of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze piece is always first of the conqueror?s loot....

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...osite the old Ajaib Gher the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam Zammah, that ‘fire breathing dragon’, hold the Punjab,... ... a great piece of magic–such magic as men practised over yonder behind the Museum, in the big blue and white Jadoo Gher–the Magic House, as we name th... ...e a rude remark to the native policeman on guard over rows of shoes at the Museum door. The big Punjabi grinned toler antly: he knew Kim of old. So d... ...r on the dry road from his goat skin bag. So did Jawahir 6 Kim Singh, the Museum carpenter, bent over new packing cases. So did everybody in sight ex... ... to view the things that men made in their own province and elsewhere. The Museum was given up to Indian arts and manufactures, and anybody who sought... ...e taken from the sands of her birthplace and removed to the west of Bengal founders–nor is even a Balkh stallion (and there are no better horses than ...

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...t, they are more than remedying the sins of their old career, and — like the founders of monasteries and builders of churches, in ruder days — establ... ...ation, advance precisely the same description of argu ments. In the British Museum, there is a curious pamphlet got up by the Agnews of Charles’s tim... ... will amuse them, and hurt nobody else. The propriety of opening the British Museum to respect able people on Sunday, has lately been the subject of ... ...ators to assign any valid reason for opposing so sensible a proposition. The Museum contains rich specimens from all the vast museums and repositories... ...ed upon the Sabbath. They certainly would; but how many? Why, if the British Museum, and the National Gallery, and the Gallery of Practical Science, a... ...ow different a picture would the streets and public places then present! The museums, and repositories of scientific and useful inventions, would be c...

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...vidualities, and Plato turned his back on truth when he turned towards his museum of spe- cific ideals. Heraclitus, that lost and misinterpreted giant... ...Touring Club de France, my green ticket to the Reading Room of the British Museum, and my Lettre d’Indication from the London and County Bank. A fooli... ...offer the card of the T .C.F . I follow up that blow with my green British Museum ticket, as tattered as a flag in a knight’s chapel. “You’ll get foun... ...rld of to-day, or the cataloguing of such libraries as that of the British Museum, or such collections as that of the insects in Cromwell Road. Such a... ...ld look like a barbarian tricked out with the miscellaneous plun- der of a museum. Boys and girls wear much the same sort of costume—brown leather sho... ...ions within which individuality plays more freely than in the void, so the founders of this modern Uto- pia believed it possible to define conditions ... ... in addition to thus making poietic activities univer- sally possible, the founders of this modern Utopia sought to supply incentives, which was an al... ...“I have heard the phrase, ‘voluntary nobility.’” “That was the idea of our Founders. They made a noble and privileged order—open to the whole world. N... ...ind of more debateable value. One is practically not in operation now. Our Founders put it that a candidate for the samurai must possess what they cal...

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... good ideas. My grandfather had been a private schoolmaster and one of the founders of the College of Pre- ceptors, and my father had assisted him in ... ...still hard at it, and Heaven frightfully upset about the Sunday opening of museums and the falling birth-rate, and as touchy and vindictive as ever. T... ... excursion to Margate and back; we explored London docks and Bethnal Green Museum, Petticoat Lane and all sorts of out-of-the-way places together. We ... ...ndow. She linked with that the fact that Bailey had a mind as orderly as a museum, and an invincible power over detail. She saw that if two people too... ... one extravagance, they loved to think of searches going on in the British Museum, and letters being cleared up and precis made overhead, while they s... ...uth by antagonising falsity and falsity. I remember talking to a prominent museum official in need of more public funds for the work he had in hand. I...

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...en Mrs. W. asks how can a millionaire give a single dollar to colleges and museums while one human being is destitute of bread, she has answered her q... ...s, a romantic land where all the birds and flowers and animals were of the museum varieties, and where the alligator and the crocodile and the monkey ... ...d, which is a thing which has never happened be fore, except perhaps in a museum. That is the way with art, when it is not acquired but born to you: ... ...illages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and little charity founders, and bicycle champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier des per... ...tands fifty seven feet long and six teen feet high in the Natural History Museum, the awe and admiration of all the world, the stateliest skeleton th...

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...ngement and those the dimensions intended by the original archi- tects and founders of Washington; but the inhabitants have hitherto confined themselv... ...n- ers of Patents. Here is, in accordance with the name of the building, a museum of models of all patents taken out. I wandered through it, gazing wi... ...ure that name of Romanesque which it has assumed. The building is used for museums and lectures, and was given to the city by one James Smithsonian, a... ...nce, which must have much aided Mark Tapley in his endeavors. Who were the founders of Cairo I have never ascertained. They are probably buried fathom... ... They have trusted with almost childlike confidence to the wisdom of their founders, 226 North America V ol. 2 and have said to their rulers—”There! ... ...their own courts with reference to cases of their own. In this respect the founders of the American law proceedings have shown a conservation bias and... ...satisfied by war and allayed by blood? No one, I think, can doubt that the founders of the great American Commonwealth made an error in omitting to pr...

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...r’s younger days there used to be a wax figure of him in one of the Boston museums, representing a solemn, dark visaged person, in a minister’s black ... ... its existence. While reverencing the grim and stern old Puri tans as the founders of his native land, he would not wish to recall them from their gr...

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...e has often looked on. This was the state-carriage house, where there is a museum of huge old tumble-down gilded coaches of the last century, lying he... ...n- der the sun almost as fresh as it must have appeared to the eyes of its founders; I saw nothing more charming and brilliant, more graceful, festive... ...hmoud is decorated with the imperial aigrette. In this dismal but splendid museum, I remarked two little tombs with little red fezzes, very small, and... ...resque aspect seems to correspond better with one’s notions of their proud founders. The towers and gates are warlike and strong, but beautiful and ar...

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...it took me through the mineral and fossil galleries of the Natural History Museum, through the geological draw- ers of the College of Science, through... ...as also to be abandoned in social sci- ence. We cannot put Humanity into a museum or dry it for examination; our one single still living specimen is a... ...“I have heard the phrase, ‘voluntary nobility.’” “That was the idea of our Founders. They made a noble and privileged order—open to the whole world. N...

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... am satisfied there was in this particular instance. Mr. White possessed a museum—formed chiefly by him- self, and originally, perhaps, directed simpl... ...en, cultivate the most enlarged and liberal curiosity; so that Mr. White’s museum furnished attractions to an unusually large variety of tastes. I had... ...o was a mummy; the other was a skeleton. I, that had previ- ously seen the museum, warned Lady Carbery of both; but much it mortified us that only the... ... Thomas de Quincey Had Mr. White, indeed, furnished us with the key of the museum, leaving us to our own discretion, but restricting us only (like a c... ... imprisonment. But the robber represented by the skel- eton in Mr. White’s museum (whom let us call X, since his true name has perished) added to the ... ...s conveniences merely inci- dental and collateral to the main views of the founders. There are, then, two much loftier and more commanding ends met by... ...ly all this to Oxford. Among the four functions commonly recognized by the founders of universities, which are—1st, to find a set of halls or places o... ...tretching system of Oxford hospitia, or monastic hotels, directed by their founders, or applied by their present possessors? Hearken, reader, to the a... ...he journey to Delphi must often have been peculiarly inconve- nient to the founders of colonies moving westwards from Greece; and the expenses of such...

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...he society with Madame de la Baudraye; he proposed to figure as one of the founders, and to let the house for fifteen years to the literary club. By t... ...etting which Philibert de Lorme seemed to have planned on purpose for this museum, occu- pied her for several months, giving her leisure to meditate o... ...nd ’27, she picked a million francs’ worth of treasures. Anzy is a perfect museum.” “What a cool hand!” thought Monsieur de Clagny, as he saw this lit...

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...of age, twenty-four of which he had passed in the corps, he had a singular museum. He was one of the best shots in England, and, for a heavy man, one ... ...of ancient and modern times and languages. He took the boys to the British Museum and descanted upon the antiquities and the specimens of natural hist... ...(may the blessings of all Englishmen who have ever been abroad rest on the founders and proprietors of that piratical print! ) and whether he woke or ... ...of the Gaunt or Regent’s Own Regiment of Militia, a Trustee of the British Museum, an Elder Brother of the Trinity House, a Governor of the White Fria...

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...sure for study, I pause to explain—that the head of Memnon, in the British Museum, that sublime head which wears upon its lips a smile coextensive wit... ...atomy, it is a well- established fact, that oftentimes the most scientific museum admitted as genuine fragments of the human osteology what in fact be... ... casual that did not enter into the original or normal concep- tion of the founders, and that may therefore have been due to alien suggestion. But now... ...he nation, and which has since gone to swell the collection at the British Museum, had been formed (as I was often assured by persons to whom the whol... ...nted by the great endowed libraries of the seven universities, the British Museum,” &c., &c. But prima facie, this was that selling of justice which i...