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Thomas Jefferson's Inaugural Speech

Called upon to undertake the duties of the first
executive office of our country, I avail myself of the
presence of that portion of my fellow citizens which
is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for
the favor with which they have been pleased to look
toward me, to declare a sincere consciousness that the
task is above my talents,..

Under Government

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How to Construct a High Voltage Jacob's Ladder

I assume all of you have at one point seen the old Frankenstein movies where the lab is filled with an assortment of electronic gadgets, all of them sparking and hissing furiously...Well, if you remember, one of these consisted of a V-shaped piece of wire, where a spark would form at the base of the V and slowly crawl up the wires, expanding until it reached the top..where it would bow out and disappear while a new spark formed back at the base...
Such a device is known as a Jacob's Ladder (from the Bible, I think, where this
dude named Jacob has a vision of Angels climbing some celestial, firey ladder)
and was designed especially for special effects use in Frankenstein movies...

Under Education

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How To Talk To The Press

As I've promised on another message base, here's the beginning of discussion of how to bring stories to the media.

Since I keep thinking of different things people ought to know about how to take a story to the media, I'm going to make this a multi-post discussion.

Under Self Improvement and Motivation

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The Government's Mania For Secrecy

President Ronald Reagan nicknamed 1987 "The Year of the Reader," but
throughout 1987 the Reagan administration outdid itself in its efforts to
control, interpret, manipulate, disinform, and censor all forms of information.
Typical of the Reagan administration's effort to control...

Under Government

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The Gettysburg Address

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in
a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so
conceived and so dedicated can long endure....

Under Government

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The German Surrender Documents

Instrument of Surrender of All German armed forces in HOLLAND, in northwest Germany including all islands, and in DENMARK.

Under Education

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Galileo Information

Information about Galileo space Shuttle

Under Education

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Cold Fusion Information

Here are some details from the University of Utah press conference yesterday. Fleishmann said the team had attained sustained fusion for hundreds of hours, producing heat at the rate of greater than 20 watts/cu-cm of electrode. He said the heat once melted the palladium electrode (M.P.1554 C) He did not state how much electric...

Under Environment

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