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		<title>Travel Across Time and Place by Gazing into a Photograph</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;FOUND is a curated collection of photography from the National Geographic archives. In honor of our 125th anniversary, we are showcasing photographs that reveal cultures and moments of the past. Many of these photos have never been published and are rarely seen by the public. &#8221; Visit it at: http://natgeofound.tumblr.com/.  Or remember the 1960s, (what the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/blog/history-us/?p=1427</link>
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		<title>How Does Google &#8220;Google&#8221;? (Hey, Can I Google That?)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wonder how Google Search works?  Now there&#8217;s an innovative infographic that explains it all, from crawling and indexing to algorithms, to the war against spam as well as the policies that guide all of these efforts.  Simply visit http://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/thestory/ and scroll.  As you scroll, there are things to click on to learn more.  Hover over the images with your mouse as you scroll and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/blog/history-us/?p=1406</link>
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		<title>Nonfiction Books (primarily) that Made the Lists: The Best of 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Below are the lists of books — primarily nonfiction — that contain titles selected by editors or booksellers as the best of 2012.  To keep up with best sellers throughout the year, visit the New York Times Best Sellers site.  The lists below do not all contain the same titles: different folks have different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/blog/history-us/?p=1390</link>
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		<title>What Are the Books That Shaped America?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Librarians at the Library of Congress have some suggestions. They&#8217;re listed, described, and many can be read as ebooks. Visit: http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/books-that-shaped-america/  Visit the exhibit online: http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/books-that-shaped-america/Pages/Overview.aspx Listen to a pertinent interview that was aired on National Public Radio (NPR). Visit:  http://www.npr.org/2012/08/14/158771705/-books-that-shaped-america ]]></description>
		<link>http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/blog/history-us/?p=1362</link>
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		<title>Welcome to Academic Year 2012/2013!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another academic year begins, lots to do, to learn, to experience, to survive, to enjoy, and to grow from and into. The Libraries have changed A LOT over the years to reflect financial and pedagogical changes and, of course, there&#8217;s TECHNOLOGY. If you&#8217;re new to UB you can&#8217;t really appreciate how different things are and look from even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/blog/history-us/?p=1360</link>
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		<title>The Hunger Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the entire trilogy! We have some paper copies and copies on each of our six loanable Kindles. Even with these multiple copies, you may be unable to get a copy from the Libraries; but we also have two e-books, available for use by many readers simultaneously, that offer commentary. There are also other resources [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/blog/history-us/?p=1353</link>
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		<title>Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s Impact Soars Across Time and Place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an academic world obessed with &#8220;counting&#8221; citations to measure the productivity and the impact of individual scholars &#8212; and sometimes the importance of topics and ideas &#8212; it is good to see a clear winner. In the latter instance, Abraham Lincoln is a clear winner. With one exception, he now &#8212; symbolically as well as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/blog/history-us/?p=1308</link>
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		<title>The Wikipedia, Possibilities and Opportunities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jimmy Wales, co-founder of the Wikipedia, has been interviewed by Charlie Rose (a Wikipedia fan) several times. You’ll learn a lot about the Wikipedia quickly if you watch videos of these interviews and you’ll appreciate the idealism behind the effort.  A Stephen Colbert-Jimmy Wales encounter (there’s a lot of Colbert-Wikipedia history) will alert you to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/blog/history-us/?p=1264</link>
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		<title>Thanksgiving: Reflections on a Holiday Just Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving means different things to different people.  The ultimate source for learning and teaching about Thanksgiving is teachinghistory.org’s Thanksgiving Web site .  Now that Thanksgiving 2011 is a memory, the leftovers have probably been consumed (or certainly frozen), and most food poisoning victims have fully recovered (food safety is very important), there’s some time for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/blog/history-us/?p=1163</link>
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		<title>Pumpkins Invade Europe (and a lot of other places, too)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s shockingly true: Pumpkins are aggressive!  And I&#8217;m not taking about shark-toothed Jack-o&#8217;-Lanterns, either.  Pumpkins got their start in the New World; but something so potentially big, showy, prolific, and sexy simply couldn&#8217;t be constrained.   Yes, pumpkin (properly prepared) is an aphrodisiac &#8212; at least there&#8217;s a 1998 scientific study that says so.  How does this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/blog/history-us/?p=1019</link>
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