| Flash Mob Computing -- FlashMobComputing.org is "the home of the first Flash Mob Supercomputer and the official site for all things Flash Mob Computing." The project uses the Grid Computing approach to make use of hundreds of idle computers. What's distinct about FlashMob 1 is that it is "an ad-hoc supercomputer created on-the-fly using ordinary PC's interconnected via a well-organized LAN" that is set up in a gym or warehouse temporarily. The website describes the project, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this approach compared to the "Big Iron" supercomputing, as well as providing downloads and a discussion forum. The group's two main goals are: to prove flashmob computing can work and "to make this web site a place where people can share ideas, tune software, and improve on our implementation in the tradition of Open Source." |
| Heaven's Gate: The End? |
| New Religious Movement's Heaven's Gate website |
| Religious Tolerance.org's Website on Heaven's Gate |
| Ross Institute Site on Heaven's Gate |
| TELAH Web Site on Heaven's Gate |
| Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution -- This site presents over 600 digitized documents, roughly 350 of which are texts, and the remainder images, primarily political cartoons. Textual documents include memoirs and eyewitness accounts, letters, newspaper articles, and manifestos, most of them translated from French to English, such as the Constitution of 1793, sometimes called the "Montagnard Constitution." A search page is provided, where users can search by keyword or select from a range of broad topics -- Middle Classes - Bourgeoisie, Monarchy, Napoleon Bonaparte, Nobility, Peasants, Sans-culottes, and so on. Even though those seeking known items will want to search, probably the easiest way to navigate the site is to select the Explore or Browse options. Explore leads to a set of 12 essays, from "Social Causes of the Revolution" and "The Enlightenment and Human Rights" to "Songs of the Revolution." To help in understanding the iconography of the French revolution, there is also an essay entitled "How to Read Images." A user choosing Browse can see lists of all the images, texts, maps, and songs at the site, or view a timeline of events, as well as a 65-term glossary. |
| For a Catholic Perspective: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10307a.htm |
| U Michigan Article and Bibliography: http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/millenarian.html |
| WSU Article on American pioneers and millenarianism: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/AMERICA/MILL.HTM |
| For the Christian Science perspective on millenarianism: http://www.endtime.org/library/articles/mille.html |
| Millenarianism and Social Movements in Papua-New Guinea: http://www.asiasource.org/asip/papua_golden.cfm |
| MILLENARIANISM AND POPULAR METHODISM IN EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND AND CANADA: http://wesley.nnu.edu/WesleyanTheology/theojrnl/26-30/29-05.htm |
| Millenarianism and Anarchism Pdf article! Cool! http://kvl.joensuu.fi/pdf/philosophical_anarchism.pdf |
| Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado -- a national and international clearinghouse for information on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters. |
| Storm Events Database -- From the National Climatic Data Center comes the Storms Events Database. Events are included from 1993 to the present, but as is stated on the site, the site is usually 90-120 days behind the current month. Users first choose a state and then, if necessary, a county, date, and event type. Results can be limited by tornado type, hail size, wind speed, number of injuries or deaths, and even amount of property or crop damage. The generated report lists all of the events during the time period specified and, when clicked, contain specific information about that event. Although the reports can not be downloaded, this powerful resource can be an helpful addition to a researcher's toolbox. |
| ProVention Consortium -- The ProVention Consortium is a "global coalition of governments, international organizations, academic institutions, the private sector and civil society organizations dedicated to increasing the safety of vulnerable communities and to reducing the impact of disasters in developing countries." Organized by the World Bank, the Consortium and its Web site are dedicated to disseminating materials and resources about how disaster risk management can be best applied to mitigate the effects of various potential disasters and events. |
| Flood Safety |
| Dartmouth Flood Observatory -- The Dartmouth Flood Observatory produced this website as "a research tool for detection, mapping, measurement, and analysis of extreme flood events world-wide using satellite remote sensing." Users can learn about the Observatory's use of microwave and optical satellite imaging to determine flooding and extreme low flow conditions for various places throughout the world. Students and researchers can discover how the observatory monitors wetland hydrology for various places. Researchers can find archives of large flooding events from 1985 to the present. The web site features a variety of maps and satellite images of floods. |
| The Halifax Explosion -- In the evening of December 6, 1917, a massive explosion rocked the harbor of the rapidly growing city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, located in eastern Canada. Caused by the collision of two ships (one of which was carrying a tremendous amount of explosive material), the explosion killed over 1500 people outright, and devastated the settlements around the area. Working with various historical groups, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has created this engrossing multimedia look into the events leading up to that dreadful incident, along with offering a broader historical perspective on the development of the city of Halifax and the aftermath of these tragic events. The interactive features here are quite amazing, as visitors can view video clips of survivors' recollections, and watch footage of various commemoration activities associated with the explosion. |
| Center for Earthquake Research and Information |
| Southern California Earthquake Center -- gathers new information about earthquakes in Southern California, integrates this information into a comprehensive and predictive understanding of earthquake phenomena, and communicates this understanding to end-users and the general public to increase earthquake awareness, reduce economic losses, and save lives. |
| St. Louis University Earthquake Center |
| Australian Ghost Hunters Society |
| Ghost Study -- Claims to be the biggest free ghost photo site on the web. |
| Obiwan's UFO-Free Paranormal Page -- This page claims to be home to the oldest true ghost story archive on the net (with stories dating back to 1993) as well as the net's original Ghosts and Hauntings FAQ. There are hundreds of paranormal links, information on hauntings and publicly accessible haunted places, a UFO-Free Message Board, one of the biggest Ghostlight Pages on the web, and more. |
| South Jersey Ghost Research -- SJGR is a group of investigators that can trace it's roots back to 1955. They conduct investigations, assist people in need, educate the public, conduct field research and promote the learning and understanding of ghosts and other psychic phenomena. |
| Internet Women's History Sourcebook |
| National Museum of Women's History |
| National Women's Hall of Fame |
| Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 From the Library of Congress. Provides fulltext and page images of a 167 documents. |
| Votes for Women: Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 |
| Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1775-2000 |
| Women's Movements |
| Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937 [RealOnePlayer, Macromedia Flash Reader] -- This online multi-media digital exhibit examines one of the most celebrated strikes in American history, the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937. The idea for the project had its origins in 1978, when Neil Leighton (a political science professor at the University of Michigan-Flint) was at a professional conference and another scholar recommended that he begin to create an oral history of that historic event in American labor history. The fine interactive facets included here include an engaging audio timeline, a detailed map of the strike-related activities (such as the various locations of the General Motors plants accompanied with brief descriptions of when workers began to strike at each location), and a slideshow. Each section on the strike itself contains a brief essay about such topics as the preexisting conditions in the plants, the organization of the various strikes, and the aftermath of the events that took place during those two years. The audio reminisces are quite dramatic, and address such topics as the union demands, the nature of the piecework system in the plants, and the unequal wage system. Overall, this online exhibit is a thorough introduction to one of the most important events in the history of the American labor movement. |
| Free Speech Movement Digital Archive [Real Player] -- The Free Speech Movement that began on the Berkeley campus of the University of California in 1964 began a groundswell of student protests and campus-based social activism that would later spread across the United States for the remainder of the decade. The primary documents provided here are quite extensive and include transcriptions of legal defense documents, leaflets passed out by members of the movement, letters from administrators and faculty members regarding the movement and student unrest, and oral histories. The site also provided a detailed bibliography to material dealing with the movement and a chronology of key events within its early history. Perhaps the most engaging part of the site is the Social Activism Sound Recording Project, which features numerous audio clips of faculty and academic senate debates, student protests, and discussions that were recorded during this period. |
| Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963 [.pdf] -- Sponsored by the Jane Addams Hull House Museum and the University of Illinois at Chicago, this online project contains a variety of primary source documents, documentary photographs, and scholarly essays that explore the legacy of social reform movements in Chicago and the community's history. |
| The Dynamics of Protest Diffusion: The 1960 Sit-In Movement in the American South [.pdf] -- Part of the Working Papers in Sociology series from Oxford University, this work addresses the dynamics of protest diffusion by taking an in-depth and rigorous look at the 1960 sit-in movement that took place in different locations around the South. Within the papers 31 pages, Professor Kenneth Andrews of Harvard and Professor Michael Biggs of the University of Oxford offer a brief exposition of previous research into the spontaneity and organization in the dynamics of social movements, along with presenting their own approach to this oft-contested area of scholarship. Using cross-sectional regressional models and event history analysis, the authors are able to show support for the significance of formal movement organization in the initial period of protest, and the diffusion effect, where the existence of previous protests would increase the likelihood of further protest. While the authors note that their results are not that surprising, their efforts here are some of the first to systematically utilize a quantitative approach to examining this powerful social movement. |
Revised on July 29, 2004