Full Text Content: NewspaperARCHIVE.com Releases Basketball and Baseball Archives, Access Tens of Thousands of Full Text Historical Articles (Free)
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NewspaperARCHIVE.com Releases Basketball and Baseball Archives, Access Tens of Thousands of Full Text & Full Image "Historical" Articles (Free)
Wow, NewspaperARCHIVE.com is on a roll.
Last week we mentioned the release of a new and free searchable archive containing more than 15,000 full text and full image articles from hundreds of newspapers about the HMS Titanic. Access to the database and the articles is free. Material can be copied and printed.
Today, just as March Madness gets underway, NewspaperArchive.com has released CollegeBasketballArchive.com. This database offers searchable access to more than 50,000 historical full text newspaper pages about the college bball.
From the site, "CollegeBasketballArchive.com contains newspaper articles covering all of the great moments in the history of the college game. From the first NCAA Champion, the University of Oregon, to the 2005 champion University of North Carolina, the archive contains exciting accounts of every NCAA tournament. The archive also includes articles on legendary coaches like John Wooden and Jim Valvano as well as great players such as Bill Walton and Michael Jordan."
If college hoops are not your thing, perhaps baseball is.
Just in time for baseball seaon, NewspaperARCHIVE.com also provides ProBaseballArchive.com. This free service lets you search and read, copy, and prin the full text and image of more than 50,000 articles about professional baseball.
Other NewspaperARCHIVE.com Free Archives Include:
+ MartinLutherKingJuniorArchive.com (we posted about this important site in January)
+ AbrahamLincolnArchive.com
+ WinterGamesArchive.com (Winter Olympics)
+ AsbestosArchive.com (Asbestos and Asbestos Related Lawsuits)
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Elections--United States--Statistics
Source: U.S. Census Voting and Registration in the Election of November 2004
"eport examines the levels of voting and registration in the November 2004 presidential election, the characteristics of citizens reporting they were registered to vote and actually did vote, and the reasons why others registered did not vote. The report, from the Current Population Survey, provides the first-ever analysis of national- and state-level data that was released last May." 18 pages; PDF.
-- Avian Influenza--Maps
Source: Perry-Casta�eda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin Avian Influenza Maps on Other Web Sites
Collection of links to general and regional maps from 2004, 2005, 2006.
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Geology--United States
Earthquakes
Source: USGS New, A Virtual Tour of the Hayward Fault
From the announcement, "The U.S. Geological Survey has a new website that offers a virtual tour of the Hayward fault. The virtual tour starts at the northern end of the Hayward fault, where it enters San Pablo Bay, and flies south along the fault to Fremont, showing along the way where the fault crosses freeways, runs through the University of California Berkeley football stadium, and intersects residential neighborhoods throughout the East Bay. The virtual tour provides an unprecedented look at the Hayward fault, which last produced a damaging earthquake in October 1868. At the time, this Hayward fault earthquake was known as the great San Francisco earthquake, but it lost that title on April 18th, 1906, when the San Francisco earthquake struck along the San Andreas Fault."
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