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Featured article: June 16, 2007

Robert Garran was an Australian lawyer and public servant, an early leading expert in Australian constitutional law, the first employee of the Government of Australia and the first Solicitor-General of Australia. Garran spent thirty-one years as permanent head of the Attorney-General's Department, providing advice to ten different Prime Ministers (from Barton to Lyons). He played a significant behind-the-scenes role in the Australian federation movement, as adviser to Edmund Barton and chair of the Drafting Committee at the 1897–1898 Constitutional Convention. In addition to his professional work, Garran was also an important figure in the development of the city of Canberra during its early years. He founded several important cultural associations, organised the creation of the Canberra University College, and later contributed to the establishment of the Australian National University. Garran published at least eight books and many journal articles throughout his lifetime, covering such topics as constitutional law, the history of federalism in Australia, and German language poetry. (more...)

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A 1938 teuroteu by Kim Song Kyu and Park Yeong Ho. Sung by Park Hyang Rim. (file info)

Featured picture: October 18, 2007

Representative dinosaurs of the Hadrosauroidea superfamily. The family Hadrosauridae contains the dinosaurs commonly known as "duck-billed" dinosaurs. They were ubiquitous herbivores during the Cretaceous period, and prey to theropoda such as Tyrannosaurus. The individual drawings represent typical genera. All these groups were alive in the late Cretaceous, and are generally known only from a single fossil site. Animals are shown to scale.

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Featured list: List of Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada

Formed in 1875 by Governor General of Canada The Earl of Dufferin, on the advice of his Canadian Prime Minister Alexander Mackenzie, the Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court of Canada and, since 1949, has been the final court of appeal in the Canadian justice system.

#	Name	Province	Birth/Death	Term of Active Service	Term of Service as Chief	Appointment advised by
1	Sir William Buell Richards	Ontario	1815 – 1889	September 30, 1875–January 10, 1879	September 30, 1875–January 10, 1879	Mackenzie
2	William Johnstone Ritchie	New Brunswick	1813 – 1892	September 30, 1875–September 25, 1892	January 11, 1879–September 25, 1892	Mackenzie
3	Samuel Henry Strong	Ontario	1825 – 1909	September 30, 1875 – November 18, 1902	December 13, 1892 – November 18, 1902	Mackenzie
4	Jean-Thomas Taschereau	Quebec	1814 – 1893	September 30, 1875 – October 6, 1878	(none)	Mackenzie
5	Télesphore Fournier	Quebec	1823 – 1896	September 30, 1875 - September 12, 1895	(none)	Mackenzie

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Featured topic: Atlantic Coast Conference football championship games

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"Livery Stable Blues", the first jazz recording.

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1892: "Va! laisse couler mes larmes" from Jules Massenet's Werther

1943 – Heinrich Himmler - Posen speech

Excerpt from the Posen speech of October 4, 1943, made by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler to the seniority of the SS, discussing the ongoing extermination of the Jews in the Holocaust. A full translation is available at the file information page; a small sample is below.

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It's one of those things that is easily said: 'The Jewish people are being exterminated', says every party member, 'this is very obvious, it's in our program, elimination of the Jews, extermination, we're doing it, hah, a small matter.' [...] But of all those who talk this way, none had observed it, none had endured it. [...] To have endured this and at the same time to have remained a decent person - with exceptions due to human weaknesses - had made us tough. [...] We have the moral right, we had the duty to our people to do it, to kill this people who wanted to kill us.

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1890 – "America", read by Walt Whitman

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The Creatures of Prometheus by Ludwig Van Beethoven, Op. 43 — 14. Andante

J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

Frédéric Chopin - Cello Sonata Op. 65 (in three parts)

Navarra (Op. 33) by Sarasate

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