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News from the John W. Kluge Center: Happening This Week: 100 Years of Women Voting

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This Thursday, November 21, at 4pm in the Thomas Jefferson Building’s Coolidge Auditorium, the John W. Kluge Center will hold a discussion of the 100 years of women voting since the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution.

Assistant Deputy Librarian Colleen Shogan will lead a panel featuring two leading scholars on women and voting: Christina Wolbrecht of the University of Notre Dame, and Jane Junn of the University of Southern California. Wolbrecht is the co-author of the forthcoming book A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage.

This event will highlight the recently opened LOC exhibit, “Shall Not Be Denied: Women Fight for the Vote,” which will be open for viewing after the event.

The event is free, but due to expected demand, tickets are recommended. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Visit the event ticketing site for more information and to secure your ticket. Entry is not guaranteed.

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Questions? Please contact (202) 707-9219 or scholarly@loc.gov




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News from the John W. Kluge Center: Don’t miss out: 30 Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall

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This week, on Thursday, December 5, at 4pm in room LJ-119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building, the John W. Kluge Center will hold a discussion marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.


Hope M. Harrison and Constanze Stelzenmüller will take part in a discussion moderated by Kluge Center Director John Haskell on the history of the wall itself, why it fell, and how German reunification impacts today’s politics and the future of democracy.


The event is free, but due to expected demand, tickets are recommended. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Visit the event ticketing site for more information and to secure your ticket. Entry is not guaranteed.

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Questions? Please contact (202) 707-9219 or scholarly@loc.gov

 




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Ram Janambhoomi Teertha Kshetra put under section 80G; donations to trust exempted from income tax

The Shri Ram Janambhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust has been created for the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. The 15-member trust was constituted by the Modi government, after the Supreme Court's verdict on November 9 settled the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case.




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No hike in school fees in academic year 2020-21: Maharashtra Education Department

Giving a big relief to parents during the coronavirus COVID-19 crisis, the Maharashtra Education Department has announced that there will be no hike in school fees in the academic year 2020-21.




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Migrants resort to violence in Gujarat's Surat, pelt stones at police, damage vehicles; 50 detained

The incident took place in Mora village near the industrial town of Hazira.




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Intervention Library: Finding Interventions and Resources for Students and Teachers (IL:FIRST v1.0)


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Proceedings of the National Conference on Recent Advances in Condensed Matter Physics: RACMP-2018: conference date, 12-13 October 2018: location, Kurukshetra, India / editors, R. K. Moudgil, Annu Sharma and Manish K. Kashyap

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Proceedings of the Europe/Africa Conference Dresden 2017- Polymer Processing Society PPS: conference date, 27-29 June 2017: location, Dresden, Germany / editors, Udo Wagenknecht, Petra Pötschke, Sven Wiessner and Michael Gehde

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Novel trends in rheology VIII: conference date, 30-31 July 2019: location, Zlín, Czech Republic / editors, Martin Zatloukal and Jan Musil

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DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2018: 18-22 December 2018, Hisar, Haryana, India / Editors, Arup Biswas, Veerendra K. Sharma and S. M. Yusuf

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Beyond Curie: four women in physics and their remarkable discoveries, 1903 to 1963 / Scott Calvin

Hayden Library - QC774.A2 C353 2017




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Nanophotonics, Nanooptics, Nanobiotechnology, and Their Applications: Selected Proceedings of the 6th International Conference Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials (NANO2018), August 27-30, 2018, Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Applied Physics of Condensed Matter (APCOM 2019): conference date, 19-21 June 2019: location, Strbske Pleso, Slovak Republic / editors, Jozef Sitek, Ján Vajda and Igor Jamnický

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Proceedings of PPS-33: the 33rd International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society: conference papers: conference date, 10-14 December 2017: location, Cancun, Mexico / editors, Octavio Manero and Fausto Calderas

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High-Energy Processes in Condensed Matter (HEPCM 2019): proceedings of the XXVI Conference on High-Energy Processes in Condensed Matter, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of S.A. Chaplygin: conference date, 3-5 April 2019: location, Novosibi

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Statistical mechanics of classical and disordered systems: Luminy, France, August 2018 / Veronique Gayrard, Louis-Pierre Arguin, Nicola Kistler, Irina Kourkova, editors

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Reviews in plasmonics 2017 / Chris D. Geddes, editor

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Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: NANO-SciTech: conference date, 26 February-1 March 2018: location, Selangor, Malaysia / editors, Mohamad Rusop, Tetsuo Soga, Shiro Nagaoka and Salifairus Mohammad Jafar

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Advances in spectroscopy: molecules to materials: proceedings of NCASMM 2018 / Dheeraj Kumar Singh, Sourav Das, Arnulf Materny, editors

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Relativity: the Special and the General Theory - 100th Anniversary Edition.

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Advances in open systems and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics: proceedings of the 684. WE-Heraeus-Seminar, Bad Honnef, Germany, 2-5 December 2018 / Bassano Vacchini, Heinz-Peter Breuer, Angelo Bassi, editors

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Einstein equations: physical and mathematical aspects of general relativity: Domoschool 2018 / Sergio Cacciatori, Batu Güneysu, Stefano Pigola, editors

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Special Relativity: An Introduction with 200 Problems and Solutions / Michael Tsamparlis

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Geometric methods in physics XXXVII: Workshop and Summer School, Białowieża, Poland, 2018 / Piotr Kielanowski, Anatol Odzijewicz, Emma Previato, editors

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Physics, Technologies and Innovation (PTI-2019): Proceedings of the VI International Young Researchers' Conference: 20-23 May 2019, Ekaterinburg, Russia / editors, Vladimir A. Volkovich, Sergey V. Zvonarev, Ilya V. Kashin, Andrey A. Smirnov and Evgeni

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Constructing quantum mechanics.: 1900-1923 / Anthony Duncan, Michel Janssen

Dewey Library - QC174.12.D86 2019




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Gravitational wave astrophysics: early results from gravitational wave searches and electromagnetic counterparts: proceedings of the 338th symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Baton Rouge, United States, October 16-19, 2017 / edited b

Hayden Library - QC179.I684 2019




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Carbon nanotubes, graphene, and emerging 2D materials for electronic and photonic devices IX: 28-31 August 2016, San Diego, California, United States / Manijeh Razeghi [and three others], editors ; sponsored by SPIE

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Proceedings of the 35th International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society (PPS-35): 26-30 May 2019, Cesme-Izmir, Turkey / editors, Fevzi Cakmak Cebeci, Yusuf Z. Menceloglu, Serkan Unal and Yakup Ulcer

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Strongly Coupled Field Theories for Condensed Matter and Quantum Information Theory: proceedings, International Institute of Physics, Natal, Rn, Brazil, 2-21 August 2015 / Alvaro Ferraz, Kumar S. Gupta, Gordon Walter Semenoff, Pasquale Sodano, editors

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Foundations of quantum theory: proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", Course 197, Varenna on Lake Como, Villa Monastero, 8-13 July 2016 / edited by E.M. Rasel and W.P. Schleich, directors of the course and S. Wöl

Dewey Library - QC174.12.L363 2016




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Pending class 10 exams to be held only in North East Delhi, not nationwide: HRD minister

The minister also clarified to the students of North East Delhi that there is no need to reappear in these examinations if they have already appeared.




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CAT 2019 final shortlist to be declared May 8 onwards

In 2019, the number of people who registered for the test and the number of people who appeared for the test was the highest in ten years. Out of the 244,190 candidates who registered, 209,926 appeared for the test.




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Delhi govt announces summer vacation in its schools from May 11 to June 30

The government has also clarified that students will not be called to schools for any vacation-related activity in view of the COVID-19 situation.




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CBSE to conduct Class 10th, 12th board exams from July 1-15

The exams have been delayed on account of closure of educational institutions in the country because of the Covid-19 lockdown.




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IIMs add final touches to 2020 list

Digital was the medium of choice at several institutes to finalise the candidates. While IIM-Ahmedabad, IIM-Bangalore and IIM-Raipur had managed to complete their admission process before the lockdown, others like Lucknow, Calcutta, Kozhikode, Indore, Sambalpur and Jammu had to partly resort to the virtual route to zero in on the candidates.




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Evaluation for class 10, 12 board exams to be done at home by teachers

Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' said 1.5 crore answer sheets of already conducted class 10, 12 exams will be delivered to teachers. "From the 3,000 schools, these copies will go the evaluators and evaluation will begin tomorrow," he added.




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Part 1 – Ch09 – The Dhamma Goes Westward

These are the recordings of the complete collection of all the talks by Ajahn Chah that have been translated into English and are published in 'The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah', 2011. This was read by Ajahn Amaro during the winter of 2012

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Part 1 – Ch10 – Even One Word is Enough

These are the recordings of the complete collection of all the talks by Ajahn Chah that have been translated into English and are published in 'The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah', 2011. This was read by Ajahn Amaro during the winter of 2012

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Part 1 – Ch04 – No Abiding

These are the recordings of the complete collection of all the talks by Ajahn Chah that have been translated into English and are published in 'The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah', 2011. This was read by Ajahn Amaro during the winter of 2012

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Part 1 – Ch03 – Convention And Liberation

These are the recordings of the complete collection of all the talks by Ajahn Chah that have been translated into English and are published in 'The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah', 2011. This was read by Ajahn Amaro during the winter of 2012

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Part 3 – Ch50 – The Fountain Of Wisdom

These are the recordings of the complete collection of all the talks by Ajahn Chah that have been translated into English and are published in 'The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah', 2011. This was read by Ajahn Amaro during the winter of 2012

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Part 3 – Ch40 – What Is Contemplation

These are the recordings of the complete collection of all the talks by Ajahn Chah that have been translated into English and are published in 'The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah', 2011. This was read by Ajahn Amaro during the winter of 2012

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Part 2 – Ch30 – The Place Of Coolness

These are the recordings of the complete collection of all the talks by Ajahn Chah that have been translated into English and are published in 'The Collected Teachings of Ajahn Chah', 2011. This was read by Ajahn Amaro during the winter of 2012

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