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Many important documents missing from Archives By LARRY MARGASAK Associated Press This image provided by the National Archives and Records Administration shows the first page of the three-page patent application No. 821,393, dated May 21, 1903, submitted by Orville and Wilbur Wright to the U.S. Patent Office for their Flying Machine. WASHINGTON — National Archives visitors know they will find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won't find the patent file for the Wright Brothers' Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory. Many historical items the Archives once possessed are missing, including: · Civil War telegrams from Abraham Lincoln. · Original signatures of... [read full story]
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by: Babak November 25, 2009 | about: While it is common to compare the current US stock market with the Japanese experience in the early 1980’s, there is more to it than a similar market profile. The comparison between the two...
