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#ThisWeekInHistory: the former British colony of Barbados became independent (11/30/1966); Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican (12/1/1989).

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A man has rescued his pet dog after it was attacked by an alligator in Florida. 74-year-old Richard Wilbanks went into a pond, grabbed the alligator and pulled the puppy from its jaws as wildlife cameras recorded the entire incident. (Nov. 24)

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#ThisWeekInHistory: the body of President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery; his widow, Jacqueline, lighted an “eternal flame” at the gravesite (11/25/1963); a day after George W. Bush was certified the winner of Florida’s presidential vote, Al Gore laid out his case for letting the courts settle the nation’s long-count election (11/27/2000).

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On this day in 1945, The Nuremberg Trials began. Here is a Britsh Movietone report from that day.  

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On Friday, K-pop superstars BTS released their highly anticipated new album, which they described as a "letter of hope." (Nov. 20)

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This week's #ArchivistPresents clip features a 1932 film on being a tidy hiker.

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#ThisWeekInHistory: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made the second manned landing on the moon (11/19/1969); Balkan leaders meeting in Dayton, Ohio, initialed a peace plan to end three and a-half years of ethnic fighting in Bosnia-Herzegovina (11/21/1995).

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#ThisWeekInHistory: Howard Hughes piloted his huge wooden flying boat, the Hughes H-4 Hercules (derisively dubbed the “Spruce Goose” by detractors), on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California (11/2/1947); Salvador Allende was inaugurated as president of Chile (11/3/1970).

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This week's #ArchivistPresents clip features a floating home in 1961.

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#OTD in 1942, Britain launched a major offensive in El Alamein, Egypt. Here is a British Movietone report about the second Battle of El Alamein. http://apne.ws/3gTl7QJ #MovietoneMoments

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#ThisWeekInHistory: Actress Bette Davis died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, at age 81 (10/6/1989); Scientists reported the Mars Pathfinder had yielded what could be the strongest evidence yet that Mars might once have been hospitable to life (10/8/1997). 

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BLACKPINK share the group's experience collaborating with female artists such as Cardi B, Lady Gaga and Selena Gomez.

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This week’s #ArchivistPresents clip features a look into the British film industry in 1932.

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#ThisWeekInHistory: Muhammad Ali kept his world heavyweight boxing championship with a close 15-round decision over Ken Norton at New York’s Yankee Stadium (9/28/1976); Walt Disney World opened near Orlando, Florida (10/1/1971).

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 This week's #ArchivistPresents clip features students building a car in 1968.

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#ThisWeekInHistory: #HurricaneRita, down to Category 3, steamed toward refinery towns along the Texas-Louisiana coast, creating havoc even before it arrived; levee breaks caused new flooding in New Orleans, and 23 people were killed when a bus carrying nursing-home evacuees caught fire in Texas (9/23/2005); #BabeRuth made his farewell appearance as a player with the New York Yankees in a game against the Boston Red Sox (9/24/1934). 

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 This week’s #ArchivistPresents film features an Indian summer in 1961.