NP web resources

[Doug Millison]

Movies.com -- Fact City
http://movies.factcity.net/factcity/factcity

This easy-to-use "facts on demand service" from Movies.com and Fact
City offers quick answers to your movie questions. Drawing on a
database of over 400,000 actors and actresses, 40,000 directors, and
hundreds of thousands of movies and other movie professionals, the
site provides instant answers to questions submitted via a
fill-in-the-blank interface. Preset questions include: who starred
in, who directed, who produced, list all movies starring, what is the
running time of, and who won the academy award, among others. A nice,
compact, and fast resource for looking up a wide variety of movie
facts.

New Document Releases of MI5 material relating to WWII -- PRO
http://www.pro.gov.uk/news/pressreleases/MI5/mi5_intro.htm
Images
http://www.pro.gov.uk/news/pressreleases/MI5WW2/MI5_1.htm

The UK Public Record Office has recently announced the release of MI5
(Security Service) records related to World War II. The bulk of the
release is mainly personal files of British traitors, double agents,
and Nazi spies. These include William Joyce ("Lord Haw Haw") and his
wife Margaret; other individuals connected with the British Union of
Fascists; double agents HAMLET, PUPPET, and MULLET; and some leading
Nazi intelligence officers and agents. A link at the bottom of the
first URL will lead visitors to brief summaries of the individuals
covered, along with their file numbers. These will probably be most
interesting to scholars, but the collection of images should appeal
to anyone with an interest in the Second World War, traitors, and
secret agents.

Chile: 16,000 Secret US Documents Declassified -- NSA [.pdf]
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20001113/
Chile Documentation Project
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/latin_america/chile.htm

On November 13, the National Security Archive (NSA) (last discussed
in the October 6, 2000 _Scout Report_) announced the release of over
"16,000 secret US records on the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, and
Washington's role in the violent overthrow of the Allende government
and the advent of the military regime to power." Totalling more than
50,000 pages, the records include numerous controversial documents
that the CIA had refused to release until they were pressured by the
White House. The NSA has posted a selection of some of the key
documents on its site. They are offered in .pdf format with a brief
description.


...and one for MalignD, for eponymous reasons:

International Victimology Website [.pdf, .doc]
http://www.victimology.nl/

A joint project of the UN Center for International Crime Prevention,
the Research and Documentation Center of the Netherlands Ministry of
Justice, and the World Society of Victimology, this site was created
to disseminate information about current research and practices in
victimology and criminology. To that end, the site offers two
databases. The first of these, the Victimology Research Database,
contains detailed information on current and ongoing projects. The
second, the Victim Services and Victimization Prevention Database,
offers information on both successful and not-so-successful efforts
in the field. The site also hosts a very large collection of
documents and publications related to victimology and criminology,
which are listed by country. Please note that some of these documents
are not in English. A news section and bulletin board round out the
site.

from:  The Scout Report -- November 17, 2000
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