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When in the course of online events, it becomes necessary for one person to search the portals which connect them with information, and to assume among the powers of the Net, the separate and equal success to which Directories and Search Engines entitle them, a decent respect for the intelligence of users requires that they should declare the methods which impel them to their final destination. -- The Ask Yahoo! Declaration of Internet Dependence Besides serving as a landmark document in American history, the Declaration of Independence is also a literal monument to the birth of the United States, on display in the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. We learned about the Declaration's current location and storied history by searching Yahoo! and finding
the Declaration of Independence category. We found listings for several sites that offer transcripts of the text and images of the document itself, plus a few that provide commentary on the Declaration's origins and implications. The key site, however, is the Declaration of Independence page from the National Archives and Records Administration. We clicked away and found a one-paragraph summary of the document's history, a nice image (and enlargements), and a link to a transcript. Better yet, under the heading of "Additional Information," we spied an article
called "The Declaration of Independence: A History," which provides an amazing, blow-by-blow account of the document's travels through the years. Did you know that Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 prompted officials to move the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution to a vault in Fort Knox? We sure didn't...
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