Crowds
Flash Mobs
- Flash Mob Computing
-- FlashMobComputing.org is "the home of the first Flash Mob Supercomputer and the official site for all things Flash Mob Computing." The project uses the Grid Computing
approach to make use of hundreds of idle computers. What's distinct about FlashMob 1 is that it is "an ad-hoc supercomputer created on-the-fly using ordinary PC's interconnected via a well-organized LAN"
that is set up in a gym or warehouse temporarily. The website describes the project, discusses the advantages and disadvantages of this approach compared to the "Big
Iron" supercomputing, as well as providing downloads and a discussion forum. The group's two main goals are: to prove flashmob computing can work and "to make this web site a place where people can share ideas, tune software, and improve on our implementation in the tradition of Open Source."
Mass Suicide
Heaven's Gate
Jonestown
Massacres
My Lai
Lynch Mobs
Mob Violence
Riots and Revolutions
Mayday
Prison Riots
Sports Celebrations
Hooliganism
Race Riots
- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
-- This site presents over 600 digitized documents, roughly 350 of which are texts, and the remainder images, primarily political cartoons. Textual documents include memoirs and eyewitness accounts, letters, newspaper articles, and manifestos, most of them translated from French to English, such as the Constitution of 1793, sometimes called the "Montagnard Constitution." A search page is provided, where users can search by keyword or select from a range of broad topics -- Middle Classes - Bourgeoisie, Monarchy, Napoleon Bonaparte, Nobility, Peasants, Sans-culottes, and so on. Even though those seeking known items will want to search, probably the easiest way to navigate the site is to select the Explore or Browse options. Explore leads to a set of 12 essays, from "Social Causes of the Revolution" and "The Enlightenment and Human Rights" to "Songs of the Revolution." To help in understanding the iconography of the French revolution, there is also an essay entitled "How to Read Images." A user choosing Browse can see lists of all the images, texts, maps, and songs at the site, or view a timeline of events, as well as a 65-term glossary.
Crazes and Fads
CBs
Beer Can Collecting
Chain Letters
Tulip Bulbs
Dances
Macarena
Mosh pit
Line Dancing
Streaking
Panty Raids
Phone Booth Stuffing
Goldfish swallowing
Bungee Jumping
Fashion
Architecture
Hairstyles
The Mullet
The Beehive
The Mohawk
Toy Fads
Cabbage Patch
Panics and Hysterias
Stock Market Crashes
June Bug
Millennialism
Disasters and Response
- Natural Hazards Center at
the University of Colorado -- a national and international clearinghouse for information on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters.
- Storm Events Database
-- From the National Climatic Data Center comes the Storms Events Database. Events are included from 1993 to the present, but as is stated on the site, the site is usually 90-120 days behind the current month. Users first choose a state and then, if necessary, a county, date, and event type. Results can be limited by tornado type, hail size, wind speed, number of injuries or deaths, and even amount of property or crop damage. The generated report lists all of the events during the time period specified and, when clicked, contain specific information about that event. Although the reports can not be downloaded, this powerful resource can be an helpful addition to a researcher's toolbox.
- ProVention Consortium
-- The ProVention Consortium is a "global coalition of governments, international organizations, academic institutions, the private sector and civil society organizations dedicated to increasing the safety of vulnerable communities and to reducing the impact of disasters in developing countries." Organized by the World Bank, the Consortium and its Web site are dedicated to disseminating materials and resources about how disaster risk management can be best applied to mitigate the effects of various potential disasters and events.
Floods and Drought
- Flood Safety
- Dartmouth Flood Observatory
-- The Dartmouth Flood Observatory produced this website as "a research tool for detection, mapping, measurement, and analysis of extreme flood events world-wide using satellite remote sensing." Users can learn about the Observatory's use of microwave and optical satellite imaging to determine flooding and extreme low flow conditions for various places throughout the world. Students and researchers can discover how the observatory monitors wetland hydrology for various places. Researchers can find archives of large flooding events from 1985 to the present. The web site features a variety of maps and satellite images of floods.
Fires
Wildfires
Building
Beverly
Hills Supper Club
Theatre
Fires
The Hindenburg
The Space Shuttles
Sinkings
Blackouts
Explosions
- The Halifax Explosion
-- In the evening of December 6, 1917, a massive explosion rocked the harbor of the rapidly growing city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, located in eastern Canada. Caused by the collision of two ships (one of which was carrying a tremendous amount of explosive material), the explosion killed over 1500 people outright, and devastated the settlements around the area. Working with various historical groups, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has created this engrossing multimedia look into the events leading up to that dreadful incident, along with offering a broader historical perspective on the development of the city of Halifax and the aftermath of these tragic events. The interactive features here are quite amazing, as visitors can view video clips of survivors' recollections, and watch footage of various commemoration activities associated with the explosion.
Earthquakes
Tornadoes and Hurricanes
Chemical Spills
Three Mile Island
Chernobyl
Oklahoma City
9/11 response
Rumors
Worm Burgers
Impotence Rumors
Proctor & Gamble
Bubble Yum Spider Eggs
Sightings
UFO
Monsters
Ghosts
- Australian Ghost Hunters
Society
- Ghost Study -- Claims to
be the biggest free ghost photo site on the web.
- Obiwan's UFO-Free Paranormal Page
-- This page claims to be home to the oldest true ghost story archive on the net (with stories dating back to 1993) as well as the net's original Ghosts and Hauntings FAQ.
There are hundreds of paranormal links, information on hauntings and publicly
accessible haunted places, a UFO-Free Message Board, one of the biggest Ghostlight Pages on the web, and more.
- South Jersey
Ghost Research -- SJGR is a group of investigators that can trace it's roots back to 1955.
They conduct investigations, assist people in need, educate the public, conduct field research and promote the learning and understanding of ghosts and other psychic phenomena.
Angels
Social Movements
Children's Play
Hospice
Women's Movement
Men's Movement
Prohibition
White Supremacy
Anti-Saloon League
Industrial Workers of the World
Labor Movement
- Remembering the Flint Sit-Down Strike, 1936-1937 [RealOnePlayer, Macromedia Flash Reader]
-- This online multi-media digital exhibit examines one of the most celebrated strikes in American history, the Flint Sit-Down Strike of 1936-1937. The idea for the project had its origins in 1978, when Neil Leighton (a political science professor at the University of Michigan-Flint) was at a professional conference and another scholar recommended that he begin to create an oral history of that historic event in American labor history. The fine interactive facets included here include an engaging audio timeline, a detailed map of the strike-related activities (such as the various locations of the General Motors plants accompanied with brief descriptions of when workers began to strike at each location), and a slideshow. Each section on the strike itself contains a brief essay about such topics as the preexisting conditions in the plants, the organization of the various strikes, and the aftermath of the events that took place during those two years. The audio reminisces are quite dramatic, and address such topics as the union demands, the nature of the piecework system in the plants, and the unequal wage system. Overall, this online exhibit is a thorough introduction to one of the most important events in the history of the American labor movement.
Ku Klux Klan
Night Riders
Communist Party of America
John Birch Society
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Berkeley Free Speech Movement
- Free Speech Movement Digital Archive [Real Player]
-- The Free Speech Movement that began on the Berkeley campus of the University of California in 1964 began a groundswell of student protests and campus-based social activism that would later spread across the United States for the remainder of the decade. The primary documents provided here are quite extensive and include transcriptions of legal defense documents, leaflets passed out by members of the movement, letters from administrators and faculty members regarding the movement and student unrest, and oral histories. The site also provided a detailed bibliography to material dealing with the movement and a chronology of key events within its early history. Perhaps the most engaging part of the site is the Social Activism Sound Recording Project, which features numerous audio clips of faculty and academic senate debates, student protests, and discussions that were recorded during this period.
National Organization for Women
Settlement House Movement
- Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963
[.pdf] -- Sponsored by the Jane Addams Hull House Museum and the University of Illinois at Chicago, this online project contains a variety of primary source documents, documentary photographs, and scholarly essays that explore the legacy of social reform movements in Chicago and the community's history.
Equal Rights
- The Dynamics of Protest Diffusion: The 1960 Sit-In Movement in the American South
[.pdf] -- Part of the Working Papers in Sociology series from Oxford University, this work addresses the dynamics of protest diffusion by taking an in-depth and rigorous look at the 1960 sit-in movement that took place in different locations around the South. Within the papers 31 pages, Professor Kenneth Andrews of Harvard and Professor Michael Biggs of the University of Oxford offer a brief exposition of previous research into the spontaneity and organization in the dynamics of social movements, along with presenting their own approach to this oft-contested area of scholarship. Using cross-sectional regressional models and event history analysis, the authors are able to show support for the significance of formal movement organization in the initial period of protest, and the diffusion effect, where the existence of previous protests would increase the likelihood of further protest. While the authors note that their results are not that surprising, their efforts here are some of the first to systematically utilize a quantitative approach to examining this powerful social movement.
Environment
Gay/Lesbian/Bi-sexual/Transgendered Movements
Community Development
Anti-Incineration Movement
Peace Movement
Anti-Globalization
Revised on July 29, 2004