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March 31, 1968: Nineteen days after Sen. Eugene McCarthy captured 42 percent of the Democratic vote in the New Hampshire primary, President Lyndon B Johnson tells a national television audience: I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

April 1, 2000: Concords Matt Bonner gets a taste of Final Four basketball as a freshman, scoring four points and grabbing two rebounds in 14 minutes of play. His team, the University of Florida, defeats North Carolina, 71-59, to advance to the championship game.

April 1, 1817: There is still good passing on ice on the river with horses, Benjamin Kimball, a Merrimack River ferryman, writes in his diary.

April 1, 1997: In a bout of April Fools weather on baseballs Opening Day, Concord gets seven inches of snow. Jaffrey gets 27 inches.

April 1, 1878: Shortly after midnight, April Fools pranksters dig up the body of executed murderer Joseph Lapage. They take it to the State House yard and suspend it from a gibbet-shaped water pipe frame. Special Detective E.B. Craddock and Officer Foster cut it down and bring it to Fosters stable behind the Phenix Hotel.

April 2, 1994: Speaking in Representatives Hall to the New Hampshire Historical Societys annual meeting, Donald Hall says of his poem Kicking the Leaves, whose subject is his moving to New Hampshire in 1975: I didnt know we were going to settle here, but the poem did.

April 2, 1851: Concords town meeting votes to end the tolling of bells at funerals. The practice, the resolution says, is productive of no good, and may, in case of the illness of the living, result in evil.

April 2, 1835: A second temperance society is formed in Concord. It calls itself the Concord Total Abstinence Society and will attract mainly middle-aged men. The citys Temperance Society already has 262 members, including 92 women.

April 3, 2003: Manchester will be home to a minor league baseball team by this time next year, city officials announce. The Boston Red Sox have agreed to allow the New Haven Ravens to move from Connecticut to Manchester, giving baseball fans the chance to attend minor league games in the Queen City for the first time since 1971.

April 3, 1945: Word reaches Concord that Staff Sgt. F. Hamilton Kibbee was killed on Jan. 31 while a prisoner of war in Germany. His wife Mary, who lives on South Street, last heard from him Jan. 7. The Kibbees have two children, ages 4 and 21 months.

April 3, 1917: A law takes effect allowing for the use of prison labor on state roads and in state forests. Progressive Republicans proposed and supported the measure, which will see little or no use in the 15 years it is in effect.

April 3, 1865: Concords church bells ring and a cannon fires in response to news of the overwhelming defeat of Gen. Robert E. Lees army at Petersburg, Va.

April 3, 1905: Douglas Everett is born. Everett will become a member of the 1932 U.S. Olympic hockey team, win a silver medal and be inducted into the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. The Everett Arena in Concord will be named in his honor.

April 3, 1994: Pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals on Opening Day, Concords Bob Tewksbury defeats the Cincinnati Reds. The highlight is Tewksburys two-run double over the head of Reds center fielder Roberto Kelly.

April 4, 2003: Two weeks into spring, the greater Concord area wakes up to 6.4 inches of snow and promises of more to come.

April 4, 2002: Former honors student and student council president Robert Tulloch spurns his lawyers advice and admits to savagely killing two Dartmouth professors with his best friend.

April 4, 2001: Two .45-caliber bullets are found at Kingswood Regional High School in Wolfeboro as students arrive for the day. A search of the building finds no gun and no apparent threat to anyones safety.

April 4, 1983: Concord City Clerk Marjorie Foote retires after 19 years on the job. I knew just about everything that was going on with people in this city, she recalls.

April 4, 1946: Brooklyn Dodger management announces that two African American baseball players, Don Newcombe and Roy Campanella, have been assigned to its Nashua farm team. The citys population of 34,000 includes fewer than 50 African Americans. Frank Stawacz, sports editor of the Nashua Telegraph, writes: These two boys will have to be glaring standouts, else they will find an atmosphere much to their dislike even in these parts where color makes little or no difference.

April 4, 1974: Gov. Mel Thomson signs legislation reinstating the death penalty in New Hampshire. I feel like John Hancock when he finished putting his signature on the Declaration of Independence, he says. The new law calls for death by hanging.

April 4, 1924: Alf Jacobson is born. Jacobson will teach at Colby Sawyer College, be elected state Senate president and serve for many years in the House.

April 5, 2002: Charles Gravenhorst, a self-described pastor who hosts a late-night Christian show on Concord Community TV, is arrested on charges related to an alleged sexual assault in Maine.

April 5, 1816: In a rare self-appraisal, U.S. Rep. Daniel Webster of New Hampshire says his antiquated notions make it clear to him that he should have lived in generations that have gone by. His political career has stalled in the ruins of the Federalist Party. Four months later, Webster will move from Portsmouth to Boston and resume his rise on the national stage.

April 5, 1797: Jonas Chickering of New Ipswich is born. A prominent manufacturer, he will build 14,000 pianos in his day and strive to perfect an instrument that will remain in tune and fit for use regardless of the weather.

April 5, 1881: Fire badly damages the works of the Page Belting Co. The loss is estimated at $24,000.

April 6, 2002: As health insurance premiums rise by double digits, most New Hampshire health insurance companies are growing more profitable reversing losses in the late 1990s that forced some competitors out of the market, the Monitor reports.

April 6, 2000: The New Hampshire Senate votes, 12-11, to repeal the states inheritance tax, but the measure is doomed because its linked to a plan to legalize video gambling. The House, which has already ruled out gambling legislation, will eventually agree on the inheritance tax repeal. The governor, however, will veto it.

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TikTok appears to be testing a new Watch History feature that should save you from the mental anguish of trying to locate that video you couldve sworn you saved, as reported by TechCrunch. It looks like TikTok may finally give us a straightforward way to browse through a running list of the videos weve seen on the app.

Social media consultant Matt Navarra retweeted findings from Twitter user Hammod Oh, who frequently unearths upcoming features on various social platforms. Ohs screenshot indicates the Watch History option will appear under the Content and Activity heading of your settings.

There still arent many details about what the Watch History page will look like or how it will compile your previously watched videos. The Verge reached out to TikTok about the potential feature but didnt immediately hear back.

The absence of a watch history button has led most of us to search for workarounds and while there are some, theyre nowhere near as simple as just tapping into a Watch History button. One process involves filtering your search results by videos youve seen, while another requires you to download all of your TikTok data just to find a single video. If TikTok does come through with this feature, it should save us all a lot of time.

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WrestleMania is typically sold on its main event (or multiple headlining matches as of late), but for every John Cena vs. The Rock match and Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar saga that caps off the Showcase of the Immortals, there have been multiple great opening contests that are just as impactful. Over the years, weve seen heated fights between the Hart brothers, death-defying ladder matches involving some of the biggest stars, and other great WWE opening matches that have set the tone for their respective shows.

Below is a breakdown of 10 of the best WrestleMania opening matches, as well as a direct link to the shows on which they took place on the WWE Network on Peacock. Theres a lot to unpack in a short amount of time, so lets jerk that curtain and get the show started.

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WWE didnt waste any time getting WrestleMania 34 going with a triple threat match that saw The Miz defend his Intercontinental Championship against Seth Rollins and Finn Balor. This instant classic gave the event a nice pace and provided for some great moments from each of the competitors over the course of 15 minutes. With multiple near-falls, shifts in momentum, and a strong sampling of each wrestlers respective movesets, everyone came out of this one looking like a winner, especially Seth Rollins, who became a Grand Slam Champion with his first IC Title victory.

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Say what you will about Shane McMahon, but the fourth-generation wrestling figure knows how to put on a show with a death defying stunt, especially whenever he steps into the ring at WrestleMania. This was the case at WrestleMania 33, where the part-time wrestler squared-off against AJ Styles in an opening match that was way better than anyone expected. On top of the typical Shane OMac moves like the Coast-to-Coast and Leap of Faith, McMahon also pulled out a shooting star press in his attempt to defeat Styles, but it just wasnt enough to best the Phenomenal One.

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WrestleMania 32 was a slog of a show, and honestly felt like it would never end, especially the second half with multiple matches more than 25 minutes in length. But, it didnt start out that way. No, the show started with one of the best ladder matches in recent memory with an amazing spectacle that saw Zack Ryder win his first Intercontinental Championship against Kevin Owens, Dolph Ziggler, The Miz, Sami Zayn, Sin Cara, and Stardust. In just 15 minutes, each of the competitors had their moment to shine with some painful bumps and countless offensive maneuvers involving the steel ladders.

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WWE caught lightning in a bottle with the Intercontinental Championship ladder match that opened WrestleMania 31, a seven-man affair that saw Daniel Bryan defeat Bad News Barrett, Dean Ambrose, Dolph Ziggler, Luke Harper, R-Truth, and Stardust to capture his first IC strap and first title since being forced to vacate the WWE World Heavyweight Championship the previous year. The fast-paced match did a great job of setting the tone for the show as a whole and also gave several of the companys biggest fan-favorites an opportunity to work together and make history.

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WrestleMania 30 was mostly built around Daniel Bryans quest to win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship and defeat The Authority, and he did both of those in the same night. In order for Bryan, who was the hottest thing in professional wrestling at the time, to get into the main event match for all the gold, he first had to defeat Triple H in a singles match. This technical and back-and-forth match was hotly anticipated for months (Triple H cost Bryan the title at SummerSlam 2013), and told a tremendous wrestling story that set up the final chapter later that night.

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Five months after debuting at Survivor Series 2012, The Shield was given the opportunity to prove itself on the biggest stage: WrestleMania 29. A couple of years before the groups members would become main event talent, Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, and Roman Reigns went up against Randy Orton, Sheamus, and Big Show in a moment that felt like WWEs version of the NWO invasion in WCW 17 years earlier. The unified front that was The Shield used their opponents lack of communication against them and proved they were an unstoppable force that was here to stay.

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Before Money in the Bank was given its own show, the match was held at WrestleMania each year, with one of the best being the eight-man ladder match that kicked off the 25th annual big event. The match, which saw CM Punk beat out a selection of the best up-and-coming and established stars, did a great job of getting the crowd into the show and provided some of the nights biggest moments, like Shelton Benjamin diving from atop a ladder onto the rest of competitors down below. It was everything youd want in an opener and more.

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Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero met in the WrestleMania 21 opening match, which would be the latters final appearance at the Granddaddy of them All prior to his death in November 2006. The two tag-team partners put on a fast-paced and highly technical showing that felt a lot like their iconic encounter at Halloween Havoc 1996, and showed that they were still two of the best.

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It is only fitting that John Cena, one of the greatest of all time, would make his WrestleMania debut in the worlds most famous arena: Madison Square Garden. Cenas WrestleMania 20 opening match against United States Champion, Big Show, was one of the rising stars biggest moments and showed the world that he was more than a flavor of the week. From the opening freestyle promo, to the Patrick Ewing Knicks jersey, to his strength in the ring, this one had it all.

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WrestleMania 10 started off with one of the best matches of the night, year, and decade with the one-on-one fight between brothers Bret and Owen Hart, who put on a 20-minute clinic in front of a full house at Madison Square Garden. This bitter back-and-forth was the most personal of the matches on the card that night and arguably the best (if not tied with Razor Ramon and Shawn Michaels). The way the wrestlers played into their sibling rivalry was nothing short of masterful, and both came out looking better than before.

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How will the opening matches at the two-night WrestleMania 38 compare to these? Youll have to watch the big show yourself on April 2 and 3, but only if you have a Peacock Premium subscription.

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Duke and UNC are close on the color wheel and geographically, but that's where the likeness ends.

GREENSBORO, N.C. There is a range of blues. We know exactly what blue it is not, which is pale blue, said Blyth Morrell, AVP of Digital & Brand at Duke University.

Rivals don't miss taking shots, even if it's about the clash on the color wheel! The history of Duke Blue dates back to when Duke was Trinity College.

Wouldn't you know, it was a game against UNC. The students cheered for their winning shade of blue.

The first version of Duke Blue goes back to that football game. The deep dark blue, that's the only reference that we have, said Morrell.

The next mention of Duke Blue comes in the 1960s when they were trying to formalize commencement and the robes.

In our archives is this is the genesis of Prussian Blue. Those Prussian robes are still in use for commencement exercises today, said Morrell.

While the Prussian Blue is for commencement, Duke has two other shades of blue. Internally it is called Academic Blue, but it is also referred to as Duke Navy, and it is the official blue. In 2009, Duke Royal Blue was used for athletics, apparel, and promotional items.

Don't let this choice of blue confuse you. In an email, Morrell said, its the best blue.

HOW CAROLINA GOT ITS BLUE

The students created debate societies. Every Saturday night the Dialects and the Philanthropics debated. You knew what side you were on by where you came from.

Students were automatically put into one of these two societies based on where they lived. If you lived east of Orange County you would be part of the Philanthropic society, if you were from west of Orange County you would be Dialectic society, said Spencer Anderson, Manager of the UNC-Chapel Hill Visitor's Center.

Every time these two societies would debate against each other all members would show up wearing ribbons on their shirts. One group wore blue, the other white. In the 1800s athletics brought them together.

They decided when we're out on the athletic fields, we are one university, not two societies. So, they took the white and the blue and made those the official colors of the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill, said Anderson.

The official color has morphed over the years, but if you want to be true blue Carolina, it's Pantone color 542c.

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DEER ISLE More than 125 years ago, when fishermen had little use for yacht racing, sailing captains connected to the New York Yacht Club showed up at the Deer Isle Town Hall to recruit sailors for the most famous yachting race ever, the Americas Cup.

Who were these guys? Am I related? Whats the big deal about a sailboat race? Tom Duym, a former marine trades teacher at Deer Ise-Stonington schools who grew up in a family boatyard in Blue Hill, recalled the questions a handful of young Deer Isle teenagers asked him in 2007.

The kids didnt know the Americas Cup, he said during an Acadia Senior College online talk on March 25. Almost to a person, they hated sailboats, the reason being they were all lobster fishermen.

The students not only discovered that sailors from Deer Isle and Stonington crewed the Nat Herreshoff-designed Defender and the Columbia in the 1895 and 1899 Americas Cup, respectively. They also flew to Valencia, Spain, to watch the 2007 race, after Duym contacted the Oracle/BMW team.

His students had wanted to compare what the 19th century Deer Isle crew endured compared to being a crew member today, so Duym thought, What the heck. Why dont we call them?

He shot off an email and three days later heard back. The gist of the reply? We love your story, we know your Deer Isle boys, theyre a huge part of the Americas Cup. Wed love to host you in Spain, if you can find your way over here.

Some fast fundraising and generous local donations later, five students and five teachers flew to attend and be celebrated by the Americas Cup race.

Duym said he had students keep a few questions in the back of their minds to help learn about the 1890s culture of Deer Isle.

Why did the richest men in the country from New York Yacht Club fund these traveling vessels? How did our ancestors get to be the guys who sailed these boats? Duym posed. They really started to look into that.

Research led them to an age-old truth: its all in who you know.

It wasnt just because they were tough, rough and ready, though that was true, Duym said. It really boils down to who you know and being in the right place at the right time.

Captain Henry Haff, from Montauk, N.Y., was captain of the 1895 Defender. Deer Isle native George Conant was a sailor for hire in yachting circles who had worked for Haff. And Deer Isle captain Fred Weed, who held the worlds trans-Atlantic speed record for a merchant ship, was now ashore running a shipping company out of Stonington.

The Deer Isle boys who made up the Defender crew in 1895.

Charles Iselin, of the New York Yacht Club, was the fourth player. He sailed up every summer to Northeast Harbor and had seen these guys in Friendship-style sloops groundfishing, Duym said. Basically these four men and their relationship formed the history of the Americas Cup and Deer Isle.

However, part of the story also was that the New York Yacht Club had been winning the cup since the 1850s using European crews, Duym said. There was criticism of hiring professional sailors, especially from Scandinavia The Europeans, especially the English, were especially critical that these boats were winning but were sailed by European sailors.

So the men behind Americas stake in the race took a chance and went with an all-American crew, leaving Haff in charge of finding the men.

That could be a daunting task, knowing the coast was full of good sailors, Duym said. This is where the connection came in.

The 1899 Americas Cup racing yacht, Columbia, a Nat Herreshoff-designed vessel with a hollow steel spar, crewed by the Deer Isle boys.

Conant had a reputation among people with shipping interests, and Duyms students discovered that Conant and Captain Weeds properties abutted, something not evident in todays changed landscape.

We believe that Conant convinced Iselin to contact Weed, Duym said.

This eventually led to the meeting at Town Hall, where Captain Weed, Haff and Conant supervised interviews of the local sailors and selected the Defenders Americas Cup crew. Many of those 1895 crew members would return in 1899 to crew the Columbia.

The Columbia was captained by Scotsman Charlie Barr. According to research, his assessment of his crew? When given a command from one of the officers, they take it as more of a suggestion than an order, Duym related.

In all, over 80 men from Deer Isle sailed as crew on one or both of the Defender and Columbia.

An interesting postscript to this story is the Retired Skippers Race, held every summer in Castine.

[It] actually started out as a grudge match between the surviving Deer Isle Boys and some of the offshore cod bank sailors, Duym said.

The Bucksport captains challenged the Deer Isle boys to race identical sloops down Eggemoggin Reach. The Deer Isle boys beat them quite handily, Duym said. And when the Bucksport boat reached the Bucksport harbor, Deer Isle supporters threw clams at them.

This led to the Clam Hod Award, given each year at the Retired Skippers Race to the boat that finishes last.And those students of Duyms, from 2007 until he stopped using the Americas Cup story in his curriculum, now looked at sailboats through a different lens.

The only image of sailboats [theyd had] is they drag peoples gear up and cut it up and lose it, Duym said. That attitude had definitely changed. They also saw a real connection between these men of 1895 and 1899 and people that are revered as good fishermen, good seamen, in the community today.

He added, If you took the diesel engines out of lobster boats, youd be looking at the same guys today. The same kind of competitive spirit, working hard, doing your job even if it meant risking your life those kinds of attributes they really recognized both in the men of those times they researched and in their own families today.

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The primary villain of "Moon Knight" seems to be Harrow, and he serves the goddess Ammit (spelled Ammut in the comic books). Ammit is the goddess of judgment, punishment, and retribution, and she's depicted in the Book of the Dead as a demon with the head of a crocodile, the torso of a wild cat, and the hindquarters of a hippopotamus. She was not worshiped and did not have cults devoted to her, like many of the other gods, but she was thought of as a protective deity and her image was meant to ward against evil. Many feared her, as her name translates to "devourer" and "bone eater," the darker side of the many gods of judgment.

In the comics, she's depicted as a crocodile-headed woman with jackal-headed henchmen, meant to represent the god of embalming, Anubis. Jackals were associated with death because they frequently scavenged corpses during the time, and thus Anubis became one of the gods of death. He was worshipped particularly in the Old Kingdom, prior to the takeover of Osiris, Isis, and other gods of the Ptolemaic period who would go on to make up the Ennead. In "Moon Knight," we see a jackal-headed creature in the museum chasing Steven before he turns into Moon Knight in the bathroom and takes care of business. It's the first time we get to see him in action after the action-blackout sequences earlier in the episode, so it's cool that he's fighting another deity-touched being and not just some random villagers.

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In the return of history, Communist China will pose the greatest threatU.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL)March 29, 2022Washington Examiner

Vladimir Putins barbarous invasion of Ukraine is a watershed moment in the return of history. But even as Putin resurrects the specter of global war, the United States must grapple with an even more powerful adversary: the Peoples Republic of China.Awareness of this threat is growing, but unfortunately, America still risks being distracted by domestic politics. Just look at the Biden administrations decision to cancel the China Initiative to appease bogus accusations of racism and xenophobia.Our response to the CCP is also being handicapped by economic interests. Using the lure of increased profit margins, Beijing has turned American companies into lobbyists and advocates for its genocidal regime.The Biden administration was wrong to cave to baseless accusations that the DOJs China Initiative was racist. The program should be reinstated. Nor can our response to espionage and trade secrets theft be one of half-measures, like the so-called China Bill the House and Senate are negotiating.If we are going to prevail against the CCP, we will also need to revitalize our industrial capacity. A nation dependent on hostile regimes for basic goods is not going to last long.Finally, we need strong allies and partners. In Europe, our allies will need to take greater ownership of their security so they can take a leading role to counter Putins aggression, and so we can focus on the threat of the CCP in the Indo-Pacific.The CCP has spent decades preparing to displace America as the worlds greatest power. But if we can stand united and remain focused on Beijing, in spite of all the competing distractions, I am confident that America will prevail.Read the rest here.

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The National Museum of Lviv in western Ukraine, one of the countrys biggest museums, was able to keep its collection intact through two world wars. And yet, over the last month, since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, the museum has had to quickly dismantle its exhibitions.

For the first time since the museum was founded in 1905, all exhibition rooms are emptyall museum items are wrapped, packed and are hidden, Ihor Kozhan, museums director, tells TIME over Zoom. When you talk, you hear echoes reverberating in the empty rooms. It hurts. Its very sad.

And the National Museum is not alone. During these weeks of Russian war against Ukraine, museums and archives across the country have been scrambling to protect artifacts and documents that represent Ukrainian history.

Theyve done everything from evacuating works of art over the border to hiding objects in safe storage. Cities are trying to safeguard monuments and statues by surrounding them with sandbags and covering statues with fireproof material to protect them from bombing and shelling. Some museums have been destroyed, such as Kuindzhi Art Museum in Mariupol and a history museum in Ivankiv, in the Kyiv region, which was known for a collection of 25 artworks by famed Ukrainian folk artist Maria Primachenko. On two separate occasions, Russian strikes have damaged parts of the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center site in Kyiv, which marks the 1941 Nazi German massacre of more than 33,000 Jews.

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For many institutions, they are struggling to figure out how to protect the collections, how to move [artworks], what to hide, says Yuliya Vaganova, acting director of the Khanenko Museum in Kyiv, home to the countrys most significant collections of Western and Asian art.

Yet, amid this conflict, the stakes of preserving Ukraines culture and past have never been clearer.

On the first day of the invasion, the literary museum in Kharkiv, Ukraines second biggest city, began the process of sealing windows with plywood. Now all of its exhibits have been moved to an underground bomb shelter. Writing to TIME on March 25 while the sound of an air-raid siren blared, the museums director Tanya Pylypchuk described how the institution had evacuated the most valuable part of the collection in the first few days of the war. Those items include books, manuscripts, and documents on the complex relations between Ukraine and Russia in the 20th century that show Ukraine wanted to be part of Europe, not Russia.

Such materials were banned in the Soviet Union, Pylypchuk wrote. Modern Russia also does not accept this version of Ukrainian history.

On March 24, 2022, at the Taras Shevchenko Monument in Kharkiv, Ukraine, dozens of volunteers are packing sand into bags, tying them off and loading them into bucket cranes and cherry pickers, while the volunteers standing on rising sandbag walls around the statues are piling them higher around the statue to protect them from the effects of Russian bombardment.

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This is a war against our history, our culture, says Ihor Poshyvailo, director of the Maidan museum in Kyiv, a history museum focused on pro-democracy efforts in Ukraine.

Since the invasion, Poshyvailo has shifted gears to helping museums obtain electricity generators and packing materials to preserve their collections, and coordinating donations of food and water for museum workers who have decided not to flee the country so that they can protect the art and artifacts. In a similar effort, Olha Honchar, director of a museum of totalitarian regimes in Lviv called Territory of Terror, organized the Museum Crisis Center to help fundraise for museum workers at small regional museums, which were short-staffed even before the war. A lot of regional museums dont have a security system, Honchar says.

In this March 26, 2022, photo, a monument of Volodymyr the Great is surrounded by a a special protective structure on Volodymyrsky Hill in Kyiv to safeguard it from possible bombardment as Russian forces continue their full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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Ukrainian cultural institutionsmuseums, national parks, libraries, theatersthey are not military objects, not oil depots or airfields, but still they are at risk, Mykhailo Zakopets, a director of the museum Lviv Skansen, said in an email. We see destroyed Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Mariupol and understand, that enemys goal is to wipe out everything that is about Ukrainian identitythe language, national culture, traditions. In this context our museum is [an] invaluable treasury of information.

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Anatolii Khromov, the chief archivist of Ukraine, who oversees the countrys network of more than 200 archives, tells TIME that the Russians burned down the archive for Ukrainian Security Service in Chernihiv, which housed more than 12,000 folders about the KGB and the repression of the Ukrainian population by the Soviet regime in the 20th century.

He says the Ukrainian archive system is desperate for funding to finish construction of underground depositories for preserving documents and in the meantime has signed an online storage agreement with the National Archives in the United Kingdom to back up copies of select documents. As Khromov describes the value of the countrys archives, Its not just Ukrainian history. Its world history.

And its not just physical objects that museums and archives need to protect. There are a couple of ongoing efforts in the U.S. to help scholars in Ukraine back up their research online and archive websites related to the countrys history in case there are cyberattacks or researchers homes are bombed.

The American Folklore Society is helping Ukrainian scholars upload their researchincluding songs, photographs, and videos recording dances and Ukrainian festivals and celebrations to a Google Drive site. A U.S.-based project called Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) boasts over 1,300 volunteers worldwide and more than 15,000 individual files uploaded to the website Internet Archive. Volunteers are producing replicas of museum websitesand in some cases, this work comes in the nick of time. For example, on March 3, a team worked through the night to back up the website for the state archive of Kharkiv before it mysteriously went offline.

A website might be one of the only [pieces of] evidence that something existed and belonged to this museum, so this could potentially be evidence in future prosecutions for looting, for destruction of cultural heritage, says Quinn Dombrowski, SUCHO co-founder and an academic technology specialist at Stanford University.

And Honchar is already thinking about the next big task for museums: telling the story of Russias war against Ukraine to future generations.

Now the priority is to survive and save [museums] collection, she says, but after the win, we have a lot of work to do to document this war in Ukraine.

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