1. The photographers did not chase after them, documenting every cup of coffee they sipped and immortalizing every date, but they made a real contribution to the culture.

2. The Maccabi Union is immortalizing itself through bureaucracy, politicking and organizing modest ventures abroad, whose contribution to greater awareness of Israel is dubious.

3. Shelly, obviously humiliated beyond words, explained that she wasnt authorized to deal with that question. (To her everlasting chagrin, several documentaries on the genocide include footage of her disastrous performance, unforgivingly immortalizing her forever.) The difference between this pathetic moment and subsequent American reactions to Darfur under President Bush could hardly have been more glaring.

4. Noting that he possessed rich thematic items of historical significance, shedding light onto daily life in Turkey, Keleţ said, «I have around 10,000 thematic stamps as well as 10,000 documents including newspapers from the 1700s, land registries, notary and bank documents, diplomas and report cards, in my collection.» Everybody is in some way passionate for ephemera: Keleţ said ephemera was a very amusing hobby documenting and immortalizing past daily life and that actually everyone had a sense of this passion for collecting items related to the past. «Everybody has photographs of family members in their youth, a passport, an identity card, a love letter that wasn‘t sent and registry of their first car or a house.» «Thus, every kind of piece of paper related to daily life that makes us sigh deeply and depicts the past, even if it‘s a day before, could be considered ephemera, and those collecting these documents are called ephemerists.