When I examine myself and my methods of
thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge
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The Presidents Men
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When I examine myself and my methods of
thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge
?A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.? ,,,,,,,,,Martin Luther King, Jr
"The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy."
"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
Martin Luther King
"The ultimate measure of a person is not where one stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where one stands in times of challenge and controversy."
"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
Martin Luther King
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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
-Albert Einstein
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Quotation
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
-- Speech, 1953, to the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
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Are you kidding me? 77 people almost drowned in one place? I don't think 77 people drown in Cancun during Spring Break season.
I think that we should amend the Constitution disallowing swimming in Dixon, IL.
That's ridiculous!
Scott-Atlanta said:
Are you kidding me? 77 people almost drowned in one place? I don't think 77 people drown in Cancun during Spring Break season.
I think that we should amend the Constitution disallowing swimming in Dixon, IL.
That's ridiculous!
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
-Winston Churchill
-Winston Churchill
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"Spirit of Kitty Hawk" in honor of the Wright Brothers' first flight. The Wright Brothers made four successful manned, heavier-than-air, powered flights on the morning of Dec. 17, 1903, near Kill Devil Hill, N.C. Orville made the first flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, at 10:35 a.m. Wilbur flew 852 feet in 59 seconds during the final flight of the day.
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USAF B-2B Stealth Bomber Flyover
Primary Function: Multi-role heavy bomber
Speed: High sub sonic
Length: 69 Feet
Height: 17 Feet
Armament: Nuclear or conventional weapons )
Cost: $570 Million
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Ford theatre
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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"Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed,
to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
Emma Lazarus, 1883, written to help raise funds for construction of the pedestal.
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Andrew Jackson had a fierce will and sometimes savage temper, both illustrated in the following, in which some background is provided as it illustrates the society Jackson lived in:
In 1805 a friend of Jackson's deprecated the manner in which Captain Joseph Ervin had handled a bet with Jackson over a horse race. Ervin's son-in-law, Charles Dickinson became enraged and started quarreling with Jackson's friend which lead to Jackson becoming involved. Dickinson wrote to Jackson calling him a "coward and an equivicator". The affair continued, with more insults and misunderstandings, until Dickinson published a statement in the Nashville Review in May 1806, calling Jackson a "worthless scoundrel, ... a poltroon and a coward".
Jackson challenged Dickinson to a duel very much according to the customs of the time in the south. Dickinson, known as one of the best shots in Tennessee if not the best, had choice of weapons and chose pistols.
Dickinson fired the first shot, which broke two of Jackson's ribs and lodged two inches from his heart. Dickinson then had to stand at the mark as Jackson, clutching his chest, aimed slowly and shot him fatally.
Though acceptable by the code of the times, many people considered it a cold-blooded killing. I presume the rules of engagement were for each man to draw and fire at the same time, upon hearing the signal, but if one fired, there was no "second round" until the other man fired. The implication is that magnanimity would have required Jackson to fire into the air rather than taking a slow deliberate aim at 24 feet.
Jackson's wound never healed properly and abcesses formed around the bullet, causing pain and some debilitation for Jackson's remaining 39 years.
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Administration of the Government
The President's powers come from Article II of the Constitution. Some of those powers (e.g., being commander in chief) are quite specific; others, which take their cue from the opening sentence of Article II -- "The executive Power shall be vested in a President . . . " -- are very broad. The President's authority also derives from his power to remove the politically appointed leadership of those thirty-one departments and agencies at any time; they serve at his pleasure and thus can be expected to follow his policy direction.
Administration of the White House
The modern White House is the personal staff of the President and is an amalgam of seven of the several elements of the Executive Office of the President; the others constitute the institutional staff of the chief executive. The seven are: the White House Office, the Office of the Vice President, the Office of Policy Development, the staff of the National Security Council, the Office of Homeland Security, the Executive Residence, and half of the Office of Administration. These seven are, collectively, the White House staff.
The President's powers come from Article II of the Constitution. Some of those powers (e.g., being commander in chief) are quite specific; others, which take their cue from the opening sentence of Article II -- "The executive Power shall be vested in a President . . . " -- are very broad. The President's authority also derives from his power to remove the politically appointed leadership of those thirty-one departments and agencies at any time; they serve at his pleasure and thus can be expected to follow his policy direction.
Administration of the White House
The modern White House is the personal staff of the President and is an amalgam of seven of the several elements of the Executive Office of the President; the others constitute the institutional staff of the chief executive. The seven are: the White House Office, the Office of the Vice President, the Office of Policy Development, the staff of the National Security Council, the Office of Homeland Security, the Executive Residence, and half of the Office of Administration. These seven are, collectively, the White House staff.
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Garfield was the first left-handed president.
James Garfield could write Latin with one hand and Greek with the other.
The last of seven presidents born in a log cabin, Garfield weighed 10 pounds at birth.
He was the first president to campaign in two languages -- English and German.
On election day, November 2, 1880, he was at the same time a member of the House, Senator-elect and President-elect.
His mother was the first president's mother to attend her son's inauguration.
At the age of twenty-six, Garfield became president of Hiram College. At the time the school only had five faculty memebers.
After Garfield's shooting, repeated probing for the bullet with non-sterile instruments resulted in blood poisoning which eventually killed him.
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