Category Archives: history

BBC NEWS History of WTC

September 6, 2011 – 6:18 am

To view this homage to the world trade towers please go to the following url http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14634600

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Tank Man Plus 22

June 5, 2011 – 7:58 pm

22 years ago young protesters gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to mourn the passing of a liberal official. Communist countries in Europe were collapsing like dominoes and the Chinese Politburo feared this non-violent threat to their regime. The hardline Premier Li Peng attempted to establish martial law, however the city troops had no heart to [...]

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Tar In the Blood.

April 13, 2011 – 12:35 pm

My father’s side of the family arrived on the the Mayflower. Howlands. My Nana rode a deck above steerage in the Year of the Crow. She was 12. My parents enrolled my name in the ranks of The Sons of Colonial Wars and Mayflower Descendants. As a hippie I was anti-status quo and never attended [...]

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The First Shot In Anger

April 12, 2011 – 8:39 pm

150 years ago At 4:30am on Friday, April 12, 1861 Brigadier General Beauregard ordered the secessionist troops manning the artillery batteries of Charleston, South Carolina to open fire on Fort Sumter housing 127 federal troops of which 13 were musicians. Two hours lapse before the Yankee commander allowed Captain Abner Doubleday, the inventor of baseball, [...]

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The Utter Folly Of Wise Men

March 29, 2011 – 8:27 pm

Every country has a pantheon of vaunted heroes and leaders. Their names grace universities, libraries, towns, and cities. Children bear their names in remembrance of their contribution to country. In contrast few parents bestow any honor on the knaves of a nation. Adolf and Benito were banned by an unspoken edict during my childhood. Pol [...]

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