"The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is already defending it as part of his tradition." --G K Chesterton
There were about 4.7 million Jews in Eastern Europe in 1939; now, according to Pew, there are 100,000. There were 3.9 million Jews in Russia in 1939; now there are about 300,000.
There were about 4.7 million Jews in Eastern Europe in 1939; now, according to Pew, there are 100,000. There were 3.9 million Jews in Russia in 1939; now there are about 300,000.
West of the Mississippi, over 50% of the land is Federally owned. 74 million acres, 24x the size of Pennsylvania.
In 1814, Napoleon's broken forces, destroyed after the failed invasion of Russia, gave up and Napoleon offered to step down in favor of his son. When this offer was rejected, he abdicated and was sent to Elba. In March 1815, he escaped his island exile and returned to Paris, where he regained supporters and reclaimed his emperor title, Napoleon I, in a period known as the Hundred Days. However, in June 1815, he was defeated at the bloody Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon's defeat ultimately signaled the end of France's domination of Europe. He abdicated for a second time and was exiled to the remote island of Saint Helena, in the southern Atlantic Ocean, where he lived out the rest of his days. He died at age 52 on May 5, 1821
In 1814, Napoleon's broken forces, destroyed after the failed invasion of Russia, gave up and Napoleon offered to step down in favor of his son. When this offer was rejected, he abdicated and was sent to Elba. In March 1815, he escaped his island exile and returned to Paris, where he regained supporters and reclaimed his emperor title, Napoleon I, in a period known as the Hundred Days. However, in June 1815, he was defeated at the bloody Battle of Waterloo. Napoleon's defeat ultimately signaled the end of France's domination of Europe. He abdicated for a second time and was exiled to the remote island of Saint Helena, in the southern Atlantic Ocean, where he lived out the rest of his days. He died at age 52 on May 5, 1821
Former Israeli Knesset member Yossi Sarid said, "We control U.S. politicians like marionettes."
The word "algebra" stems from the Arabic word "al-jabr", from the name of the treatise Book on Addition and Subtraction after the Method of the Indians written by the 9th-century Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, who translated, formalized and commented on ancient Indian and Greek works. According to Wiki, he was a Zoroastrian. There is archaeological evidence that the roots of algebra date back to the ancient Babylonians, then developed in Egypt and Greece. The Chinese and even more the Indians also advanced algebra and wrote important works on the subject.
Litotes: n: A figure of speech in which understatement through stating the negative is used to emphasize the opposite. e.g. "He is not bad looking" meaning he is good looking or the famous Queen Victoria line "We are not amused" meaning "I am furious." The word is of Greek origin, meaning "the property of being light (as opposed to heavy)", and is derived from the word litos meaning "plain, small or meager." Its original meaning evolved to mean economical and pointed in content.
Litotes: n: A figure of speech in which understatement through stating the negative is used to emphasize the opposite. e.g. "He is not bad looking" meaning he is good looking or the famous Queen Victoria line "We are not amused" meaning "I am furious." The word is of Greek origin, meaning "the property of being light (as opposed to heavy)", and is derived from the word litos meaning "plain, small or meager." Its original meaning evolved to mean economical and pointed in content.
Historically 45% of municipal bonds have come to market with bond insurance, now it is 18%.
Before she was a novelist, Dorothy Parker was drama critic for The New Yorker. She was a fierce reviewer. These are some famous lines: "if you don't knit, bring a book"; another got a review that did not include any names, because she was "not going to tell on them"; another did not get reviewed at all, Parker deciding instead to review the performance of the woman sitting next to her as she searched for her lost glove. "I went into the Plymouth Theater a comparatively young woman," she said of a production of Tolstoy's Redemption, "and I staggered out of it, three hours later, twenty years older. . . ."
Who is....Robert LeRoy Parker and Harry Longabaugh?
Who is....Robert LeRoy Parker and Harry Longabaugh?
Last year more than 60% of all U.S. imports consisted of intermediate inputs-parts and subassemblies-not final goods sold to U.S. consumers. So imports were profound elements of our production and eventual exports.
Proposals for underwater boats date back to the late 1500s. The first submarine actually constructed was probably a vessel created and tested in the early seventeenth century by Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel. Over the next two centuries, various inventors continued to work out design problems. A submersible craft, the Turtle was used briefly during the American Revolution. In the early years of the nineteenth century, U.S. inventor Robert Fulton also experimented with submarine designs. Submarines were used in the United States in both the War of 1812 and the Civil War, but it was not until World War I that submarines became accepted military vessels.
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David Brooks is a twice-weekly conservative opinion columnist for the New York Times, and a fixture on US television and radio. He is, in his own words, "paid to be a narcissistic blowhard, to volley my opinions, to appear more confident about them than I really am." Well, that's reassuring.
Born Robert LeRoy Parker, Butch Cassidy was a notorious outlaw who began robbing trains and cattle rustling in the mid-1880s. By 1900, he had partnered with Harry Longabaugh-the "Sundance Kid," whose nickname was derived from the name of a town where he had once been imprisoned. They became the foremost members of the Wild Bunch, a notorious group of bank and train robbers.
According to a 2009 Washington Times article, the Taliban buys children as young as seven years old to act as suicide bombers. The price for child suicide bombers is between $7,000-$14,000.
President Obama has had an international approach in meetings, statements and policy that is, at least, difficult to understand. Giuliani accused him of not liking the country much, a rather dangerous accusation of a U.S. President. But there is a definable problem here. We learned a lot about Romney in the last election; rumors about his high school behavior were openly discussed. Rumors. We are now being inundated with Scott Walker's college career. Bush's youth is known by all, even the highly publicized made-up parts. But little about Obama's background is ever discussed and that background is well documented. And it is top-heavy with radicalism, really ancient radicalism, like Frank Davis. Now Davis was a guy with a very rugged political philosophy; he was a card carrying communist when communism was fading as a reasonable political option. Davis was a profound influence on Obama, according to his auto biography. Now if Scott Walker had a close affiliation with someone like David Duke, we would be out of our collective minds. (There is a study on this by the admittedly conservative professor, Paul Kengor, who makes an interesting point in The American Thinker regarding Obama and Davis. Barack Obama expunged all 22 references to "Frank" in the audio version of Dreams from My Father that was released in 2005, as he prepared for a run for the presidency and no doubt feared being tied to closely to a man who joined the Communist Party under Stalin and had been so radical that the federal government placed him on the Security Index. By completely scrubbing all mentions of "Frank" from the audio version of Dreams, which Obama himself personally approved (as the jacket design says) and narrates in his own voice, Obama deliberately concealed Davis.) Oh, well.
Transgender people are four times more likely to be living in poverty and have an unemployment rate twice that of the general population, according to a 2011 survey. An actual study was done.
"I know it's so tempting to go ahead and make investments and it looks good for today," Stanley Druckenmter,the retired founder of Duquesne Capital Management said at a conference recently. "But when this thing ends, because we've had speculation, we've had money building up four to six years in terms of a risk pattern, I think it could end very badly."
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve has a reported 300 PhD economists in its headquarters staff alone. When you joined the Communist Party, you swore this loyalty oath to Stalin's Soviet Union: "I pledge myself to rally the masses to defend the Soviet Union, the land of victorious socialism. I pledge myself to remain at all times a vigilant and firm defender of the Leninist line of the Party, the only line that insures the triumph of Soviet Power in the United States."There is an interesting article that discusses Paul Krugman's influential book as a young man, Azimov's Foundation Trilogy. "My Book - the one that has stayed with me for four-and-a-half decades - is Azimov's Foundation Trilogy, written when Asimov was barely out of his teens himself. I didn't grow up wanting to be a square-jawed individualist or join a heroic quest; I grew up wanting to be Hari Seldon, using my understanding of the mathematics of human behaviour to save civilisation. .So how do the Foundation novels look to me now that I have, as my immigrant grandmother used to say, grown to mature adultery? Better than ever. The trilogy really is a unique masterpiece; there has never been anything quite like it....[T]he way Asimov's invented societies recapitulate historical models . goes right along with his underlying conceit: the possibility of a rigorous, mathematical social science that understands society, can predict how it changes, and can be used to shape those changes."
On so-called "Black Monday" in 1360, a hail storm killed an estimated 1,000 English soldiers in Chartres, France. Edward III thought this had a greater meaning and decided to pursue peace.
The publisher BioMed Central of the United Kingdom, responsible for 277 peer-reviewed journals, flagged the "fabricated" reviews, which predominately included those written by Chinese scholars. BioMed Central's senior editor for research integrity said an investigation revealed a concerted effort to deceive journal editors.
More disturbing is the statement from the Committee on Publication Ethics, which identified "systematic, inappropriate attempts to manipulate the peer review processes."
Science is unbiased and without motive, scientists are not.
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is one of the more famous proponents of cocaine. After trying the drug for the first time in 1884, he recommended it as a useful treatment for depression, alcoholism, and morphine addiction.
NASA engineers are experimenting with a 3-D printer that would make bricks using the grit that blows across Mars's red surface. Other researchers are exploring different ways that the printers could be used in space.
NASA engineers are experimenting with a 3-D printer that would make bricks using the grit that blows across Mars's red surface. Other researchers are exploring different ways that the printers could be used in space.
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