"I have not the pleasure of knowing my reader but I would stake ten to one that for six months he has been making Utopias, and if so, that he is looking to Government for the realization of them."--Bastiat
Approximately 11% of all Americans aged 65-74 have diabetes. About 20% of those over 75 years old have diabetes, and nearly half of them are unaware they have the disease.
China and India are sending more immigrants to the U.S. than Mexico, following more than a decade of decreasing immigration from Latin America, according to the latest numbers from the Census Bureau. Between these two time periods, 2005-07 and 2011-13, the Chinese age groups that saw the largest percentage point increases were 15 to 19 years old and 20 to 24 years old, for both men and women, Census said. From India, the flows are concentrated in the 20 to 34 age group, especially people ages 25 to 29, for both men and women. These are potentially young workers starting and building their careers, or postgraduates getting more education—as opposed to older people or college students or teenagers.
“Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.” “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious.” (On a restaurant): “Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” Yogi Berra is remembered as a lovable goofball but he could play baseball. He hit 358 home runs, was an All Star on 15 occasions and was named American League M.V.P. three times. Casey Stengel, the Yankee manager of the team that had Ford, Mantle, Maris, among many terrific players was asked who he would pick to start a new team and he pointed to Berra.
Who is....Steven Weinberg?
Several reports say that the ISIS destruction of archeological sites may have a less pure and less fundamentalist motive. While there is no firm evidence of the amount of money being made by the Islamic State group from looting antiquities, satellite photos and anecdotal evidence confirm widespread plundering of archaeological sites in areas under ISIS control.
The Mighty Mongrel Mob is an outlaw motorcycle gang from New Zealand who favor menacing face tattoos and Nazi symbols. They are primarily of Maori descent.
Steven Weinberg became famous for his elegant The First Three Minutes (1977), which described what happened during the Big Bang. Two years later, he shared a Nobel Prize for unifying electromagnetism and the nuclear weak force – a large step towards today’s Standard Model of particle physics. The citation for his Benjamin Franklin Medal of 2004 said he was widely considered “the preeminent theoretical physicist alive today”.
The recent Jenner revelations recalls a famous individual who, as a child, insisted she was a different sex (perhaps encouraged by her father): the author Daphne du Maurier whose unhappy but productive life was filled with conflicts and uncertainties.
Mary Queen of Scots ascended to the Scottish throne upon the death of her father, King James V in 1542. Her great-uncle was Henry VIII, the Tudor king of England. Mary’s mother sent her to be raised in the French court, and in 1558 she married the French dauphin, who became King Francis II of France in 1559 and died in 1560. After Francis’ death, Mary returned to Scotland to assume her designated role as the country’s monarch. In 1565, she married her English cousin Lord Darnley, another Tudor, which reinforced her claim to the English throne and angered Queen Elizabeth. In 1567, Darnley was mysteriously killed in an explosion at Kirk o’ Field, and Mary’s lover, James Hepburn, the earl of Bothwell, was the key suspect. Although Bothwell was acquitted of the charge, his marriage to Mary in the same year enraged the nobility, and Mary was forced to abdicate in favor of her son by Darnley, James. In 1568, she escaped from captivity and raised a substantial army but was defeated and fled to England.
Plastic bags are easier to recycle and require less energy to produce than paper bags. (Refdesk)
In February 1979, Abdi Ipekci, a liberal newspaper editor, was murdered near his home in Istanbul. Mehmet Ali Agca was arrested and charged with the crime. While awaiting his trial, Agca escaped from a military prison in November 1979.
In his cell, he left behind a letter that concerned John Paul II’s planned trip to Turkey. The letter read: “Western imperialists who are afraid of Turkey’s unity of political, military, and economic power with the brotherly Islamic countries are sending the Crusader Commander John Paul under the mask of a religions leader. If this ill-timed and meaningless visit is not called off, I will definitely shoot the pope. This is the only reason that I escaped from prison.” Pope John Paul II was shot in 1981. Agca's motives have never been clear but, in the 1970s, Agca joined a right-wing Turkish terrorist group known as the Gray Wolves. The group is held responsible for the assassination of hundreds of public officials, labor organizers, journalists, and left-wing activists as part of their mission to cleanse Turkey of leftist influence. In recent years, to confuse matters more, it has been revealed that the Gray Wolves had close ties with far-right politicians, intelligence officers, and police commanders.
During the 12 Bush years, net private-sector job creation totaled 747,000— versus 19.6 million during the Clinton 8 years and 8 million more, so far, under Obama (or 12.3 million if you don’t count the first few months of horrific job losses one might argue were inherited from his predecessor). What this means, I do not know.
The world's first seismometer was built and installed in Scotland in Comrie.
A Clockwork Orange made Anthony Burgess internationally famous, largely due to the controversey surrounding the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film. Some dismissed both book and author outright: "Anthony Burgess is a literary smart aleck whose novel, A Clockwork Orange last year achieved a success d'estime with critics like William Burroughs, who mistook his muddle of sadism, teddyboyism, jive talk and Berlitz Russian for social philosophy." Burgess said that it was his least favorite book, but he did not think that he was in a muddle over meaning: the muddle was due to the film being based on the American edition of the book, which omitted his last chapter. In his introduction to the 1986, restored, American edition, Burgess says the American editors turned his novel into a fable, something merely sensational and not "a fair picture of human life." He explains that in his previously omitted last chapter "my young thuggish protagonist grows up" because he recognizes "that human energy is better expended on creation than destruction" "... a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he can only perform good or only perform evil, then he is a clockwork orange -- meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State."
John Lloyd Wright, son of famous architect Francis Lloyd Wright, invented Lincoln Logs.
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North Korea executed its defense chief by putting him in front of an anti-aircraft gun at a firing range, Seoul's National Intelligence Service told lawmakers, which would be the latest in a series of high-level purges since Kim Jong Un took charge. He was charged with treason, including disobeying Kim and falling asleep during an event at which North Korea's young leader was present. Can you imagine executing everyone who falls asleep at a political talk?
Most Chinese students don’t finish school until 6 p.m., watch little television, and play few video games. They're prohibited from working before the age of 16, so they can concentrate on school. Plus, most students attend tutoring classes after school and on Saturdays. “Very rarely do children in other countries receive academic training as intensive as our children do. So if the test is on math and science, there’s no doubt Chinese students will win the competition,” said Sun Baohong of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
Aaaaaaannnnnddddd....... AAaannnndddd.....a picture of Shane Harrison of the New Zealand Mighty Mongrel Mob:
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