Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.--deTocqueville
Arbitrage: American Pharaoh is 3-5 to win this weekend. Those are big odds that cause interesting distortions. Big Brown paid $2.40 to win the 2008 Preakness, and $2.60 to place in the same race. You would have made more money betting on Big Brown to place rather than to win. When California Chrome won the Preakness in 2014, a place bet paid the same as a win bet. If you bet that he was going to finish first—or that he was going to finish first or second—the wager paid out the same.
Norman Mailer had a degree in aeronautical engineering from Harvard.
The Baltimore riots will raise the call for more government spending. In 2009 the $840 billion federal stimulus package went through Capitol Hill promising immediate job creation and economic recovery. An estimated $64 billion went to public school districts; another nearly $50 billion went for other education spending. This included $13 billion for low-income public school kids; $4.1 billion for Head Start and child-care services; $650 million for educational technology; $200 million for working college students; and $70 million for homeless children. Recently economists from the St. Louis Federal Reserve surveyed more than 6,700 education-stimulus recipients and concluded that for every $1 million of stimulus grants to a district, 1.5 jobs were created. More than three-quarters of the jobs "created or saved" in the first year of the stimulus were government jobs. Roughly 1 million private sector jobs were forestalled or destroyed, according to Ohio State University.
In 1961, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space. The suborbital flight lasted 15 minutes and reached a height of 116 miles into the atmosphere.
Modern historians estimate that in all, between 1530 and 1780, at least a million European captives were enslaved on the Barbary coast. Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America.
And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000.
The overwhelming percentage of the African slaves were shipped directly to the Caribbean and South America; Brazil received 4.86 million Africans alone.
The overwhelming percentage of the African slaves were shipped directly to the Caribbean and South America; Brazil received 4.86 million Africans alone.
Who is.....Charlotte Corday?
WNBA star Brittney Griner was arrested after an altercation with her fiancée, Glory Johnson, who also plays in the WNBA. Both suffered minor injuries, including bite marks and a bloodied lip, according to the police report, which classified it as a domestic violence offense. Little has happened in reaction by the league. Yahoo is upset: "There is a risk here of conveying a double standard that domestic violence isn't worth punishing harshly when only women are involved," they wrote.
But why is there a subdivision of violence of one on another at all? Assault is assault. Period. The sub-classification of assault under domestic circumstances is unnecessary. And ,a male assaulting a woman is much more important because there is an inherent disparity that places her at greater risk.
It takes just four to six minutes after cardiac arrest before a person experiences brain death and then complete death. The survival rate outside a hospital is less than 1-2%.
Quotidian: adj. Happening every day; daily [from 15th c.]; Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced etc. every day or very commonly; commonplace; ordinary [from 15th c.]. Also medically as in the quotidian fever of malaria. Also as a noun meaning of a daily nature or a commonplace grouping. (Also, historically, a daily allowance for the clergy.) ety: Middle English cotidian, from Anglo-French, from Latin quotidianus, cotidianus, from quotidie every day, from quot (as) many as + dies day. The meaning is that of the very unexceptional and mundane; Steven King's great talent as a writer has been described, surprisingly, as his grasp and expression of the quotidian.
Quotidian: adj. Happening every day; daily [from 15th c.]; Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced etc. every day or very commonly; commonplace; ordinary [from 15th c.]. Also medically as in the quotidian fever of malaria. Also as a noun meaning of a daily nature or a commonplace grouping. (Also, historically, a daily allowance for the clergy.) ety: Middle English cotidian, from Anglo-French, from Latin quotidianus, cotidianus, from quotidie every day, from quot (as) many as + dies day. The meaning is that of the very unexceptional and mundane; Steven King's great talent as a writer has been described, surprisingly, as his grasp and expression of the quotidian.
In the 2004 tsunami, about one third of the dead were children and, in many locations, four times as many women as men were killed.
William Faulkner did a lot of work in Hollywood. Faulkner's screenplay credits include adaptations of Hemingway's To Have and Have Not and Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep.
In 2010 alone, the FWRA estimates that around 60 million tons of food waste was generated in the U.S., of which nearly 40 million tons went to landfill. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, more food reaches landfills than other type of municipal solid waste. It is estimated that 25-40 percent of the food that is grown, processed and transported in the United States will never be consumed.
Shakespeare's King Lear survives in two copies. The quarto edition includes 300 lines and a whole scene that do not appear in the First Folio. The two versions give important speeches to different characters, altering the nature of three key characters. The endings are also significantly different.
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro announced Thursday that he would be traveling to Italy to receive an award for Venezuela's "food missions," according to El Universal, as "the country that has fought hunger the most in the world." The last official data, issued two years ago, show supplies of basic foodstuffs are 28% below 2004 levels. Venezuela's per person food output fell 6.3% from 2007 to 2012. Venezuela is seizing Polar - Venezuela's largest and best-run food company - and, three years ago, 988 farms and businesses were seized. They've stopped reporting those data since.
The U.N. will probably award Cuba for their space program next.
Of the 234 women recently rescued by the Nigerian army after being abducted by Boko Haram last year, a staggering number of them-214-are pregnant.
Of the 364,200 total jobs in Baltimore City in March, 75,500-or 20.7 percent-were jobs working for the government. That included 39,400 state government jobs, 26,000 local government jobs, and 10,100 federal government jobs.
By contrast, there were only 11,600 manufacturing jobs in Baltimore City, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS.) That means government had 6.5 times as many employees in Baltimore City as all of the manufacturers located in the city.
Nationwide in March, according to the BLS, total employment was 141,183,000. Employment by government was 21,898,000. Thus, 15.5 percent of the jobs nationwide were government jobs.
By contrast, there were only 11,600 manufacturing jobs in Baltimore City, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS.) That means government had 6.5 times as many employees in Baltimore City as all of the manufacturers located in the city.
Nationwide in March, according to the BLS, total employment was 141,183,000. Employment by government was 21,898,000. Thus, 15.5 percent of the jobs nationwide were government jobs.
Golden oldie:
Summer Triangle: The bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair form a large triangle on the sky that can be seen rising in the early northern early spring during the morning and rising in the northern fall during the evening.
Mr. Max Ehrendfreund, writing in the Washington Post's Wonkblog, believes that he has discovered something new: that the world is producing too much and doesn't know what to do with it. His solution, of course, is to confiscate the overproduced products, such as oil and cotton, from its rightful owners and give it to somebody else who need it. This phony problem and its statist solution goes back at least as far at the 1930's socialist calls for "production for use" vs. the hated capitalist concept of "production for profit." A surplus of some goods means that there is a scarcity of others. Resources were "malinvested" in some projects instead of those more urgently desired by the public.
Summer Triangle: The bright stars Vega, Deneb and Altair form a large triangle on the sky that can be seen rising in the early northern early spring during the morning and rising in the northern fall during the evening.
Gen. James Longstreet was seriously wounded--by gunfire from his own ranks--during the Battle of the Wilderness and the injury greatly affected the entire army."Never on any occasion during the four years of the war saw a group of officers and gentlemen more deeply distressed. They were literally bowed down with grief.It was not alone the general they admired who had been shot down-it was, rather, the man they loved. "--Robert Stiles, an artillery officer, on the wounding of General James Longstreet.
Robert Stiles, Four Years Under Marse Robert (1903; reprint, Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1977), 247.
Robert Stiles, Four Years Under Marse Robert (1903; reprint, Dayton, Ohio: Morningside Bookshop, 1977), 247.
According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, if a person has just 14 photos on the Internet, Google could accurately identify the person.
The leader of the U.K.'s Green Party, Natalie Bennett, has said that her party is "open" to the possibility of three-way (or more-way) marriages.
The Girondists comprised a group of loosely-affiliated individuals rather than an organized political party during the French Revolution who campaigned for the end of the monarchy but with more control of the Revolution and less bloodshed. They had international revolutionary aims. The famous painting Death of Marat depicts the revenge killing of radical journalist (and denouncer of the Girondists) Jean-Paul Marat by Girondist sympathizer, Charlotte Corday. The Girondists had an ally in American Founding Father Thomas Paine. Many were executed with the guillotine and the economic historian Jean Roland committed suicide when he learned what was happening to them. Paine was arrested and imprisoned and narrowly escaped execution.
Murder rates among black males went up after the 1960s, reaching double what they had been before. Most black children were raised in two-parent families prior to the 1960s. Today the great majority of black children are raised in one-parent families. Such trends are not unique to blacks or even to the U.S. There are similar trends among the white underclass in England over the same period.
The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits every year since 1994.
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