So, we did the (first) interview. It was incredible to have this young man who had really struggled with his own mortality and sense of purpose after receiving a TSC diagnosis, come and share from the heart, with such conviction, his lived experience and vision for going to study pharmacol...
The battle of Lexington and Concord is the first battle of the Revolutionary War. Which people actually started the war by firing the first shot is...
“If the directives of the Communist International had been implemented, if the Agrarian Revolutionary War15 had not been impeded, if the arming of the workers and peasants had been vigorously carried out, if reliable troops had been gathered together, if the masses had been presented with a c...
Russell was never a scholar in the accepted sense of the word. Nor did Russell lead a saintly life such as we might expect of the founder of a religious sect. His followers write: “Russell must have had a rare capacity for business. Before he was thirty years old he had expanded his...
SO WHAT DID WE LEARN? In the movie Burn After Reading, the final scene captured a conversation between the CIA Superior and one of his officers. The CIA Superior posed the question“What did we learn Palmer?” to which Palmer answered “I don’t know sir.” The Superior responded back ...
Greenwich Village, where she was the toast of the bohemian crowd. “She was beautiful, very pre-Raphaelite,” Robbins says. “She wore flowing velvet dresses that she created herself. In those days, to divorce and remarry was quite shocking, but she divorced twice. Grace Drayton did, too....
Did we hold our own rallies, put them up on you tube, demand an audience with our Congresspeople, etc.? Or did we just send Stephen Colbert? And when it came time to vote yesterday, when voters across this nation ran to the polls in a racialized frenzy did we offer rides to the po...
3. The speaker asserted that thePower of Goldhad usurped the power of liberal rulers even then,i.e.1773. He reminded his audience that there had been a time whenFAITHhad ruled but stated that onceFREEDOMhad been substituted forFAITHthe people did not know how to use it in moderation. He...
During the month of November, I will beblogging like crazyto bring you great tidbits on 30 neighborhoods in Birmingham. Check in daily to see if you learn anything new about where you live. Did you know… The area was settled beginning 1815 and was first called Rockville?
His admiration for Pope never wavered, nor did he ever totally abandon the heroic couplet and Augustan role of censor and moralist, as seen in Hints from Horace (written 1811), The Curse of Minerva (written 1811), and The Age of Bronze (written 1822-1823). Feeling revenged on the ...