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Posts Tagged ‘History’
October 23rd, 2011 - 7:00 am § in Politics
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Anniversary of Libyan Independence
Libya’s new leaders declared liberation on Sunday Oct. 23, 2011[...]
October 7th, 2011 - 7:51 am § in Politics
BREAKING NEWS: Peace Prize to African Women
I think saying these are “women” is misleading. By what these poplke have done, however, they are pionering democracy in Africa, a place where woman’s equality is achieved by the success of these three. As for my inlcusing Yemen in Africa, I sugegst that the idea that Africa is n[...]
POLITICS: The Harvard Prof Surges Against the Tea Party Favorite
I am a big fan of the idea that university faculty can and should be politically active. One reason I voted for President Obama was his impressive academic record. Less than a week ago. Harvard Law Profesor Elizabeth Warren launched her campaign for the democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in[...]
September 3rd, 2011 - 12:56 am § in Environment
2,000 Yrs. in One Chart: 23% of all Goods, Services Made Since 1 A.D. Were Produced This Decade
from Carpe Diem and the Economist The chart above is from The Economist and shows a “population-weighted history of the past two millennia” based on “economic output” and “years lived.” According to The Economist: “By this reckoning, over 28% of all the hi[...]
July 4th, 2011 - 10:17 am § in America
Great Read
American Uprising by Daniel Rasmussen First books don’t get much better than this recent Harvard graduate’s vitally important, page-turning history of the January, 1811, slave uprising and march on New Orleans.[...]
Columbia Professor Sued over Libelous Biography of Malcom X.
from the Philadelphia Sun Criminal defense attorney and former Plainfield, NJ Mayor Mark Fury filed a $50 Million lawsuit against Columbia University, Viking Press and the estate of Manning Marable regarding Marable’s posthumously published biography, “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention.&#[...]
May 14th, 2011 - 7:19 am § in America, The Ave Scene
Recommended Reading:
Ed. When our children were little, Barb and took them to visit the grave site of Chief Seattle, a trip I recommend for every child growing up in this city named for an amazing man of peace. Despite the name of this city, monuments to our history or all quite sad. The totem pole […][...]
May 11th, 2011 - 6:42 am § in Religion
Earth Will Be SRO, Before 2100!
from National Geographic, by Robert Kunzig One day in Delft in the fall of 1677, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek… became a bit obsessed . Though his tiny peephole gave him privileged access to a never-before-seen microscopic universe, he spent an enormous amount of time looking at spermatozoa, as they�[...]
Flowering of Science, 1687 in Tibet
Seventeenth-century Tibet witnessed a blossoming of medical knowledge, with the construction of a monastic medical college and the penning of several influential medical texts. Tibetan anatomists counted a total of 360 bones in the human body—significantly more than the 206 bones described in West[...]