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Mar 25
2011

Friday! Women's History Month, Remembrance, Life Appreciation

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On This Date In 1634 The first English settlers-a carefully selected group of Catholics and Protestants-arrived at St. Clement's Island on Maryland's western shore aboard the Ark and the Dove, and founded the settlement of St. Mary’s.
On This Date In 1774 British Parliament passed the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city's residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth (in today's money) of tea dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773.
On This Date In 1776 The Battle of Saint-Pierre, a military confrontation near the Quebec village of Saint-Pierre, south of Quebec City, took place. This confrontation occurred during the Continental Army's siege of Quebec following its defeat at the Battle of Quebec. The Patriot forces routed the Loyalist forces, killing at least 3 and capturing more than 30.
On This Date In 1807 The British abolished the Trans-Atlantic system of African slave trade.
On This Date In 1865 The Battle of Fort Stedman took place. Confederate General Robert E. Lee made Fort Stedman his last attack of the war in a desperate attempt to break out of Petersburg, Virginia. The attack failed, and within a week Lee was evacuating his positions around Petersburg.
On This Date In 1879 Little Wolf, the chief of the Bowstring Soldiers, an elite Cheyenne military society, and often called "the greatest of the fighting Cheyenne," surrendered to his friend Lieutenant W. P. Clark.
On This Date In 1907 The Montreal Wanderers finished out the ECAHA season with a perfect 10-0 record, and went on to defeat the newly crowned league champion, the Kenora Thistles, in a two-game, total-goal series, 7-2 (Wanderers win), 6-5 (Thistles win), to win the Stanley Cup.
On This Date In 1911 In one of the darkest moments of America's industrial history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned down, killing 145 workers. The tragedy led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of factory workers.
On This Date In 1918 And less than three weeks after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk formally brought an end to Russia's participation in the First World War, the former Russian province of Belarus declared itself an independent, democratic republic.
On This Date In 1932 The Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Powell v. Alabama. The case arose out of the infamous Scottsboro case. Nine young black men were arrested and accused of raping two white women on a train in Alabama. The boys were fortunate to barely escaped a lynch mob sent to kill them, but were railroaded into convictions and death sentences. The Supreme Court overturned the convictions on the basis that they did not have effective representation.
On This Date In 1933 President Herbert Hoover accepted the newly commissioned USS Sequoia as the official presidential yacht. For 44 years, the Sequoia served as an occasional venue for recreation and official gatherings for eight U.S. presidents.
On This Date In 1935 American author William Faulkner has his novel, “Pylon”, a fictionalized version of New Orleans and set in New Valois, published.
On This Date In 1941 Yugoslavia, despite an early declaration of neutrality, signed the Tripartite Pact, forming an alliance with Axis powers Germany, Italy, and Japan.
On This Date In 1944 While detained, [Dr. Moses Koffinas] learned of German plans to deport Jews, and smuggled a note out to Sabetai Kabelis, a prominent member of the Jewish Community Board, advising the Jews to flee. Unfortunately, Kabelis chose not to relay the warning to the Jews of Ioannina, and on March 25, 1944, the entire Jewish community of 1,860 people, including Kabelis himself, was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Kabelis realized too late his error in judgement.
On This Date In 1946 In conclusion to an extremely tense situation of the early Cold War, the Soviet Union announced its troops in Iran would be withdrawn within six weeks. The Iranian crisis was one of the first tests of power between the United States and the Soviet Union in the postwar world.
On This Date In 1957 France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg signed a treaty in Rome establishing the European Economic Community (EEC), also known as the Common Market. The EEC, which came into operation in January 1958, was a major step in Europe's movement toward economic and political union.
On This Date In 1958 Sugar Ray Robinson defeated Carmen Basilio to regain the middleweight championship. It was the fifth and final title of his career.
On This Date In 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. marched alongside 25,000 demonstrators in Montgomery, Alabama, to demand voting rights for black Americans.
On This Date In 1967 The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., led a march of 5,000 antiwar demonstrators in Chicago, and in speaking to them, King declared that the Vietnam War was "a blasphemy against all that America stands for."
On This Date In 1968 President Johnson, still uncertain about his course of action in Vietnam, convened a nine-man panel of retired presidential advisors. The group, which became known as the "Wise Men," reached a consensus after a two-day deliberation: they advised against any further troop increases and recommended that the administration seek a negotiated peace.
On This Date In 1975 In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, King Faisal was shot to death by his nephew, Prince Faisal.
On This Date In 1982 Danica Patrick, the first woman to win an IndyCar Series race, America's top level of open-wheel racing, was born in Beloit, Wisconsin.
On This Date In 1983 The moonwalk, or backslide, gained worldwide popularity after Michael Jackson executed it during his performance of his song "Billie Jean" on the March 25, 1983, television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, and was considered his signature move. The moonwalk has since become one of the best known dance techniques in the world.
On This Date In 1983 ”The Outsiders”, a 1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton, was released.
On This Date In 1988 ”Biloxi Blues”, the second of playwright Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical trilogy (number one was Brighton Beach Memoirs; number three, Broadway Bound), directed by Mike Nichols, was released.
On This Date In 1994 At the end of a largely unsuccessful 15-month mission, the last U.S. troops departed Somalia, leaving 20,000 U.N. troops behind to keep the peace and facilitate "nation building" in the divided country.
On This Date In 2001 On Oscar night, the ever-quirky Icelandic singer Bjork turned heads by showing up on the red carpet in an outfit resembling a dead swan. Over a nude body stocking and above a large white tutu-like skirt, the swan’s neck was draped around Bjork’s shoulders like a shawl, with its head lying on her chest. Bjork took the stage to perform her nominated song, “I’ve Seen It All,” which lost in its category to Bob Dylan’s “Things Have Changed,” from Wonder Boys.
On This Date In 2008 The invasion of Anjouan (code-named Operation Democracy in Comoros), took place. It was an amphibious assault led by the Comoros, backed by African Union (AU) forces, including troops from Sudan, Tanzania, Senegal, along with logistical support from Libya and France.
On This Date In 2009 Historian and civil rights activist John Hope Franklin died at age 94. He was particularly well-known for his efforts to fight for racial equality in the United States, for his work on the 1954 Supreme Court decision which overturned America’s legalised ‘separate but equal’ apartheid, and for his book “From Slavery to Freedom”, first published in 1947, which sold over 3.5 million copies.
On This Date In 2010 Minnesota Wild beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4-3, New York Rangers win over New Jersey Devils, 4-3, and Tampa Bay Lightning defeated Boston Bruins, 5-3

 

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Happy Birthday Gene Shalit (1926), Jim Lovell (1928), Gloria Steinem (1934), Anita Bryant (1940), Aretha Franklin (1942), Paul Michael Glaser (1943), Elton John (1947), Bonnie Bedelia (1948), Marcia Cross (1962), Sarah Jessica Parker (1965), Danica Patrick (1982), and Katharine McPhee (1984).

 

RIP Saint Catherine of Siena (1347 - 1380), John Hope Franklin (1915 - 2009), Simone Signoret (1921 - 1985), and Hoyt Axton (1938 - 1999).

 

 

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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. Abraham Lincoln


Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great. Mark Twain

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Pamela Vaull Starr
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. Zig Ziglar

 

 

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March is "Women's History Month"
Honoring WOMEN all over the world in 2011;
featuring Boyz II Men, “A Song for Mama”

 

Tribute to the Women of the World - Hero by Mariah
This is but a humble sampling in tribute to some of the great women throughout history ... set to the song, Hero, by Mariah Carey. See Contributor comments and essay!

 

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Women's History Month: Impact of Title IX

Women's History Month: Changing scenery – Part 2

Women's History Month: Signature moments – Part 3


The inspiration, the optimism, the drive to succeed, the achievements – make your combinations count for you and yours!

 

 

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Feb 25
2011

Friday! History, Celebration, Quotes, Videos with Science and Sports!

Posted by Walter Pearson in world history , William Clark , Walter , W. Clement Stone , United States Notes , U.S. Army , Téa Leoni , stephen covey , Stanley Park , SpaceSpace , SpaceflightSpaceflight , Space ShuttleSpace Shuttle , Space Shuttle programSpace Shuttle program , Space explorationSpace exploration , Sonny Liston , Shania Twain , Sean Harris , ScudScud , Scott Thompson , Samuel Taylor Coleridge , Samuel Colt , Ron Santo , Roh Moo-hyun , Richard Hollingshead , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Paul Hawken , Pantera , Nora Eddington , Nikita Khruschev , NASANASA , Muhammad Ali , Morgan Freeman , Mick Jagger , Mariah Carey , Manned spacecraftManned spacecraft , Madonna (entertainer) , lifestyle-news , Lauryn Hill , Laurence J. Peter , Lake Mohawk , Julio Iglesias Jr , Julio Iglesias , Jr. , Jim Backus , jesus , Jeff Fisher , Jan Masaryk , http://www.allvoices.com/people/ , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Henry R. Luce , George Rogers (American football) , Franchesca Alcanter , Ferdinand Marcos , Enrico CarusoEnrico Caruso , Enrico Caruso , Eduard Benes , Drew Deezy , Diane Baker , Czechoslovakian Communist Party , Christopher George , Chelsea Handler , Cassius Clay , Black History Month , black history , Ash Williams , Anson Mount , Andrew Koenig , Ana Julaton , Albert Schweitzer , Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler , Abraham Lincoln , 19911991 , 19641964
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On This Date In 1570 Pope Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth I, and absolved her subjects of allegiance to the Protestant queen.
On This Date In 1634 During The Thirty Years War, a highly complex.series of military and political conflicts, Emperor Ferdinand, fearing Wallenstein’s power, with concern over his intrigues with hostile powers, had him killed.  http://www.pipeline.com/~cwa/Nordlingen_Phase.htm
On This Date In 1779 Lieutenant Colonel George Rogers Clark, whose military achievements all came before his 30th birthday, and elder brother of explorer William Clark, accepted British Lt. Gov. Henry Hamilton's unconditional surrender of Fort Sackville at Vincennes, Indiana.
On This Date In 1836 Samuel Colt patented his revolver.
On This Date In 1848 Edward Harriman, the controversial savior of the transcontinental Union Pacific Railroad, was born in Hempstead, New York.
On This Date In 1862 President Lincoln signed the First Legal Tender Act, authorizing the issuance of United States Notes as a Legal Tender.
On This Date In 1870 Hiram Rhoades Revels of Mississippi, by a vote of 48 to 8, became the first African American elected to The United States Senate.
On This Date In 1873 Enrico Caruso, the greatest tenor who ever lived, was born.
On This Date In 1916 German troops seized Fort Douaumont, the most formidable of the forts guarding the walled city of Verdun, France, four days after launching their initial attack. The Battle of Verdun would become the longest and bloodiest conflict of World War I, lasting 10 months and resulting in over 700,000 total casualties.
On This Date In 1932 The state government of Brunswick, in which the Nazi Party participated, appointed Hitler to a minor administrative post, and Adolf Hitler was granted German Citizenship. In those days, the states conferred citizenship, so this automatically made Hitler a citizen of Germany and thus eligible to run for president. Thus began his rise to power.
On This Date In 1938 The city of Miami got its first drive-in on this day in 1938. The Miami drive-in charged admission of 35 cents per person, which was more than the average ticket price at an indoor theater, and soon had to trim the price to 25 cents per person. America's first-ever drive-in opened near Camden, New Jersey, on June 6, 1933, and was the brainchild of Richard Hollingshead, whose family owned an auto parts company. The inaugural feature was a 1932 film called "Wives Beware," and admission was 25 cents per car and an additional 25 cents per person. The sound for the movies was provided by three large RCA speakers next to the main screen. (The quality of the drive-in experience improved during the 1940s with the advent of the in-car speaker.) http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/miami-drive-in-debuts
On This Date In 1943 George Harrison, MBE, an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter and film producer who achieved international fame as lead guitarist in The Beatles, was born. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian mysticism, and helped broaden the horizons of the other Beatles, as well as those of their Western audience.
On This Date In 1948 Under pressure from the Czechoslovakian Communist Party, President Eduard Benes allowed a communist-dominated government to be organized. Although the Soviet Union did not physically intervene (as it would in 1968), Western observers decried the virtually bloodless communist coup as an example of Soviet expansion into Eastern Europe.
When moderate elements in the Czech government raised the possibility of the nation's participation in the U.S. Marshall Plan (a massive economic recovery program designed to help war torn European countries rebuild), the communists organized strikes and protests, and began clamping down on opposition parties. Benes tried desperately to hold his nation together, but by February 1948 the communists had forced the other coalition parties out of the government. On February 25, Benes gave in to communist demands and handed his cabinet over to the party. Rigged elections were held in May to validate the communist victory. Benes then resigned and his former foreign minister Jan Masaryk died under very suspicious circumstances. Czechoslovakia became a single-party state.
On This Date In 1956 Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev denounced Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his Soviet Party Conference
On This Date In 1964 Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) defeats Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing title. Clay won the match by technical knockout and then announced to the world, “I am the greatest!”
On This Date In 1974 Aretha Franklin released "Let Me in Your Life”.
On This Date In 1985 Mick Jagger released his first solo effort, "She's the Boss".
On This Date In 1986 In the face of mass demonstrations against his rule, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and his entourage flee the Philippines by airlift, from the presidential palace in Manila, by U.S. helicopters.
On This Date In 1991 An Iraqi scud missile plunged into a barracks/warehouse used to house U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 475th Quartermaster Group in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. As a consequence of this scud attack, 28 soldiers died, 110 were hospitalized, and 150 experienced minor physical injuries and/or subsequent mental health problems. http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=1783194
On This Date In 1992 Heavy metal band Pantera released their sixth studio album "Vulgar Display of Power".
On This Date In 1998 At the 1999 Grammy Awards, Lauryn Hill was nominated 10 times, becoming the first woman ever to be nominated 10 times in one year. She won five Grammys, including Album of the Year (beating Madonna's critically acclaimed Ray of Light and Shania Twain's bestselling Come on Over), Best R&B Album, Best R&B Song, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and Best New Artist. Hill set a new record in the industry, becoming the first woman to win five Grammys in one night. Between 1998 and 1999, Hill earned $25 million from record sales and touring.
On This Date In 2004 ”The Passion of the Christ”, Mel Gibson’s film about the last 44 hours of Jesus of Nazareth’s life, opened in theaters across the United States. Not coincidentally, the day was Ash Wednesday, the start of the Catholic season of Lent.
On This Date In 2007 The 79th Academy Awards ceremony (also known as the Oscars), honoring the best films of 2006, took place at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on ABC-TV.
On This Date In 2008 Roh Moo-hyun (6 August 1946 – 23 May 2009), the 16th President of South Korea (2003–2008), died. Before entering politics, he was a human rights lawyer.
On This Date In 2009 The body of Growing Pains actor Andrew Koenig has been found in Vancouver’s Stanley Park. The actor’s father, Walter, confirmed the report, saying that his son “took his own life.” Andrew’s parents reported the actor who played Boner in the 1980′s television series as missing after they received a letter from him.
http://dailycontributor.com/andrew-koenig’s-body-found-in-stanley-park/12158/#ixzz1EyovGYLv On This Date In 2010 Obama kicked off a ‘bipartisan’ health care summit with hopes that Democrats and Republicans could bridge their divide to achieve a substantive discussion about how to move forward on overhaul legislation.
 
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Happy Birthday Diane Baker (1938), Ric Flair (1949), Jeff Fisher (1958),  Carrot Top (Scott Thompson) (1965), Tea Leoni (1966), Sean Harris (1972), Anson Mount (1973), Julio Iglesias Jr (1973), and Chelsea Handler (1975).
 
RIP Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), Zeppo Marx (1901-1979), Jim Backus (1913-1989), Nora Eddington (1924-2001), Christopher George (1929-1983), Ron Santo (1940-2010), and George Harrison (1943-2001).
 
 
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Steve Jobs
 
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. W. Clement Stone
 
Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out. Stephen Covey
 
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. Paul Hawken
 
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Laurence J. Peter
 
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. Tim Berners-Lee
 
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. Henry R. Luce
 
I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history. Morgan Freeman
 
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. Albert Schweitzer
 
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. Moliere
 
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius
 
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 
 
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NASA Shuttle Launch: Watch Space Shuttle Discovery's Final Mission Takeoff
On Thursday NASA Space Shuttle Discovery launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. for its 39th and final trip into space. The six crew members are bringing new experiments and hardware to the International Space Station. Also on board is Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot to fly in space. Discovery's flight marks the retirement of NASA's shuttle fleet. Endeavor and Atlantis are expected to launch later this year.
Black History Month - February 2011 Part 1-2 
"I Have a Dream" is a seventeen-minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963, in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. The speech… Please read more of this description: Great detail! Also, Part 2 continues here: Black History Month - February 2011 Part 2-2
 
"Return of the Hurricane" on February 25, 2011! 
Ana Julaton will be defending her championship belt against challenger Franchesca Alcanter on February 25, 2011 at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, CA. Live performances by 454 Life Entertainment's Nump Trump, Thai Viet G, Drew Deezy, and IZ. Also performing will be AJ Rafael and Sway Penala. Get your tickets at www.TheHurricaneReturns.com
 
Indy Car World - CART's First Years 
** No Copyright Intended ** Indy Car World - CART's First Years. …Starting in 1979…
 
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