Tag: history
group name: thesixties
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April 07, 2006 05:44 AM EDT --
Lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworths
JFK elected President
Peace Corp program announced
Yuri Gargarin, first man in space
Bay of Pigs
Alan Shepard, first American in space
16,000 U.S. advisors sent to Vietnam . . . more
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February 16, 2008 01:15 PM EST --
Clean your cache/browser history; restart your computer. Repeat. Nothing? Contact your ISP by email, phone, live chat: They need to reset their servers.
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I have included the above necessary . . . more
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February 26, 2008 05:30 AM EST --
Sitting here at almost five in the A.M. watching the New York Philharmonic performing in Pyongyang-North Korea on CNN, watching yet again as history is made right before my eyes. Spellbound as . . . more
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April 08, 2006 08:26 AM EDT --
The setting was Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. The day was February 1, 1960.
Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr. and David Richmond were four young men who attended Agriculture . . . more
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January 13, 2007 10:19 AM EST --
It was the winter of 1963. I had gone to college as usual, but as I entered the gate I could perceive a gloomy atmosphere. The ladies stood in grief, wiping their tears with their . . . more
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April 25, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
The year was 1962. James Meredith was a student at the University of Mississippi.
That his final acceptance into the university was won by such strife is a disgrace in our civil rights history. . . . more
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July 17, 2007 06:49 AM EDT --
It's hard to believe that it's been 26 years since we lost John Lennon, but it has. Most of the people I know remember exactly where they were and what they were doing . . . more
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July 11, 2007 03:37 PM EDT --
Officer Mike Johnston sat leaning against his beefy fist that was wrapped around his desk phone. Fifty-five years old and less than a year shy of retirement, he was not one to rush out . . . more
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June 23, 2008 12:35 AM EDT --
Part 1 An Insider's Guide to Montreal: East End - 2008
The 16th and 17th Centuries
Before Montreal was a city, it was Hochelaga , a village the Iroquois had established . . . more
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October 17, 2006 12:45 PM EDT --
October 17, 1967 - "Hair", the slighly irreverent and extremely controversial play "Hair", begins its great annoying tour. Featuring a plethora of naked souls, with unshaven armpits . . . more
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May 31, 2008 12:15 PM EDT --
My friends, I originally penned the lyrics below late last summer (they've been revised since then) and some of you have already seen them but I am still looking for someone with music-writing skills . . . more
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July 31, 2007 07:45 PM EDT --
“The major withdrawal decisions were reported at once in the press, and the basic facts about the internal deliberations lying behind them became known 20 years ago, when the <cite>Pentagon . . . more
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November 24, 2007 01:00 AM EST --
"All these thousands of men. Many of them not much more than boys. Each one of them some mothers' son, some sisters' brother, some daughters' father. Each one of them a whole person . . . more
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September 14, 2007 06:49 AM EDT --
Composer and keyboardist Josef Zawinul passed away the other day. He was 75. My intro to Joe was with his composition "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" during the sixties. Two of . . . more
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April 02, 2008 12:21 PM EST --
A life in the public eye is celebrated with magnification of every victory or every fault. But what of the billions of lives lived out in a seemingly mundane existence. How do we celebrate those? . . . more
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December 03, 2007 07:05 AM EST --
“It’s here!” Big Molly hollered from the porch, “Oooh-Weeeeeee!”
I didn’t hear Big Brown roll up our gravel drive but knew what Molly had in her hand. Dropping . . . more
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May 21, 2008 07:06 PM EDT --
Decoration Day Memories
by donna f.
In Memorium - Sinking of the USS Indianapolis in shark-infested waters 30 July 1945, two weeks before the WWII ended.
by Ruth MacGill
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November 19, 2006 02:59 AM EST --
I just saw the documentary about Woodstock for the umpteenth time. One of the reasons I watch this documentary is to hear the music of my youth. Although I wasn't able to attend this remarkable . . . more
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August 29, 2006 11:17 PM EDT --
Note:
I am re-publishing this to the 60's group because I honestly believe that Malcolm was a significend figure in that decade)
When you quit your job on the railroad
Did . . . more
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October 28, 2007 06:00 AM EST --
Get your lists ready for the Holiday gift-giving season because now you have another excellent book to give: Rick Beyer's The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told.
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