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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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. . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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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 . . .
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May 13, 2007 10:05 PM EDT --
Does the American public - especially that diehard 28-32% that reportedly still supports this president - REALLY comprehend what the republicans and Neo-cons mean when they speak of 'victory?' . . .
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November 03, 2008 12:54 AM EST --
My 17 yr old son and I went on a expedition today, for he went ont his trail friday with a friend and had to show me it. It make me wonder where he goes, yet it is cool when he shows me, . . .
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April 02, 2008 12:21 PM EDT --
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? . . .
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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 . . .
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March 27, 2008 10:14 PM EDT --
Can you feel the LOVE?
On this day in 2007 , the wife of Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland was arrested on suspicion of burning over $10,000 (£5,000) of his belongings . . .
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October 28, 2007 06:00 AM EDT --
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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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 . . .
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June 09, 2007 03:46 PM EDT --
My Publicist thought I should let you get to know me a little better.
Gaelyn Whitley Keith was raised in Manhattan Beach, California, a stones throw from Hollywood. Gaelyn went to college . . .
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