An Exciting StoryReview Date: July 30, 2008Reviewer: !Edwin C. Pauzer, New York CityEach night I turned on the HBO feature anxious to see a good dramatic series, and learn about my country's struggle for life through one its most underrated founding fathers, John Adams. Paul Giamatti's performance in the title role is much in dispute as he, like many other actors, seems to play himself as much as his...
So says the Heartland Institute in their summary of the scandal now rocking the “green” movement: Emails exchanged by Phil Jones (director of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit) and other leading scientists who edit and control the content of the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reveal a conspiracy to falsify the actual temperature record...
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Congratulations to all at CERN with the circulation of two beams of protons after the successful restart of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Having lived in Geneva for some time (my husband is a particle physicist), its quite astounding that many years later I am sitting in Oxfordshire and writing this blog post using the World Wide Web - another technological advance from CERN. Another Oxfordshire...
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This is coolbert: "He is held in the hearts of his people, allies, and foes with the greatest of honor and respect for his courageous valor and peacemaking" Here is some amazing stuff regarding Little Turtle . The commander of the American Indian forces who defeated Arthur St. Clair . Indeed, the entire "episode" of the Northwest Indian War is often referred to as "Little Turtle's...
By 1816, the American Republic began to emerge from the turmoil of the War of 1812, a war that the United States effectively lost though because of the Battle of New Orleans, which actually came after the peace treaty had been signed, many Americans seem to think we won the war. The British burnt Washington to the ground. James Madison had to flee for his life. The US invasion of Canada ended in a...
My comments to the District 27 Community Education Council regarding - "My Opposition to Kindergarten - Second Grade 2 Standardized Testing by NYC Department of Education (DOE)" got picked up by The Huffington Post via Room8... Read the Article at HuffingtonPost Good evening, District 27 CEC board members and Superintendent Lloyd-Bey. Many of you know me, but for the record my name is David...
The award-winning HBO miniseries can be yours for under $25! The online retailer has dropped the price of 'John Adams' to just $24.99 (69% off suggested list price). Click here to take advantage of the...
The award-winning HBO miniseries can be yours for under $25! The online retailer has dropped the price of 'John Adams' to just $24.99 (69% off suggested list price). Click here to take advantage of the...
An e-mailer makes a good point, in response to this : In a recent post on NRO you offered some reasons that academics do not care for popular, narrative history, including ideology, a preference for jargon, and envy of popular writers' success. I'm completing a dissertation in history, and I would point to another factor: professional historians are already familiar with the narrative that popular...
Hoekstra's starting: Re: Fort Hood: Hoekstra was one of the first to call this a terrorist act by a self-radicalized American. He says we've only seen the tip of the iceberg, we will see much more coming out on where the whole process broke down to allow Hasan to function much less be deployed to A- stan . How did Hasan get good performance reviews? ( Hoeksta has seen') H believes there is serious...
I've posted this before, but I like it so much it's time to post it again! As long as we have these terrible things with us, it's pertinent. I particularly admire the care these folks took to get the New Mexico setting just right. After all, far removed in their European redoubt, they didn't have to make that effort - they didn't have to care - and it wouldn't have affected the show much. These folks...
By Erika Janik Forget the juice; we’re talking about the hard stuff. Here are 11 facts everyone should know about good old-fashioned apple cider. 1. Back in the 14th century, it is believed that kids were baptized in cider since it was often more sanitary than water. 2. An apple beverage a day? President John Adams drank a [...]
Summary: Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a kindred of treasure-seekers who've the sum of stricken for the identical concep: a enmity chest close beside the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. Ben's close to discovering its armed conflict, in the way tha is his one-upmanship, barring the FBI is furthermore hip to the trail ferret about. Actors: Nicolas Cage (Ben Gates) ; Diane Kruger...