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NPR’s picks from All Songs Considered– check it out, folks! Click on the link right below the picture.
The Year In Music, 2010 : NPR
Ann Arbor Officials Look To Cap Medical Marijuana Dispensaries At 15
The South End: Flags half-staff for Pearl Harbor
On this day, the US entered WWII. Had it not, the world might have looked very different 60+ years later, especially Europe.
The White House ordered flags to be displayed at half-staff at all state buildings and facilities in Michigan on Dec. 7 in observance of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, according to a university e-mail sent to Wayne State employees.
The day is in remembrance of Imperial Japan’s attack on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
According to the Navy, more than 2,400 Americans died during that attack. The attack caused the U.S. to declare war on the Axis powers and enter World War II.
Remembrance Day is not the first time the State of Michigan commemorated the raid on Pearl Harbor.
On June 12, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm ordered U.S. flags throughout the state to be lowered to half-staff in honor of U. S. Navy Fireman 3rd Class Gerald George Lehman, according to Spero News. He was being returned to his hometown of Hancock.
Lehman, 17, died aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Pearl Harbor raid.
Contending Theories and Policy Choices | Columbia International Relations Lecture
Watch it on Academic Earth
Testing out the Bookmarklet feature in Posterous… besides, it wouldn’t hurt to sit through a lecture on IR theory!
To Kill A Mockingbird: WSU Does Harper Lee Proud
And such is life. We win some. And then we learn some.
Death, Where Is Thy Sting?
Karma, take a seat / Forgiveness and redemption / Are my cup of tea!
Note on picture: This picture was taken by my friend C. Desmond on his travels to Mexico. This haiku was originally published in the Fall of 2009 in my private blog.
Partial Or Not!
Contradictions have / No positive solutions / Basic math concept!
Swift-footed Time
Sonnet 19
– William Shakespeare
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger’s jaws,
And burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood;
Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleets,
And do whate’er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,
To the wide world and all her fading sweets;
But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:
O, carve not with thy hours my love’s fair brow,
Nor draw no lines there with thine antique pen;
Him in thy course untainted do allow
For beauty’s pattern to succeeding men.
Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong,
My love shall in my verse ever live young.
