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Powell’s Books – Azorno by Inger Christensen.

Crew of 2nd Aircraft – Plane # 40-2292 – Crew from 37th Squadron, 17th Group – (Crash landing – China)
Lieutenant Hoover lifted off five minutes behind Jimmy Doolittle and caught up to the lead aircraft en route to Japan. His B-25 followed Doolittle’s until it reached the shoreline, at which time Hoover veered off to bomb his own targets, two factory buildings and storehouses. He then trailed Doolittle most of the way to China where he managed to make a wheels-up crash-landing in a soft rice paddy. The crew was uninjured and walked for three days before friendly local guerilla fighters found them. On April 22 they went by boat to Sungyao, then traveled by train and by foot to arrive in Chunking on May 14.

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Doolittle Raider 80 Brave Men.

a collection of small photos of Haiti, updated

HAITI PHOTOS HERE

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[Darwin claimed that some animals wore unusual colors or outlandish feathers
to attract the female of the species for mating...not so, says this song]

THE GAY ANIMAL SONG
(From The Rutland Isles)

In the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin liked to say
That dressing up and showing off
Was purely male display.
But sadly scientifically
He led us all astray
For what he failed to notice
Was these creatures are all gay

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The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings. The individuals documented in this presentation have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond.

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Voices from the Days of Slavery, Audio Interviews (American Memory from the Library of Congress).

[note: this is all well beyond me! but someone out there might enjoy]

It’s an exploration of IE 0day CVE-2010-0249, the exploit that was used in China by malicious users to gain access to Google’s documents, data, etc. I found the analysis very thorough and educational.

http://whsbehind.blogspot.com/

FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited .

[has your paper told you about this? If peaceniks can do it, what about terrorists?]

US Nuclear Weapons Site in Europe Breached .

PENTAGON’S BLACK BUDGET (secret stuff) TOPS 56 BILLION

In the midst of two wars and the fight against Al Qaeda, the CIA is offering operatives a chance to peddle their expertise to private companies on the side — a policy that gives financial firms and hedge funds access to the nation’s top-level intelligence talent, POLITICO has learned.

In one case, these active-duty officers moonlighted at a hedge-fund consulting firm that wanted to tap their expertise in “deception detection,” the highly specialized art of telling when executives may be lying based on clues in a conversation.

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Canada’s ambassador in Iran was ‘CIA asset’ in 1970s .

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Brian Turner was focused on staying alive, not poetry, when he served as an infantry team leader in Iraq. But he quickly saw that his experience — “a year of complete boredom punctuated by these very intense moments” — lent itself to the tautness of verse.

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Today on New Scientist: 5 February 2010 – Short Sharp Science – New Scientist.

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On 13th June 1981, a tourist in London photographed the Queen of England reviewing her troops at the annual Trooping the Colour. Six shots rang out and the Queen’s horse shied. Members of the crowd, police and troops guarding the ceremony quickly subdued the shooter, who told them “I wanted to be famous. I wanted to be a somebody”.

On his return home, the tourist, Georg P. Uebel, developed his film and discovered the above picture, which he turned over to the British police. They used it to prosecute Marcus Sarjeant, an unemployed 17-year-old, inspired by the recent shootings of the Pope, Ronald Reagan and John Lennon, to attempt an assassination on the Queen. He only fired blanks, and the Treason Act sentenced to five years in prison, a sentence for what he did, not for what he might have done.

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Pictures of the Week – (January 29 – February 4, 2010) – TIME.

THE CAT IN THE HAT ON AGING

Russian police kill al Qaeda’s co-founder in the Caucasus – The Long War Journal.

Early morning on the 1st of May 1943, a Spanish fisherman discovered a corpse clothed in British military attire which had washed ashore. Apparently a casualty of an airplane accident at sea, he had a briefcase chained to him. Identified as Major William Martin of the British Royal Marines, the body and the briefcase was demanded by the British Admiralty.

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Online Game Arcade on Facebook.

[a song written by Woody Guthrie, a nice illustration of Guthrie's narrative skills combined with populist perspective]

Arlo Guthrie – East Texas Red .

sofia loren and MM
found here

Walk into your local boutique coffee shop and you will be met with lists and lists of specialty drinks. What do they mean? What do they contain? Their French or Italian names usually add to the confusion. Here is a menu of those seemingly endless variations on espresso specialty drinks:

via Espresso Drink Menu: Ordering Lattes, Capuccinos and Macchiatos.

BibliOdyssey: The Oldest Book from the Americas.

Seth Rogen, The Auteur (Inspired by Frida Kahlo. Photographed by Norman Jean Roy.)

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Vanity Fair April 2009: Comedy’s New Legends (9 Photos) – My Modern Metropolis.

\THE REAL ALICE IN WONDERLAND

THE VIRTUAL VICTORIAN.

at bottomof home page, you can turn on or off the radio. Do listen to the music though.

Sister Louisa.

This column will change your life

Ever wondered why your friends seem so much more popular than you are? There’s a reason for that

Welcome to Hell: Sand Demons of Dante’s Inferno [49 Pics] .

In search of the Maya, Wild Chronicles and a group of explorers from National Geographic enter the mouth of the underworld, traveling deep into the dark caves of Belize. After flourishing for thousands of years, the Maya civilization mysteriously disappeared. Find new clues that reveal how these ancient people lived – and died.

Creepy Mayan Underworld.

Founding Story – 2 Year Diary Of Schizophrenia

My Story

Oct 27 03

1:00 PM; I find myself waking from a myriad of dreams. The one I remember most is my mom telling me to take Pepsid complete for my nagging ulcer. My ulcer; however, is not bothering me at this time. Waking up from a dream is somewhat like coming out of a hallucinatory state. My main concern, at this time, is to remedy the situation about use of the computer between my parents and my son. I want to be fair with both parties.

2:45PM; I am getting ready to talk to Roger about computer u

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y narrative. In these stories, it’s usually women who are kidnapped and held captive by American Indians. And the women who are taken captive are white women — women of European descent.

These captivity narratives are part of the culture’s definition of what a “proper woman”should be and do. Women in these narratives are not treated as women “should” be — they often see the violent deaths of husbands, brothers and children. The women also are unable to fulfill women’s roles: unable to protect their own children, unable to dress neatly and cleanly or in the “proper” garments, unable to restrict their sexual activity to marriage to the “appropriate kind of man.” They are forced into roles unusual for women, including violence in their own defense or that of children, physical challenges such as long journeys by foot, or trickery of their captors. Even the fact that they publish stories of their lives is stepping outside “normal” women’s behavior!

MORE::Women Captives and Indian Captivity Narratives.

George Harrison is 14, John Lennon is 16, and Paul McCartney is 15.

The Beatles In 1957.

On February 4, 1943 890 Jews arrived in a transport from Westerbork camp in occupied Holland – 312 men and boys and 569 women and girls. After the selection 48 men and 52 women were registered in the camp. Remaining 790 people, including many children and disabled people, were killed in the gas chambers. In the picture you see the plaque from the freight train cars which were used to transport Jews from Westerbork transit camp to Auschwitz for extermination.

YouTube – Happy Birthday – The Beatles.

i[very full ste of photos. go to URL at linkl]
Bob Gruen, Rock and Roll Photographer – The Files.

Why do so many terrorists have engineering degrees?

Engineering is not a profession most people associate with religion. The concrete trade of buildings and bridges seems grounded in the secular principles of science. But the failed attack this Christmas by mechanical engineer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a reminder that the combination has a long history of producing violent radicals.

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READERS in search of literature about Darwin or Darwinism will have no trouble finding it. Recent milestone anniversaries of Darwin's birth and of the publication of On the Origin of Species have prompted a plethora of material, so authors thinking of adding another volume had better have a good excuse for it. We have written another book about Darwinism, and we urge you to take it to heart. Our excuse is in the title: What Darwin Got Wrong.

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First breath: Earth’s billion-year struggle for oxygen – environment – 05 February 2010 – New Scientist.

Drinker abandoned tank outside pub – Odd News | newslite.tv.

In China, death doesn’t necessarily stop one from getting married. In the Chinese tradition of ghost marriage, one or both of the parties are dead.

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