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Robert Reich: Why the Economy is Heading for a Stall →
We’ll know more tomorrow when the jobs report is announced, but today’s report on America’s massive service sector – which make up about 90 percent of the economy – is sobering to say the least.
The Institute of Supply Management’s non-manufacturing index fell to a four-month low in April (53.5,…
Absolutely perfect!!!!
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Anonymous declares cyber war on Congress over indefinite detention act — RT →
Read the truth, its time!!!
Lonliness
Some times, you sit by yourself around a computer happy for a connection with your friends. But then you suddenly realize how far apart you really are from them. Thats what hurts. That Intense Loneliness.
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Vera Fokina and Mikhail Fokin in the ballet ‘Scheherazade’, Stockholm, 1914
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Virgina Woolf’s suicide letter to her husband, 1941.
Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can’t concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don’t think two people could have been happier ‘til this terrible disease came. I can’t fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can’t even write this properly. I can’t read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that — everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can’t go on spoiling your life any longer. I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.
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Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
(5 June 1660 – 18 October 1744) rose to be one of the most influential women in British history as a result of her close friendship with Queen Anne of Great Britain.
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IJN Special Naval Landing Forces sailors pose on the grounds of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Behind them is a statue of legendary samurai Kusunoki Masashige, representative of the Bushido spirit rising in influence from an increasingly militaristic government.
-Imperial Japanese Navy photo from Brent Jones collection
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Showgirl in studded costume with fan and umbrella in the J.C. Williamson presentation of Casino de Paris, 1971
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feminist historian: I know, this may come as a shock to some of you but... →
People are not perfect or saints. Including people from history. Queen Elizabeth I thought women were weak. Her quote, ” I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too,” isn’t all that empowering to women. She is saying she is…
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The primitive ski dated back to 1010, and is thought to be Greenland’s oldest ski brought by Norsemen circa 980 A.D.
Other accounts of early Nordic skiing are found with two modern cross-country endurance races in Norway and Sweden. These ski races were inspired by famous historic accounts of early medieval skiing in their respective countries.
The oldest account involves the famous story from 1206 A.D. of the Birkebeiners during a civil war in medieval Norway. Considered the underdog, the Birkebeiners were at war against a rival faction known as the baglers. Following the death of the Birkebeiner chief, the baglers feared a rival in his young son Håkon Håkonsson. To protect him, two of the most skillful Birkebeiner skiers, with toddler in tow, skied through treacherous conditions over the mountains from around Lillehammer to safety in Østerdalen valley.
Since 1932, Norway’s annual Birkebeinerrennet runs a 54 km (34 mi) cross-country ski race that pays tribute to this historic account.
image: Knud Bergslien: Birkebeinerne takes Haakon Haakonson as a child toTrondheim
© Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum
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