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http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/interactive/_html/wc0113_1.html In this famous speech broadcast over the BBC, Churchill recites the poem included in President Roosevelt's recent letter -Longfellow's "The Building of a Ship."

Audio: Winston Churchill. Broadcast speech, February 9, 1941, Churchill and...

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5 Real Life Soldiers Who Make Rambo Look Like a Pussy | Cracked.com

We all understand that action movies are cheesy escapism.

IRISH LITERATURE, MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE, AND DRAMA

http://www.luminarium.org/mythology/ireland/ Irish Playography Irish Writers Online Study Ireland: Poetry - BBC Irish Women Writers - M. Ockerbloom The Irish and Literature Lyra Celtica Ireland Literature Guide 2002 Irish Author Roundtable Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann Early Irish Lyric Poetry - Kuno Meyer Sonnets from Ireland - E. Blomquist Colum's Anthology of Irish Verse - Bartleby.com

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http://www.the-map-as-history.com/demos/free_access.php The first Christian communities (1st century)

100 Most Influential Books Since the War (TLS)

Who wrote this list? See the heading above and the credit below to find out who wrote this list. http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/grttls.html

6 Insane Discoveries That Science Cant Explain | Cracked.com

http://www.cracked.com/article_16871_6-insane-discoveries-that-science-cant-explain.html We like to feel superior to the people who lived centuries ago, what with their shitty mud huts and curing colds by drilling a hole in their skulls.

The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts

http://www.ancientx.com/nm/anmviewer.asp?a=75&z=1 T he Bible tells us that God created Adam and Eve just a few thousand years ago, by some fundamentalist interpretations. Science informs us that this is mere fiction and that man is a few million years old, and that civilization just tens of thousands of years old. Could it be, however, that conventional science is just as mistaken as the Bible stories?