LBFlyawayhome : Today in Ladybird #history ... Alex_Verbeek : Fascinating #archeology : ‘the ... Before Stonehenge. They had Stone Age technology, but their vision was millennia ahead of their time. Five thousand years ago the ancient inhabitants of Orkney—a fertile, green archipelago off the northern tip of modern-day Scotland—erected a complex of monumental buildings unlike anything they had ever attempted before.
They quarried thousands of tons of fine-grained sandstone, trimmed it, dressed it, then transported it several miles to a grassy promontory with commanding views of the surrounding countryside. Their workmanship was impeccable. The imposing walls they built would have done credit to the Roman centurions who, some 30 centuries later, would erect Hadrian’s Wall in another part of Britain. Cloistered within those walls were dozens of buildings, among them one of the largest roofed structures built in prehistoric northern Europe. Fast-forward five millennia to a balmy summer afternoon on a scenic headland known as the Ness of Brodgar.
Sometimes you don’t even need to do that. Report: A handy impeachment and Iraq war guide for progressives. The potential impeachment of George W. Bush was a hot topic during his administration. But that history has been scrubbed. MSNBC contributor Jimmy Williams told Republican strategist Ron Christie that “no one threatened to impeach George Bush” on Sunday’s “Weekends with Alex Witt.” Paul Bremmer of Newsbusters posted the video and transcript of the exchange Monday. Perhaps others have the same memory lapse from which Williams seems to be suffering. Many people, including those in the government, called for the impeachment of President George W. Attempts to impeach President Bush Rep. A very good summary of the arguments is provided by an anti-war group here, with links to relevant portions of Kucinich’s four-plus hour speech on the House Floor. The motion to refer the articles of impeachment of George W. Kevin P.
It should be noted that the motion, and the vote, was purely political, as they knew the resolution would die in the Judiciary Committee. Watch MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann discuss Rep. Founder Thomas Paine on tyranny, the abuse of truth and language | The Patriot Brotherhood From Sea to Shining Sea. The Crisis letter X, On the King of England’s Speech 1782. Of all the innocent passions which actuate the human mind there is none more universally prevalent than curiosity. It reaches all mankind, and in matters which concern us, or concern us not, it alike provokes in us a desire to know them.
Although the situation of America, superior to every effort to enslave her, and daily rising to importance and opulence, has placed her above the region of anxiety, it has still left her within the circle of curiosity; and her fancy to see the speech of a man who had proudly threatened to bring her to his feet, was visibly marked with that tranquil confidence which cared nothing about its contents. It was inquired after with a smile, read with a laugh, and dismissed with disdain. How easy it is to abuse truth and language, when men, by habitual wickedness, have learned to set justice at defiance.
“I will order,” says the speech, “the estimates of the ensuing year to be laid before you. Like this: Brazil pyrotechnics concert deaths: Arthur Brown, Pink Floyd, and the other musicians that embraced fires and explosions during performances. Photo by Jefferson Bernardes/AFP/Getty Images A nightclub fire in Santa Maria, Brazil, claimed more than 230 lives Sunday. The fire resulted from a pyrotechnics display that was part of a country-pop band’s performance. Who were the first musicians to use pyrotechnics in their concerts? L.V. Anderson is a Slate assistant editor. She edits Slate's food and drink sections and writes Brow Beat's recipe column, You're Doing It Wrong.
Follow The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, a British psychedelic band, was one of the first. Pink Floyd was probably the first band to use pyrotechnics on a grand scale. But it was heavy metal bands in the 1970s and 1980s that professionalized musical pyrotechnics and brought them to new heights. The early days of pyrotechnics did not pass without injury. Got a question about today’s news? Explainer thanks Ian Christe of Bazillion Points Books, Jeffrey Pearlin, and Sharon Stancavage of Strictly FX. Inhuggermugger: 2day 1949: Pres. Harry Truman's... On Despising English Liberties and Other Wisdom from the Founders. King John faces the prospect of Magna Charta (Courtesy of the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress) Today is the anniversary of the ratification of the first written constitution in American history, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, which took place on January 14, 1639.
The Fundamental Orders outlined the form of government that would be established over the Connecticut River Towns, enumerating its powers and describing the duties of citizens active in government. A fascinating document and a historic landmark for the development of constitutionalism in America, the Fundamental Orders, it should be said, did not include a bill of rights. We often take it for granted that individual rights must be spelled-out in a written document if we want to be sure that they will be protected. Here are a few opinions from the age of the American Founding. This is to say that Wilson opposed emulating Magna Charta in the creation of our constitution. Social Media History Revealed By 'Wired' And Computer History Museum (PHOTOS) Silicon Valley tends to be ahead of the curve when it comes to tech. And in the case of social media, it seems the area was way, way ahead of the curve.
Wired's Daniela Hernandez took a trip to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View (home of Google/tech holy land) and found that social media machines have been in the works in the Bay Area for decades. Hernandez reported: It all feels so new doesn't it? Facebook. In the article, Hernandez detailed several exhibits from the museum, including the Bell Picturephone (think FaceTime in the 1960s), the DynaBook (a 1968 version of the iPad) and the iMode, a 1999 version of the smartphone in Japan.
Not surprisingly, some were less successful than others. But some ideas were gold. For starters, check out the Community Memory Terminal of 1973: A prelude to Craigslist, the memory terminals were kiosks set up around San Francisco and Berkeley that served as electronic bulletin boards. Um, yes, Community Memory Terminal. Loading Slideshow 10. Inhuggermugger: 2day 1927: #Ford produces... The Causes of the Revolution of 1776 by Albert Jay Nock. By Albert Jay Nock Our Enemy, the State (1935) It was said at the time, I believe, that the actual causes of the colonial revolution of 1776 would never be known.
The causes assigned by our schoolbooks may be dismissed as trivial; the various partisan and propagandist views of that struggle and its origins may be put down as incompetent. Great evidential value may be attached to the long line of adverse commercial legislation laid down by the British State from 1651 onward, especially to that portion of it which was enacted after the merchant-State established itself firmly in England in consequence of the events of 1688. Over and above these, however, if the reader will put himself back into the ruling passion of the time, he will at once appreciate the import of two matters which have for some reason escaped the attention of historians.
The actual state of land speculation during the colonial period will give a fair idea of the probabilities in the case. Notes [7] Beard, op. cit., vol. NPR. US Constitution Class by Richard Church - Part 1/4 Egypt’s 1968: The revival of street politics. The Meaning of Words: New Evidence of Ancient Maya History – National Geographic News Watch. Figure 1. Lithograph of Stela at Copan, Published in 1844 by Frederick Catherwood in Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. The ancient Maya culture flourished in Mesoamerica. At the height of their splendor there’s an overwhelming rise in architectural construction, the type of buildings that pay homage to their rulers and their ancestors.
Archaeologists call this phenomenon the Classic Maya Period, a time between 200 and 900 A.D. Within these centuries, archaeologists have found evidence that city-states expressed their power by creating unique architectural centers that in many ways were meant to replicate their cosmology. Perhaps the most important social act for a new king was to establish their relationship with the founder of the lineage and they did so by sponsoring magnificent works of art. New Hieroglyphic Stairway Found Figure 2. It is not often that a young archaeologist stumbles upon a spectacular find. Figure 3. Figure 4. Figure 5. Figure 6. Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Tells the Tale of the World’s First Computer | Magazine. American novelist Jane Smiley was drawn to the story of the first real computer “for narrative and psychological reasons.”Photo: Alessandra Sanguinetti Who invented the computer?
For anyone who has made a pilgrimage to the University of Pennsylvania and seen the shrine to the ENIAC, the answer may seem obvious: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert Jr., who led Penn’s engineering team in the 1940s. As it says on the plaque, the giant machine made of 17,468 vacuum tubes was the “first electronic large-scale, general-purpose digital computer.” But notice all the qualifying adjectives. Does this mean there was a smaller digital computer that actually came first? Yes, it does. This fall, the unsung physicist is getting some of the credit he deserves from an unlikely author: Jane Smiley, the American novelist whose pastoral melodrama A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Wired: As a writer, most of your career has been dedicated to the novel. Acronym and initialism. Abbreviation consisting of initial letters of a phrase An acronym is a type of abbreviation consisting of a phrase whose only pronounced elements are the initial letters or initial sounds of words inside that phrase.
Acronyms are often spelled with the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation. For some, an initialism[1] or alphabetism connotes this general meaning, and an acronym is a subset with a narrower definition; an acronym is pronounced as a word rather than as a sequence of letters. In this sense, NASA () is an acronym, but US () is not.[2][3] The phrase that the acronym stands for is called its expansion. The meaning of an acronym includes both its expansion and the meaning of its expansion.
Pronounceability controversy [edit] It is an unsettled question in English lexicography and style guides whether it is legitimate to use the word acronym to describe forms that use initials but are not pronounced as a word. Historical and current use Early examples in English. Psywar By S DN On ExposureRoom.