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• Rest In Peace Jr Whitehead

  
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  Ive had this on my mind a lot lately. Last week, a great singer and an even greater man left this world for the next one. Jr Whitehead, lead singer of Rock Hill, was lost in a car crash, ive been told. Everyone keep Rock Hill & tha Whitehead family in your prayers. Mekusvpetv, Ofvngv hokmethlee Kvn-hvlwe Cvto ...
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• Quick Hit: This is Hard

  
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  Please; watch this . I am a motherless daughter.  I cannot begin to fathom what it would feel like to be a daughterless mother.  Please, go here and sign the card for the mothers whose babies can’t bring them cold cereal, burned toast, a handmade card and a glass full of dandelions in bed on Sunday ...
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• A tragedy on San Francisco Bay :(

  
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  Just yesterday I watched in awe as two of the 72-foot racing catamarans competing in this years Americas Cup sailed across the San Francisco Bay. My nephew Josh had wanted to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge while he was in town on a visit. We were happy to oblige him and the weather was perfect, not too ...
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• Libeskind Watch: Architect Daniel Libeskinds newly approved Holocaust...

  
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  Architect Daniel Libeskinds newly approved Holocaust memorial in Columbus, Ohio will be comprised of "two brushed stainless steel panels with cutouts that together form the outline of a six-pointed Star of David," according to Dezeen. The memorial will extend five meters (16.4 feet) high and may ruffle some ...
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• The Monument to Count Pulaski: a Tombstone or Not?

  
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  Yesterday, I shared with you a couple of photos and information regarding the monument to General Nathanael Greene in Savannah, Georgia. That monument, more than 70 years after it was originally raised, became a tombstone for General Greene and his son. Did the same thing happen with the monument to Count Pulaski? ...
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• Lest We Forget

  
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  The Cenotaph, Martin Place, Sydney.There will be ceremonies at war memorials all over France today, as it is Victory in Europe Day.
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• Where to Begin?

  
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  How does one start the first post they’ve written in nearly three months? I’m not really sure, since we’ve never gone this long with nary a word. But then again, we’ve never experienced what we’ve just gone through during the last few months. Unfortunately, I’ve discovered firsthand that stress and sorrow ...
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• Birkbeck tributes to "jazzy, snazzy, complete historian" Hobsbawm

  
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  A celebration of the life and influence of legendary historian Eric Hobsbawm, who died last October at the age of 95 , brought out family, friends and fellow scholars in force at Birkbeck, University of London this week. In a speech of welcome, David Latchman, master of Birkbeck – which Professor Hobsbawm joined ...
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• LondonLife: Clouds at St Pancras…

  
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  Lucy and Jorge Orta’s sculpture Cloud: Meteoros is the first sculpture to be unveiled for the ‘Terrace Wires’ project at St Pancras International. The sculpture, which hangs on wires from the station’s roof, features two clouds hovering over the station floor on which figures can be seen looking down. Says ...
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• R.I.P. Besedka Johnson

  
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  "When Jane (Dree Hemingway) first meets Sadie (Besedka Johnson), the old woman is outside her house, obscured by overgrown foliage and the world’s indifference. She’s as forgotten as the junk she’s trying to sell and blissfully, stirringly, unaware that she is about to be discovered." - Manohla Dargis, The New ...
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• A Flower for Anna

  
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  The Queen is planting petunias in her yard in memory of Anna. What a perfectly lovely idea and especially since Anna was very much a lover of flowers and a gardener. In fact, she was interviewed about Middle-Earth flora for the GardenMaine site. I perused the site for something from New Zealand that I could [...]
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• Despite Protests, Non-Jewish Victims Of Holocaust Honored In Memorial Park After Long Struggle

  
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  A group of activists unveiled five new stones memorializing non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust at Sheepshead Bay’s Holocaust Memorial Park this weekend, capping off nearly two decades of fighting for the right against a local committee opposed to the installation. The stones, dispersed throughout the public park, ...
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• Marathon Terror Memorials

  
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  With the attack in Boston fresh in mind, this photo had me really confused. It shows runners before the start of a marathon in Oklahoma City a week ago pausing to remember the victims of a terrorist bombing. That would be Boston, right? In fact, no, it was for the bombing there in 1995. Even if the remembrance was ...
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• Memorial turned misdemeanor

  
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  Nat, Owen’s older brother, has memorialized Owen’s death by throwing flowers into the Petaluma River on his own birthday (Nat’s), every year since Owen died.  His body was found in the River on June 2, 2007, a few weeks after the two of them had celebrated Nat’s birthday together, and less than two weeks ...
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• Video shows why the proposed memorial to Dwight Eisenhower as designed by Frank Gehry should never be built

  
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  The current proposed Washington memorial to President Eisenhower designed by Frank Gehry is a de-constuctionist horror that even the family opposes.  George Weigel called it "ghastly" Quoting biographer Steven Ambroses description, “Dwight Eisenhower was a great and good man....
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• 10 Historic London Garden Squares…2. Parliament Square

  
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  Located in one of the most prominent sites in London, Parliament Square is these days perhaps best known as a protest site for those wanting to attract Parliament’s eye. And while, unlike say, Trafalgar Square, many visitors to London may not know its name, its proximity to the Houses of Parliament, Whitehall, ...
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• The Arc of the 30th Meridian

  
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  Someone once sent me an email asking if Ive ever been to the trig beacon on Lovemore Heights along with all the information about the beacon.  Id never even heard of it and decided to drive up there, coming up against a closed gate and filing it away for future exploration.  After I took up Geocaching I noticed ...
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• Himalaya: Rocks, Ice, Clouds & Mountains

  
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• El Salvador: Monumento a la Memoria y la Verdad

  
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  Thanks to Tim at Tims El Salvador Blog for linking to this video from the Pro-Historic Memoric Commission in El Salvador, its worth watching:This led me to look for a little more information about the Monumento a la Memoria y la Verdad (Monument to truth and justice) in San Salvador. Wikipedia tells me it is located ...
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• Obama Attends Memorial for Those Killed in Texas Blast

  
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  The president praised the courage of firefighters and others who responded after an explosion at a fertilizer plant last week.        
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