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Island Territory of Tokelau First Place on Earth to Run Entirely on Solar Energy
Tokelau is the world's first place to operate fully on solar power. (Credit: AFP) Updated 7 November 2012, 13:55 AESTBy Pacific Beat & staffThe island territory of Tokelau has become the world's...
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In the United States, only motor vehicle crashes and cancer claim more lives...
Harvard School of Public Health Study: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/638057/posts***Here’s the data culled form the CDC databases on gunshot injuries and deaths in the US, in crude rate per...
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Firearm Injury and Death in the United States
Firearm injury and death charts for the U.S. (and the world) are available at the following University of Pennsylvannia webpage. http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/ficap/resourcebook/pdf/monograph.pdfThere are...
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For young Americans, 15-24, suicide (chiefly by firearm) is the third leading...
Teen SuicideFact SheetThere were 1,621 teen suicides (15-19) in the United States in 2000. For young people ages 15-24, suicide is the third leading cause of death, behind unintentional injury (mostly...
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Dad accidentally kills 7 year old son in gun shop parking lot
80 percent of all firearms deaths in 23 industrialized countries occurred in the US http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/80percent-of-all-firearms-deaths-in-23.htmlCraig Allen...
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Since 1973, the number of American households with guns has declined by 35%
80 percent of all firearms deaths in 23 industrialized countries occurred in the US. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/80percent-of-all-firearms-deaths-in-23.html...
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The GOP's national nervous breakdown
Farmer: GOP's politics unraveling before our eyesBy John Farmer/The Star-Ledger December 09, 2012 As it approaches its rendezvous with the fiscal cliff, the Republican Party in Washington shows all the...
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More Americans Support Marriage Equality
"Adolescents With Lesbian Mothers Describe Their Own Lives"Journal of Homosexuality, October,...
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The Thinking Housewife, University of California's New Logo, and Same-Sex...
Dear Fred,I don't like the new UC logo.Nor do I like Laura's decontextualized focus.The key paragraph referenced in INEZ' original post (below) is this: "UC system spokeswoman Dianne Klein said that...
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Billionaires Warn That Higher Taxes Could Prevent Them From Buying Politicians
Photograph by Mark Wilson/Getty.WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) Introducing a new wrinkle into the already fraught fiscal cliff showdown, a consortium of billionaires today warned that if their taxes...
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Wendell Berry: Quotations from “Good Reads”http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8567.Wendell_BerryWendell Berry: America's Greatest Living...
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Wendell Berry: "No Going Back"
No, no, there is no going back.Less and less you arethat possibility you were.More and more you have becomethose lives and deathsthat have belonged to you.You have become a sort of gravecontaining much...
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Light from the most distant galaxy takes 13 billion years to get here.
"The most distant galaxy is about 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away from Earth. That means light from that galaxy has to travel through space 13 billion years to get here."...
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A Lesbian Has Her Day In Court
Religious Conservatism:Dedicated to the demonstration of "evil" in others,mostly to protect their own fabricated semblance of unimpeachable "righteousness."The New Testament's "Woe Passages" are the...
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Pharisees and Yeshua's "Woe Passages": Matthew 23: 1-27 /// Luke 11: 37-54
The Pharisees were the ancient Jewish sect whose beliefs were nearest those of Yeshua.Pharisees were known as "the upstanding, punctilious, church-going people of the day.Every generation re-incarnates...
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Who Were The Tax Collectors In Yeshua's Time
Zacchaeus, tax collectorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zacchaeus***How did Jesus treat others, like the tax collector and sinner? As Scripture tells us, "God does not show favoritism" (Acts 10:34)....
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Links for Medievalists
ResourcesInternet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham) -http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.aspORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval StudiesNetSerfArgosLabyrinthVoice of the ShuttleThe Medieval...
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Internet History Sourcebook Project, Fordham U. - Superb Compilation of...
Internet History Sourcebook Project, Fordham Universityhttp://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/index.aspInsuperably good resource
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Oliver Stone Rewrites History — Again. (This Time for The History Channel)
Richard Burbridge for The New York TimesBy ANDREW GOLDMANPublished: November 22, 2012 119 Comments“Come on, that’s such a canard, you know that,” Oliver Stone said. “ ‘The Greatest Generation?’ That...
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Paraguayan Children's Orchestra. Instruments Made From Trash
Landfill Harmonic film teaserhttp://vimeo.com/52711779Landfill Harmonic is an upcoming feature-length documentary about a remarkable musical orchestra in Paraguay, where young musicians play...
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