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London, Saturday, Dec. 4--The Moscow radio announced early this morning that President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin had met in Teheran, Iran, "a few days ago" to discuss questions relating to the war and the post-war period. "A few days ago," the Moscow radio said shortly after midnight, "a conference of the leaders of the three Allied nations--President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin--took place at Teheran. "Military and diplomatic representatives also took part. The questions discussed at the conference related to the war against Germany and also to a range of political questions. Decisions were taken...

Off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands In the summer of 1942, the Japanese had to be stopped in their drive to cut off Australia by severing the US shipping lanes. So far in the Pacific War, the Japanese had destroyed the US battle fleet at Pearl Harbor; destroyed the US Asiatic Fleet in the Philippines; sunk the combined Dutch, British, Australian and American fleet in the East Indies (Java); punished the British fleet in Malaya and Ceylon and pushed the Indian Ocean fleet back to Africa; captured southeast Asia, the Philippines, the resource rich East Indies, and many island chains for defense...

Translated by J. C. Rolfe.[Arkenberg Introduction]. Rolfe's annotations appear in brackets with no attribution; mine are noted. I have also replaced modern place names, as used by Rolfe, with those in use by the Romans and Hellenes; thus, for example, Rolfe's "Italy" is now "Italia". I. OF the origin of the Vitellii different and widely varying accounts are given, some saying that the family was ancient and noble, others that it was new and obscure, if not of mean extraction. I should believe that these came respectively from the flatterers and detractors of the emperor, were it not for...

<p>Janet Lomonico is making a list. Chalk in hand, she's poised to write down all the behaviors that her sex education students agree don't count as sexual abstinence.</p> <p>Turns out it's a pretty short list. Holding hands? Kissing? Reading erotic literature? No problem. Showering together? Naked cuddling? Still counts as abstinence. Oral sex? Nope, that's still abstinence, the kids insist.</p>

I used to do two series of threads. One was about politics and government in the Greco-Roman civilization, and the other was my own columns. Here's a list of them: Ancient Politics and Government The Athenian Constitution, Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four, and Part Five by Aristotle Chapter One of Polybius and the Founding Fathers by Marshall Davies Lloyd Deeds of Augustus by Caesar Augustus Cicero by Plutarch The Conspiracy of Catiline by Sallust Lives of the Twelve Caesars by Suetonius JuliusAugustusTiberiusCaligulaClaudiusNeroGalbaOtho The American Constitutionalist-In Defense of "Underage" Drinking -Anarchy vs. the Right to Life -Calling a...

<p>ITHACA -- Josh Keenan came out to the world, and the Hangar Theatre is proud to embrace him.</p> <p>Board members and directors told about 40 people in attendance at its annual meeting Monday at the Theatre that the play that sparked recent debate among community members, "Josh Keenan Comes Out to the World" by Kenny Finkle, is just an example of their mission to put the spotlight on social issues. Hangar Theatre plans to continue this goal into the winter and summer seasons.</p>

SEATTLE CAROLYN Harrison, 42, has enough on her plate. A mother of two school-age children, she teaches English and coaches girls' basketball at a Catholic high school in Tacoma, and is working toward certification as a school administrator. But now she also finds herself trying to overturn the nasty legacy of a 19th-century senator. She is a plaintiff (as is a student at Eastern Washington University) in litigation (undertaken by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Justice) that may reach the U.S. Supreme Court. It could overturn laws - 37 states, including all Western states, have them - that are residues...

Montreal, Canada -- In what might be a world first, doctors at Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal transfused a woman suffering from leukemia with the umbilical-cord blood of her baby daughter. Seven months later, 27-year-old Patrizia Durante is in complete remission and credits her daughter with saving her life. "I gave my daughter life, and then she gave mine back," Ms. Durante said yesterday, cradling 13-month-old Victoria. "It's a miracle. She was meant to be born to save me." Umbilical-cord blood is usually banked for later use by the child should she develop a life-threatening illness such as leukemia. Dr....

<p>Education Secretary Rod Paige this week used a sternly worded letter to warn school districts nationwide not to lower their academic standards, saying those who do are "the enemies of equal justice and equal opportunity."</p> <p>While praising states that are working to implement the "No Child Left Behind" reforms sought by President Bush and passed by Congress, Mr. Paige called those resisting the reforms "apologists for failure" and predicted "they will not succeed."</p>

The Dark Soul of Feminism: Profound Contempt For Life Part 1 of 2 Gerald L. Rowles, Ph.D.October 22, 2002 Hard Core Contempt If ever there was a time that a faint light flickered in the soul of feminism, it may have been when it was known as the "women's movement." But that was more than a quarter century ago, and the evolved entity that is feminism long ago extinguished that faint glimmer. What remains is as cold and dark as the dark side of the moon, and as profoundly contemptuous as the grim reaper. It is what is at the...

TRENTON - The state teachers' union has canceled three sex education workshops scheduled for its annual conference after learning that the presenters favor the teaching of abstinence in schools. Karen Joseph, a spokeswoman for the New Jersey Education Association, said the decision was made because those beliefs conflict with the union's policy against abstinence-only sex education. The scheduled presenters were an educator and two doctors. "When we realized their views were contrary to our policy, we felt we had to uninvite them," Joseph said. The three-day conference will be held Nov. 7-9 in Atlantic City. The canceled sessions will be...

1485-1547 Cortez was the Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico. Cortez was born in Spain. At the age of 19 he sailed for Hispaniola. With Diego Velazquez he conquered Cuba and settled there until 1518 when Velazquez appointed him to lead an expedition to Mexico. With his force of 700 men he landed on the coast of Mexico and founded the settlement of Veracruz. Cortez burned his ships behind him, thereby committing his entire force to survival through conquest. Cortez moved to Tenochtitlan (Mexico City), the capital of the powerful Aztec Indians. The Aztecs had conquered most of the surrounding tribes....

Teachers Union Angry Over Hiring of Foreign Educators The Sacramento City Unified School District has hired 24 teachers from the Philippines. It's a move that's not sitting well with members of the Sacramento City Teachers Association. Some of the Filipino teachers taken the place of instructors with emergency credentials, but several of them some are still not in the classroom, although they're being paid teacher's wages. School district spokesperson Maria Lopez said the district went to the Philippines to hire credentialed teachers with five or more years experience in science, mathematics and special education. Twenty-two of the teachers have...

Support H.R.5193, "The Back To School Tax Relief Act"H.R.5193, "The Back to School Tax Relief Act," provides a tax cut for low to moderate income families, allowing them to deduct up to $3000 in expenses related to elementary and secondary education in public or private schools. The legislation is currently being debated by the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington with significant opposition coming from the expected sources - the National Education Association and the public school PTA. Continuous support in the form of telephone calls, e-mails, and faxes to the members of the NJ Congressional House Delegation is...

The Liberal Brainwashing Of Our Children By Sheriff Michael E. Cook Published 09. 10. 02 at 21:40 Sierra Time xxx Many things have happened this week that cause me to sit back and reflect on the past. The attack on America is first and foremost in everyone's mind and seems unavoidable when you turn on the radio or television. America needs to look at our roots for the answer to this problem. The best protection we have against every type of threat, foreign and domestic, is our Constitution and The Bill of Rights. That's why it said to "Keep and...

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(New York-AP) -- Three firefighters who raised the American flag over the debris of the World Trade Center joined Governor George Pataki today to unveil a Madame Tussaud wax exhibit celebrating the moment. The three appeared in person and in wax, amid rubble at Madame Tussaud's New York on West 42nd Street.The original moment was captured on film by New Jersey photographer Thomas Franklin of The Record newspaper of Hackensack, New Jersey.The exhibit, titled ``Hope: Humanity and Heroism,'' also includes photography and music featuring images of uniformed servicemen and women and September 11th victims.The ``Hope'' exhibit will open to the...

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<p>After a day of ceremonies, Gov. James E. McGreevey signed into law yesterday a bill that requires that African-American history be incorporated into the core curriculum of New Jersey's public schools.</p> <p>The legislation establishes a 19-member panel known as the Amistad Commission, whose members will include New Jersey's secretary of state, education commissioner and the chairman of the executive board of the President's Council. The commission will approve textbooks that accurately portray the role of African-Americans in U.S. history.</p>

Great News! "NJMS Physicians for Life" -- a new pro-life group has now been formed by medical students and faculty members at the New Jersey Medical School.Their inaugural effort is an open-assembly presentation by guest-speaker Norma McCorvey.  Please make an effort, if at all possible, to be there.  If you cannot be there in person, please do be with us in prayer on Friday, 23 August, at 1PM.  Free admission; contributions welcomed. Please mark your calendar now! For further details, please contact: Gloria Seo (NJMS Medical Student and Co-Founder of NJMS Physicians for Life)22 Maple St.Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632email: seogj@umdnj.educell (201)...

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US Planned to Drop an Atomic Bomb on Europe During WWII In early August 2002 Studs Terkel interviewed Paul Tibbets, the pilot who flew the Enola Gay on its mission to nuke Hiroshima. In the middle of this fascinating interview, General Tibbets dropped a bombshell of a different sort. Tibbets relates that after being briefed about his upcoming mission by General Uzal Ent (commander of the second air force) and others: General Ent looked at me and said, "The other day, General Arnold [commander general of the army air corps] offered me three names." Both of the others were full...

Of all the memorable dates of World War II, this one somehow got lost in the jungle. Remember Aug. 7, 1942? Quiz your friends. Note the silence. To veterans who landed 60 years ago today on the Pacific island of Guadalcanal, it is a silence almost as eerie and inexplicable as the quiet of the early hours of their raid -- the first U.S. offensive of the war. "So many people today don't even know what Guadalcanal is," said Rudy Bock, 82, of Overland Park, who stormed in with fellow Marines and caught the Japanese with their guns down. "You...

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Washington, Aug. 14--The American heavy cruiser Indianapolis was sunk by enemy action in the Philippine Sea with 1,196 casualties, every man aboard, the Navy announced today. The 9,950-ton ship left San Francisco on July 16 on a special high-speed run to deliver essential atomic bomb materials to Guam. The cargo was delivered. The cruiser was lost after having left Guam. The sinking, which took one of the Navy's heaviest tolls of lives since Pearl Harbor, was disclosed a few minutes before President Truman announced Japan's surrender. Casualties included five Navy dead, including one officer; 845 Navy missing, including sixty-three officers;...

Ivan the Terrible Stalin admired him. The rest of Europe believed he was mad. What is certain is that he was one of the most ruthless tyrants in history. The name 'Ivan the Terrible' conjours up images of senseless cruelty and paranoia. Yet, for many in Russia, he is a national hero. Ivan appears to be a man of huge contradictions - a man of God who personally tortured his victims and beat his own son to death; a hardened despot who often behaved like a coward, asking his ally, Elizabeth I of England, for political asylum; a man who...

Austrian Emperor to Take Command at Vienna Headquarters War Fever at Capital Crowds Cheer Outbreak of Hostilities and Demonstrate at Friendly Embassies Outbreak of Food Riots Prices Soar as Hostilities are Declared and the Government Steps in to Regulate There Manifesto From Emperor Forced to Grasp the Sword, He Says, to Defend the Honor of His Monarchy France Fears a Great War Army Moves to the Frontier - Belief in Paris That Russia Will Not Desert Servia VIENNA, July 28- Upon the issue of the formal declaration of war against Servia today Emperor Franz Josef gave orders for the removal...

Rhee Gets U.S. Pledge; Eisenhower Bids Free World Stay Vigilant Tokyo, Monday, July 27--Communist and United Nations delegates in Panmunjom signed an armistice at 10:01 A.M. today [9:01 P.M., Sunday, Eastern daylight time]. Under the truce terms, hostilities in the three-year-old Korean war are to cease at 10 o'clock tonight [9 A.M., Monday, Eastern daylight time]. [President Syngman Rhee of South Korea promised in a statement at Seoul Monday to observe the armistice "for a limited time" while a political conference tried to unify Korea by peaceful means, The United Press said.] The historic document was signed in a roadside...

Washington, Sunday, July 27--President Truman signed in dramatic circumstances yesterday the history-making legislation unifying the nation's armed forces. Immediately afterward he nominated the Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal of New York, to head the program as Secretary of Defense. The nomination had been expected in Capitol Hill circles, and the Senate's Armed Services Committee unanimously endorsed Mr. Truman's proposal within two hours of its arrival from the White House. And, in executive session, just before adjournment early this morning, the Senate, by voice vote, confirmed the nomination of Mr. Forrestal. He thus became the nation's first Secretary of Defense....

AUDIO n VIDEO President Eisenhower's historic farewell address to the Nation Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together." Listen to the entire speech » - President Eisenhower - January 1961

The American encounter with Islam began long before the "Middle East" existed as a geographical region, and before the United States existed as a nation.When the Christian kingdoms of Castille and Aragon, the nucleus of what became Spain, united and conquered the Muslim kingdom of Granada in 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella realized their goal of uniting Spain under Christian rule. They wanted to continue their holy war against Islam, chasing Muslims into North Africa. To wage this war, Ferdinand and Isabella needed money. Christopher Columbus's bold plan, to sail west and find the "wealth of the Indies," offered...

American Blow Upsets Foe German Forces Flee When Our Troops Begin Forward Rush 15,000 Driven Across River Intense Fighting Continues, with Heavy Guns Roaring Far Into the Night Advance Costly to Enemy Slaughtered by Our Machine Gunners as They Debouch to Cross Marne on Pontoons ----- By Edwin L. James Special Cable to The New York Times Special to The New York Times RELATED HEADLINES American Force Joins in Taking Murman Coast: Co-operates with British in Occupying Strategic Points in Northern Russia: Co-operates with British in Occupying Strategic Points in Northern Russia: Now Moving Beyond KEM: Bolshevist Authorities Withdraw Before...

The common view [by the liberal establishment] of the French Revolution is that it was a justified rebellion of oppressed lower classes against a tyrannical king, corrupt nobilities, and an insensitive church. Some try to portray the French Revolution as similar to the American Revolution--a blow for freedom and self-government struck against tyranny. The high middle age kingdom of Louis IX was destroyed by the wars of religion, by the absolutism created by Cardinal Richelieu, by the extravagance of Louis XIV, and by the corruption of Louis XV. The results for France were the creation of a parasitical nobility, which...

This is a pretty good collection in one place of links to source documents for US history.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Patrick Reilly, PresidentCardinal Newman Society (703) 536-9585 Patrick ReilleCatholic Colleges Invite 'Scandalous' Commencement Speakers, Awardees FALLS CHURCH, VA - A national Catholic organization has called on American Catholics to protest 17 inappropriate commencement speakers and awardees at 14 Catholic colleges and universities. "Despite the U.S. bishops' clear call for reform of Catholic higher education, it seems that a significant minority of Catholic college leaders simply aren't listening," complained Patrick Reilly, president of the Cardinal Newman Society, a national organization seeking the renewal of Catholic identity at Catholic colleges and universities. "Several of this year's speakers and...

Washington, July 8 -- President Truman today named Gen. Douglas MacArthur as commander of all United Nations military forces fighting in defense of the Republic of Korea. The President's action complied with a request by the United Nations Security Council, contained in a resolution adopted yesterday, that the United States name the commander general of the combined land, air and naval units now battling the invading North Korean forces on the divided peninsula. Now holding, as a United States general, the command of occupation forces in Japan, the 70-year-old General MacArthur will become in his new role the first leader...

1057 - Crab Nebula supernova recorded by Chinese & Japanese astronomers. 1776 - Declaration of Independence -- US gains independence from Britain. 1802 - US Milt Academy officially opened at West Point NY 1819 - William Herschel makes last telescopic observation comet of 1819. 1826 - 2nd & 3rd presidents-John Adams & Thomas Jefferson die 1828 - 1st US passenger railroad was begun Baltimore & Ohio 1831 - James Monroe the fifth president died 1845 - Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond 1862 - Lewis Carroll began inventing the story of Alice in Wonderland for his friend...

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that...

<p>When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.</p>

<p>Whereas many of our subjects in divers parts of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by dangerous and ill designing men, and forgetting the allegiance which they owe to the power that has protected and supported them; after various disorderly acts committed in disturbance of the publick peace, to the obstruction of lawful commerce, and to the oppression of our loyal subjects carrying on the same; have at length proceeded to open and avowed rebellion, by arraying themselves in a hostile manner, to withstand the execution of the law, and traitorously preparing, ordering and levying war against us: And whereas, there is reason to apprehend that such rebellion hath been much promoted and encouraged by the traitorous correspondence, counsels and comfort of divers wicked and desperate persons within this realm: To the end therefore, that none of our subjects may neglect or violate their duty through ignorance thereof, or through any doubt of the protection which the law will afford to their loyalty and zeal, we have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue our Royal Proclamation, hereby declaring, that not only all our Officers, civil and military, are obliged to exert their utmost endeavours to suppress such rebellion, and to bring the traitors to justice, but that all our subjects of this Realm, and the dominions thereunto belonging, are bound by law to be aiding and assisting in the suppression of such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all traitorous conspiracies and attempts against us our crown and dignity; and we do accordingly strictly charge and command all our Officers, as well civil as military, and all others our obedient and loyal subjects, to use their utmost endeavours to withstand and suppress such rebellion, and to disclose and make known all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which they shall know to be against us, our crown and dignity; and for that purpose, that they transmit to one of our principal Secretaries of State, or other proper officer, due and full information of all persons who shall be found carrying on correspondence with, or in any manner or degree aiding or abetting the persons now in open arms and rebellion against our Government, within any of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, in order to bring to condign punishment the authors, perpetrators, and abetters of such traitorous designs.</p>

<p>Fellow citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives, I embrace with great satisfaction the opportunity, which now presents itself, of congratulating you on the present favorable prospects of our public affairs. The recent accession of the important State of North Carolina to the constitution of the United States (of which official information has been received), the rising credit and respectability of our country, and the general and increasing good will towards the government of the Union, and the concord, peace, and plenty, with which we are blessed, are circumstances auspicious, in an eminent degree, to our national prosperity.</p>

<p>A 26-year-old New York man was charged yesterday as an accomplice in the execution-style murder of a 72-year-old Englewood man, and a third suspect remained at large as Bergen County authorities tried to piece together a burglary and slaying they say may have been linked to the victim's criminal past.</p>

Rodimer needs to level with his flock Just before Easter, Paterson's Roman Catholic bishop gave his flock some instructions on what to do about sexual abuse by priests. Report it to the cops, said Bishop Frank Rodimer.The bishop's letter stands in sad, ironic contrast to the fix he now finds himself in. Rodimer needs to tell us what he knows about a priest-friend who sexually abused a boy. Otherwise, the bishop looks like he's hiding something.This story begins three decades ago. Two priests rented a beach house at the Jersey shore. Rodimer and his friend, the Rev. Peter Osinski, enjoyed...

Only Custer himself could have given a complete report of Custer's last stand, only those who fought with him could have described it. But all died on the field of battle." --The Custer Story: the Life and Intimate Letters of General George A. Custer and His Wife, Elizabeth The Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876 In late 1875, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians defiantly left their reservations, outraged over the continued intrusions of whites into their sacred lands in the Black Hills. They gathered in Montana with the great warrior Sitting Bull to fight for their lands. Two victories that spring...

Latest Accounts of the Charge -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Force of Four Thousand Indians in Position Attacked by Less Than Four Hundred Troops--Opinions of Leading Army Officers of the Deed and Its Consequences--Feeling in the Community Over the Disaster -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Dispatch to the New York Times RELATED HEADLINES Confirmations of the Disaster: Dispatches From Gen. Terry Received at Sheridan's Head-Quarters--Theories of the Battle--Probably Ten Thousand Sioux in Position--The Attack Condemned as Rash by Officers of Experience--Disposition of the Wounded Dispatches from Gen. Terry: Particulars of the Plan of the Movement Under Custer as Agreed on Before the March The Causes and...

MOSCOW (AP) - Hunted down by the U.S. Navy off Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis, a furious Soviet submarine commander ordered a nuclear-tipped torpedo armed for action but then controlled his anger and brought the sub to the surface, where American ships were waiting. The previously unknown incident - which might have pushed the two superpowers closer to nuclear war - is disclosed in a book released this week. The book, written by Russian journalist Alexander Mozgovoi, tells the story of four Soviet submarines engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with the U.S. Navy off Cuba at the height of...

June 5, 2002 A NEW CENTURY OF CHRISTIAN MARTYRDOM: THE UNTOLD MIDDLE EASTERN CRISISby Srdja Trifkovic A book that relates the untold story of the murder of 45 million Christians in the 20th century alone has caused controversy in Italy. The author of The New Persecuted: Inquiries into Anti-Christian Intolerance in the New Century of Martyrs, Antonio Socci, has been accused that by raising the issue of Christian suffering in the Muslim world he "demonizes Islam."Socci provides evidence that in the past 2,000 years some 70 million Christians have been killed primarily or exclusively for the reason of their faith,...

<p>When he was promoted to officer rank at eighteen, S. L. A. MARSHALL was the youngest shavetail in the United States Army during World War I. He rejoined the Army in 1942, became a combat historian with the rank of colonel; and the notes he made at the time of the Normandy landing are the source of this heroic reminder. Readers will remember his frank and ennobling book about Korea, THE RIVER AND THE GAUNTLET, which was the result of still a third tour of duty.</p>