Tag: us
group name: thesixties
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April 07, 2006 05:44 AM EDT --
Lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworths
JFK elected President
Peace Corp program announced
Yuri Gargarin, first man in space
Bay of Pigs
Alan Shepard, first American in space
16,000 U.S. advisors sent to Vietnam . . . more
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April 13, 2006 08:23 PM EDT --
In November, 1960 John Fitzgerald Kennedy beat Richard Milhouse Nixon in a presidential race, undprecented for its extremely narrow popular vote margin. Kennedy was elected president by a substantial electoral . . . more
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April 08, 2006 08:26 AM EDT --
The setting was Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina. The day was February 1, 1960.
Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr. and David Richmond were four young men who attended Agriculture . . . more
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February 27, 2008 01:07 PM EST --
Just in, breaking news...
William F. Buckley, the greatest conservative the world and Republican Party have ever known has passed away, found dead by his cook in his Connecticut home. It's . . . more
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April 25, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
The year was 1962. James Meredith was a student at the University of Mississippi.
That his final acceptance into the university was won by such strife is a disgrace in our civil rights history. . . . more
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April 30, 2007 11:05 AM EDT --
It is not well known but there is a secret society at work in America today, No not the Masons the Trilateralist’s or the Rand Corporation. This secret confederation . . . more
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December 21, 2006 06:22 AM EST --
At midnight on Dec. 31, hundreds of millions of pages of secret documents will be instantly declassified, including many FBI cold war files on investigations of people suspected of being Communist sympathizers. . . . more
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August 10, 2007 10:03 PM EDT --
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock….I would be fixated on the clock in Miss King’s 2nd grade class. I was just waiting for that big hand to hit the 11 and the little hand the 20 because . . . more
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December 08, 2006 04:09 PM EST --
This is the first in a series of articles about the riots in 1968 Baltimore and Gov. Spiro T. Agnew's response.
Around 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, 1968, a black teenager tossed a brick through . . . more
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February 09, 2007 04:07 PM EST --
With a name like Valentine, you'd better be planning something extra special for the big red-letter day. Especially if you're deploying to Iraq before the next one rolls around.
For Lieutenant . . . more
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June 22, 2007 05:12 PM EDT --
Is that fog? I wonder when I lift my head from sleep this morning and look out the gloomy window that is normally bright with vibrant sun. Nah, can't be. There’s no fog in the Caribbean.
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April 28, 2006 08:43 AM EDT --
No history of the 1960s is complete without Rosa Parks.
Rosa Parks, then in her 40s and working as a seamstress in a department store in Montgomery, Alabama, was emboldened by her membership in the . . . more
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February 12, 2007 08:10 AM EST --
Army ski training is nothing like taking ski lessons as a civilian. For one thing, the army wasn’t as concerned about how we got down a slope as it was in our getting up it. It figured we could mostly . . . more
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October 15, 2007 04:20 AM EDT --
I saw a
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October 20, 2007 12:28 AM EDT --
There are too many for me to choose from. I would say that Braveheart is in the top five so I will go with that.
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February 28, 2008 02:13 PM EST --
"The disdain and uncooperative nature that this administration has shown toward Congress... is so egregious that I can no longer assume that it is simply bureaucratic incompetence or isolated mistakes. . . . more
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June 17, 2007 12:54 PM EDT --
I originally wrote an earlier version of this in January, 2006, which was a Gather home page feature in March, 2006. I have since rewritten and added to this. I now offer it as part of the Two Word Challenge, . . . more
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November 18, 2007 06:04 AM EST --
The Cat Family
The President of the United States of America
February 17, 2007
Dear President Bush:
As we members of the animal and plant species know that almost every single right . . . more
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June 19, 2007 11:10 AM EDT --
Whenever I read the International news paper, every time I found something confusing. Specially while reading the news of Middle East, Pakistan, Africa and some other countries. Do US administration thinks . . . more
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September 01, 2007 05:20 PM EDT --
There is a huge gap in this country between reality and US-government induced propaganda on the issue of Chavez-led Venezuela. Now I do not believe that Chavez is a perfect leader (I'm an anarchist, . . . more
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