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August
27, 2001:
 "For
four years I fought against this flag, but that
is now in the past. Today, this is my flag and my
country."
-- Confederate Veteran Francis Telesford Hurlbert
said of the Stars and Stripes while addressing students
and teachers at a flagpole dedication ceremony at
his daughter's one room country school in 1920.
Hurlbert fought with the 3rd Florida, Company A
for four years during the War Between the States.
Read more
in Report #12.
Photo: Francis
Hurlbert's daughter, Mrs.
Aurelia Hurlbert Hannon,
age 90, with her Robert E. Bear in Cookeville, Tennessee.
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August
20, 2001:
 "There
is no substitute for hard work." Thomas
Alva Edison, April, 1931. Read
a book about Thomas Alva Edison.
Photo: Thomas
Alva Edison.
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August
13, 2001:
"In a world of peace and love, music
would be the universal language."
-- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). Thoreau was
a U.S. writer and poet, and he was associated with
the Transcendentalists. For two years, he lived
in solitude on Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Thoreau's
works include "Civil Disobedience" (1849) and Walden,
or Life in the Woods (1854).
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August
6, 2001:
 "And
So, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country
can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
-- John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address on January
20, 1961. Kennedy was the 35th President.
From Your
Page: Feburary 19, 2001.
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July 30, 2001:
"The weak can never
forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948). Mohandas Karamchand
"Mahatma" Gandhi was an Indian politician
and spiritual leader who led the nationalist movement
from 1919 to 1947.
Photo: Mahatma
Gandhi.
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July 23, 2001:
"O Romeo, Romeo,
wherefore art thou Romeo?"
-- from William
Shakespeare's Romeo
and Juliet Act 2, scene 2. Read
more about the times in which William Shakespeare
lived.
Photo: Globe
Theatre.
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July 16, 2001:
 "Houston,
Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed."
This was Astronaut Neil Armstrong's radio message
to the Mission Control Center (in Houston) announcing
the Lunar Module (Eagle) successfully landed
on the moon (at Tranquility Base in the Sea of Tranquility)
on July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
separated from the Command Module, descended in
the Eagle, and landed on the lunar surface
at 4:18 p.m. EDT. See
photos of the Apollo 11 Mission.
Photo: Astronaut
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. and the Lunar
Module Eagle at Tranquility Base, July 20-21,
1969.
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July 9, 2001:
 "The
Incomparable Valley."
-- Well known words describing Yosemite Valley.
The story of Yosemite began about 500 million years
ago when the area lay beneath an ancient sea. Yosemite
Valley's sheer walls and flat floor (or U-shape)
was created by glaciers. Glaciers flowed down the
Merced River and carried away the weaker rock, leaving
the harder portions, like El Capitan and Cathedral
Rocks. In contrast, the area just west of the park
is V-shaped because the glaciers did not extend
this far.
Photo: Tunnel
View of Yosemite National Park.
El Capitan is on the left, Bridalveil Fall is on
the right, and Half Dome is in the center off in
the distance.
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July 2, 2001:
"We must all hang
together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang
separately." Attributed
to Ben
Franklin. A remark made to John Hancock
at the signing of the Declaration of Independence
in Philadelphia, on July 4, 1776. It means the signers
of the Declaration of Independence should all stay
together (hang together) and fight for their independence
from England. Because if they fail, they will be
hung for treason (hang separately). Read
a book about Ben Franklin.
Photo: The
Declaration of Independence.
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June 25, 2001:
 "That
the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental
principle of the English constitution." --
William Blackstone (1723-1780) wrote in Commentaries
on the Laws of England. Blackstone was an English
jurist and politician.
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June 18, 2001:
"Summer afternoon--summer
afternoon...the two most beautiful words in the
English language."
-- Henry James (1843-1916). James was a U.S. novelist,
short-story writer, and critic.
Photo: Henry
James.
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June 11, 2001:
 "The
most important fact about Spaceship Earth: An instruction
book didn't come with it." -- Buckminister
Fuller (1895-1983). Fuller
was a U.S. architect and engineer who invented several
revolutionary designs, including the Geodesic Dome
in 1947.
Photo: Buckminster
Fuller.
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June 4, 2001:
"Making a decision to have
a child -- it's momentous. It is to decide forever
to have your heart go walking around outside your
body." -- Elizabeth Stone. (Sent in by Margie)
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