Hans Bol (1534-1593)
Send dopplers
Into the void,
Widening and pushing out
In the cold and lonely sea.
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
Poem: Icarus
By Jack Brummet
The rings of the splash
Send dopplers
Into the void,
Widening and pushing out
In the cold and lonely sea.
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Send dopplers
Into the void,
Widening and pushing out
In the cold and lonely sea.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Poem: A Flight Of Swallows
By Jack Brummet
A flight of swallows
Spins outside the window.
One by one,
Stars turn on
And the yellow sun
Transmogrifies to dusty rose
As it sinks
In its ebbing light.
The moon's in tune,
Stars turn on
And clouds drape
Across the sky.
Snared in the web
Of the Milky Way, we careen
Through space, twirling on earth's axis,
Around the sun, and into the black.
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Spins outside the window.
One by one,
Stars turn on
And the yellow sun
Transmogrifies to dusty rose
As it sinks
In its ebbing light.
The moon's in tune,
Stars turn on
And clouds drape
Across the sky.
Snared in the web
Of the Milky Way, we careen
Through space, twirling on earth's axis,
Around the sun, and into the black.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Monday, January 20, 2014
Some favorite images of Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Jack Brummet, History Editor
If you run a Google/Bing/Yahoo search on Martin Luther King, Jr. images you come up with millions of hits. Of these, there is a core group of about fifty or so that are ubiquitous. Here are some of our favorite photos of MLK, along with some of the many hundreds of postage stamps created in his honor; a couple of shots of the MLK memorial in Washington, D.C.; and a short video on the National Archives holdings of MLK photographs.
Two uneasy partners: Martin with his frenemy; President Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Some selected MLK postage stamps:
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Photos of the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, D.C.:
A background video on the photographs of MLK, Jr in The National Archives:
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Two uneasy partners: Martin with his frenemy; President Lyndon Baines Johnson
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One more shot of LBJ/MLK
I have never been able to find out more about this photo. I don't
really know if Martin knew his way around a pool table or not...
What if?
Jesse Jackson, Joan Baez, Ira Sandperl, and MLK. This shot was taken at a 1964 free speech event.
Bayard Rustin with Martin
MLK with Coretta
The "I Have A Dream" Speech
Speech in Washington, 1963
MLK with Malcolm X
Some selected MLK postage stamps:
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Photos of the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, D.C.:
A background video on the photographs of MLK, Jr in The National Archives:
All This Is That contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We make these materials available to advance the understanding of political, economic, literary, artistic, and social issues. In some cases we satirize, parody, or lampoon materials from other sources. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of copyrighted material as provided for by section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit for research, educational, and entertainment purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', please read and follow our Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license and attribute the work to All This Is That, along with our URL (http://jackbrummet.blogspot.com).
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re: the controversy over Richard Sherman's "interview" following the Seahawks-49ers football game
By Pablo Fanque, Sports Editor
We pay football players to stop people, find people, hurt people, and avoid people. If they can do that, why do we care what they do with the rest of the time?
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Sunday, January 19, 2014
George Etzel Pearcy's 38 states of America
By Jack Brummet, Geography Ed.
Pearcy's original version
In 1973, George Etzel Pearcy, a California State geography professor, proposed that the U.S. refashion its old state boundaries to reduce the number of states to thirty-eight. Part of his idea was to distribute larger cities among the states. The new states would be named after their geological features, or historic events (Cascade, Alamo, Prairie, etc).
There was a lot of support for this change--except in Washington, D.C.
Rob Lammle, a cartographer, created a more finished version years later, showing how cities would be better distributed in the 38 state system.
Rob Lammle, a cartographer, created a more finished version years later, showing how cities would be better distributed in the 38 state system.
Rob Lammle's version
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Saturday, January 18, 2014
Poem: The Mission
By Jack Brummet
The light shines
Without prejudice
Upon everything on earth—
On the evil and the good.
We're all just customers
Of the sun
With a mission
To leave a little good
In our wake.
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The light shines
Without prejudice
Upon everything on earth—
On the evil and the good.
We're all just customers
Of the sun
With a mission
To leave a little good
In our wake.
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Friday, January 17, 2014
Nancy Grace: People on pot shoot each other, strangle each other, and kill whole families (via Raw Story )
On Tuesday, Nancy Grace began to channel the notorious film "Reefer Madness," and claimed that people on marijuana shoot, stab and strangle each other, and that children shouldn’t bear witness to their parents drinking soda. Click here to read the entire story.
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Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book!
By Jack Brummet, '60's Ed.I loved Abbie Hoffman's first book when I was young. Thumbing through it now, through the filter of years, I still admire its indulgent, subversive anarchy. Well, someone has really stolen it, or at least placed it online (there is no difference, is there?). I bought the book twice. The first time, of course. . .someone stole it. I found this book online because bannination.com listed it with the caption "Dirty hippies give tips to unemployable bankers on how to survive in meltdown economy."
There is a lot of good stuff, and plenty of silly, indulgent, and even dangerous stuff here. Maybe you had to have "been there," I'm not sure! Click here to Steal This Book,
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
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