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05/01/1898 - Commodore George Dewey gave the command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," as an American naval force destroyed a Spanish fleet in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. |
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05/01/1931 - New York City dedicated the 102-story Empire State building. |
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05/01/1948 - The People's Democratic Republic of Korea was proclaimed. |
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05/01/1960 - The Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane near Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. |
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05/01/1971 - Amtrak went into service. |
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05/01/2012 - May Day |
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05/01/2012 - Law Day |
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05/01/2012 - Loyalty Day (signed into law by George Bush in 2002) |
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05/01/2012 - Beltane (Northern Hemisphere) & Samhain (Southern Hemisphere) - Wicca, Celtic |
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05/02/1519 - Leonardo Da Vinci died in France. |
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05/02/1670 - England's King Charles II chartered the Hudson Bay Company. |
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05/02/1863 - Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson’s men accidentally wounded him at Chancellorsville VA. He died eight days later. |
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05/02/1936 - Peter and the Wolf, by Sergei Prokofiev, had its world premier in Moscow. |
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05/02/2011 – US special forces killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad Pakistan. |
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05/02/2012 – Brothers & Sisters Day |
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05/02/2012 - Twelfth day of Ridvan - Baha'i |
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05/03/1802 - Washington DC was incorporated as a city. |
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05/03/1921 - West Virginia imposed the 1st state sales tax. Wouldn't you love that distinction? |
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05/03/1979 - Conservative Party leader Margaret Thatcher became Britain's 1st female Prime Minister. |
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05/03/2003 - President George W. Bush told reporters it was a matter of when - not if - weapons of mass destruction would be found in Iraq. |
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05/03/2012 - National Day of Prayer |
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05/04/1626 - Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on present-day Manhattan Island. |
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05/04/1904 - The US began building the Panama Canal. |
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05/04/1961 - A group of Freedom Riders left Washington for New Orleans to challenge racial segregation in interstate buses and bus terminals. |
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05/04/1970 - Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire on anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four students and wounding nine others. |
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05/05/1816 - O Solitude, John Keats' 1st published poem, appeared in The Examiner. |
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05/05/1862 - Mexican forces loyal to Benito Juarez defeated French troops sent by Napoleon III in the Battle of Puebla. |
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05/05/1925 - Tennessee authorities arrested John Scopes for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. |
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05/05/2012 - Cinco de Mayo |
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05/06/1935 - The Works Progress Administration began operation. |
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05/06/1962 - In the 1st test of its kind, the submerged submarine USS Ethan Allen fired a Polaris missile armed with a nuclear warhead that detonated above the Pacific Ocean. |
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05/06/2001 - Pope John Paul II, during his visit to Syria, became the 1st pope to enter a mosque as he called for brotherhood between Christians and Muslims. |
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05/06/2012 - Birthday of Buddha (Visakha Puja/Buddha Day) - Buddhism |
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05/07/1847 - The American Medical Association was founded in Philadelphia. |
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05/07/1939 - Germany and Italy announced a military and political alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis. |
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05/07/1945 - Germany signed an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France. |
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05/08/1541 - Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the Mississippi River. |
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05/08/1886 - Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented the flavor syrup for Coca-Cola. |
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05/08/1945 - President Truman announced in a radio address that WWII had ended in Europe. |
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05/08/1973 - Militant American Indians who'd held the South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for ten weeks surrendered. |
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05/08/2012 - International Red Cross Day |
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05/08/2012 - V-E Day, commemorating the Allies' defeat of Nazi Germany in WWII. |
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05/09/1960 - The FDA approved a pill, Enovid, as safe for birth control use. |
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05/09/1961 - FCC Chairman Newton Minow condemned television programming as a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters. |
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05/10/1775 - Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys captured the British fortress at Ticonderoga NY. |
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05/10/1869 - A golden spike was driven at Promontory, Utah marking the completion of the 1st transcontinental railroad in the US. |
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05/10/1924 - J. Edgar Hoover became FBI director. |
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05/10/2012 - Lag B'omer - Judaism |
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05/11/1946 - The 1st CARE packages arrived in Europe. |
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05/11/1949 - The UN admitted Israel as the 59th member. |
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05/11/1973 - Citing government misconduct, Judge William Byrne dismissed charges against Daniel Ellsberg for his role in the Pentagon Papers. |
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05/11/1981 - Reggae artist Bob Marley died. |
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05/12/1949 - The Soviet Union announced an end to the Berlin Blockade. |
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05/12/1978 - The Commerce Department said it would no longer give only female names to hurricanes. |
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05/12/2012 - Mangers pour divers loas - Voudon |
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05/13/1607 - The English colony at Jamestown VA was settled. |
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05/13/1918 - The 1st US airmail stamps, featuring a picture of an airplane, were introduced. |
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05/13/1958 - Rocks thrown by anti-US demonstrators in Caracas Venezuela battered Vice President Nixon's limousine. |
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05/13/1981 - A Turkish assailant shot and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square. |
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05/13/2012 - Mother’s Day |
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05/14/1804 - Lewis and Clark's expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory left St. Louis. |
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05/14/1904 - The 1st Olympic Games held in the US opened in St. Louis. |
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05/14/1942 - The Women's Auxiliary Army Corps was established. |
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05/14/1948 - The independent state of Israel was proclaimed in Tel Aviv. |
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05/14/1955 - Representatives from eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, signed the Warsaw Pact in Poland. |
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05/14/1973 - The US launched Skylab One, its 1st manned space station. |
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05/15/1602 - English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold discovered Cape Cod. |
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05/15/1918 - US airmail began service between Washington, Philadelphia and New York. |
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05/15/1940 - Nylon stockings went on general sale for the 1st time in the US. |
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05/15/1972 - George C. Wallace was shot and left paralyzed while campaigning in Laurel MD for the Democratic presidential nomination. |
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05/15/2012 - Peace Officer Memorial Day |
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05/16/1868 - The Senate failed by one vote to convict President Andrew Johnson as it took its 1st ballot on one of eleven articles. |
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05/16/1929 - The 1st Academy Awards were presented during a banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The movie Wings won for Best Production. Emil Jannings won the award for Best Actor. Janet Gaynor won the award for Best Actress. |
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05/16/1975 - Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the 1st woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. |
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05/16/1991 - Queen Elizabeth II became the 1st British monarch to address the US Congress. |
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05/17/1792 - Brokers, meeting under a tree located on what is now Wall Street, founded the NY Stock Exchange. |
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05/17/1875 - The 1st Kentucky Derby ran ... the winner was Aristides. |
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05/17/1946 - President Truman seized control of the nation's railroads, delaying a threatened strike by engineers and trainmen. |
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05/17/1948 - The Soviet Union recognized the new state of Israel. |
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05/17/1954 - The Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that racially segregated public schools are inherently unequal. |
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05/17/1973 - The Senate opened its hearings into the Watergate scandal. |
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05/17/2012 - Ascension Day |
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05/18/1980 - Mount St. Helens in Washington exploded. |
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05/18/2012 - Endangered Species Day |
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05/18/2012 - Manger pour Gran'n Aloumandia - Voudon |
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05/19/1921 - Congress passed the Emergency Quota Act, which established national quotas for immigrants. |
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05/19/1958 - The US and Canada formally established the North American Air Defense Command. |
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05/19/1967 - The Soviet Union ratified a treaty with the US and Britain banning nuclear weapons from outer space. |
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05/19/2012 - Malcolm X Day |
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05/20/1927 - Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island aboard the Spirit of St. Louis. |
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05/20/1961 - A white mob attacked a busload of Freedom Riders in Montgomery. |
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05/20/1969 - Following one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War, US & South Vietnamese forces captured Hamburger Hill. |
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05/20/2012 - Simbi Blanc - Voudon |
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05/21/1832 - The 1st Democratic National Convention got under way in Baltimore. |
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05/21/1881 - Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross. |
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05/21/1991 - A suicide bomber assassinated former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi during national elections. |
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05/21/2012 - Armed Forces Day |
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05/22/1761 - The 1st life insurance policy in the US was issued in Philadelphia. |
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05/22/1947 - The US Congress enacted the Truman Doctrine and appropriated military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey. |
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05/23/1430 - The Burgundians captured Joan of Arc and sold her to the English. |
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05/23/1934 - In an ambush in Bienville Parish LA, police shot & killed bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. |
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05/23/2012 - Birth of Abdul-Baha & Declaration of the Bab - Baha'i |
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05/24/1830 - The 1st passenger railroad in the US began service between Baltimore and Elliott's Mills MD. |
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05/24/1844 - Samuel FB Morse transmitted the message, "What hath God wrought!" from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opened America's 1st telegraph line. |
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05/24/1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, opened to traffic. |
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05/24/1962 - Astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7. |
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05/25/1787 - The Constitutional Convention convened in Philadelphia after enough delegates had shown up for a quorum. |
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05/25/1961 - President Kennedy asked the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. |
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05/25/1963 - The Organization of African Unity began in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. |
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05/26/1521 - The Edict of Worms banned Martin Luther because of his religious beliefs and writings. |
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05/26/1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy. |
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05/26/1978 - The 1st legal casino in the eastern US opened in Atlantic City. |
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05/27/1647 - The 1st recorded American execution of a ‘witch’ took place in Massachusetts. |
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05/27/1933 - Walt Disney's The Three Little Pigs was released. |
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05/27/1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County opened to the public. |
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05/27/2012 - Shavout (Pentecost) - Judaism |
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05/27/2012 - Pentecost |
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05/28/1863 - The 1st black regiment from the North left Boston to fight in the Civil War. |
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05/28/1892 - The Sierra Club organized in San Francisco. |
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05/28/2012 - Memorial Day |
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05/28/2012 - Shavout (Pentecost) - Judaism |
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05/29/1943 - Norman Rockwell's portrait of Rosie the Riveter appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post. |
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05/29/1992 - The Texas Lottery began operation with the scratch-off game Lone Star Millions. |
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05/29/1992 - Texas Primary Election Day |
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05/29/2012 - Ascension of Baha'u'llah - Baha'i |
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05/30/1431 - Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, burned at the stake in Rouen, France. |
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05/30/1539 - Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto landed in Florida. |
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05/30/1922 - Chief Justice William Howard Taft dedicated the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. |
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05/30/1971 - The American space probe Mariner 9 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida on a journey to Mars. |
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05/31/1819 - Poet Walt Whitman was born in West Hill NY. |
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05/31/1913 - The 17th amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of US senators, took effect. |
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05/31/1961 - South Africa became an independent republic. |
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05/31/1977 - The trans-Alaska oil pipeline began operation after three years in the making. |
o Law Library of Congress: North Korea - Collection of links to websites on North Korea government, politics, and law. Includes legal guides, country studies, and links to constitutions and branches of government (where available).
o Council on Foreign Relations: North Korea - Background, articles, and opinion pieces about North Korea government and politics. Many of the articles focus on North Korea's nuclear program. From the Council on Foreign Relations, "an independent membership organization and a nonpartisan think tank and publisher."
o State of the Union (SOTU) - The site uses an interactive timeline to provide a visual representation of prominent words in presidential State of the Union addresses by displaying significant words as "determined by comparing how frequently the word occurs in the document to how frequently it appears throughout the entire body of SOTU addresses." The "Appendices" section describes the statistical methods used. Also includes the full text of addresses.
o Supreme Court Nominations Not Confirmed - Reasons include "Senate opposition to the nominating President, nominee's views, or incumbent Court; senatorial courtesy; perceived political unreliability of the nominee; perceived lack of ability; interest group opposition; and fear of altering the balance of the Court. These nominations have been the subject of extensive legal, historical, and political science writing, a selected list of which is included in this report." A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report for Congress. Opens directly into a PDF file.
o Small Town Papers - This site provides access to scanned images of recent issues of dozens of small town newspapers from throughout the United States. "Newspapers are updated periodically, 2-3 weeks after publication." The site also includes a searchable archive (of articles, photos, and advertisements), which covers different periods for each paper, some as far back as the 1890s. Access to the archives requires free registration.
o A summary of the US Supreme Court's 2005 ruling on eminent domain allowing "local governments to expropriate private property for development." Includes links to statements from organizations on both sides of the argument as well as to Supreme Court documents about the case (Kelo v. New London). From JURIST: The Legal Education Network.
o This website "serves as a centralized location to learn about the Congressional Research Service and search for CRS reports that have been released to the public by members of Congress." ("CRS Reports do not become public until a member of Congress releases the report.") Features a searchable database with more than 8,000 reports, a list of recently released reports, other collections of CRS reports, and a FAQ about CRS.
o Stem Cell Research - The official NIH resource for stem cell research is at http://stemcells.nih.gov/index.asp. In 2005, NOVA aired an overview of the issue, you can watch the show at www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3209/04.html. A 2001 Time Magazine feature is at www.time.com/time/2001/stemcells.
o Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798 - 2004 - This report lists hundreds of instances in which the United States has used its armed forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict or for other than normal peacetime purposes. It was compiled in part from various older lists and is intended primarily to provide a rough survey of past US military ventures abroad, without reference to the magnitude of the given instance noted.
o Homeland Security Knowledgebase
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If you're worried
about retirement, try some of the following sites:
IRS Tax Information for Retirement Plans
Social Security Retirement Planner
Retirement Planning Resources from Smart Money
Personal Financial Planning Tools from Business Week
o Keeping the Shi'ites Straight - Based on the opinion that "no story has been more confusing for the Western news media to cover in postwar Iraq than the politics of the country's Shi'ite majority," this article provides a basic outline of Shi'ite religious history. Discusses the Sadr family (Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr, Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, and Muqtada as-Sadr), Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, and other figures.
o MILITARY DEATH TOLL IN IRAQ - Developed "to provide information that has been scrupulously culled from government sources and cross-checked against other existing lists" about the military death toll in Iraq. It features statistics about fatalities and injuries for Iraqi Coalition armed forces. Data may be retrieved by month, name, location of occurrences, cause of death, state residence and more. Includes links to sources of information.
o This commercial site presents brief information about dozens of Black inventors from the United States. Some entries include portraits and images. Also includes a searchable timeline covering 1721-1988. Does not include bibliographic information.
o Annenberg Political Fact Check - This site describes itself as "a nonpartisan, nonprofit, 'consumer advocate' for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in US politics." The site provides original articles, with summaries and sources, analyzing factual accuracy in "TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases." Searchable. From the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
o White House Tapes: The President Calling - "Three of America's most compelling presidents -- Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon -- bugged their White House offices and tapped their telephones. In this documentary project, American Radio Works eavesdrops on presidential telephone calls to hear how each man used one-on-one politics to shape history." Includes audio, a transcript of the documentary and background information on each president and the tapes.
o The Government Performance Project: The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report - This report from Congressional Quarterly analyzes "the tax structures and tax management of the 50 states" and evaluates "the way each state raises its revenues." It includes an overview of major sources of state revenue (sales taxes, personal income taxes, property taxes and corporate taxes) and features a description of the tax structure for each state. Also provides related reports back to 1999.
o History of Guantanamo Bay - Based on two volumes of "the history of both the area and of the base, contributed to the base by a former Commander of Naval Base Guantanamo Bay." It begins with Columbus' discovery of the Cuban bay in the Caribbean through the Spanish loss in 1898 and until 1982. Includes appendices for flora and fauna, treaties and agreements of 1934, bibliography and more. Also provides related links.
o First Amendment Library - Provides info on Supreme Court First Amendment jurisprudence, including rulings, arguments, briefs, historical material, commentary and press coverage.
o What Home Pages Tell (and Don't Tell) About a Candidate
o American Choices: Understanding Foreign Policy Debates - This "foreign policy self-assessment ... asks you to weigh some of the fundamental trade-offs facing US policymakers. At the end of it, you get a summary of your beliefs, and how they compare with others." Also includes annotated listings of foreign policy Web resources. From "e-the People, a nonprofit organization whose nonpartisan mission is to improve civic participation through Internet technologies."
o Interested in lowering your medication costs? Try Doctor Solve at 866-732-0305, www.needymeds.com, 800-PMA-INFO or www.benefitscheckup.org.
o Drug Policy Alliance - This group claims to be "the leading organization working to broaden the public debate on drug policy and to promote realistic alternatives to the war on drugs based on science, compassion, health and human rights." The searchable site includes information about various topics such as specific drugs, national and international drug policies, drugs and race, drug treatment options and drugs and law enforcement. Also includes the Lindesmith Library catalog, a discussion forum, news and alerts.
o Check out www.unitedhealthalliance.com or www.CrossBorderPharmacy.com for ordering prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies.
o Primary Documents in American History
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