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The Online Resources section below has numerous links that are of current interest. For more links to material on just about any topic you're looking for, use the E-Links button above. Linked off of that page are pages containing hundreds of links to sites covering a number of topics.

 

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Quote of the month

"Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals."

-Ogden Nash


 

Numbers of the month

Incomes for the wealthiest 1% of Americans nearly tripled from 1979 to 2007, far outpacing income growth for all other groups, according to a Congressional Budget Office report that underscores sharply increased US income disparity. For the 1% of the population with the highest income, average real after-tax household income grew by 275% between 1979 and 2007. The next-highest 19% of earners saw their income grow by 65% over the same period. Income grew by just under 40% for the 60% of the population in the middle, while the 20% at the bottom of the scale saw income growth of only about 18%, the report said. As a result of this uneven shift, income was substantially more skewed toward the very top of the income scale in 2007 than it was in 1979. So much so that in 2005-2007, just before the financial crisis, the top 20% of the population received more after-tax income than the entire bottom 80%.

Reuters


 

CALENDAR
Then & Now

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01/01/1735 - Paul Revere was born in Boston.

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01/01/1752 - Betsy Ross was born in Philadelphia.

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01/01/1863 - President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that slaves in rebel states were free.

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01/01/1892 - The Ellis Island Immigrant Station in NY formally opened.

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01/01/1898 - Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island consolidated into NYC.

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01/01/1901 - The Commonwealth of Australia officially came into existence.

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01/01/1959 - Fidel Castro led Cuban revolutionaries to victory over Fulgencio Batista.

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01/01/1994 - The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect.

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01/01/1997 - Kofi Annan assumed the post of UN Secretary-General.

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01/01/1999 - The Euro, the new single currency of 11 European countries, officially came into existence.

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01/01/2012 - Kwanzaa ends

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01/01/2012 - New Year's Day!

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01/01/2012 - Ganjitsu / Oshogatsu - Shinto

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01/02/1492 - The leader of the last Arab stronghold in Spain surrendered to Spanish forces loyal to King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I.

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01/02/1921 - KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcast religious services on the radio for the 1st time when it aired the Sunday service of Calvary Episcopal Church.

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01/02/1960 - Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the democratic presidential nomination.

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01/02/1974 - President Nixon signed legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 mph.

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01/02/2012 - Cassé Gāteau - Voudon

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01/03/1521 - The Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Martin Luther.

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01/03/1892 - JRR Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, was born in Bloemfontein South Africa.

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01/03/1938 - The March of Dimes campaign to fight polio was organized.

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01/03/1947 - TV broadcast Congressional proceedings for the 1st time as viewers in Washington, Philadelphia & NY saw opening ceremonies of the 80th Congress.

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01/03/1961 - The US severed diplomatic relations with Cuba.

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01/03/1989 - The Arsenio Hall Show premiered.

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01/03/2000 - The last new daily Peanuts comic strip ran.

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01/04/1790 - Washington delivered the 1st annual presidential address - the State of the Union - to the nation.

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01/04/1948 - Britain granted independence to Burma, now called Myanmar.

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01/04/1960 - French author Albert Camus died in a car accident at the age of 46.

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01/04/1974 - President Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.

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01/04/1995 - The 104th Congress – the 1st entirely under Republican control since the Eisenhower era – convened.

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01/04/1999 - Former pro-wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura took the oath of office as Minnesota's 37th governor.

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01/04/2012 - Trivia Day

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01/05/1925 - Nellie Ross succeeded her late husband as governor of Wyoming, becoming the 1st female governor in the US.

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01/05/1949 - In his State of the Union address, President Truman labeled his administration the "Fair Deal."

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01/05/1993 - The state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd, an admitted child sex killer, in America's 1st legal hanging since 1965.

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01/05/2012 - Twelfth Night

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01/05/2011 - Asara B'Tevet - Judaism

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01/06/1412 - Joan of Arc was born in Dom Remy.

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01/06/2012 - Tirer Gāteau (Les rois) - Voudon

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01/06/2012 - Epiphany of the Lord

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01/07/1610 - Galileo discovered four of Jupiter's biggest moons using his makeshift telescope for the first time.

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01/07/1789 - Americans held their 1st US presidential election when they voted for electors who, a month later, voted to make George Washington the nation's 1st president.

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01/07/1953 - President Truman announced the development of the hydrogen bomb in his State of the Union address.

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01/07/1959 - The US recognized Fidel Castro's new government in Cuba.

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01/08/1642 - Astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Arcetri Italy.

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01/08/1815 - US forces led by General Andrew Jackson defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, the closing battle in the War of 1812.

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01/08/1959 - France inaugurated Charles De Gaulle as president of France's Fifth Republic.

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01/08/1964 - President Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty. I don't think we've won yet.

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01/08/2012 - Jackson Day

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01/09/1793 - Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard flew between Philadelphia and Woodbury NJ in a hot-air balloon.

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01/09/1968 - The Surveyor VII space probe made a soft landing on the moon, marking the end of an American series of unmanned explorations of the lunar surface.

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01/09/2006 - Alito confirmation hearings commence in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Washington DC.

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01/10/1776 - Thomas Paine published Common Sense.

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01/10/1845 - Poet Elizabeth Barrett received her first note - "I love you" - from her eventual husband, poet Robert Browning.

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01/10/1870 - John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil.

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01/10/1920 - The Treaty of Versailles went into effect establishing the League of Nations.

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01/10/1928 - The Soviet Union ordered the exile of Leon Trotsky.

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01/10/1946 - The 1st General Assembly of the UN convened in London.

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01/10/1949 - RCA introduced the 1st 45 rpm record.

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01/11/1913 - The 1st sedan-type automobile, a Hudson, went on display at the 13th Automobile Show in NY.

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01/11/1964 - Under orders from Surgeon General Luther Terry, the 1st cigarette package labels appeared warning Americans that cigarettes "may be a health hazard."

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01/12/1519 - Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.

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01/12/1773 - Charleston SC established the 1st public museum in America.

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01/12/1965 - American playwright Lorraine Hansberry, whose A Raisin in the Sun was the 1st Broadway production by a black woman, died in NYC.

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01/12/1971 - All in the Family premiered on CBS.

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01/12/1998 - According to Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, computer HAL was born today.

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01/13/1966 - Appointed Secretary of Housing & Urban Development by President Johnson, Robert Weaver became the 1st black Cabinet member.

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01/13/2012 - Stephen Foster Memorial Day

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01/13/2012 - Maghi - Sikh

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01/14/1784 - The US ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.

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01/14/1963 - Alabama swore in George C. Wallace as governor with a pledge of "segregation forever."

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01/14/1970 - Diana Ross and the Supremes performed their last concert together, at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas.

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01/14/2012 - Maghi - Sikh

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01/14/2012 - Pongal (Makar Sankranthi) - Hinduism

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01/15/1559 - England crowned Queen Elizabeth I in Westminster Abbey.

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01/15/1870 - A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly represented the Democratic Party as a donkey for the 1st time.

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01/15/1928 - Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta.

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01/15/1943 - Construction began on the Pentagon.

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01/16/1547 - Ivan the Terrible was crowned tsar of Russia.

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01/16/1920 - Prohibition began in the US as the 18th Amendment to the Constitution took effect. (We later found out it was a pretty stupid thing to do and got rid of it!)

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01/16/1991 - The White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm in the Middle East.

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01/16/2012 - Religious Freedom Day

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01/16/2012 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

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01/17/1706 - Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston.

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01/17/1893 - A group of businessmen & sugar planters overthrew Hawaii's monarchy, forcing Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate.

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01/17/1946 - The UN Security Council held its first meeting.

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01/17/1961 - In his farewell address, President Eisenhower warned against the rise of "the military-industrial complex."

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01/18/1788 - The 1st English settlers arrived in Australia's Botany Bay to establish a penal colony.

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01/18/1912 - English explorer Robert F. Scott & his expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had beaten them to it. Scott and his party perished during the return trip.

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01/18/1943 - A wartime ban on the sale of pre-sliced bread in the US - aimed at reducing bakeries' demand for metal replacement parts - went into effect.

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01/19/1809 - Author and poet Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston, where his actor-parents were performing. Three years later he became an orphan.

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01/19/1955 - TV filmed a presidential news conference for the 1st time with permission from President Eisenhower.

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01/19/1966 - India elected Indira Gandhi as prime minister.

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01/20/1801 - John Marshall became chief justice of the Supreme Court.

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01/20/1841 - China ceded the island of Hong Kong to Great Britain. It returned to Chinese control in July 1997.

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01/20/1942 - Nazi officials held the notorious Wannsee conference, during which they arrived at their "final solution" that called for exterminating Jews.

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01/21/1915 - The 1st Kiwanis Club was founded in Detroit.

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01/21/1930 - Newspapers published the 1st Buck Rogers comic strip.

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01/21/1954 - The US launched the world's 1st nuclear submarine, the Nautilus, at Groton CT.

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01/21/1977 - President Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.

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01/22/1953 - Arthur Miller's The Crucible opened on Broadway.

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01/22/1968 - Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In premiered on NBC.

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01/22/1973 - The Supreme Court handed down its Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion using a trimester approach.

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01/23/1789 - Georgetown University opened in Washington DC.

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01/23/1845 - Congress decided to hold all national elections on the 1st Tuesday after the first Monday in November.

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01/23/1950 - The Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Israel.

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01/23/1964 - The US ratified the 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections.

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01/23/1968 - North Korea seized the US Navy ship Pueblo, charging its crew with being on a spying mission. They released the crew 11 months later.

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01/23/2012 - Chinese New Year

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01/24/1848 - James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California, a discovery that led to the Gold Rush of '49.

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01/24/1908 - The 1st Boy Scout troop was organized in England.

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01/24/1916 - The US Supreme Court ruled that the federal income tax was constitutional.

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01/24/1922 - Inventor Christian K. Nelson, of Onawa IA, patented the Eskimo Pie.

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01/24/2012 - The State of the Union Address (tentative date)

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01/25/1961 - President Kennedy held the 1st presidential news conference carried live on radio & television.

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01/26/1788 - The 1st European settlers in Australia, led by Captain Arthur Phillip, landed in present-day Sydney.

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01/27/1951 - A period of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats.

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01/27/1973 - The Vietnam peace accords were signed in Paris.

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01/28/1596 - English navigator Sir Francis Drake died off the coast of Panama and was buried at sea.

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01/28/1909 - The US ended direct control over Cuba.

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01/28/1915 - An act of Congress created the US Coast Guard.

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01/28/1970 - The soap opera All My Children debuted on TV.

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01/28/1973 - A cease-fire officially went into effect in the Vietnam War.

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01/28/1986 - The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, killing all seven crewmembers.

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01/29/1820 - Britain's King George III died insane at Windsor Castle. He was the king we were revolting against during the Revolutionary War.

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01/29/1845 - Edgar Allan Poe's poem, The Raven, was 1st published in the NY Evening Mirror. The Baltimore Ravens took their name from that poem because Poe spent a lot of time in that city.

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01/30/1815 - The US Library of Congress recovered from its 1812 destruction by acquiring Thomas Jefferson's 6,457-volume personal library.

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01/30/1933 - Station WXYZ in Detroit aired the 1st episode of The Lone Ranger radio program.

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01/30/1933 - Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.

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01/30/1958 - A Hindu extremist murdered Indian political and spiritual leader, Mahatma Gandhi.

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01/30/1968 - The Vietnam War's Tet Offensive began as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.

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01/31/1865 - General Robert E. Lee became General-In-Chief of all the Confederate armies.

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01/31/1928 - Scotch Tape was used for the 1st time.

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01/31/1936 - The Green Hornet premiered on radio.

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01/31/1945 - An American firing squad in France executed Private Eddie Slovik, the only US soldier since the Civil War executed for desertion.

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01/31/1950 - President Truman announced he had ordered development of the hydrogen bomb.

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01/31/1958 - The US entered the Space Age with its 1st successful launch of a satellite into orbit, Explorer I.

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01/31/2006 - Coretta Scott King, widow of Marin Luther King Jr., died in Atlanta GA


 

AN "E" IMAGE
online resources
 

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, 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       Government Product Recalls

 

o       Homeland Security Knowledgebase

 

o       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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Last updated: 11 January 2012