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Michael Tomasky: The Obama difference

Imagine with me for a moment that at noon tomorrow, we were swearing in President John McCain, or President Hillary Clinton. What would be going on right now? What would the national mood be? I venture that in either case it would be a far more anxious mood, and more than that, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:43:17

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(Photo of North Portico of White House courtesy Kathleen Andersen) ... be considered the world’s most famous home since it houses the U.S. president — leader of the free ... will become home to the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama and his family. With Obama’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 12:30:37

Molineux Hotel restored to house Wolverhampton's history archive

A historic hotel in Wolverhampton has been restored to be used as the new home for the city's history archives ... fund. Read more about the restoration of the old Molineux Hotel in the Wolverhampton Express ... Wanderers even changed there before matches. Following a five-year restoration, the Grade II listed [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 00:12:53

Review: Stauffenberg. ARD 1, Television Channel.

Reviewed by Peter HoffmannPublished on H-German (March, 2004) On 25 February 2004 German television (ARD Erstes Programm) showed a film entitled “Stauffenberg” in prime time, drawing 22.9% of the viewer “market,” or 7.58 million viewers. This unusually large audience saw the dramatic events of 20 July 1944 re-enacted: [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:03:46

Reforming or Conforming? Chapter 7

Church and Community or Community and Church? by Ronald Gleason From the book Reforming or Conforming? ... by these landmarks: 1. A glaring lack of and disdain for the historical Christian tradition 2. A thirst and desire ... By and large I agree wholeheartedly with Gleason. 1. A glaring lack of and disdain for the historical [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 16:23:29

During a routine investigation in a local condemend building, police were surprised to discover a filing cabinet full of baseball betting notes by Tuason Dwan, once thought lost forever

Final versions in digital form of these important baseball betting findings will be due out at the end of this year, ... to conclude powerful works and books that have long awaited a solid footing in new historical facts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 05:08:24

Bunbury Cathedral plans go to Council

Bunbury diocese has submitted plans to the City of Bunbury for the rebuilding of its iconic cathedral and historic Parish House ... and restore the historic Federation Queen Anne style building affectionately known as the Parish ... Cathedral as its centrepiece and the restoration of the existing buildings have all come together [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 00:04:00

Wesleyan Evangelicalism vs. Reformed Evangelicalism

I would include in the Wesleyan tradition groups such as the following: tradition conscious Methodists and offshoots like Nazarenes, Free Methodists, ... but finished by Calvin. They see themselves as the true restoration of Christianity to the Bible [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 15:08:00

The Morland Dynasty Series, by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

(This is a sticky post. For more recent entries, scroll down) ... in historical form.Many of the novels have characters that appeared in previous books; but even though ... Harrod-Eagles's website.# 5: The Black Pearl: 1660 to 1666.On the eve of the restoration, the Morland [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 20:45:00

I’m always reading and listening to try and catch what the next ‘move’ is, coming from these false prophets and apostles ... with the restoration of our heritage and great “mantles” that were introduced in prior generations but were [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 08:58:29

Latin America: Perspectives for Socialism in a Time of a World Capitalist Recession/Depression

by Prof. James Petras Introduction A serious discussion of the perspectives for socialism in Latin America today requires several levels of analysis, moving from world economic conditions, to US-Latin American relations, to their specific impact on Latin America [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 06:43:08

Listed Building Grades & Restoration

Buildings and architecture are all around us and we often fail to notice ... damage to these buildings. For this reason many people are looking to hire listed building restoration businesses for help. These are specialist builders who focus on listed building conservation use [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 03:12:24

Hey Ho, Obama Pajama Party: Ding! Dong! The W. is Dead!

Hey Ho, Obama Pajama Party: Ding! Dong! The W. is Dead! Good Morning! The bagels are here, I'm wearing my "Vagina is for Lovers" t-shirt and pajama bottoms— I am READY for LIVE-BLOG-INAUG-ACTION! —Watching Laura Bush's plastic frozen smile walking down the hall... holy shit [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 19:35:03

Will Congress cede its powers to the Obama administration?

(Updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV) There is much discussion about the signals Barack Obama is sending regarding whether Senate Democrats should strip Joe Lieberman of his powerful position as Chairman of Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 03:58:05

‘Tory lies’ about Hizb ut-Tahrir are ‘populist attempts to boost poll ratings’

Whilst it is doubtless true that all right-minded Conservatives are doing everything they can to ‘boost poll ratings’, ... a restoration through peaceful political action and intellectual engagement, others groups, like al-Qaeda [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 10:24:00

Orthodox Trail Trip Journal - Saturday, Oct 25

Day 6: October 25, 2008 Halfway through the trip was a high point for me. On the bus on the way to Ephesus, Father Varlaam ( ... . By historical tradition, Jesus’ disciple John brought Jesus’ mother Mary to this city after the fall [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 21:10:58

Genealogy of Jesus in Matthew

The Birth of the Messiah According to MatthewOverviewThe Adult Bible Class of Home Moravian Church, originally broadcast January 18, 2009Introduction: Good morning and welcome to the Adult Bible Class of Home Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 23:13:11

I. FOREWORDA hundred years have passed since the writing of China’s first constitution. 2008 also marks the sixtieth anniversary of the promulgation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the thirtieth anniversary of the appearance of the Democracy Wall in Beijing, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 15:00:40

"Has America Lost Its Mojo?"

Ken Rogoff says the pessimists are probably going to far when they say the economy is headed for "a second worldwide Great Depression": ... to regulation... Help for housing is required to prevent overshooting in home prices, as is massive [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 22:07:00

legislative update

here's the latest update from the legislative session HB 1017 - (Appropriations Committee at the request of the Governor) - Appropriates $59,566,703 for the Game and Fish Department for the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, and ending June 30, 2011. House Appropriations Committee heard 1/14, no action taken. HB 1045 - (Legislative Council) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 17:03:00

Lustration and the Politics of Memory in Russia

On Thursday, Oct. 30, the Russian human rights group Memorial held a ceremony in front of the former KGB offices on Lubyanskaya ... there are lively public debates over some periods of the country's past (the restoration of the Romanovs [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 00:13:55

2 Peter 2:11

This study is from an on going online Daily Bible Study at:DailyBibleStudy.Org | Daily Bible Study Index Page | Daily Bible Study Online E-Book Library2 Peter 2:1111 Whereas angels , which are greater in power and might , bring not railing accusation against [ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 04:10:00

The History of Castle Bromwich Hall

Here are the final parts of the History of Castle Bromwich Hall written by Hodge Hill resident Margaret Birkett and serialised over the past few ... appeared in Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, ‘to let, ready furnished, The Capitol Mansion House of Sir John [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 10:03:00

Kick Cheney in the Chins: This is what passes for professional writing at the New York Times…

January 11, 2009 — iusbvision Jan 10 NYT Maureen Dowd:In the past week, I’ve twice been close enough to Dick Cheney to kick him in the shins ... that this administration took to protect us have historical precedent going back to George Washington [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 23:39:58

Casota Manor - Romanian Aristocracy

This post has initially been published on Via Pontica blog, authored by Valentin Mandache and describes with accuracy the atmosphere, ... and some are now on the market. With Romania’s EU accession, the conacs are formally recognized as historical [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 14:26:00

The Mandate

The Mandate by BooMan Mon Nov 10th, 2008 at 12:11: ... majority is both better and more cohesive than the old New Deal coalition of Southern ... instinctively understood. That Democratic majority was almost totally illusory. Of the 292 House Democrats sworn [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 15:30:56

Gott mit uns: British fascists and ‘Christian’ racism

This is a guest post by Edmund Standing of I Kid You Not Following the recent leak of the BNP membership list, ... an esoteric interpretation of the Bible, in particular of ‘prophetic’ passages in the Old Testament, which [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 15:08:34

Morning Briefing for January 19, 2009

MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 2009 A lot of news happened over the last three days. We’re going to get to it all. Fair warning, this is a big morning briefing, but it’s got everything you need to get going this Monday morning, the day before the Inaugural. 1 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 10:00:50

Slavery in India: Chengara’s Dalit-Adivasis call for freedom

Date: 2008-10-28 11:36:24

Going Native

In the past year I've found myself becoming more and more interested in restoration ecology. I'm not an ecologist or a naturalist or even very environmentally-savvy, but I am working [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 18:15:37

Orthodox Trail Trip Journal - Wednesday, Oct 29

Day 10: October 29, 2008 We awoke for our last day in Iasi and packed for a couple hours’ travel to Neamt Monastery, ... . Cultural theology is for the artistic stream, which teaches icon painting, icon restoration, music [more...]

Date: 2008-11-08 18:37:48

Inaugurated

Today is historic. America celebrates the inauguration is it's first black President ... a representative to be the most powerful person in the world. This is a story of redemption and restoration [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 15:21:00

Guest commentary: Reallocation of California water rights – all eyes looking north

Guest commentary: Reallocation of California water rights – all eyes looking north Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on January 20, 2009 at 8: ... after, thus the concept of “first in time, first in right”. There are numerous ongoing actions, plans [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 16:13:17

My First Sale by Sabrina Jeffries

Welcome to the My First Sale series. Each Friday, Dear Author posts the first sale letter of bestselling authors, debut authors, ... publisher as well. The historical market was shrinking, and I was placing my stories in Restoration [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 16:48:39

The top Bush executive orders that Obama should scrap immediately: Emliy Bazelon and Chris Wilson on Slate.com

The top Bush executive orders that Obama should scrap immediately. By Emily Bazelon and Chris Wilson Slate.come, Jan. 20, 2009 Newly minted presidents have often used executive orders to set the tone for their administration right out of the gate, as Barack Obama is expected to do this week [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 03:46:12

Long Island Motor Parkway

by LJ James I recently took a trip back in time to Long Island NY’s past! No I was not in a Delorean. I was actually in a 1929 Model A Ford,It was one of many in a pack of Model A Fords.My trip back in time was hosted by members of the Model A Ford Club of Long Island [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 13:00:28

New Egyptian Gallery at British Museum

This settles it - dondelion and I are going to London in 2010 and I'll spend the entire time inside the British Museum. ( ... of brain-extracting hooks. The mummies are to this great historical collection what the dinosaurs [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 20:26:00

WINNERS!!!!!!

***UPDATED***I have gotten a lot of comments and emails about the bedding in the girl's room, ... , and I think I have found it. It is called "Rose", and it isn't available from Restoration Hardware anymore [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 06:32:00

Alliance for the Arts Releases New Study: "Culture Builds New York"

Into the dismaying sea of relentless bad news for the arts comes an interesting and -- dare we say it -- encouraging new report from Alliance for the Arts. Culture Builds New York: The Economic Impact of Capital Construction at New York City's Cultural Institutions, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 17:50:00

Alternative Pub Crawls: The Blue Posts

Ever noticed the West End preponderance of drinking dens called 'The Blue Posts'? ... when the only other customer ordered naught save a glass of water while keeping the fruit machine company [more...]

Date: 2008-12-06 16:56:59

Student Blogger - Douglas Laycock: “Religious Liberty as Liberty”

The Law and Philosophy Workshop started out winter quarter with Douglas Laycock’s presentation of his paper “Religious Liberty as Liberty ... secular/historical propositions that Laycock puts forth [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 17:24:54

Online backgammon fans and aficionados were thrilled when long lost notes of Lautner Deniro were found in an abandoned warehous, thought be stolen or smuggled by black market port operations

Online backgammon fans and aficionados were thrilled when long lost notes of Lautner Deniro were found in an abandoned warehous, thought be stolen or smuggled by black market port operations January 19th, 2009 The online backgammon essay unveiling ceremony ended with concluding remarks from expert Colledge Schembra, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:43:37

Chaim Weizmann on Jerusalem, December 1, 1948

Here is part of a speech given by Israel's first president, Chaim Weizmann, in Jerusalem on December 1, 1948: ... in the heart of every Jew. Jerusalem is to us the quintessence of the Palestine idea. Its restoration [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 03:55:00

Investiture Obama: La plus sincère des flatteries (The sincerest form of flattery)

L’imitation est la plus sincère des flatteries.Charles Caleb ColtonEt s’ils capturaient brusquement Oussama Ben Laden? Où est-ce qu’ils le mettraient?Reginald Dale (Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington)En un mot, il y en a qui ne pardonneront jamais à M [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 05:47:11

Vintage and Like-New Watches

Click The Below Links To Expand And Collapse Articles: ... . Historical milestones are always impressive pieces of a collection, including the first automatic [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 07:09:15

Apocaliterature and Historical Fiction

NB: This post compares and contrasts a set of books that I have never read ( ... apocaliterature” while the Work and the Glory takes part in the historical fiction genre. I am interested [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:18:56

The Frontier & Its Risks

Daniel Henninger applies Frederick Jackson Turner to the current crisis ... which transferred the Restoration’s comedy of manners to American soil; soon, we see our cowboys [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 14:34:53

Sunday Salon: Recommending HIstorical Fiction Edition

Loving Will Shakespeare by Carolyn Meyer $6.95. 13+ My review ... with poverty, prejudice, illness, and death as Katie's older sister is diagnosed with a terminal illness [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 20:00:00

Historical grave of Mastani dug up

Historical grave of Mastani dug up 18 Jan 2009, 1338 hrs IST, PTI PUNE : ... of the Archaeological Department arrived on the scene to initiate restoration measures. Historical records ... Miscreants dug up the grave of the 18th century historical figure Mastani, the temptress [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 08:46:21

NCT Regional Office Town Recipient of Preserve America Grant

Village of Shawnee, Ohio (photo by Lost in the Hills) ... for their restoration and reuse. Funds will also be used to design a streetscape for the downtown [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:42:00

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