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Martin Luther King Speech - Beyond Vietnam

Martin Luther King Speech - Beyond Vietnam Martin Luther King Speech Beyond VietnamNew York, N.Y.4 April 1967 Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I need not pause to say how very delighted I am to be here tonight, and how very delighted I am to see you expressing your concern about the issues...

100 Best Barack Obama Quotes

100 Best Barack Obama Quotes

Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and present President of the United States. Born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr., Obama spent his childhood in Witchita, Kansas. Obama's parents separated when he was a toddler at the age of two, and later divorced....

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What Are the Most Common Indigenous People of Central and South America?

The central and south America is home to people of different cultures, particularly those with ethnic origins. Those are the places where some of the greatest ancient civilizations flourished. The most well-known indigenous people in the central and south America are undeniably the Mayans, Aztecs...

15 Historical Inaccuracies Widely Believed as Fact

15 Historical Inaccuracies Widely Believed as Fact

Believe it or not, some of the most widely accepted historical "truths" are actually very inaccurate.

Boy Scouts of America Considering Ending the Gay Member/Leader Ban

Boy Scouts of America Considering Ending the Gay Member/Leader Ban

With the coals of a sex scandal still burning, the Boy Scouts of America have announced they are presently considering ending the gay member and gay leader ban. The possible change is in light of many requests from local chapters to reconsider the organizations long-standing policy against gay...

The 50 Most Influential Directors of the Century

The 50 Most Influential Directors of the Century

In the theatre there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time- in the cinema, only one,” as quoted by Orson Welles, the prolific director of the most studied film of all time, Citizen Kane. Within the last century cinema has grown from pioneering silent films into orchestrated musicals, “spaghetti...

Dick Cheney's Crimes Against Humanity

Dick Cheney's Crimes Against Humanity

Politics is a dirty business and politicians don't come any dirtier than Dick Cheney. He's a man who delights in operating on the 'dark side' and is the Darth Vader of American politics. However, is it going too far to accuse him of "crimes against humanity"? That term has quite a narrow and specific...

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Jon Gosselin on 'Good Morning America' : 'I Despise Kate'

Jon Gosselin complained to ABC News' Chris Cuomo how he's gone from "America's favorite dad to dirt-bag" in an interview on "Good Morning America." "Whatever they want to write, let them write it," Gosselin told Cuomo in a discussion that aired Tuesday. "They're going to write it anyway. I've...

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What Is a Banana Spider?

A banana spider is one of the most common names of two species of spiders found in the Americas, namely, the nephilaclayipes found in North America and the phoneutria found in Central and South America. Of the two species, the phoneutria is considered deadly. The South American banana spider is...

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Who Is Lyndon Johnson?

Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on the 27th of August, 1908, in Texas. He became the thirty-sixth President of the United States of America following the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy. In 1964, the electorate officially elected him as president based on the positive social changes he had...