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A state trooper is felled by a rock. U.P.I.

The Peekskill Riots:

http://www.trussel.com/hf/americanheritage.htm

"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable..."

Thomas Jefferson's rough draft of the Declaration of Independence:

http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/declaration/declaration.html

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trt001.html

Vineyard Harbor webcam:

http://www.mvtimes.com/webcam/vineyard-haven-harbor.php#webcam

Father of Frozen Food

Clarence Birdseye:

http://www.birdseyefoods.com/corp/about/clarenceBirdseye.asp

Sound Bite:

Lucky Man (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

LISTENLucky Man

Father of Modern Air Conditioning

Willis Carrier:

http://www.air-conditioners-and-heaters.com/willis_carrier.htm

Bye Bye Blackbird

Ray Henderson:

http://www.dorothyfields.co.uk/c_henderson.htm

Oscar Wilde sent to prison

The Trials of Oscar Wilde:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/wilde/wilde.htm

The History of Fingerprinting:

http://www.laro.co.za/Bio/history.htm

 

Ronald Van Ehmsen in His Beatnik Pad, May 12, 1960

Beatniks:

http://www.genordell.com/stores/maison/coffee.htm

Music Video:

A Well Respected Man (The Kinks)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WsmSgBRUe4

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/7112/The-Bridge-on-the-River-Kwai/trailers

 
From the daguerreotype taken at Mount Holyoke, December 1846 or early 1847. It is the only authenticated portrait of Emily Dickinson later than childhood.
December 1846 or early 1847.
 
 
"If I can stop one Heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease one Life the Aching,
or cool one Pain,
Or help one fainting Robin
into his Nest again,
I shall not live in Vain".

Emily Dickinson:

http://www.biographyonline.net/poets/emily_dickinson.html

Lake Tahoe webcam:

http://www.rntl.net/tahoecam.htm

Discovering the DNA molecule:

James Watson and Francis Crick with DNA model

Crick and Watson
British biophysicist and American geneticist
Francis Crick and James Watson with Maurice Wilkins received the 1962 Nobel Prize for discovering the molecular structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Widely regarded as one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century it has led the way to the mapping and deciphering of all the genes in the human chromosomes.

http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/AB/WYW/wkbooks/SFTS/biography.php

Father of modern chemistry

Antoine Lavoisier:

http://www.philiplarson.com/e1.shtml

Sound Bite:

Dirty Laundry (Don Henley)

LISTENDirty Laundry

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith:

http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Smith.html

The Father of Functional Psychology

John Dewey:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8009791051515751015