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During colonial times in America, if you wanted to convince or inform people about some issue that you considered important, you went to the local printer and got some pamphlets printed. You then handed them out, read them to anybody that was interested, nailed them to the town bulletin board, or the nearest tree.
The first amendment was specifically written to protect this type of activity and the writers or "pamphleteers".
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Saturday, July 21, 2007
Highly Recommended On-Line Articles What Won't NASA Invent Next? Critique of Stelzer on China Use Your Noodle, Or Else The Nationalities Question Nation and Nationality . Importance of Proofreading (From John, our correspondent in Narrowsburg.) A young monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand. He notices however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up. In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies. The head monk, says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son." So, he goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscripts are held as archives in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot. So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look for him. He sees him banging his head against the wall and wailing, "We missed the "R", we missed the "R"!!. His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably. The young monk asks the old abbot, "What's wrong, father?" *With a choking voice, the old abbot replies ........ * "The word was celebrate !!!!" . Refdesk Thoughts of the Day: "If I had my life to live over again..." "If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week." -Charles Darwin ----- "In foreign policy you have to wait..." "In foreign policy you have to wait twenty-five years to see how it comes out." -James Reston ----- "It takes as much energy..." "It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." -Eleanor Roosevelt ----- "Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply..." "Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed." -Margaret Storm Jameson ----- "Humanitarianism needs no apology..." "Humanitarianism needs no apology. ... Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history." -Ralph Barton Perry ----- The Refdesk Sites of the Day are: National Archives Of all documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government, only 1% - 3% are so important for legal or historical reasons that they are kept by us forever. Those valuable records are preserved and are available to you, whether you want to see if they contain clues about your family’s history, need to prove a veteran's military service, or are researching an historical topic that interests you. ----- OYEZ: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Multimedia database with abstracts of key constitutional cases, digital audio of oral arguments, and more. Related sites: Official Site Supreme Court of the U.S. Appellate.net. ----- Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured by this NASA web site, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. ----- How Products Are Made How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and the manufacturing process (complemented with illustrations and diagrams) Each product also has related information such as the background, how the item works, who invented the product, raw materials that were used, product applications, by-products that are generated, possible future developments, quality control procedures, etc. ----- Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations The 2,100 entries in this eminently researched collection form the constellation of collected wisdom in American political debate. In fulfilling decades of requests from Members of Congress for citation of quotations, the Library of Congress compiled the most frequently asked questions of the legislature for the edification of every citizen. ----- San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection The San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection, located in the San Francisco History Center, contains photographs and works on paper of San Francisco and California views from 1850 to the present. ----- Sunday, July 15, 2007
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