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Justin Bieber Mistletoe Live 3D American Music Awards Drummer Boy Christmas In Rockefeller Center

December 29th, 2011
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George Washington and the American Revolution (Annotated)

November 18th, 2011
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George Washington and the American Revolution (Annotated)

Originally published in 1883 as a portion of the author’s larger “Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI: American Founders,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 50 pages, describes the life and career of George Washington, with special emphasis on his role in the Revolutionary War.

Includes supplemental material:

• A Brief Summary of the Life of George Washington
• About Washington and the Battles of the Revolution: A Brief Summary

Sample passage:
With his small army on the right bank of the Delaware, toilsomely increased to about four thousand men, he now meditated offensive operations against the unsuspecting British, who had but just chased him out of New Jersey. Accordingly, with unexpected audacity, on Christmas night he recrossed the Delaware, marched nine miles and attacked the British troops posted at Trenton. It was not a formal battle, but a raid, and proved successful. The enemy, amazed, retreated; then with fresh reinforcements they turned upon Washington; he evaded them, and on January 3, 1777, made a fierce attack on their lines at Princeton, attended with the same success, utterly routing the British. These were small victories, but they encouraged the troops, aroused the New Jersey men to enthusiasm, and alarmed Cornwallis, who retreated northward to New Brunswick, to save his military stores. In a few days the English retained only that town, Amboy, and Paulus Hook, in all New Jersey. Thus in three weeks, in the midst of winter, Washington had won two fights, taken two thousand prisoners, and was as strong as he was before he crossed the Hudson—and the winter of 1777 opened with hope in the Revolutionary ranks.

About the author:
John Lord, LL.D. (1810–1894), a contemporary of Lincoln, was an American historian and a touring lecturer. Other works include “The Old Roman World,” “Ancient States and Empires,” and “Points of History.”Originally published in 1883 as a portion of the author’s larger “Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI: American Founders,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 50 pages, describes the life and career of George Washington, with special emphasis on his role in the Revolutionary War.

Includes supplemental material:

• A Brief Summary of the Life of George Washington
• About Washington and the Battles of the Revolution: A Brief Summary

Sample passage:
With his small army on the right bank of the Delaware, toilsomely increased to about four thousand men, he now meditated offensive operations against the unsuspecting British, who had but just chased him out of New Jersey. Accordingly, with unexpected audacity, on Christmas night he recrossed the Delaware, marched nine miles and attacked the British troops posted at Trenton. It was not a formal battle, but a raid, and proved successful. The enemy, amazed, retreated; then with fresh reinforcements they turned upon Washington; he evaded them, and on January 3, 1777, made a fierce attack on their lines at Princeton, attended with the same success, utterly routing the British. These were small victories, but they encouraged the troops, aroused the New Jersey men to enthusiasm, and alarmed Cornwallis, who retreated northward to New Brunswick, to save his military stores. In a few days the English retained only that town, Amboy, and Paulus Hook, in all New Jersey. Thus in three weeks, in the midst of winter, Washington had won two fights, taken two thousand prisoners, and was as strong as he was before he crossed the Hudson—and the winter of 1777 opened with hope in the Revolutionary ranks.

About the author:
John Lord, LL.D. (1810–1894), a contemporary of Lincoln, was an American historian and a touring lecturer. Other works include “The Old Roman World,” “Ancient States and Empires,” and “Points of History.”

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Hollywood Goes to Washington: American Politics on Screen

November 4th, 2011
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Hollywood Goes to Washington: American Politics on Screen

Fantasy and politics are familiar dancing partners that rarely separate, even in the face of post–Election Day realities. But Hollywood has a tradition of punching holes in the fairy tales of electoral promises with films that meditate on what could have been and should have been. With Hollywood Goes to Washington, Michael Coyne investigates how the American political film unravels the labyrinthine entanglements of politics and the psyche of the American electorate in order to reveal brutal truths about the state of our democracy.


            From conspiracy dramas such as The Manchurian Candidate to satires like Wag the Dog, Hollywood Goes to Washington argues that political films in American cinema have long reflected the issues and tensions roiling within American society. Coyne elucidates the mythology, iconography, and ideology embedded in both classic and lesser-known films—including Gabriel Over the White House, Silver City, Advise and Consent, and The Siege—and examines the cinematic portrayals of presidents in the White House, the everyman American citizen, and the nebulous enemies who threaten American democracy. The author provocatively contends that whether addressing the threat of domestic fascism in Citizen Kane or the disillusionment of Vietnam and paranoia of the post-Watergate era in Executive Action, the American political film stands as an important cultural bellwether and democratic force—one that is more vital than ever in the face of decreasing civil liberties in the present-day United States.


            Compelling and wholly original, Hollywood Goes to Washington exposes the political power of the silver screen and its ramifications for contemporary American culture.
 
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Barack Obama Birth Certificate- — Is Our Current President Even an American?

October 22nd, 2011
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Barack Obama Birth Certificate- — Is Our Current President Even an American?

When Barack Obama started to become widely known early 2008, the topic of his natural birth place came into play. Soon, claims arose that he refused to produce his certificate of birth, making the rumours fly about whether or not this then presidential candidate was in fact legally able to be our next president, as there was no proof that he was born in America.
In June 2008, a certificate did surface on the internet, from the Obama campaign, listing Barack Hussein Obama as having been born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961. Many people immediately pronounced this Obama birth certificate a forgery since there were variations in the copy, making it significantly different than others issued in Hawaii at the time. Namely, it had no embossed seal or signature. Others firmly believe this certificate to be real. The president has never publicly addressed this issue.
A few months later, Philip Berg, a Philadelphia attorney, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court which challenged Barack Obama’s eligibility for the presidency based on the grounds that Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii. Berg claimed the Hawaii Obama birth certificate was a forgery and that Obama was not a U.S. born citizen. In October 2008, the complaint was dismissed by a federal judge. The judge said Berg’s allegations were too vague to stand on their own.
According to state officials in Hawaii, Obama was born there. The director of the Hawaii State Department, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, claims to have seen the original records on file and further insists that Obama is a natural born citizen. Additionally, a woman by the name of Barbara Nelson claims she had a conversation with Rodney T. West, now deceased, in which West discussed the birth with her the week Obama was born.
In August 2009, a birth certificate surfaced showing Obama’s place of birth as Kenya. Many believe this to be the true Barack Obama birth certificate and that the earlier Hawaii claims were fabricated to put rumors to rest.
Since Obama has not stepped forward to either confirm or deny any of these documents or rumors, it really is up to the individual to decide whether he is legally eligible to maintain his presidency given the lack of absolute evidence of a legitimate Barack Obama birth certificate. Until there is absolute proof of Obama’s citizenship, none of us really know if he should hold the highest U.S. office.

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American History in Obama?s Inauguration Speech

October 19th, 2011
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American History in Obama?s Inauguration Speech

As anyone who saw a campaign poster in 2008 could surely tell you, Barack Obama is all about change. Change in the White House, most profoundly in the simple, yet stunning, fact that we now have our first black president. Change in the tenor of politics, in an effort to step back from the ferocious partisanship of the past decade. And change in the direction of the country, in the form of a dramatic shift in the priorities and policies of the government.

Yet change, Obama also knows, can be frightening. Too much change can seem radical, threatening, dangerous. During the campaign, Obama had to overcome the deep-seated fears of many Americans that his particular brand of change would only mean change for the worse.

So Obama has always made a conscious effort to balance his calls for change with equal references to the timeless continuities of American history, seeking to cast his own political movement as nothing more than the culmination of the work of Lincoln, Roosevelt, Jefferson, Kennedy, and the other great leaders of our past. (Obama deliberately began his campaign, for example, in the same place that Lincoln began his own run for the White House, and ended it by taking the oath of office on Lincoln’s bible.)

Obama’s best speeches have all been peppered with historical allusions and quotations. Over the course of the campaign, Obama breathed fresh life into some of the most moving phrases offered in the past by Lincoln (“a new birth of freedom”), Martin Luther King (“the fierce urgency of now”), and Cesar Chavez (“yes we can”).

Obama’s inaugural was no exception to his tradition of using the past to frame the present, as the inaugural address was full of historical allusions—some obvious, some not so obvious.

So what exactly was Obama referring to with each of his invocations of the past? Let Shmoop be your guide:

Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath. The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forbearers, and true to our founding documents.

Actually, only 43 presidents have taken the oath. (Grover Cleveland, who won the presidency in 1884, lost it in 1888, and won it back again in 1892, counts as both President #22 and President #24… so while there have been 44 distinct presidencies, there have only been 43 different presidents.) Aside from that bit of random trivia, the new president’s point here is to emphasize the continuity of the presidential transfer of power, in times good and bad, as prescribed in the U.S. Constitution (that’s what Obama’s invoking in his references to “We The People” and “our founding documents”).

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Our journey has never been one of short-cuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted—for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things—some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom.

For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life.

For us, they toiled in sweatshops and settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.

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For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg; Normandy and Khe Sahn.

Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked till their hands were raw so that we might live a better life. They saw America as bigger than the sum of our individual ambitions; greater than all the differences of birth or wealth or faction.

Here Obama invokes the experiences of a wide variety of Americans, from all walks of life, in triumphing over adversity. Those who “packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across oceans in search of a new life” would include both the first European settlers of America—the rugged colonists of Jamestown and the Puritan refugees of Plymouth Rock—but also the later generations of immigrants who poured into the country through most of the 19th and 20th centuries. Those who “toiled in sweatshops and settled the West” were the factory workers of America’s industrial revolution and the pioneers of Manifest Destiny. The “the lash of the whip” is both an obvious reference to slavery and, perhaps, a sly reference to a line in Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural (“every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword”). Concord and Gettysburg and Normandy and Khe Sanh were momentous battles of the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War II, and Vietnam War, respectively.

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As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals. Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations.

Obama’s reference to a false “choice between our safety and our ideals” is almost certainly meant to echo Benjamin Franklin’s famous dictum that those who “give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” The main peril faced by our Founding Fathers—Franklin among them, of course—was defeat and punishment at the hands of the British. The “charter” they drafted, the “charter expanded by the blood of generations,” is the Constitution of the United States.

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Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions. They understood that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please.

Here Obama refers to American victories in World War II (over fascism) and the Cold War (over communism), both of which were achieved not only through force of arms but also through effective diplomacy—the Grand Alliance with Britain, the Soviet Union, China and France in World War II, and the NATO alliance of Western powers against the Soviet bloc in the Cold War.

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This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed—why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath.

These words were perhaps Obama’s most direct (yet still fairly subtle) reference to the profound racial significance of his election as President of the United States. Throughout the Jim Crow era, Washington, DC was essentially a Southern city—which is to say a segregated city. As late as the early 1960s, when Martin Luther King came to the city leading the March on Washington, the most admired black man in America was still only able to stay and eat in certain establishments inside the city’s African-American districts.

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So let us mark this day with remembrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled. In the year of America’s birth, in the coldest of months, a small band of patriots huddled by dying campfires on the shores of an icy river. The capital was abandoned. The enemy was advancing. The snow was stained with blood. At a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt, the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people:

“Let it be told to the future world…that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive…that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet [it].”

America. In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. With hope and virtue, let us brave once more the icy currents, and endure what storms may come. Let it be said by our children’s children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we did not turn back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God’s grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations.

Obama closed his speech by invoking the bitter winter of 1776, which George Washington and his soldiers spent in camp at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. American prospects in the Revolutionary War at the time looked bleak, as Washington’s men shivered and starved through the long winter knowing that they would soon have to go into battle against a fearsome British Army that regarded each and every one of them as a traitor to the crown.

The most famous quotation to emerge from the ordeal at Valley Forge was, interestingly, one that Obama chose not to use—Thomas Paine’s declaration that “These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” While our own predicament as Americans facing difficult circumstances in early 2009 can hardly compare to the hardships endured at Valley Forge, Obama’s choice to end his inauguration by invoking the nation-making struggles of our forebears was almost certainly offered in the hopes of restoring a sense of national unity and purpose similar to that fostered by George Washington two centuries ago. If Obama succeeds in that, he will surely join Washington in the pantheon of great American presidents.

Nate Gillespie, Shmoop History lead: Ph.D. candidate (on leave) in US History at Stanford; MA and BA (with distinction and honors) in History from Stanford; founding director of Stanford History Graduate Memory Project

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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: south hangar panorama, including North American P-51C “Excalibur III”, Grumman G-22 “Gulfhawk II”, Boeing 367-80 (707) Jet Transport among others

August 9th, 2011
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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center: south hangar panorama, including North American P-51C “Excalibur III”, Grumman G-22 “Gulfhawk II”, Boeing 367-80 (707) Jet Transport among others
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Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | North American P-51C, "Excalibur III":

On May 29, 1951, Capt. Charles F. Blair flew Excalibur III from Norway across the North Pole to Alaska in a record-setting 10½ hours. Using a system of carefully plotted "sun lines" he developed, Blair was able to navigate with precision where conventional magnetic compasses often failed. Four months earlier, he had flown Excalibur III from New York to London in less than 8 hours, breaking the existing mark by over an hour.

Excalibur III first belonged to famed aviator A. Paul Mantz, who added extra fuel tanks for long-distance racing to this standard P-51C fighter. With it Mantz won the 1946 and 1947 Bendix air race and set a transcontinental speed record in 1947 when the airplane was named Blaze of Noon. Blair purchased it from Mantz in 1949 and renamed it Excalibur III, after the Sikorsky VS-44 flying boat he flew for American Export Airlines.

Gift of Pan American World Airways

Manufacturer:
North American Aircraft Company

Date:
1944

Country of Origin:
United States of America

Dimensions:
Wingspan: 11.3 m (37 ft)
Length: 9.8 m (32 ft 3 in)
Height: 3.9 m (12 ft 10 in)
Weight, empty: 4,445 kg (9,800 lb)
Weight, gross: 5,052 kg (11,800 lb)
Top speed: 700 km/h (435 mph)

Materials:
Overall: Aluminum

Physical Description:
Single seat, single engine, low wing monoplane, World War II fighter modified for racing.

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Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Grumman G-22 "Gulfhawk II":

One of the most exciting aerobatic aircraft of the 1930s and ’40s, the Grumman Gulfhawk II was built for retired naval aviator and air show pilot Al Williams. As head of the Gulf Oil Company’s aviation department, Williams flew in military and civilian air shows around the country, performing precision aerobatics and dive-bombing maneuvers to promote military aviation during the interwar years.

The sturdy civilian biplane, with its strong aluminum monocoque fuselage and Wright Cyclone engine, nearly matched the Grumman F3F standard Navy fighter, which was operational at the time. It took its orange paint scheme from Williams’ Curtiss 1A Gulfhawk, also in the Smithsonian’s collection. Williams personally piloted the Gulfhawk II on its last flight in 1948 to Washington’s National Airport.

Gift of Gulf Oil Corporation

Manufacturer:
Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation

Date:
1936

Country of Origin:
United States of America

Dimensions:
Wingspan: 8.7 m (28 ft 7 in)
Length: 7 m (23 ft)
Height: 3.1 m (10 ft)
Weight, aerobatic: 1,625 kg (3,583 lb)
Weight, gross: 1,903 kg (4,195 lb)
Top speed: 467 km/h (290 mph)
Engine: Wright Cyclone R-1820-G1, 1,000 hp

Materials:
Fuselage: steel tube with aluminum alloy
Wings: aluminum spars and ribs with fabric cover

Physical Description:
NR1050. Aerobatic biplane flown by Major Alford "Al" Williams as demonstration aircraft for Gulf Oil Company. Similar to Grumman F3F single-seat fighter aircraft flown by the U.S. Navy. Wright Cyclone R-1820-G1 engine, 1000 hp.

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Quoting Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Boeing 367-80 Jet Transport:

On July 15, 1954, a graceful, swept-winged aircraft, bedecked in brown and yellow paint and powered by four revolutionary new engines first took to the sky above Seattle. Built by the Boeing Aircraft Company, the 367-80, better known as the Dash 80, would come to revolutionize commercial air transportation when its developed version entered service as the famous Boeing 707, America’s first jet airliner.

In the early 1950s, Boeing had begun to study the possibility of creating a jet-powered military transport and tanker to complement the new generation of Boeing jet bombers entering service with the U.S. Air Force. When the Air Force showed no interest, Boeing invested million of its own capital to build a prototype jet transport in a daring gamble that the airlines and the Air Force would buy it once the aircraft had flown and proven itself. As Boeing had done with the B-17, it risked the company on one roll of the dice and won.

Boeing engineers had initially based the jet transport on studies of improved designs of the Model 367, better known to the public as the C-97 piston-engined transport and aerial tanker. By the time Boeing progressed to the 80th iteration, the design bore no resemblance to the C-97 but, for security reasons, Boeing decided to let the jet project be known as the 367-80.

Work proceeded quickly after the formal start of the project on May 20, 1952. The 367-80 mated a large cabin based on the dimensions of the C-97 with the 35-degree swept-wing design based on the wings of the B-47 and B-52 but considerably stiffer and incorporating a pronounced dihedral. The wings were mounted low on the fuselage and incorporated high-speed and low-speed ailerons as well as a sophisticated flap and spoiler system. Four Pratt & Whitney JT3 turbojet engines, each producing 10,000 pounds of thrust, were mounted on struts beneath the wings.

Upon the Dash 80′s first flight on July 15, 1954, (the 34th anniversary of the founding of the Boeing Company) Boeing clearly had a winner. Flying 100 miles per hour faster than the de Havilland Comet and significantly larger, the new Boeing had a maximum range of more than 3,500 miles. As hoped, the Air Force bought 29 examples of the design as a tanker/transport after they convinced Boeing to widen the design by 12 inches. Satisfied, the Air Force designated it the KC-135A. A total of 732 KC-135s were built.

Quickly Boeing turned its attention to selling the airline industry on this new jet transport. Clearly the industry was impressed with the capabilities of the prototype 707 but never more so than at the Gold Cup hydroplane races held on Lake Washington in Seattle, in August 1955. During the festivities surrounding this event, Boeing had gathered many airline representatives to enjoy the competition and witness a fly past of the new Dash 80. To the audience’s intense delight and Boeing’s profound shock, test pilot Alvin "Tex" Johnston barrel-rolled the Dash 80 over the lake in full view of thousands of astonished spectators. Johnston vividly displayed the superior strength and performance of this new jet, readily convincing the airline industry to buy this new airliner.

In searching for a market, Boeing found a ready customer in Pan American Airway’s president Juan Trippe. Trippe had been spending much of his time searching for a suitable jet airliner to enable his pioneering company to maintain its leadership in international air travel. Working with Boeing, Trippe overcame Boeing’s resistance to widening the Dash-80 design, now known as the 707, to seat six passengers in each seat row rather than five. Trippe did so by placing an order with Boeing for 20 707s but also ordering 25 of Douglas’s competing DC-8, which had yet to fly but could accommodate six-abreast seating. At Pan Am’s insistence, the 707 was made four inches wider than the Dash 80 so that it could carry 160 passengers six-abreast. The wider fuselage developed for the 707 became the standard design for all of Boeing’s subsequent narrow-body airliners.

Although the British de Havilland D.H. 106 Comet and the Soviet Tupolev Tu-104 entered service earlier, the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 were bigger, faster, had greater range, and were more profitable to fly. In October 1958 Pan American ushered the jet age into the United States when it opened international service with the Boeing 707 in October 1958. National Airlines inaugurated domestic jet service two months later using a 707-120 borrowed from Pan Am. American Airlines flew the first domestic 707 jet service with its own aircraft in January 1959. American set a new speed mark when it opened the first regularly-scheduled transcontinental jet service in 1959. Subsequent nonstop flights between New York and San Francisco took only 5 hours – 3 hours less than by the piston-engine DC-7. The one-way fare, including a surcharge for jet service, was 5.50, or 1 round trip. The flight was almost 40 percent faster and almost 25 percent cheaper than flying by piston-engine airliners. The consequent surge of traffic demand was substantial.

The 707 was originally designed for transcontinental or one-stop transatlantic range. But modified with extra fuel tanks and more efficient turbofan engines, the 707-300 Intercontinental series aircraft could fly nonstop across the Atlantic with full payload under any conditions. Boeing built 855 707s, of which 725 were bought by airlines worldwide.

Having launched the Boeing Company into the commercial jet age, the Dash 80 soldiered on as a highly successful experimental aircraft. Until its retirement in 1972, the Dash 80 tested numerous advanced systems, many of which were incorporated into later generations of jet transports. At one point, the Dash 80 carried three different engine types in its four nacelles. Serving as a test bed for the new 727, the Dash 80 was briefly equipped with a fifth engine mounted on the rear fuselage. Engineers also modified the wing in planform and contour to study the effects of different airfoil shapes. Numerous flap configurations were also fitted including a highly sophisticated system of "blown" flaps which redirected engine exhaust over the flaps to increase lift at low speeds. Fin height and horizontal stabilizer width was later increased and at one point, a special multiple wheel low pressure landing gear was fitted to test the feasibility of operating future heavy military transports from unprepared landing fields.

After a long and distinguished career, the Boeing 367-80 was finally retired and donated to the Smithsonian in 1972. At present, the aircraft is installated at the National Air and Space Museum’s new facility at Washington Dulles International Airport.

Gift of the Boeing Company

Manufacturer:
Boeing Aircraft Co.

Date:
1954

Country of Origin:
United States of America

Dimensions:
Height 19′ 2": Length 73′ 10": Wing Span 129′ 8": Weight 33,279 lbs.

Physical Description:
Prototype Boeing 707; yellow and brown.

Carbon Glacier in Mount Rainier National Park
Flight to Washington

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On a December hike with my friend Clark. THis used to be a very easy hike, about 3.5 miles and 1300 feet of elevation gain to this spot. With the recent (November, 2006) floods at Mount Rainier National Park, it is going to be much longer because the road to the parking lot has been severely damaged. It’s always a great hike, I hope that the road is repaired, esle it will be a much longer hike.

This was taken at the snout of the Carbon Glacier Carbon Glacier in Mount Rainier National Park, I believe the lowest elevation glacier in the continental US. It’s also a glacier that hasn’t receded much (unlike others in Washington state). It is covered with a lot of dirt and rocks, hence the name Carbon Glacier.
MRNP Carbon Glacier 18 Dec 04

Carbon Glacier

Thy open lips of ice doth pour
A gushing stream in noisy flood
A stream released in joyful roar,
Behold: A glacier’s milk white blood.

Grind, grind, grind
to crumbling dust these stones!
Grind, grind, grind
The Mountain’s shattered bones!

How weak the pen, how vain the brush
To catch the hues of this deep gash!
How here revealed thy power to crush,
How awful is thy breathing’s crash.

Grind, grind, grind
The rocks however hurled!
Grind, grind, grind
Thou mill-stone of a world!

New life from death, eternal whirl,
How brief each puny span of life!
How long the atoms, grinding swirl,
Ere seized anew for a season’s strife!

Grind, grind, grind
To powder every stone!
Grind, grind, grind
New life will death atone!

I mount thy shoulders’ utmost height,
Where threatening ice-cliffs poise and nod,
Where avalanches roar in flight,
Like flying demons cursed of God.

Grind, grind, grind
and grind exceeding fine!
Grind, grind, grind
My Father’s will and thine!

Edmund S. Meany
August 5, 1909

appears on page 144 of Encircling Mount Rainier by Bette Filley.

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Alaska flight 1
Flight to Washington

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Ready to board our morning flight to Seattle. At Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Arlington, VA

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Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism

July 17th, 2011
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Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism

President Barack Obama surprised many voters during a pre-election interview when he approvingly noted that Ronald Reagan had “changed the trajectory of America” in a way that other presidents had not. In effect, Obama was saying that he, too, aimed to transform America in some fundamental way. Yet while Americans in 1982 may have been divided over Reagan’s politics, at least they knew what he stood for. Do we really understand Obama’s vision for our country?

In his controversial new book, veteran journalist Stanley Kurtz culls together two years of investigations from archives and never-before-tapped sources to present an exhaustively-researched exposÉ of President Obama’s biggest secret—the socialist convictions and tactical ruthlessness he has long swept under the rug.

A personable figure, a thoughtful politician, and an inspiring orator, Obama has hidden his core political beliefs from the American people—sometimes by directly misrepresenting his past and sometimes by omitting or parceling out damaging information to disguise its real importance. The president presents himself as a post-ideological pragmatist, yet his current policies grow directly from the nexus of socialist associates and theories that has shaped him throughout his adult life.

Kurtz makes an in-depth exploration of the president’s connections to radical groups such as ACORN, UNO of Chicago, the Midwest Academy, and the Socialist Scholars Conferences. He explains what modern “stealth” socialism is, how it has changed, and how it continues to influence the Democratic Party. He sheds light on what the New York Times called a “lost chapter” of the president’s life—his years at Columbia—and proves that Obama’s youthful infatuation with socialism was not just a phase. Those ideas have shaped his political views and set the groundwork for the long-term strategy of his administration.

It could be argued that Obama’s past no longer matters, but, in a sense, it matters more than the present. Obama has adopted the gradualist socialist strategy of his mentors, seeking to combine comprehensive government regulation of private businesses with a steadily enlarging public sector. Eventually, in his hands, capitalist America could resemble a socialist-inspired Scandinavian welfare state.

The gap between inner conviction and public relations in Obama’s case is vastly wider than for most American politicians. If Americans understood in 2008 the facts Kurtz reveals in this shocking political biography, Obama would not be president today. The fears of his harshest critics are justified: our Commander-in- Chief is a Radical-in-Chief.

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Can anyone recommend a Washington DC hotel that is walking distance from the Museum of American History?

July 14th, 2011
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Question by Jeri Lynne: Can anyone recommend a Washington DC hotel that is walking distance from the Museum of American History?
We are taking Amtrak into Washington, and were intersted in finding a hotel within walking distance of both the museum and Union Station…that is also in a safe area. Help??

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Answer by VeggieTart (The Cranky Agnostic)
There really aren’t hotels in walking distance of the National Mall, but as the Museum of American History is pretty close to both the Smithsonian and Federal Triangle Metro stations (Orange and Blue lines), it’s pretty easy to get around. Metro is quite safe.

Union Station (on the Red Line) is a few blocks off a rather dicey neighborhood, and it’s not walking distance to the museums. There are several hotels near Metro Center (Red, Orange, and Blue lines) and Gallery Place (Red, Yellow, and Green lines), but they are rather expensive.

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New York professional American football

July 12th, 2011
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New York professional American football

Based in the New York metropolitan area, New York jets professional American football team. They are members of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC), the National Football League (NFL). They play their home game in East Rutherford, New Jersey Stadium Giants, named after another NFL team, New York Giants. In the Jets officially refer to the location as “Meadowlands”, a name used on all official NFL and team game notes regarding Jets home game.

The club headquarters is located at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, on Long Island. They are building a new training center and corporate headquarters in Florham-Park, New Jersey.

As jets began in 1960 as an act of a member of the American Football League under the name New York Titans. Renamed after Sonny Werblin bought the team in 1963, and later he joined the NFL in the AFL-NFL merger.

In the Jets hold the characteristic of the first AFL team to win the NFL club in the AFL-NFL World Championship Game when they defeated Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.

Franchise History
Originally known as the New York Titans, the team played a home game in the polo grounds. After 5 to 9 in the season of 1962, a team in the future was clear. The group is headed by MCA head Sonny Werblin and Leon Hess, bought the team from Harry Wismer to 13 March 1964, saved him from ruin. Hess eventually bought out his partners, as well as stored solely owned until his death. His estate then sold the team of Johnson & Johnson heir Robert Wood Johnson IV in 2000.

After they took over, the group was renamed the New York Jets transmission of sex grounds for the New York Mets’ Shea Stadium a year later. Shea Stadium is located so close to LaGuardia Airport that the sound of jets roaring overhead was a common sound heard during the game there. The team colors were changed to blue and gold Kelly green and white, which were also color Hess’ gas station.

Exactly one month after the sales team, Jets hired WEEB Ewbank as head coach. He immediately won NFL championships in 1958 and 1959 with the Baltimore Colts, and he was one of the most respected coaches in the game.

2005
In 2005, the season began with the Jets reacquiring WR Laveranues Coles from the Washington Redskins and a CB Ty Law from the New England Patriots. They also acquired free agent quarterback Jay Fiedler of the Miami Dolphins as an expert backup for beginners, Chad Pennington. During the project, Jets traded their first-round selection in the Raider Tight End Doug Jolley. In the Jets used their first choice (2 nd round pick 15) to select Ohio State Kicker Mike Nugent to replace the departed Doug Brien. In the Jets allowed several key role players leave through free agency or trade their underachieving players. These players included Lamont Jordan, Kareem McKenzie, Sam Cowart, Jason Ferguson, and to a lesser extent Anthony Becht.

The aircraft went down during a season high hopes of competing for the Super Bowl, but in three weeks against the jaguars, when Chad Pennington reinjured his shoulder. Their backup quarterback Jay Fiedler was injured six plays after Pennington. On the damage caused by the previous third-string quarterback Brooks Bollinger to take the role as a group for beginners and Vinny Testaverde was brought back to the pension Bollinger as the backup. After a poor showing at the Jets’ offense is at a loss, Testaverde will start Week 5 game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. His steady hand led the offense, and Curtis Martin scored two touchdowns, giving the Jets just enough to get from 14 to 12 victories over the previously invincible Buccaneers.

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