Arkansas's First People
As part of American Experience's We Shall Remain, Arkansas's First People is a 5-part series featuring unique perspectives on American Indian cultural legacy, archaeological data, and interviews with modern tribal representatives of those who had and still have an impact on Arkansas.
Bicentennial Symposium: Poetry & the American People
As part of the celebration of the Library of Congress Bicentennial in 2000, it sponsored the symposium Poetry and the American People: Reading, Voice and Publication in the 19th and 20th Centuries featuring a number of distinguished speakers followed by an evening reading by Robert Pinsky (U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry from 1997-2000) and W.S. Merwin (U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry from 2010-2011 and special Bicentennial Consultant from 1999-2000). In addition to Pinksy and Merwin, featured speakers included Rita Dove (U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry from 1993-95), Louise Glück (U.S. Poet Laureate from 2003-04), and Witter Bynner Fellows for 2000--Naomi Shihab Nye and Joshua Weiner.
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Andrews AFB Air Show 2017
World War II Heavy Fighters
World War II Aircraft Heavy Fighters Handbook.
The Handbook of Fighters aircraft of World War II includes all the Heavy Fighters aircraft used by those countries which were at war during World War II from the period between their joining the conflict and the conflict ending for them.
A heavy fighter is a fighter aircraft designed to carry heavier weapons or operate at longer ranges. To achieve acceptable performance, most heavy fighters were twin-engined, and many had multi-place crews.
The twin-engine heavy fighter was a major design class during the pre-World War II period. Conceived as long-range escort fighters, or heavily-armed bomber destroyers, heavy fighters largely failed in their intended roles during World War II, as they could not outmaneuver the more conventional, single-engined fighters. Many twin-engined heavy fighters eventually found their niche as night fighters, with considerable successes. Only the Northrop P-61 Black Widow of the USAAF was ever built from the start, during the World War II era, solely to be a night fighter.
A major heavy fighter design was the Messerschmitt Bf 110, a German fighter that, prior to the war, the Luftwaffe considered more important than their single-engine fighters. Many of the best pilots were assigned to Bf 110 squadrons, and they were specifically designated asZerstцrer (destroyer) units. While other, lighter, fighters were mainly intended for defense, the destroyers were the ones mainly intended for offensive missions: to escort bombers on missions at long range, then use its superior speed to outrun defending fighters that would be capable of outmaneuvering it. This doctrine proved to be a costly mistake. In practice the Bf 110 was only capable of using this combination of features for a short time; it served well against the Hawker Hurricane during the Battle of France, but was easily outperformed by the Supermarine Spitfire during the Battle of Britain (also in terms of maximum speed). Eventually Bf 110s were converted to interceptors (especially night fighters) and ground-attack aircraft for rest of the war.
During the late 1930s, Bell Aircraft of the United States designed the YFM-1 Airacuda bomber destroyer. Very large and heavily armed, the Airacuda was plagued with design flaws; only 13 examples were eventually built, none of which participated in WWII.
The most successful heavy fighter of the war was the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. It was designed to carry heavy armament at high speed or long range. For a variety of reasons, notably its excellent twin General Electric-designed turbochargers and its crew of one (rather than two or three), it dramatically outperformed its German and British counterparts. In service it was used as an escort fighter, following B-17 Flying Fortress raids deep into German-held Europe where it was able to hold its own with the much lighter German fighters. In its escort role, the P-38 was the first Allied fighter over Berlin. It was also highly successful in the Pacific theatre, where its long range proved a pivotal advantage. Expensive to produce and maintain, it was relegated to other roles when the single-engined but equally long-ranged P-51D Mustang reached squadrons.
Handbook including:
Bell YFM-1 Airacuda
Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter
Boulton Paul Defiant
Blackburn B-25 Roc
Blackburn B-24 Skua
de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito
Dornier Do 217
Dornier Do 335 Pfeil (Arrow)
Douglas A-20/DB-7 Havoc
Fairey Firefly
Fairey Fulmar
Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito
Grumman F7F Tigercat
Heinkel He 219 Uhu (Eagle-Owl)
IMAM Ro.57
Junkers Ju 88
Junkers Ju 388 Stortebeker
Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu (Dragon Slayer)
Kawasaki Ki-102
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Messerschmitt Bf 110
Messerschmitt Me 210
Mitsubishi Ki-67 Hiryu (Flying Dragon)
Northrop P-61 Black Widow
Westland Welkin
Westland Whirlwind
Vickers Type 432
Dornier Do 215
Gloster F.9/37 aka Gloster G.39
Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning
Air Force Admits 'Gross Mismanagement' of Soldiers' Remains
Dover Air Force base in Delaware receives America's war dead in solemn ceremonies, but after a year-long investigation, the Air Force acknowledged gross mismanagement of some remains within the base's mortuary. Margret Warner discusses the revelations with The Washington Post's Craig Whitlock.
Traversing the Louisville Link- An Elevated Walkway in Downtown Louisville, KY
(July 2012) The Link and its spurs are about a mile long, and passes through several hotels, 4th Street Live, the convention center, and other buildings before ending at the YUM center (where the Cardinals play basketball) by the waterfront. I was impressed with this addition to the city, as it allows easy traveling across the city.
High School Quiz Show - Hingham vs. Thayer (904)
With Round 1 almost halfway over, Hingham High School and Thayer Academy showdown their smarts for one of the remaining quarterfinal spots. This is Hingham's ninth appearance in a row on the competiton (they hold the record for most ever) and Thayer's third in a row. See who wins this week's match!
Toss-up Round: 2:00
Meet the Teams: 8:59
Head-to-Head: 11:08
Category Round: 13:18
Lightning Round: 23:01
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High School Quiz Show - Quarterfinal #1: Advanced Math & Science Academy vs. Lexington (509)
In the first quarterfinal matchup of Season 5, Advanced Math & Science Academy takes on Lexington High School!
Toss-up Round: 02:09
Head-to-Head: 11:03
Category Round: 13:57
Lightning Round: 22:34
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4th of July firecrackers
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High School Quiz Show - Quarterfinal #3: Sharon vs. Somerville (511)
In the third quarterfinal matchup of Season 5, Sharon High School takes on Somerville High School!
Toss-up Round: 01:52
Head-to-Head: 10:58
Category Round: 13:44
Lightning Round: 22:52
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Simon Newman - Thinks Himself Free: Escaped Slaves in 18th Century Britain
Annual Webb Lecture
Simon P. Newman, Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History, University of Glasgow
There were thousands of enslaved people in eighteenth-century Britain, brought from around the world by colonists, merchants, planters, clergymen, government officials, and officers. While valued for their labor, these enslaved men, women, and, most especially, children, served as symbols of the success of their masters. This lecture will explore the attempts at escape of some of those enslaved men, women, and children. Drawing on runaway slave advertisements in British newspapers, the lecture will show that although enslavement in Britain appeared mild when compared with the horrors of New World slavery, masters and mistresses continued to believe they held the enslaved as chattel property.
A book signing and reception will follow the program.
Bio: Simon P. Newman is the Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American History at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of numerous books and articles, most recently A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic (2013), which was awarded the British Association for American Studies Book Prize. His current research focuses on enslaved people who escaped in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic World, and he is the Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme Trust-funded research project “Runaway Slaves in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” During the 2018-19 academic year, he will hold the Mowat Mellon Research Fellowship at the Folger Institute in Washington D.C., where he will be working on a book entitled Runaways: Resisting Enslavement in the British Atlantic World.
Sponsored by the History Department and the Dresher Center for the Humanities. Email the Dresher Center at dreshercenter@umbc.edu
High School Quiz Show - Semifinal #2: Acton-Boxborough vs. Somerville (514)
In the last semifinal matchup of Season 5, Acton-Boxborough Regional High School goes up against Somerville High School! Who will move on to the Massachusetts state championship?
Toss-up Round: 01:57
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Category Round: 13:30
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Philly Naked Bike Ride 2019
It was a new day and a new route for the Philly Naked Bike Ride, an annual tradition 11 years strong in which nude (and barely clothed) cyclists take to the streets of the City of Brotherly Love to promote body positivity.
Hundreds came out to participate in the ride, which started in FDR Park before heading over to the trendy East Passyunk neighborhood, up to City Hall and over to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Story, and pictures:
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)
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