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- Plato's Republic (Stevenson - Jowett, Translator)
Provides the Greek classic, The Republic, by Plato. Describes his ideal for government, including how to prepare leaders for government. 8-02
- Platonic and Archimedean Solids (Geometry Technologies - ScienceU.com)
Provides diagrams of the Platonic Cube, Dodecahedron, Icosahedron, Octahedron, and Tetrahedron. Includes diagrams of the Archimedean Cubeoctahedron, Icosidodecahedron, Rhombicubeoctahedron, Rhombicosidodecahedron, Rhombitruncated Cubeoctahedron, Rhombitruncated Icosidodecahedron, Snub Cube, Snub Dodecahedron, Truncated Cube, Truncated Dodecahedron, Truncated Icosahedron, Truncated Octahedron, and Truncated Tetrahedron. 5-01
- Plato's Republic (Stevenson - Jowett, Translator)
Provides the Greek classic, The Republic, by Plato. Describes his ideal for government, including how to prepare leaders for government. 8-02
- Plato (Bjorn Christensson, Aachen)
Provides a biography. 10-04
- Classic Texts, by Author (Internet Classics Archive - Stevenson)
Provides the full text of works by Aeschines, Aeschylus, Aesop, Andocides, Antiphon, Apollodorus, Apollonius, Apuleius, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Augustus, Bacchylides, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Demades, Demospthenes, Dinarchus, Diodorus, Epictetus, Epicurus, Euclid, Euripides, Galen, Herodotus, Hesiod, Hippocrates, Hirtius, Homer, Horace, Hyperides, Isaeus, Isocrates, Josephus, Livy, Lucan, Lucretius, Lycurgus, Lysias, Ovid, Pausanias, Pindar, Plato, Plotinus, Plutarc, Porphyry, Quintus, Sophocles, Strabo, Tacitus, Thucydides, Virgil, Xenophon, Confucius, Lao-tzu, Sun Tzu, Ferdowsi, Omar Khayyam, and Sa'di. 10-09
- 10-10-04 Soldiers in Iraq Express Frustration (MSNBC News)
"Several members of the platoon said they were struck by the difference between the way the war was being portrayed in the United States and the reality of their daily lives."
" 'Every day you read the articles in the States where it's like,' "Oh, it's getting better and better," said Lance Cpl. Jonathan Snyder, 22, of Gettysburg, Pa. 'But when you're here, you know it's worse every day.' "
" 'The reality right now is that the most dangerous opinion in the world is the opinion of a U.S. serviceman,' said Lance Cpl. Devin Kelly, 20, of Fairbanks, Alaska."
"Lance Cpl. Alexander Jones, 20, of Ball Ground, Ga., agreed: 'We're basically proving out that the government is wrong,' he said. 'We're catching them in a lie.' "
"Asked if he was concerned that the Marines would be punished for speaking out, Autin responded: 'What are they going to do, send us to Iraq?' " 10-04
- Tsunami Facts (Wikipedia.org)
"The term [tsunami] was created by fishermen who returned to port to find the area surrounding the harbour devastated, although they had not been aware of any wave in the open water. A tsunami is not a sub-surface event in the deep ocean; it simply has a much smaller amplitude (wave heights) offshore, and a very long wavelength (often hundreds of kilometers long), which is why they generally pass unnoticed at sea, forming only a passing 'hump' in the ocean."
Includes descriptions of some of the largest tsunamis of the past, such as the one caused by the Krakatoa explosion in 1883.
"At some time between 1650 BC and 1600 BC (still debated), the volcanic Greek island Santorini erupted, causing a 100 m to 150 m high tsunami that devastated the north coast of Crete, 70 km (45 miles) away, and would certainly have eliminated every timber of the Minoan fleet along Crete's northern shore. Santorini is regarded as the most likely source for Plato's literary parable of Atlantis, and is believed by some scientists to have informed Great Flood accounts which were eventually recorded in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic texts."
"The magnitude 9.0 2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake triggered a series of lethal tsunamis on December 26, 2004 that killed roughly 165,000 people (more than 105,000 in Indonesia), making it the deadliest tsunami in recorded history." 01-05
- Freire, Paulo (Wikipedia.org)
"Paulo Freire (Recife, Brazil September 19, 1921 - São Paulo, Brazil May 2, 1997) was a Brazilian educator and influential theorist of education."
"Paulo Freire contributes a philosophy of education that comes not only from the more classical approaches stemming from Plato, but also from modern Marxist and anti-colonialist thinkers. In fact, in many ways his Pedagogy of the Oppressed may best be read as an extension of or reply to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, which laid strong emphasis on the need to provide native populations with an education which was simultaneously new and modern (rather than traditional) and anti-colonial (that is, that was not simply an extension of the culture of the colonizer).
"Freire is best-known for his attack on what he called the banking concept of education, in which the student was viewed as an empty account to be filled by the teacher. Of course, this is not really a new move — Rousseau's conception of the child as an active learner was already a step away from the tabula rasa (which is basically the same as the 'banking concept'), and thinkers like John Dewey and Alfred North Whitehead were strongly critical of the transmission of mere 'facts' as the goal of education. Freire's work is one of the foundations of critical pedagogy." 11-05
- Rescorla, Rick (FindArticles.com)
"Rick Rescorla was calling from the 44th floor of the World Trade Center, icy calm in the crisis. When Rescorla was a platoon leader in Vietnam, his men called him Hard Core, because they had never seen anyone so absurdly unflappable in the face of death. Now he was vice president for corporate security at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co., and a jumbo jet had just plowed into the north tower. The voices of officialdom were crackling over the loudspeakers in the south tower, urging everyone to stay put: Please do not leave the building. This area is secure. Rescorla was ignoring them." 04-06
- Military Terms (MSBC News)
A squad is comprised of 10-11 soldiers. A platoon has four squads. A company has two or more platoons and has 130-150 soldiers. "A battalion, usually about 400-strong, is comprised of three rifle companies, a combat support company and a headquarters company."
A brigade "contains around 2,500 people commanded by a colonel."
"One division is made up of at least three brigades with between 10,000 and 20,000 soldiers." 03-07
- -02-09-08 Murder or Exhaustion in Iraq (Time.com)
"Part of an elite parachute infantry sniper-scout platoon, Sgt. Evan Vela is accused of murdering an unarmed Iraqi that his five-man squad had taken captive after the man breached their hideout." 02-08
- -07-27-08 Incident on Baghdad's Airport Road (Time.com)
"According to a U.S. military press release..., a car carrying 'three criminals' opened fire on a convoy of U.S. troops stopped on the roadside on the way to Baghdad International Airport at 8:40 a.m. 'The Soldiers [from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division] returned fire, which resulted in the vehicle running off the road and striking a wall. The vehicle then exploded,' read the release. The military statement also said 'a weapon was recovered from the wreckage,' and 'two MND-B convoy vehicles received bullet hole damage from the small arms fire.' But the Iraqi police report, which was obtained by TIME, had a different account: 'Twenty-seven bullet holes [were found] on the right-hand side of [Mehdi's] car. [We] found two bullets of caliber 50 mm inside the car... We did not see or find any weapons or empty cartridges inside the car.' "
"For the past year, the road to Baghdad's airport, where Mehdi's car burned that morning, has been one of the most heavily secured roads in Baghdad. The Iraqi government has contracted a private British security firm, Global Strategies Group, to control a series of checkpoints leading up to the airport, which include multiple ID checks and a car X-ray scan for explosives. At one checkpoint, passengers are asked to exit the car completely, leaving all doors open, including the trunk and hood, while Global security guards lead sniffer dogs around each car, checking inside and outside again for explosives."
"Like the Iraqi police report, the Global statement said that no weapons had been found at the scene and that Mehdi's car had been searched at all of the Global checkpoints prior to the incident. It also stated there was 'no evidence' the three people in the car had displayed any hostility towards the American convoy."
"According to a Global Security statement obtained by TIME, the American platoon had been on its way to a military base near the airport, when they were forced to pull over because one humvee was having engine trouble. It said that one of the soldiers on the ground said he thought he heard gunfire and alerted the others through their headsets. The gunner of the first humvee quickly rotated in his turret to face the road and fired on a car that was speeding past the convoy. That car turned out to be Mehdi's." 07-08
- -07-28-08 U.S. Soldiers Attacked Civilians (New York Times)
"The American military admitted Sunday night that a platoon of soldiers raked a car of innocent Iraqi civilians with hundreds of rounds of gunfire and that the military then issued a news release larded with misstatements, asserting that the victims were criminals who had fired on the troops."
"The attack on June 25 killed three people, a man and two women, as they drove to work at a bank at Baghdad’s airport. The attack infuriated Iraqi officials and even prompted the Iraqi armed forces general command to call the shooting cold-blooded murder." 07-08
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