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- Christmas - Town of Bethlehem (Franciscans of Malta, Christus Rex, Abela)
Provides pictures of special sites within Bethelem.
- Hamer, Fannie Lou Townsend (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)
Provides a biography of the civil rights activist. 6-00
- Conservative News and Information (Heritage Foundation - Townhall.com)
Provides a conservative view of news events. 5-01
- Not in our Town (Tolerance.org)
One result of the September 11th disaster has been increased persecution or rejection of persons of Arabian descent or of the Islamic faith in some communities. Describes how many people in Billings, Montana responded to increased to acts of racism in 1993. Their methods resulted in a national movement. Also called 911, 9-11, or 9/11. 9-01
- John Snow - Comments on Nomination of John Snow as Treasury Secretary (Townhall.com - Novak)
"With his economic program's outlines charted, President Bush was looking for a secretary of the Treasury and National Economic adviser who would energetically sell his tax cuts." 12-02
- John Snow - Comments on Nominations of John Snow and Stephan Friedman (Townhall.com - Kudlow)
"Apparently, Vice President Dick Cheney quietly led a search team that came up with Snow. In contrast, the White House loudly leaked the name of investment banker Stephen Friedman to replace Larry Lindsey as head of the National Economic Council. Neither the stock market nor the rest of the world (nor me) knows much about these men." 12-02
- Terrorism Mentality Clashes With Small-Town Ways (MSNBC News)
"Federal law will make county treasurer Paula Schneider do something that would be plain rude on the streets of this little town: treat friends as strangers." 8-05
- -09-27-05 Damage to Small Towns Almost Total (MSNBC News)
"While much of Texas and Louisiana dodged the worst of Hurricane Rita, the damage to some small, rural towns was virtually complete — and the storm was being blamed on new deaths long after it moved away." 9-05
- How One Town Will Fund College (CSMonitor.com)
"Kalamazoo is only the second US city, after Washington, to offer full-tuition scholarships to its graduates." 11-05
- -06-12-06 Texas Town Still in Ruins Nine Months After Rita (ABC News)
"Nine months after Rita plowed into Sabine Pass on its way through East Texas, there's not much left for another hurricane to destroy in this community of shrimpers, port hands and refinery workers. The town is still littered with FEMA trailers, piles of debris and gutted houses." 06-06
- Townie Crank-Forward Design (ElectraBike.com)
Provides a crank-forward design that allows the rider to sit flat-footed at stops. Awesome Library does not endorse this product, but only provides it as an example. 05-08
- -06-04-08 McCain Challenges Obama to Town Hall Debates (MSNBC News)
"After clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama on Wednesday went on the offensive against Republican opponent John McCain, who responded by inviting his rival to hold a series of town hall meetings with him across the country to debate issues." 06-08
- Small Town USA (CNN News)
"Brianne's story is one of 100 captured in a new book called "The Oxford Project." It combines black-and-white portrait photographs -- one from 1984, a second 20 years later -- with oral histories to give a mosaic of a small town, of hopes and dreams, of triumphs and tragedies, of life and death." 10-08
- -01-28-09 Obama, Man About Town (ABC News)
"President Obama started his presidency at a full sprint, but in the weeks leading up to Inauguration Day he took some time to have a little fun outside of the office." 01-09
- Wind Generators for Cities (American Wind Energy Association)
Provides information on wind generators for use for cities and towns. 02-07
- Walling Off the Palestinians (BBC News - Hawley)
Describes the conditions of Palestinians trying to travel between towns in Palestinian territory. 6-02
- Corporate Charters - Limitations of the Past (Grossman and Adams)
"Many colonial citizens argued that under the Constitution, no business could be granted special privileges. Others worded that once incorporators amassed wealth, they would use their corporate shields to control jobs and production, buy off the press and dominate elections and the courts." However, in 1886 the U.S. Supreme Court granted corporations the same rights and protections as individual persons.
"Within just a few decades, appointed judges had redefined the 'common good' to mean the corporate use of humans and the Earth for maximum production and profit -- no matter what was manufactured, who was hurt or what was destroyed. Corporations had obtained control over resources, production, commerce, jobs, politicians, judges and the law. Workers, citizens, cities, towns, states and nature were left with fewer and fewer rights that corporations were forced to respect."
"By rewriting the [state] laws governing corporations, we citizens can reassert the convictions of the people who struggled to resist corporate rule in the past." 7-02
- Israelis Attack Militants Among Civilians (Independent)
Israeli soldiers attacked Palestinians towns, leaving 12 dead.
"Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat denounced the Israeli raid as a massacre. 'Every time we witness efforts to revive the peace process and put it back on track, like those being exerted now by Mr Solana, the Israeli government moves to conduct such war crimes and murder innocent civilians because the end game of the Israeli government is to resume full occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank,' Mr Erekat said."
"Raanan Gissin, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said Palestinian militants were to blame for the high death toll. 'We try to keep civilian casualties to a minimum, but we can't say that because there are civilians there, we will not take action against the terrorists,' he said." 10-02
- Who, The (RockHall.com)
"From Mod-era 'maximum R and B' to rock operas and quintessential Seventies hard rock, the Who reigned across the decades as one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time. At their best, they distilled the pent-up energy and chaos of rock and roll into its purest form while investing their music with literary wiles and visionary insight. In their prime they were a unit whose individual personalities fused into a larger-than-life whole. Pete Townshend provided the slashing guitar work and much of the material. Vocalist Roger Daltrey injected the songs with expressive muscularity and passion. Bassist John Entwistle anchored the band with his stoic demeanor and expert musicianship. Keith Moon, one of the greatest of all rock and roll drummers, embodied their explosive energy and anarchic wit." 9-03
- 10-30-03 Israeli Army Chief Criticizes Sharon (Guardian Unlimited - McGreal)
"Israel's army chief has exposed deep divisions between the military and Ariel Sharon by branding the government's hardline treatment of Palestinian civilians counter-productive and saying that the policy intensifies hatred and strengthens the "terror organisations".
"The statements - which a close associate characterised to the Israeli press as warning that the country was 'on the verge of a catastrophe' - will also reinforce a growing perception among the public that Mr Sharon is unable to deliver the peace with security he promised when he came to office nearly three years ago."
"Gen Ya'alon also waded into one of the most contentious issues of the day by saying the army had recommended a less controversial route for the steel and concrete "security fence" through the West Bank."
"He said the military had warned that the fence, which digs deep into Palestinian territory, caging some towns and villages and cutting farmers off from their land, will make the lives of some Palestinians "unbearable" and require too many soldiers to guard it." 10-03
- Native American Culturally Based Education (NWREL.org - Sherman)
"In searching the research base, Demmert and Towner defined CBE [culturally based education] as having six critical elements:"
"Recognition and use of Native languages
Pedagogy that stresses traditional cultural characteristics and adult-child interactions
Pedagogy in which teaching strategies are congruent with the traditional culture and ways of knowing and learning
Curriculum that is based on traditional culture and that recognizes the importance of Native spirituality
Strong Native community participation in educating children and in the planning and operation of school activities
Knowledge and use of the social and political mores of the community"
"Demmert and Towner report that their review yielded only six studies on CBE that could be called experimental or quasi-experimental (the difference is in the degree of rigor used, especially in how the students are assigned to groups)." 12-03
- What Is the West Bank Wall? (BBC News)
"The West Bank 'security fence' has been highly controversial ever since the Israeli government decided to build it in 2002."
"After initial hesitation, the government adopted the plan saying it was essential to prevent Palestinian would-be suicide bombers from entering Israel and attacking Israeli civilians, as has happened many times during the Palestinian intifada."
"Pro-settlement objections have been largely assuaged by the fact that the structure is not being built on Israel's pre-1967 boundary, but snakes several kilometres into the West Bank to link settlements up to Israel."
"For Israel's critics, the plan epitomises everything that is wrong with Israel's occupation of Palestinian land and its approach to making peace with its Arab neighbours."
"Palestinian land is confiscated to build the barrier; hundreds of Palestinian farmers and traders are cut off from their land and means of economic survival. Most significantly, it creates 'facts on the ground' and imposes unilateral solutions which preclude negotiated agreements in the future."
"The impact of the plan has been felt most acutely in Qalqilya itself, once known as the West Bank's 'fruit basket', which lies within a tight loop in the wall. It is cut off on three sides - from the farms which supply its markets and the region's second-largest water sources in the region. Access to the 40,000-inhabitant town will pass through a single Israeli checkpoint."
"Two separate court challenges are being made to the barrier, one in The Hague and the other in Israel itself." 2-04
- Memorial Day - A Metaphor for America (MSNBC News - Brokaw)
"In so many ways, D-Day was a metaphor for America: commanded by a man from a small town in America's heartland, it was a bold stroke that depended on the courage and innovation of forces still in their teens and early twenties led by senior officers in their thirties and early forties, almost all of them in combat for the first time and they were up against a battle-hardened German army that had been fighting for five years." 6-04
- Edwards Brings Southern Roots to Contest (MSNBC News)
"The only Democrats to win the presidency in the past 40 years have been Southerners. If John Kerry wins on Nov. 2, he’ll break that streak, but with a boost from a son of Dixie, North Carolina Sen. John Edwards."
"In style and appearance more than in ideology, Edwards offers a contrast with Kerry. Edwards is slighter and shorter than the six-foot-four Kerry; Edwards moves nimbly and has a gift for charming chatter when he meets voters; he thinks and speaks quickly; Kerry sometimes seems a ponderous orator and an awkward mingler."
"Edwards, who is 10 years younger than Kerry, is a small-town boy who went to state schools in North Carolina (as an undergraduate, he majored in textile technology at North Carolina State)." 7-04
- -09-20-04 Three Kerry - Bush Debates Almost Set (MSNBC News)
"The campaigns of President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry have tentatively settled on a package of three face-to-face debates that both sides view as a potentially decisive chance to sway huge audiences ahead of the Nov. 2 election, Democrats and Republicans said yesterday."
"The nominees will focus on foreign policy during the opening session, on Sept. 30 in Florida, they will take questions from undecided voters at the town-meeting-style debate Oct. 8 in Missouri, and they will conclude with a session on Oct. 13 in Arizona that will revolve around domestic issues."
"Vice President Cheney and Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards will debate Oct. 5 in Ohio. Each of the four debates will begin at 9 p.m. Eastern time and will run 90 minutes." 9-04
- -09-20-04 Hamas Leader Killed in Residential Area (Fox News)
"Hamas (search) threatened revenge after an Israeli helicopter blew up a car on a busy Gaza City (search) street, killing a Hamas militant who was involved in making and firing rockets at Israeli towns." 9-04
- Learn About Money (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
Provides a game or project where children learn about how money works in Fedville, a small town. 9-04
- 10-08-04 Kerry vs. Bush (Second Debate) Text (CNN News)
"The following is a transcript of the debate between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry held Friday night at Washington University. This, the second debate between the two, takes a town hall style forum." 10-04
- -10-27-04 Missing in Florida - 60,000 Ballots (Yahoo News)
"U.S. Postal Service investigators on Wednesday were trying to find thousands of absentee ballots that should have been delivered to voters in one of Florida's most populous counties, officials said."
"Broward deputy supervisor of elections Gisela Salas said 60,000 absentee ballots, accounting for just over 5 percent of the electorate in the county north of Miami, were sent out between Oct. 7 and Oct. 8 to voters who would not be in town on election day."
"While some had begun to be delivered, her office had been inundated with calls from anxious voters who still had not received their ballots."
" 'A lot of people are very concerned because they think that just because they requested an absentee ballot, now they're stuck in a limbo situation where they don't have their ballot and they can't vote,' Salas said."
" 'So most definitely we want to get the message out that yes they can go to an early voting site and cast their ballot and that's what we would encourage them to do," she said.' " 10-04
- Search for Art Works (Artcyclopedia.com)
Provides a search engine to find art works by title, painter, or museum. Also provides large examples of works, including oil paintings. Browse by movement, including Abstract Expressionism, Academic Art, The American Scene, Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Arte Povera, The Arts and Crafts Movement, The Ashcan School, The Barbizon School, Baroque Art, Bauhaus, Byzantine Art, Camden Town Group, Classicism, Contemporary Realism, Cubism, Dada, Der Blaue Reiter, Die Brücke, Die Neue Sachlichkeit, Expressionism, Fauvism, Fantasy Art, Futurism, Golden Age of Illustration, Gothic Art, The Group Of Seven, The Harlem Renaissance, History Painting, The Hudson River School, Impressionism, Magic Realism, Mannerism, Minimalism, Les Nabis, Neoclassicism, Neo-Plasticism, Op Art, Orientalism, Photorealism, Pointillism, Pop Art, Post-Impressionism, Precisionism, The Pre-Raphaelites, Realism, Regionalism, The Renaissance (including Early Renaissance, High Renaissance, Mannerism, and Northern Renaissance), The Rococo Style, Romanticism, The Sensation Show, Social Realism, Surrealism, Symbolism, Ukiyo-e Printmaking, Western Art, and Wildlife Art. 01-06
- "Standard American" Dialect and Dialects (PBS.org)
"Social scientists estimate the number of U.S. dialects range from a basic three - New England, Southern and Western/General America - to 24 or more . Some researchers go so far as to suggest it's actually impossible to count the number of dialects in the United States because under a loose definition of the term, thousands of cities, towns and groups have their own varieties or dialects." 3-05
- -05-14-05 Uzbekistan on the Brink (Guardian Unlimited)
"The violence that has reportedly killed hundreds of protesters in eastern Uzbekistan appeared to be spreading to neighbouring towns last night, raising fears that the volatile Central Asian state could erupt into a full-scale revolution." 5-05
- Transcontinental Highway (Lincoln Highway)
"In 1912, there were almost no good roads to speak of in the United States. The relatively few miles of improved road were only around towns and cities. A road was "improved" if it was graded; one was lucky to have gravel or brick. Asphalt and concrete were yet to come. Most of the 2.5 million miles of roads were just dirt: bumpy and dusty in dry weather, impassable in wet weather. Worse yet, the roads didn't really lead anywhere. They spread out aimlessly from the center of the settlement. To get from one settlement to another, it was much easier to take the train." 7-05
- Editorial: Sheehan an Effective Anti-War Symbol (WorldNet Daily - Buchanan)
"As a Gold Star mother of a soldier son slain in Iraq, Sheehan has authenticity and moral authority. Wedded to the passion of her protest, these make her a magnet for a bored White House press corps camped in Crawford for August. Cindy and the president are the only stories in town."
"September could see the coalescing of an anti-war movement that both bedevils the White House and divides a Democratic Party that seeks to benefit from a losing war, without having to offer a plan to win it or end it, without being held accountable for having supported it, or responsible for undercutting it." 8-05
- Hurricane Ruins Gulfport (BBC News)
"Gulfport, Mississippi, was once a tourist town, filled with beach-goers and gamblers drawn to the casinos on barges permanently moored just offshore."
"Now, not a building along this coast has been left unscathed by Hurricane Katrina."
"The wreck of this town is unbelievable." 9-05
- 09-01-05 Superdome Relief a National Disgrace (USA Today)
"An angry Terry Ebbert, head of New Orleans' emergency operations, watched the slow exodus from the Superdome and said the Federal Emergency Management Agency response was inadequate. The chaos at the nearby New Orleans Convention Center was considerably more hostile than the Superdome, with few options for refugees to leave the scene."
"Capt. John Pollard of the Texas Air Force National Guard said 20,000 people were in the dome when the evacuation efforts began. By Thursday afternoon, the number had swelled to about 30,000. Pollard said people poured into the Superdome because they believe it's the best place to get a ride out of town."
" 'This is a national disgrace. FEMA has been here three days, yet there is no command and control,' Ebbert said. 'We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims, but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans.' " 9-05
- -09-25-05 Israelis Launch "Crushing" Retaliation (MSNBC News)
"Israel launched a "crushing" retaliation Saturday against Hamas in Gaza with deadly airstrikes, troops massed at the border and a planned ground incursion after militants fired 35 rockets at Israeli towns — their first major attack since the Gaza pullout."
"Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told security chiefs in a meeting that "the ground of Gaza should shake" and that he wanted to exact a high price from Palestinians everywhere, not just Hamas."
"Security officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to publicize details of the plan, said the operation would stop only if the Palestinian Authority asserted control over Gaza or Hamas declared an end to rocket attacks."
"Israel also sealed the West Bank and Gaza, barring thousands of Palestinians from reaching jobs in the Jewish state." 9-05
- -09-24-05 Rita's Damage (CNN News)
"Towns near where Hurricane Rita made landfall have had all but a handful of buildings destroyed, including nearly all homes in Cameron, Holly Beach and Creole, officials said Sunday." 9-05
- -09-27-05 Help Slow in Coming - Again (ABC News)
"Nearly four days after Hurricane Rita hit, many of the storm's sweltering victims along the Texas Gulf Coast were still waiting for electricity, gasoline, water and other relief Tuesday, prompting one top emergency official to complain that people are 'living like cavemen.' "
"In the hard-hit refinery towns of Port Arthur and Beaumont, crews struggled to cross debris-clogged streets to deliver generators and water to people stranded by Rita. They predicted it could be a month before power is restored, and said water and sewer systems could not function until more generators arrived."
"Red tape was also blamed for the delays."
"John Owens, emergency management coordinator and deputy police chief in the town of 57,000 [Port Arthur], said pleas for state and federal relief were met with requests for paperwork." 9-05
- -10-17-05 Poor Planning a Problem (BBC News)
"The massive relief effort coordinated in Pakistan - especially in the private sector - has choked the road network across Kashmir."
"On the road to Bagh from Murree - the main artery linking the Bagh valley in the Pakistan-controlled Kashmir to the rest of the country - dozens of ambulances carrying critically wounded people were stuck in what seemed to be interminable traffic jams."
"The Pakistan army has set up a medical camp in the town of Bagh - but it is desperately short on orthopaedic implants and related medical supplies which, say local doctors, have now emerged as the most urgent need." 10-05
- -Editorial: How Some Troops See the Iraq War (Christian Science Monitor)
For Corporal Mayer, Iraq "is not solely a place of death and loss. It is also a place of hope. It is the hope of the town of Hit, which he saw transform from an insurgent stronghold to a place where kids played on Marine trucks. It is the hope of villagers who whispered where roadside bombs were hidden. But most of all, it is the hope he saw in a young Iraqi girl who loved pens and Oreo cookies."
"In a business where life and death rest on instinctive adherence to thoroughly ingrained lessons, accomplishment is ticked off in a list of orders followed and tasks completed. And by virtually any measure, America's servicemen and women are accomplishing the day-to-day tasks set before them."
"Yet for the most part, America is less interested in the success of Operation Iron Fist, for instance, than the course of the entire Iraq enterprise." 11-05
- Maritime Disaster (Rootsweb.com)
The most terrible steamboat disaster in history was probably the loss of the Sultana in 1865. Some 1,700 returning Union Veterans died... yet the tragedy got very few headlines. Late in April of 1865, the Mississippi stood at flood stage. Four years of war had ruined many levees and dikes, and in the lower reaches of the river the foaming water was over the banks for miles. But in the towns and cities of the lower valley the high water was only an incident, and the dominant feeling was one of relief, for the Civil War at last was ended." 11-05
- Musicals (Musicals.net)
Provides information on top musicals. Includes 1776, 42nd Street, Annie, Anyone Can Whistle, Anything Goes, Aspects of Love, Beauty and the Beast, Big, Brigadoon, Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk, Bye Bye Birdie, Cabaret, Camelot, Carousel, Cats, Chess, Chicago, A Chorus Line, Cinderella, City of Angels, Company, Crazy For You, Damn Yankees, Evita, The Fantasticks, Fiddler On the Roof, Flower Drum Song, Forbidden Broadway, Forbidden Hollywood, Forever Plaid, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To the Forum, Godspell, The Goodbye Girl, A Grand Night For Singing, Grease!, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, Hair, Hello, Dolly!, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Into the Woods, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The King and I, Kiss of the Spider Woman, La Cage Aux Folles, Les Miserables, The Lion King, A Little Night Music, Little Shop of Horrors, Mame, Man of La Mancha, Me and My Girl, Miss Saigon, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Oliver!, On the Town, Once Upon a Mattress, Passion, The Phantom of the Opera, Pippin, Ragtime, Rent, The Secret Garden, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, She Loves Me, Show Boat, Song and Dance, The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Starlight Express, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd, Titanic, Tommy, Victor/Victoria, West Side Story, and The Wiz 12-05
- -02-23-06 White House Report: Urgent Changes Needed for Crisis Responses (MSNBC News)
"A White House report concluded Thursday that inexperienced disaster response managers and a lack of planning, discipline and leadership contributed to vast federal failures during Hurricane Katrina."
"The 228-page report by White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend urges changes in 11 key areas -- mainly in better disaster relief coordination among federal agencies -- before the next hurricane season begins June 1." 02-06
- -03-22-06 Tribe "Sold Down the River" (TimesOnline.co.uk)
" 'As long as I have lived here my family has been totally dependent on the Salween for our livelihood,' says Htoo Lwee, a member of the Karen ethnic group that lives in the village of Hoekey, a few miles below the proposed dam site at Weigyi. 'The river gives us a living from fishing and from boating. It is our life and our mother. If the dam is constructed we will not be able to live.' "
"It will destroy forever the towns of Pasaung and Bawlake, the historical capital of the Karenni people, and the site of royal palaces and Buddhist temples and stupas (holy sites). The traditional homelands of one entire tribe, the dwindling Yintalai, who number just 1,000, will disappear." 03-06
- -03-25-06 Impeachment Whispers Get Louder (MSNBC News)
"To drive through the mill towns and curling country roads here is to journey into New England's impeachment belt. Three of this state's 10 House members have called for the investigation and possible impeachment of President Bush."
"It would be a considerable overstatement to say the fledgling impeachment movement threatens to topple a presidency -- there are just 33 House co-sponsors of a motion by Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) to investigate and perhaps impeach Bush, and a large majority of elected Democrats think it is a bad idea." 03-06
- -04-09-06 Total Solar Eclipse (ABC News)
"Thousands of people gathered in the desert near Salloum, a coastal town a few miles from the Libyan border, to observe a total eclipse of the sun."
"It was just the 29th total solar eclipse since the 1500s." 04-06
- -04-23-06 Creation of a New American Fortress in Iraq a Secret (Washington Times)
"The fortresslike compound rising beside the Tigris River here will be the world's largest of its kind, the size of Vatican City, with the population of a small town, its own defense force, self-contained power and water, and a precarious perch at the heart of Iraq's turbulent future."
" 'The presence of a massive U.S. Embassy -- by far the largest in the world -- co-located in the Green Zone with the Iraqi government is seen by Iraqis as an indication of who actually exercises power in their country,' the International Crisis Group, a European-based research organization, said in one of its periodic reports on Iraq." 04-06
- -05-12-06 High Tech May Replace Some Caregivers (ABC News)
"Across town, Louise — who uses a walker to get around — shows us how the system works. Her apartment is rigged with a series of motion detectors that track her movements and then transmit that information over the Internet to her family members." 05-06
- -06-01-06 Ambassador from Iraq Is from Hadith (USNews.com)
"For Iraq's new ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaydi, representing his nation is painfully personal. Sumaydi's family hails from the western town of Haditha, the site of an alleged massacre of civilians by U.S. marines last November." 06-06
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