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POPS On this day, foundation of the NAACP

by mickfinn 2-12-2008

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (usually abbreviated as NAACP) is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States. The NAACP was founded on February 12, 1909 by a diverse group composed of W. E. B. Du Bois (African American), Ida B. Wells (African American), Archibald Grimke (African American), Henry Moskowitz (Jewish), Mary White Ovington (White), Oswald Garrison Villard (German-born White), and William English Walling (White, and son of a former slave owning family), to work on behalf of the rights of African Americans. Its name, retained in accord with tradition, is one of the last surviving uses of the term "colored people". The group is based in Baltimore, Maryland.

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POPS 'Surfin' USA'

by mickfinn 2-9-2008

Surfers win fight to save Beach Boy waterfront

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POPS Nebraska bans Electric Chair

by mickfinn 2-9-2008

The court held that electrocutions were unconstitutional under Nebraska’s Constitution. The provision it relied on uses the same language concerning cruel and unusual punishment as the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution.

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POPS Monadnocks

by mickfinn 2-4-2008

These examples are all in the USA. The most famous example in the world is probably Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Australia. Stone Mountain - Georgia; Sugarloaf - Maryland; Pilot Mountain - N Carolina; Katahdin - Maine; Enchanted Rock - Texas; Mt Monadnock - New Hampshire

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POPS Phone Call into History

by mickfinn 2-1-2008

President Johnson and Dr. King worked in tandem not only on the Civil Rights Act, but on the Voting Rights Act that came the next year. (NYT)

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POPS US faces bold challenge

by mickfinn 1-23-2008

Divisions and confusion within the negotiating bloc of developing countries, which has long gone by the name the Group of 77 and China, were as much the cause of the diplomatic logjam as anything else, he said. Interviews with several other negotiators and observers supported his view. “There was a certain feeling that maybe the U.S. could be the fall guy for this whole thing, that if G-77 couldn’t resolve its own issues, if it just held the line on a position they already knew the U.S. rejected, that the U.S. would be the one that stepped up and had to take the flak for collapsing the whole thing,” he said. “From Papua New Guinea’s standpoint, we couldn’t accept that.” (NYT)

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POPS Meet Helvetica at MoMA

by mickfinn 1-15-2008

Sorry folks but typefaces are my passion.

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POPS Those Polite Americans

by mickfinn 1-15-2008

''Generally, Americans are civil and conscientious''

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POPS Martin Luther King, hero

by mickfinn 1-14-2008

Still so much to do.

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POPS Print is dead: long live print

by mickfinn 1-7-2008

Curling up with a good website just doesn't have the same attraction as with a book . . .