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Friday, June 3, 2011
First Class
“It's a very ancient saying, but a true and honest thought,
that if you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.”
Related material—
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The Hunt for Blue August,
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a West Side* Story (click to enlarge)—
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and a song that for me evokes memories of the summer
of 1991— a song with a Beauty and the Beast theme
(not the 1991 Disney version of the tale)—
"Let's give 'em somethin' to talk about."
The song was released to radio
on today's date, June 3rd, twenty years ago.
* Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola—
It should be noted here that for contemplation or meditation about
visible things… the ‘composition’ will consist in seeing through the
gaze of the imagination the material place where the object I want
to contemplate is situated.
West Side Memories (an off-off-off-off Broadway production)—
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Friday, August 13, 2010
For a Bright Star
The Hunt for Blue August
From Wikipedia's timeline for 1991—
- August 6 – Tim Berners-Lee announces the World Wide Web project and software on the alt.hypertext newsgroup.
- August 13 – The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (or "Super Nintendo") is released in the United States.
- August 19 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is put under house arrest while vacationing in the Crimea during a coup. The attempted coup, led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev and 7 hard-liners, collapses in less than 72 hours.
- August 20 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Estonia declares its independence from the Soviet Union, and more than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup that deposed President Mikhail Gorbachev.
- August 21 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
- August 24 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Ukraine declares independence from Soviet Union.
- August 25 – Student Linus Torvalds posts messages to Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix about the new operating system kernel he has been developing.
- August 25 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Belarus declares independence from Soviet Union.
- August 27 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Moldova declares independence from the Soviet Union.
- August 30 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Azerbaijan declares independence from Soviet Union.
- August 31 – Collapse of the Soviet Union: Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan declare independence from the Soviet Union.
September
- September 2 – The United States recognizes the independence of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
- September 3 – In Hamlet, North Carolina, a grease fire breaks out at the Imperial Foods chicken processing plant, killing 25 people.
- September 5–7 – At the 35th Annual Tailhook Symposium in Las Vegas, 83 women and seven men are assaulted.
- September 6 – The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states.
- September 6 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second-largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
"CQ, CQ!" — Jodie Foster's character in Contact
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