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Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Two stylish Italian goals minutes from the end of the second period of Extra Time prevented a penalty shootout and sent Germany out of the FIFA World Cup in Dortmund, Tuesday.
The Space Shuttle Discovery is in orbit after a picture-perfect launch
Tuesday, the first-ever shuttle mission to lift off on America's Independence Day holiday.
View video of the launch of STS-121, free from NASA
Space Shuttle Discovery kicks off the Fourth of July fireworks with its own fiery display as it rockets into the blue sky, spewing foam and smoke over the ground, on mission STS-121
Tuesday, the first-ever shuttle mission to lift off on America's Independence Day holiday.
View video of the launch of STS-121, free from NASA
Space Shuttle Discovery kicks off the Fourth of July fireworks with its own fiery display as it rockets into the blue sky, spewing foam and smoke over the ground, on mission STS-121
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By Adam Phillips, VOA News
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Those words, written by a 33 year-old activist named Thomas Jefferson and published by the Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776, are but a few the significant phrases in America's Declaration of Independence. Barnard College history professor Herbert Sloan reminds us that it was neither a declaration of war nor even the beginning of American independence from the British crown.
Click the picture to see a video report from VOA News.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Those words, written by a 33 year-old activist named Thomas Jefferson and published by the Continental Congress on July 4th, 1776, are but a few the significant phrases in America's Declaration of Independence. Barnard College history professor Herbert Sloan reminds us that it was neither a declaration of war nor even the beginning of American independence from the British crown.
Click the picture to see a video report from VOA News.
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By Trudy Rubin
The Philadelphia Inquirer(MCT)
As Independence Day approaches, I can't think of any better gift to the nation than the Supreme Court ruling last week that checked President Bush's expanding claims of executive power.
Trudy Rubin
The Philadelphia Inquirer(MCT)
As Independence Day approaches, I can't think of any better gift to the nation than the Supreme Court ruling last week that checked President Bush's expanding claims of executive power.
Trudy Rubin
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Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known defending teenaged thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14 year old Bobby Franks (1924) and defending John T. Scopes in the so-called "Monkey" Trial (1925), in which he opposed the famous prosecutor William Jennings Bryan. He remains famous for his wit, compassion and agnosticism that marked him as one of the most famous American lawyers and civil libertarians.
Read Clarence Darrow's "A Plea for Mercy" for Leopold and Loeb, free from www.americanrhetoric.com
Clarence Darrow in 1922
Read Clarence Darrow's "A Plea for Mercy" for Leopold and Loeb, free from www.americanrhetoric.com
Clarence Darrow in 1922
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