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These are the words that James A. Garfield spoke at Arlington Cemetery on May 30, 1868
In answer to a question I received today”Message: Gen. Garfield made a speech dedicating Arlington National Cemetery. Can you provide the text of that speech?” scroll down in article to These are the words that James A. Garfield spoke at Arlington Cemetery on May 30, 1868: ADRIAN MORGAN: WE SHOULD GUARD THEIR GRAVES WITH SACRED VIGILANCE: By Ruth King on May 30th, 2011 http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9625/pub_detail.asp “We Should Guard Their Graves with Sacred Vigilance” Adrian Morgan, The Editor The first official celebration of Memorial Day began unofficially in the cemeteries of the south in the years immediately after the end of the Civil War. Here, ceremonies began where the graves of the…
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The Bible of King James: National Geographic
© Jim Richardson/National Geographic But by the mid-1600s the King James had effectively replaced all its predecessors and had come to be the Bible of the English-speaking world. As English traders and colonists spread across the Atlantic and to Africa and the Indian subcontinent, the King James Bible went with them. It became embedded in the substance of empire, used as wrapping paper for cigars, medicine, sweetmeats, and rifle cartridges and eventually marketed as “the book your Emperor reads.” Medicine sent to English children during the Indian Mutiny in 1857 was folded up in paper printed with the words of Isaiah 51 verse 12: “I, even I, am he that…
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Suburbia: Where America Lives
February 11, 2009 9:46 PM For CBS News Sunday Morning, Correspondent Richard Schlesinger talks to an expert on suburbia and two people who were in on it from the beginning. “Really, when we talk about the suburbs, we’re talking about America now, because we are now a suburban nation in the sense that really more people live in suburbs than live in cities and rural areas combined.We really are a totally suburban nation.” So says Ken Jackson of Columbia University, who has been studying the suburbs for 30 years and who has even written a book about them, The Crabgrass Frontier. “Most historians would say that up until 1920, we…
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Apple Icon With Steve Jobs Profile
STEVE JOBS IN SILHOUETTE The student came up the with idea when Jobs resigned, but it’s only since Jobs’ passing, that the design is getting attention. Courtesy Jonathan Mak Apple Logo Features Steve Jobs in Silhouette A Hong Kong student tweaked the Apple logo as a tribute to the company’s former CEO. Fri Oct 7, 2011 11:58 AM ET | content provided by AFP A Hong Kong design student said on Friday he was overwhelmed and felt “unreal” after his somber logo in tribute to Apple founder Steve Jobs caused a worldwide Internet sensation. The design, featuring Jobs’s silhouette incorporated into the bite of a white Apple logo on…
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Today in History November 11
World War I ends, 1918 American Revolution Poor leadership leads to Cherry Valley Massacre, 1778 Automotive The General Lee jumps into history, 1978 Civil War Confederate General Benjamin McCulloch is born, 1811 Cold War Soviet Union refuses to play Chile in World Cup Soccer, 1973 Crime Police make a grisly discovery in Dorothea Puente’s lawn, 1988 Disaster Skiers die in cable-car fire, 2000 General Interest Nat Turner executed in Virginia, 1831 George Patton born, 1885 Dedication of the Tomb of the Unknowns, 1921 Hollywood Interview with the Vampire debuts, 1994 Literary Louisa May Alcott publishes her first story, 1852 Music Donna Summer earns her first #1 pop hit with “MacArthur…