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Martin Luther King, Jr was one of the greatest leaders, and fought for equality and civil rights for all races of people. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 and was assassinated four years later during a visit to Memphis, to support striking black garbage collectors. James Earl Ray was arrested and convicted of the killing, but there are several conspiracy theories that say he was innocent.

His often quoted “I Have A Dream” speech was delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963 during the “March on Washington”. Source: Martin Luther King, Jr: The Peaceful Warrior, Pocket Books, NY 1968

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

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Here’s a cool collection of articles, tutorials, tools and forum threads to help master that Apache’s .htaccess file. An link essential for webmasters and web programmers…

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SAN FRANCISCO - A 20-year-old California Institute of Technology student set a new world’s record Saturday for solving the popular Rubik’s Cube puzzle, turning the tiled brain-twister from scrambled to solved in 11.13 seconds.

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Found instructions for installing forged balusters on The Wagner Companies site.

Always wear proper safety equipment when cutting, drilling or welding.

The knee wall/stringer must be secure!
This wall will be the base for the balustrade system.

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RICHMOND, Va. - A new round of DNA tests that death penalty opponents believed might finally prove that an innocent man was executed in the United States confirmed instead that Roger Keith Coleman was guilty when he went to the electric chair in 1992. (Read on …)

New TiVo has external SATA port for easy Hard Drive upgrades. Two CableCard 2.0 slots. Internal NTSC, ATSC and QAM tuners. New TiVo remote with backlight too!

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Alas, even after all that plastic surgery, you can’t escape the fact that you’re basically running Windows.

For instance, you open programs from a tiny Start menu, which you activate by pressing a dedicated Windows-logo key. Fine, except that the Start menu has room to list only seven programs. For access to anything else, you must open the Programs folder. But even here, only nine icons fit on each screen, and no list view is available. So you have to do a lot of scrolling.

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HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP) — “Intelligent design” cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial.

Dover Area School Board members violated the Constitution when they ordered that its biology curriculum must include the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III said.

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