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Brendan I. Koerner has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in…
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In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York…
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The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973.
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A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept…
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Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the…
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Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963,…
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Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a…
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The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and…
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Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can…
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Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American…
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Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending…
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Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are…
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It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the…
— James Madison
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This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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Life is a series of collisions with the future.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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At the very time that Congress is considering a Bush administration request to equip our troops in Iraq with vehicles that are…
— Deneen Borelli
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They're hitting harder now more than ever. The only person who would argue that is someone who has never had a physics…
— Randy Cross
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There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not…
— Joseph Campbell
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
— Jared Diamond
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I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground…
— Alfred Kastler
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New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life.
— Hope Edelman
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I’ve always liked edges, places where one thing becomes another…… transition zones, boundaries and borderlands. I like the mixing that happens, the…
— Philip Connors
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Life is a series of random collisions.
— Jessica Zafra
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Danish studies of 10,000 birds killed revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed…
— David Suzuki
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