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Mary Todd Lincoln
Today's feature was submitted for Lincoln's birthday, February 12. Unfortunately, Site of the Day had already 'gone to press;' however, this site is too good not to feature, even if it is a little late. The web developer Steve Feld, previously featured with the ThinkQuest Projects, has collaborated with Lynda Arnold, Mary Todd Lincoln's 21st Century advocate, and Rose Reissman, a PhD education and research consultant, to bring Mrs. Lincoln to life. The group seeks to 'elevate Mary Todd Lincoln to her rightful position, as our respected and admired First Lady.' As Abe is celebrated, let's shine light on his "Molly." You'll find valuable link resources, a charming but challenging interactive quiz, classroom activities, an extensive bibliography and an original theatrical play to download. The play centers around a conversation between "Molly" and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 'whose own story has much in common with Mary's.' Have fun discovering the 'real' Mrs. Lincoln and helping to get her facts out to the public. As Ms. Arnold states, "Mr. Lincoln will also be grateful for your help."
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A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
-- Chinese Proverb
The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
-- Doug Larson
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/////////////////////Now the alternative to despair is courage. And human life can be viewed as a continuous struggle between these two options. Courage is the capacity to affirm one's life in spite of the elements which threaten it. The fact that courage usually predominates over despair in itself tells us something important about life. It tells you that the forces that affirm life are stronger than those that negate it.
Paul E. Pfuetze
American Philosopher and Professor
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//////////////////////Give me a face that makes simplicity a grace. ―Ben Jonson
//////////////////'All that is gold does not glitter'
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
J.R.R. Tolkien
/////////////////Patna, Feb 1 (IANS) Love has a new adversary. It’s Railways Minister Lalu Prasad, the rustic charmer, who has come out against love marriages, saying youngsters ought marry according to their parents’ wishes. “It is my request to all youngsters, men or women, not to go for love marriages. Simply follow the age-old pattern of marriage settled by parents only,” Lalu Prasad told mediapersons here Sunday.
Lalu Prasad is father of nine children - seven daughters and two sons. Three daughters of Lalu Prasad are married. The marriages were “arranged” by Lalu.
////////////////////////First things first. Chocolate is not traditional to the white developed
nations. It was consumed by the Aztecs and Columbus took the idea as well as
the beans back with him to Spain where it was drunk mixed with salt pepper
etc. and even wine; proved to be a hit, taxes were slapped etc. etc. Then
onwards spread to other European nations including UK where it was still
drunk in pubs etc. until 1728 when a chap called Fry established the first
chocolate factory. First bar was made in 1847. it tasted horrible. Then in
around 1876 Mr. Nestle experimented with milk and the first avatar of
present day chocolate emerged. Chocolate bars began in US in 1894 courtesy
one Hershey.
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“Dutton believes the preference fo particular landscape paintings taps into inclinations formed in the Pleistocene era”
//////////////THE ART INSTINCT-EVO EXPLNN-EQUIVALENT TO PEACOCK TAIL
//////////////Just as it is for pigeons, so it is for mankind, Dutton believes. The universal preference for a particular type of landscape painting taps into universal innate inclinations formed during the Pleistocene period, ‘the 1.6million years during which modern human beings evolved’. Featuring, amongst other things, water, open spaces of low grasses interspersed with thickets of trees, evidence of animal or bird life, and an opening up to an unimpeded view of the horizon, this predilection for a particular landscape testifies to a primordial memory of the African Savannas, the scene for a large portion of human evolution 80,000 generations in length. Each element of the enigmatically appealing landscape painting is tailored to suit the needs of these ancient nomads, from the canopy of trees for shelter, to the food and water necessary for human sustenance.
E O WILSONS BIOPHILIA
//////////////////Dutton’s deep sensitivity to all things aesthetic prevents any neat subordination of art to evolutionary schemata”
Despite the ingenuity of Dutton’s approach, drawing upon impressive reserves of cross-disciplinary erudition, there still always seems to be something about art, indeed about humanity, that exceeds the Darwinian framework. This is evident within The Art Instinct itself, especially at the points where Dutton waxes lyrical over creativity, imagination and the sheer self-created wonders of human achievement, be it a Beethoven symphony or the ironising wisdom of Chekhov. At one point he even seems to admit the limits of the evolutionary thesis: ‘Darwinian theory, particularly when it involves sexual selection, does not propose that we can adduce from evolutionary theory itself exactly how or why the arts have come down to us in the ways we now experience them. Evolution remains a kind of natural history – in truth, an unrecoverable prehistory – with twists, turns, and genetic bottlenecks we shall never know about.’ He is not simply saying that we do not know how and why different art forms have developed in the way that they have; he is saying something more definitive: we cannot know. Dutton’s own knowledge, his deep sensitivity to matters aesthetic, prevents any neat subordination of art to evolutionary schemata.
////////////////‘Evolution is the transcendence of animality’, writes Dutton”
A dynamic conception of human history, indeed of human nature, in which man is less the product, than the conscious overcoming, of necessity, would better be able to resist the pitfalls of a purely Darwinian art theory. Dutton recognises this. ‘Evolution is the transcendence of animality’, he writes. Would it really alter the phrase’s meaning, or Dutton’s approach more broadly, to change ‘evolution’ to ‘human history’? This is not to abandon man’s nature, but to recognise what makes him distinct as ‘the self-mediating being of nature’.
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