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[edit] Sens at Land’s End » The Way We Were: Sens 5, Thrashers 1 ...

4 December 2008, by unknown A combination of factors (Sidney Crosby, the fact that it’s the only early game of the day, and Sidney Crosby) means that the game will be televised nationally on CBC. This should be an interesting game: it will obviously be more of a ...

[edit] Hemp Nayer: is planning a 1/1/9 Hemp Freedom Day - A Modern Boston ...

4 December 2008, by Nayer ... i.e. Josh Gilbert who made the great film a/k/a Tommy Chong a film by Josh Gilbert, to create a 100th Monkey effect on the issue of hemp relegalization, with wisdom expressed among the people on Emancipation Proclamation Day, ...

[edit] New Capitol Visitor Center awes Valley family - McClatchy Washington Bureau

4 December 2008, by

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McClatchy Washington Bureau, DC - <nobr>59 minutes ago</nobr>
Once through security, the Diaz family is overlooking Emancipation Hall -- so named to honor the slaves who helped build the original Capitol. ...
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[edit] Emancipate Yourselves From Mental Slavery: Bill O'Reilly's War on ...

4 December 2008, by Joshua Stein Emancipate Yourselves From Mental Slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds..... but I'll try and help you out anyway. Thursday, December 4, 2008. Bill O'Reilly's War on Christmas ... and free speech. ...

[edit] I’ve lost myself. « Emancipation of A Drama Queen

4 December 2008, by unknown I’m not asking for a GNO once a week or more time during the day to myself. I’m not asking for money to go shopping each month to buy the latest fashions (even though I do hate my current waredrobe). I’m not asking for anything. ...

[edit] Ozarks History: Tipton Ford Train Wreck

4 December 2008, by Larry Wood Many of the dead were black residents of Neosho who were on their way home from an Emancipation Day celebration in nearby Joplin., and a few days later the whole Neosho community came together for a public funeral on the courthouse ...

[edit] Your papers, please - Mcalester News Capital

4 December 2008, by


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Mcalester News Capital, OK - <nobr>5 hours ago</nobr>
He also reminded us that “Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative ...

[edit] Sunshine Cathedral Jamaica: Gay humanists condemn Vatican's stance ...

4 December 2008, by SCJ Arkansas adoption ban hits gay couples - FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Anne Shelley and Dr. Robin Ross are unwinding after a jampacked day of ferrying 4-year-old daughter Eva Mae from preschool to ice-s... 38 minutes ago ...

[edit] Morning Mix: Lawyer -- Boy George 'Too Fat' to Attack Male Escort - Washington Post

4 December 2008, by


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Washington Post, United States - <nobr>8 hours ago</nobr>
Miley Cyrus filing for emancipation from parents?... Paris Hilton lobbies to play TInkerbell in live action "Peter Pan"... Paula Abdul selling house where ...

[edit] State of the Black World: Accepting Our Responsibility - Washington Informer

4 December 2008, by


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Washington Informer, Washington DC - <nobr>9 hours ago</nobr>
The enemy kept Blacks picking cotton using education, labor laws, other legal shenanigans and actual lynchings to prevent “true emancipation. ...

[edit] Namibia: Is This National Reconciliation? - AllAfrica.com

4 December 2008, by


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AllAfrica.com, Washington - <nobr>12 hours ago</nobr>
My fear emanated from the remarks that she made at Omaruru where she was addressing a WAD field day at the beginning of October referring to a recent ...

[edit] Emancipate Yourselves From Mental Slavery: Creation Museum Lands ...

4 December 2008, by Joshua Stein Emancipate Yourselves From Mental Slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds..... but I'll try and help you out anyway. Wednesday, December 3, 2008. Creation Museum Lands on Worst Persons. Seriously, these guys are really stupid. ...

[edit] Best Week Ever » Blog Archive » …OF THE DAY: That Puppy Is Totally ...

4 December 2008, by unknown (Buzzfeed); MILEY WANTS A DIVORCE: Apparently Miley Cyrus has taken a page from the book of Jenny Humphrey and has gotten the idea in her head that she wants to gain legal emancipation from her parents. Miley is a brat yes, ...

[edit] » NEWS ROUNDUP: INVESTIGATORS CONFIDENT IN HUDSON CASE / MEET THE ...

4 December 2008, by unknown After 246 years of slavery, we hoped for an Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln signed the order the next day, but still they had to wait until the 13th amendment in 1865 to get free. This is the beginning of a struggle. ...

[edit] King associates rally behind MLK memorial effort - The Associated Press

3 December 2008, by

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"In 12 years and four months from 1956 to April 4, 1968," Jones said, "Martin Luther King Jr., except for Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, ...

[edit] Whimsical sculptor Franz West wants you to interact with his art - The Canadian Press

3 December 2008, by


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The Canadian Press, BALTIMORE - <nobr>Dec 3, 2008</nobr>
I'm for emancipation of humour." It was only fitting that Baltimore's legendary gross-out comic filmmaker, John Waters, was touring the West show on a ...

[edit] This Day in History: Benazir Bhutto

2 December 2008, by Twenty years ago today, Benazir Bhutto became the first ever female to lead a Muslim country when Pakistan appointed her prime minister December 1, 1988. Oldest child of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Al Bhutto, Benazir received a B.A. from Harvard University where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa, later studying at Oxford. She was repeatedly to call her four years as an undergraduate in Cambridge, Mass. the four happiest of her life, as they instilled in her a deep-rooted respect for democra

[edit] Mural memorializes Mo. train crash - Belleville News Democrat

30 November 2008, by


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Belleville News Democrat,  USA - <nobr>Nov 29, 2008</nobr>
Many of the victims were members of Neosho's black community. They were headed back home after an Emancipation Day celebration in Joplin.

[edit] Mural commemorating 1914 train tragedy to be unveiled - News-Leader.com

28 November 2008, by


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News-Leader.com, MO - <nobr>Nov 28, 2008</nobr>
Many of the dead were members of Neosho’s black community who were returning home after celebrating Emancipation Day in Joplin. A community-wide funeral ...
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[edit] PERSEPHONE’S DAUGHTERS PRESENTS SIMPLE GIFTS

19 November 2008, by PERSEPHONE’S DAUGHTERS PRESENTS SIMPLE GIFTS November 18th, 2008 Posted in Gift Card | No Comments » In these grueling plot now we are attrited more than ever to revalue those eventual gifts that remuneration our lives communication and joy. So says Lynne Wilkinson, the creator and chief of the a cappella organisation Persephone’s Daughters. “Any event, when it nourishes our spirits, delights us, brings us intensiveness or exteroception or noesis or courage, [...] Tags: barbara rohde, cappel

[edit] Antietam National Battlefield - Sharpsburg, Maryland

17 November 2008, by The Antietam National Battlefield and The Civil War. On September 17, 1862, 23,000 soldiers would end up dead, wounded or missing in action over the course of a brutal 12 hour battle at Antietam. This battle would prove decisive to the political and military realities of the Civil War. It was after this battle that President Lincoln issued the preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation that would stoke the fires of war to the blaze that would engulf the nation. The Battle of Antietam

[edit] How To Aquire A Payday Loan

15 November 2008, by Any model citizen would agree with this: financial planning can be challenging! With all the bills you have to pay every single month of every single year, it’s quite difficult to reserve some cash for our favored expenses. Often, we don’t even know where our paychecks go, as they seem to disappear as soon as we receive them. Though a good budget plan would help us save some cash for a rainy day, it would still be hard to answer for unexpected necessities that might suddenly pop up out of th

[edit] Congress's $621M visitor center set to open - MLive.com

10 November 2008, by

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MLive.com, MI - <nobr>Nov 10, 2008</nobr>
In fact, planners say tourists can spend an entire afternoon visiting the space, which includes Emancipation Hall and Exhibition Hall. Emancipation Hall ...
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[edit] A Vote for Un-Americans

4 November 2008, by Standing in line at the tiny Oronoco City Hall, many locals had stickers or buttons representing a veteran for whom they were voting. Coming on the heels of the Day of the Dead, perhaps this is fitting top honor those who have died fighting for a cause they believed to be just. Today, however, I voted for the un-American among us. Since Michelle Bachman uttered her inflammatory statement last month, I have been fixated on her classification of Obama and others as “un-American.” Smacking o

[edit] First Day of Fall

22 September 2008, by     World Hobbit Day Day 266 of 2008 100 days left in this year GOP War Against Truth. Today’s Threat Level: ORANGE - Latest Lies > HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mauiili: Equinox PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Pelim: Fall HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Break off the point of your spear.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “POLITICS: Career of plundering and blundering.” - Benjamin Disraeli WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — A Blizzard of Lies WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — McCain, Stop Lying NE

[edit] Sunday Linky Love

1 September 2008, by Go vote for the best lookalike in Sonia’s Blogger/Celebrity lookalike contest. Does your family have any -isms? We have a few, like “trees” which is what my kids called broccoli for years. Is John McCain’s VP choice, Sarah Palin, the ultimate working mom or is she biting off more than she can chew? New York is considering math tests for kindergartens. Test that could last as long at 90 minutes. Are New York educators and administrators high? Well that’s one way to get out of a speeding tick

[edit] Full Moon - Gone Fishin’

16 August 2008, by     Bratwurst Day Day 229 of 2008 137 days left in this year HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Hoku: Lunar calendar day of the full moon PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Raunpela mun: Full moon HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —  “AIt is a riddle whose answer is well hidden.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “While opinions were arguable, convictions needed shooting to be cured.” (TE Lawrence) WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — WOZ.ORG WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Livestrong Challenge NETCAST OF THE WEEK —

[edit] free spirit: Emancipation Day Holiday

14 August 2008, by noreply@blogger.com (zooms) Today is a public holiday to celebrate Emancipation Day, which was actually on Friday gone. As we walked home from Corn Buck, Dave and friends were by Connie's Shop, and wished us Happy Easter. They were well emancipated, as we may be, ...

[edit] When Rapists Go Too Far

12 August 2008, by Rape has been on the rise in western Jamaica over the past few weeks, but has taken a sick, hideous, outrageous turn for the worst. You may wonder if rape can get any worse as it is the ultimate violation of a woman. Below are excepts from an article entitled: “Rapists Fuel Concern Out West” published in today’s Edition of the Daily Gleaner. An eight-year-old St James girl is the latest victim to suffer at the hands of rapists who went on a rampage last weekend in the parish, assaulting five w

[edit] Whither Emancipation Day?

4 August 2008, by It never ceases to disappoint me when - upon casual enquiry - I learn that Caribbean natives can cite dates and facts about the emancipation of American slaves, but are clueless about the emancipation of our own enslaved ancestors. What makes this ignorance so egregious, however, is that the predominantly (and perennially) white leaders of the United States have never even deemed the emancipation of American slaves worthy of commemoration. By contrast, the predominantly (and perennially) black

[edit] Emancipation an unrealised dream

4 August 2008, by By Raffique Shah Sunday, August 3rd 2008 AS many of my African brethren gathered over the past week to mark Emancipation Day, I reflected on just how emancipated we are. And I don???t mean just Afro-Trinis, I mean all of us who form the melting pot that is Trinidad and Tobago. I started this column by noting that many among the Afro-Diaspora would mark emancipation. Not all. Far from it, the majority of those who descended from the most barbaric form of slavery known to mankind are not even aw

[edit] Today is Emancipation Day

1 August 2008, by August the 1st is Emancipation Day, a public holiday here in Jamaica to commemorate the abolition of slavery on August 1st, 1834. A long period of colonialism followed and we only gained Independence on August 6th, 1962. the arguments have been many as to whether we would have been better off if we were still a colony. This morning, I awoke to the news that a brutal murder occurred 6 miles away in Bounty Hall, where a high school student (Holland High) was raped and stabbed to death. My frien

[edit] Jamaica celebrate emancipation day

1 August 2008, by “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, non but our selves can free our minds” Bob Marley-Redemption Songs On August 1st, 1833 the British parliament enacted the Slavery Abolition Act. 175 years later Jamaica along with several other Caribbean nations celebrate/acknowledge the historic significance as a national holiday. ~ by duttybwoy on August 1, 2008. Posted in Celebrity, Jamaica, music Tags: Bob Marley, emancipation day, Jamaica, slavery

[edit] Today is Emancipation Day

1 August 2008, by On August 1st (Emancipation Day) last year to commemorate the Abolition of Slave Trade Bi-Centenary celebrations we carried a young black oak tree from Rothley Court Hotel to Nelson Mandela Park on our first Emancipation Walk. At the end of the walk we planted the tree in Mandela Park and named it the ‘Freedom Tree’. Last year’s theme was ‘Setting New Roots’. Today, Black Future Group members will be taking the challenge and walking the ‘Walk of Honour’ for the second year running. This year’s

[edit] Hectic Week and Emancipation Day

1 August 2008, by Wow! What can I say? Twas a hectic week. Today is Emancipation Day, a national holiday commemorating African Jamaicans’ freedom from enslavement by the British. On account of this day, I had a short work week. There was too much to do, so I resorted to postponing the letter distribution task until next week. All in all most activities were accomplished, but under much personal stress. The culminating activity, a focus group discussion (FGD) session with members of the visually impaired communi

[edit] Emancipation Day - August 1

1 August 2008, by "The day was August 1, the year 1838 and the event, Emancipation from Slavery. Tears of joy flowed incessantly, while shouts of freedom rang from the mountain tops and the plains, from the men, women and children, who had learnt that they were finally free of the oppressive social and economic system in which they were treated as less than human.On August 1, 1834, all slaves were legally declared free, however, "real" freedom only came in 1838."- excerpt from The Road to Freedom by TANESHA RAMDA

[edit] Emancipation Day Message

31 July 2008, by Dear All: As I sat here in my office I recall the then PM of Jamaica P.J. Paterson and what was suggested by him about the constitution of Jamaica not being a shackle. Please forgive me but I was not able to find his exact words. I recall this as I sat down and realized that August 1st will be Emancipation Day. I started to also recall Bob Marley's words of wisdom as he said in his song "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery". Immediately I begin to wonder what were PJ and Bob talking about

[edit] August One.

30 July 2008, by Today is Emancipation Day--a bank holiday, a time for rest, as I overheard someone say early this morning. In the English-speaking Caribbean most of the islands will be taking this day off, and many will use the time to remember the freedom that was given to slaves by the British. Many of course will think of nothing in particular. At dawn today, Browne's Beach was full of walkers, runners, exercisers, talkers. A day of leisure was starting early and would continue, even though the rain was doin

[edit] Virgin Islands Celebrate Emancipation Day

3 July 2008, by As defined by Wikipedia: Emancipation Day is celebrated in various locations in observation generally of the emancipation of slaves. Different areas celebrate the holiday on different days, for ex: Bermuda (Aug 1), Texas (June 19) and Puerto Rico (March 22). The majority of the countries who celebrate it mark the day sometime in August. For the Virgin Islands the day is celebrated on July 3rd, here’s a brief background (from the VI Daily News): Virgin Islanders across the territory will ring

[edit] MANUMISSION DAY: Freedom For All Slaves In New York State on July 4, 1827 - Annual Event

2 July 2008, by event MANUMISSION DAY: http://tabacco.blog-city.com/celebrate_july_4th_for_2_reasons_independence_day__manumissi_3.htm Originally published @Blog-City Nov 16, 2005

[edit] Security Watch - Flaws - Emancipation Holiday Causes Computers to Hiccup on Tax Day

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[edit] District of Columbia: Office of the Secretary

15 April 2007, by jdfabrikant DC Emancipation Day Fliers

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