Unknown Bass August 17, 1900 A world’s record 384-pound black sea bass caught by Franklin Schenck of Brooklyn with rod and reel off Catalina Island, California “You cannot survive without that intangible quality we call heart. The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses. If you win for thirty days in a row, that makes no difference if on the thirty-first you have a bad night,
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WPA Federal Art Project poster from New York, 1936 At the start of a week that has been dubbed “historical” and “one of the most important moments in Europe’s history”, I can’t seem to forget the statements by Merkel and Sarkozy sometime mid-October, when both solemnly pledged that by the end of that month the euro crisis would be resolved. We know where that went. And we also know that establishing stronger fiscal ties across the continent, the somewhat vague
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Marion Post Wolcott Negro song and dance May 19, 19392nd and 3rd grade children being made up for their Negro song and dance May Day-Health Day festivities , Ashwood Plantations, South Carolina. Ilargi: 40 years after it assassinated a black man who was one of the bravest and most beautiful people ever to walk this earth, and 45 years after that same man spoke about a dream he had, America -and the entire world with it- has every reason to
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