Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Confederate prison
Prisoners arriving in October 1864 had no living quarters. They built crude huts with scraps of pine left over from construction of the stockade. Records show that Camp Lawton held 10,229 Union troops by early November. Despite the camp's brief existence, at least 685 prisoners died there.
Road to hell
“The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.” -John Chrysostom,
Greens
Green is the first socio-political movement in which every single leader and spokesperson is filthy rich
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Amazons
There they formed an independent kingdom under the government of a queen named Hippolyta or Hippolyte ("loose, unbridled mare").
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius is the most intolerable of human types. He is an unselfish egoist. An unselfish egoist is a man who has pride without the excuse of passion.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Thomas Peebles
Harvard Medical School pointed to his D in biology and lack of pre-med courses and summarily turned him down.
He went on to discover the measles vaccine.
He went on to discover the measles vaccine.
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