In answer to a question I received today”Message: Gen. Garfield made a speech dedicating Arlington National Cemetery. Can you provide the text of that speech?” scroll down in article to  These are the words that James A. Garfield spoke at Arlington Cemetery on May 30, 1868: ADRIAN MORGAN: WE SHOULD GUARD THEIR GRAVES WITH SACRED VIGILANCE: By Ruth King on May 30th, 2011 http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9625/pub_detail.asp “We Should Guard Their Graves with Sacred Vigilance” Adrian Morgan, The Editor The first official celebration of Memorial Day began unofficially in the cemeteries of the south in the years immediately after the end of the Civil War. Here, ceremonies began where the graves of the…

February 11, 2009 9:46 PM For CBS News Sunday Morning, Correspondent Richard Schlesinger talks to an expert on suburbia and two people who were in on it from the beginning. “Really, when we talk about the suburbs, we’re talking about America now, because we are now a suburban nation in the sense that really more people live in suburbs than live in cities and rural areas combined.We really are a totally suburban nation.” So says Ken Jackson of Columbia University, who has been studying the suburbs for 30 years and who has even written a book about them, The Crabgrass Frontier. “Most historians would say that up until 1920, we…

STEVE JOBS IN SILHOUETTE   The student came up the with idea when Jobs resigned, but it’s only since Jobs’ passing, that the design is getting attention. Courtesy Jonathan Mak Apple Logo Features Steve Jobs in Silhouette A Hong Kong student tweaked the Apple logo as a tribute to the company’s former CEO. Fri Oct 7, 2011 11:58 AM ET | content provided by AFP A Hong Kong design student said on Friday he was overwhelmed and felt “unreal” after his somber logo in tribute to Apple founder Steve Jobs caused a worldwide Internet sensation. The design, featuring Jobs’s silhouette incorporated into the bite of a white Apple logo on…

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It was exactly forty years ago today (November 8) that Led Zeppelin IV was released to the world.IV wasn’t the official title for the album. The title was in symbols and it became known as symbols, IV and Zoso depending on who you talked to. IV was Led Zeppelin’s biggest album, selling over 32 million units since its release. It is the third biggest selling album ever in the USA behind Eagles’ Their Greatest Hits and Michael Jackson’s Thriller. Led Zeppelin started work on the album at Basing Street Studios in London in December 1970 while Jethro Tull were in another studio recording Aqualung. Led Zeppelin recorded 11 songs at…

November 6, 2011 Oklahoma Hit by Earthquake for a Second Night in a Row   By SARAH MASLIN NIR For the second night in a row, an earthquake rattled Central Oklahoma late Saturday night, waking residents, breaking dishes and generally startling people more accustomed to natural disasters from above than from below their feet. The quake, which the United States Geological Survey said had a preliminary magnitude of 5.6, occurred about 10:53 p.m. and was centered near Sparks, Okla., a town of 137 people about 45 miles east of Oklahoma City. Justin Reese, manager of the Boomarang Diner in nearby Chandler, Okla., the seat of Lincoln County, said the shaking…

Nov 1, 1512 The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome, one of Italian artist Michelangelo’s finest works, is exhibited to the public for the first time. Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists, was born in the small village of Caprese in 1475. The son of a government administrator, he grew up in Florence, a center of the early Renaissance movement, and became an artist’s apprentice at age 13. Demonstrating obvious talent, he was taken under the wing of Lorenzo de’ Medici, the ruler of the Florentine republic and a great patron of the arts. After demonstrating his mastery of sculpture in such works as the Pieta…