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Dutch Hero Who Rescued 100 Jews during Holocaust...
Tina Strobos, Dutch student who rescued 100 Jews during the Holocaust, dies at 91
Tina Strobos, a psychiatry student who joined the Dutch underground during World War II and helped save the lives of more than 100 Jews by giving them refuge in the upper floor of her Amsterdam rowhouse, died Feb. 27 at her home in Rye, N.Y.
February 2012
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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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PBS American Experience - The Amish
This was beautifully filmed. Fascinating. Contemplative. Gorgeous. And I learned a lot.
The Amish
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Girl Boxer Aims For Olympics →
Sixteen-year-old Claressa Shields has a dream. She’s in London, at the Olympic finals for women’s boxing, when the announcer calls out, “The first woman Olympian at 165 pounds — Claressa Shields!”
Claressa, a high school student and middleweight boxer from Flint, Mich., is the youngest fighter competing for a place on the U.S. Olympic women’s boxing team.
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xwidep asked: t'is my pleasure, pleased to meet you ; )
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WatchBest Whitney Houston tribute.
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“We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don’t care...”
– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Austrian Novelist
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Gay Judge in TX refuses to marry straight couples →
Catholic priests have refused to marry same-sex couples for years. Now, a Texas judge has an answer to that, saying she will no longer marry straight couples until gay marriage is legal in the state.
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“If you are what you eat, then I’m fast, cheap and easy.”
– Anon
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Maryland, I Just Want to Kiss You →
Maryland Senate passes marriage equality bill. Governor is expected to sign. 8 states down, 42 to go! Can I get a Woo and a Hoo! Holla!
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The Future of Glee - The Atlantic →
3. Naya Rivera is killing it Just as Jane Lynch emerged as season one’s breakout star and Chris Colfer stole the season last year, Naya Rivera is proving to be revelation in season three with her performance as Santana. She’s stepped up to the forefront as one of New Directions’ most exciting soloists, with a raspy, powerful belt that adds more grit to any performance that...
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde
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Really State Representative? Really?!? →
Indiana Republican State Representative thinks the Girl Scouts are destroying American Family Values. Um…NO. The only thing the Girl Scouts destroy is my diet when the cookies go on sale. Idiot.
Who quotes World Net Daily? Who? Might as well cite the Enquirer or Weekly World News.
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Birth Control an Election Issue? →
Really Republicans? Really?!?! Holy crap this is getting out of hand. Educate yourself and vote.
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WatchOne of the best mash-ups/songs/duets to come out of Glee.
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Dead for 32,000 years, arctic plant is revived →
breakingnews:
The New York Times reports:
Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower that died 32,000 years ago, a team of Russian scientists reports. The fruit was stored by an arctic ground squirrel in its burrow on the tundra of northeastern Siberia and lay permanently frozen until excavated by scientists a few years ago.
Photo by Svetlana Yashina
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