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All.com

All.com is a social media-sharing application that uses a hybrid architectural model of P2P and Client-Server technologies to offer a wide array of interoperable applications. Simply put, it is like mixing iTunes, Limewire and Facebook, all in one place!

Features included:

• Collaborative playlists
• Media Player (most video and audio formats)
• P2P client for distribution of files (Limewire)
• Multi protocol Chat (Yahoo!, ICQ, MSN, etc...)
• Groups (physical and virtual event management)
• Forums (attach any media file to a post)
• Spotlight (list of the most popular media on the network)
• Social Profile (personal info, about me, contacts list, message boards, etc...)
• iPod sync and copy (all versions)
• Ripper and Burner (CD and DVD)
• FreeDB access (to view music in an organized manner)
• Alerts (let's you know what's going on)
• Restore (in case HD fails)
• eGifts (like eCards, but better)
• Social Software Aggregator (the most popular sites can be seen within the applicaiton)
• Multiplatform (works on PC, MAC, and Linux)

Pinstripes on Tuesday

Pinstripes on Tuesday is a rock n' roll band from Fort Myers, Florida made up of drummer G, bassist Xak, rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Ugly Joe, and lead guitarist/vocalist Fat Tony. Together, they plan to someday inspire the whole world with their music, but could never do so without the loving support of their biggest fans, especially Missy, Kayla and KT. Add their Myspace profile: www.myspace.com/pinstripesontuesday

PS: Missy owes me money. Fourty buckaroonis.

Debt

Missy owes Fat Tony $40.00, and should know what happens when you think it's a good idea to rob from an Italian guy.

Website

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Luke Buckham

Luke Buckham is an American writer. He was born on June 6, 1980 in Inwood, New York. He grew up in the small New Hampshire town of Fitzwilliam, and currently resides in Keene, New Hampshire. His poems, articles and stories are widely published on the Internet, at sites including Unlikely Stories, Word Riot, Outsider Ink and many others. He also runs a blog called 'O MACHINE' on which he regularly posts articles on local politics and other topics, but his main vehicle is poetry.

Buckham also publishes and a magazine called THE ELITIST, which features his articles in addition to the work of other poets such as Patrick Porter, Matina L. Stamatakis, Greg Devlin and Dylan Jones.

Books by Luke Buckham:

WOKE UP IN FLAMES (Feel Free Press, 2004) MOONLIGHT ON MOLOCH (Unlikely 2.0, 2005) THE WASTELAND IS A WONDERLAND (three-toed sloth press, 2006) MY FATHER AS A DEAD FISH (three-toed sloth press, 2006) TWO 2ND THIRSTY MADELINES (three-toed sloth press, 2007) IT'S A HOGSPLITTER SUNDAY (three-toed sloth press, 2007)

Beef Box " The original BASS of MIAMI revealed "

Sure we have heard of M.C. ADE and MC Shy D , but the truth be told , the orinator of MIAMI BASS belongs to MC CHIEF (Ervin L.German )and SEXY LADY ( Althea Wilson ) titled Beef Box or " Where's the beef?"[2]. They were known as the dynamic duo of the early 80's of hip hop. The first rap duo to be birth out of the loins of 4 Sight Records of Fort Lauderdale Florida.

Born in the back of a record shop called Royal Sounds in the Lauderhill Mall , owned and operated by William " Billy" Hines . The Chief and Sexy Lady grew to become house hold names. Opening for such acts as The Fat Boys and New Edition at David Deal Play Day. Then to successfully tour South Florida. They would have another hit produced by 00 Records and Frank " Thumbs" Cornelius title " Hot Spot "[3]

Along for the ride would be MC ADE their DJ , the son of William " Billy " Hines. Who's nickname was given to him by MC Chief. A- is for Awesome , D- for Deavastating , E- for Everlasting rhymes that he's creating. From there it was just a matter of time that his love for music would graow into the ADE Dynasty.

Sexy Lady " Althea Wilson " now resides in Plantation , Florida where she is invovled in ministry as an evangel of a local assembly. MC Chief " Ervin L. German " now resides in Greensboro , North Carolina where he too is invovled in ministry . A memeber of Evangel Word Ministries [4] where Pastor Otis Lockett Sr. presides . Ervin L. German is a cameraman and editor of the marriage newsletter.

Stinky Oscar

Stinky Oscar: The name given to someone who has a daily ritual bowel movement at the exact time every day. Bowel movements may also be called Stinky Siesta's. Origin of the name comes from Oscar, an employee in Mansfield Texas. Oscar is notorious for his multiple coffee breaks, followed by his Stinky Siesta every morning. Stinky was added to his name because of his ability to slack off every morning and avoid doing work whilst stinking up the restroom and break room.

Anthony Charles Trinder

Anthony Charles Trinder(Tommy Trinder,23rd January 1945 - 11th April 2007) President of the Otago Boxing association based in Dunedin New Zealand. Tommy was a fan of the New Zealand Boxer David Tua[[5].

conj

a conj tends to be a creature that has a very scruffy appearance, they often roam around bangor or llanfair p.g, smoking rollies, and scrounging for a bus fare, it can be spotted by noticing the long hair, silver blob on its face, and mainly all black clothing,

4-Crown Productions

4-Crown Productions was founded in 2002 by: Antowan Bernard Henderson. aka "Murda" started the record company to design web pages,recordings,production,ect. he also started Jack Boy Distributions in 2007 The best Record label / production company the world has ever seen.

Trial

first edit. minor edit of the trial.

Judd Weinberg

A doctor of chiropractic medicine in the atlanta area. He has worked with several professional athleats as well as prfessional ballet dancers.

While in school he served as the president of the Thompson adjusting club and participated in the writing of all three of the textbooks on that topic.

La Grange Missouri

The first trading post was established at the mouth of the Wyaconda River by Godfrey Le Seur.

The City of LaGrange itself was platted by William Wright in 1830 and recorded as a City in 1832.

The City by-laws and rules were drafted in 1845. On February 23, 1853 the City of LaGrange was incorporated as a Special Charter City.

The City of LaGrange Missouri is located in the North East Corner of Missouri, right on the Western bank of the mighty Mississippi River, with the Northern boundary of the City limits being the Wyaconda River. The City of LaGrange, Missouri also has a deep civil war history. More on what's happening daily in the big city is at lagrangemissouri dot com slash gossip dot htm

The City of LaGrange is rich in past history and has a deep foothold in the present. It is loved by all who have lived here, or been touched even briefly by its historic charm and friendliness. Witness the citizens in 1982 working together on its sesquicentennial, the flags flying high in the streets and yards. La Grange shines like a jewel by the ever flowing Mississippi on which much of the history economy of the nation developed. Even though the City of La Grange was founded in 1832 by William Wright, Godfrey Le Seur established the first trading post in 1795 and the City received its State Charter in 1854, it wasn't until 1865 that the State of Missouri was finally made a State. 
   Appointed Governor of Cuba and President of Florida by Charles V. of Spain, Ferdinand De Soto arrived in Florida in 1539 with an enthusiastic and richly furnished company of 600 men. They passed through Georgia and Alabama, reaching the Mississippi in 1541. De Soto was the first white man to discover the Mississippi. He explored the territory and after enduring incredible hardships, bitter winters and battles with the Indians, he died, saying good-bye individually to each member of his expedition. In 1542 his body was placed on the trunk of an evergreen oak and sunk into the waters of the river. 

   In June, 1673 Father Jaques Marquette and Louis Joliet with five French companions descended the Mississippi from the mouth of the Wisconsin to the mouth of the Arkansas river. These were the first white men to look upon the soil now included in the boundaries of Lewis County, Missouri. They came in two canoes, leaving the Straits of Mackinaw on May 17, 1673 and entering the Mississippi June 17, 1673. In March 1680 a French Catholic priest, Father Louis Hennepin, who had accompanied Robert De La Salle to America in 1678-79 and two French companions passed Lewis County on their way to the head waters of the Mississippi. They had been sent by instructions of La Salle and a plan of exploration authorized by the French government. They were captured by the Sioux and as a captive Father Hennepin was taken from hunting ground to hunting ground along the Mississippi for four months. He was freed by Daniel de Greysalon, (known as Duluth) another French explorer and friend of the Sioux. 

   Duluth, Minnesota on Lake Superior was named for this explorer. 

   According to Marquette the country north of the Missouri to the Des Moines River was occupied in 1673 by the tribe of     Indians (We-Messouret). But the Missouri Indians were not here first. Many ages ago the "Mound Builders" occupied this county and left mounds with fragments of pottery, stone axes, arrow and lance heads. Numerous mounds were constructed and the smaller apparently used as sepulchers. Some very large mounds were "artificial elevations sustaining religious structures on which religious rites were celebrated". (Hon. E.C. Squier, Flagler Scrapbook, circa 1850). One sepuicheral mound on the banks of the Ohio River in Virginia is 90 ft. high and 300 ft. in diameter at the base. About 1843 a mound was opened 2 miles south of Canton and a human skeleton 8 ft. in length at a depth of 6 ft. was found. In the same neighborhood on a farm belonging to the Jennings in 1878, a large mound was found, originally 50 ft. in length and 10 ft. high. Across from Canton on the river-Indian Grave Lake contains many mounds. In this county chiefly in the bottom lands other mounds have been opened where fragment human bones, pottery, beads, etc. were found. Burial places have been found along the Wyaconda containing numerous red Indian skeletons of a more recent period is conjectured that there had been Indian battles in area, but on the other hand it is thought that since there were Indian encampments along the Wyaconda, burial sites were located on a common ground. 

   In 1682 Sieur Robert de la Salle made his memorial voyage floating down the Mississippi in the spring to Gulf and took possession of this territory in the name of King of France, Louis XIV. He named it Louisiana. La Salle was later murdered by his own mutinous men). -1762 the Louisiana Territory was ceded by France to Spain and retroceded to France in 1801. France then sold The United States in 1803 for $15,000,000, a little more 3 cents an acre. Northeast Missouri was included in transaction. 

   Bales of fur were the first commercial items on upper Mississippi "long before the river carried its from Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri mines, its long cargoes from northern forests, its harvests of grain the prairies". 

   Pierre Laclede with a company of trappers, hunters mechanics set out from New Orleans and in February founded St. Louis. He sent his men in every direction search for furs and skins. Some came as far as the Moines river and doubtless visited this country in search fur bearing animals. Otter, beaver, muskrat and other bearing animals were abundant along the Wyaconda North and South Fabius and the Bay areas. During Revolutionary War fear of the northern Indians kept at the most daring hunters, trappers and explorers away while Sacs and Sioux raided exposed settlements. After 1795 hunters, trappers and explorers visited Northeast Missouri in increasing numbers. Also in 1795 Godfrey Le Seur, a Frenchman, came up the Mississippi from St. Louis established a trading post at the mouth of the Wyaconda river. He built four log cabins. 

   This county was named after Capt. Merriwether Lewis who had served as President Thomas Jefferson's per secretary. After the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson wanted to know more about the topography of this new acquisition and in 1804 Lewis and Capt. William Clark were sent voyage of exploration, known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition. In 1804 the Louisiana Territory was split into two portions. In 1807 Lewis was appointed Governor Louisiana Territory. While returning to Washington in 1809, at the age of 35, he allegedly committed suicide, shooting himself the head. In 1812 Missouri was organized as a territory with a governor and general assembly. The first governor (1813-1820) was Wm. Clark. 

   The first important American expedition on the upper Mississippi was led by a U.S.A. officer, Lieutenant Zubulon Pike. He was authorized to lead an expedition to the head waters of the Mississippi. He left St. Louis on August 9, 1805 with a party of 20 men and a 70 foot keel boat loaded with provisions. With a good wind he could make 20 miles a day against the current. His diary indicates that he encamped near the mouth of the Fabius river where he found a "farmer" with an Indian wife. It was surmised that perhaps this was Le Seur who had moved south of his location. When Pike was in vicinity of the present La Grange he made 39 miles up the river in one day without incident, except, as recorded in his diary, "passing three boats belonging to traders or trappers". His second led him to Colorado, where he discovered the renowned mountain now called Pike's Peak. He was killed the war of 1812. 

There were skirmish raids at Monticello, Canton, Edina, Ewing, Shelbyville and other communities. There were bushwhacking incidents at Novelty and Colony. Kirksville was the scene of a large engagement with Colonel John McNeil leading the Federals and Colonel Joseph C. Porter in command of the Rebels. The battle was fought in the town with the Rebels hidden in every house, "every garden fence is an ambuscade and the court house a castle with its lower windows boarded up and loop holed and all its rooms filled with sharpshooters". (Mo. history)

   In this battle A. H. Waggoner was killed. McNeil won the fight and Porter retreated with his men is disarray. The Federals followed and it was "save himself who can". Desertions were numerous and unrestrained. In a few hours 500 men had drifted away, many set out for their homes others started for Illinois and Iowa. Some of McNeil's prisoners were convicted of parole violations and shot. Porter captured Palmyra, releasing 45 Confederate prisoners. One of these, a soldier named McKenny, was in jail for shooting a prisoner and an aged citizen of Palmyra named Andrew AlIsman. The soldier was taken into the brush and shot. Mr. AlIsman was murdered a few nights later. In retaliation for this murder, Gen. McNeil executed ten men at Palmyra on the 18th of October, a circumstance called the "Palmyra massacre" and still recalled by the present citizens of Northeast Lewis County. COL Porter moved on to Springfield and Rolla, Mo. He retreated into Arkansas and was defeated at Hartville, where he was mortally wounded. 

   With the surrender of General Lee and General Johnston's armies, the fall of Richmond and imprisonment of Jefferson Davis the war was ended. Northeast Missouri received the news with great delight. 

   In the spring of 1865 lawlessness and terror prevailed over much of Missouri. Gangs of criminals on horseback were running loose to prey on the people. Over most of the nation the war's agony ended with the surrender of Lee, Johnston and Kirby Smith, but not in Missouri. At the close of the war, Union troops were hunting down and killing many of the guerrillas, but the military was rapidly withdrawn, leaving weak civil authorities to cope with widespread outlawry by such bloody public enemies as the James brothers, the Youngers, Dave Pool, Archie Clements and all their breed. 

   When a convention to draft a new constitution met in St. Louis in January, 1865, deliberations were made against this somber background. The first move was to enact an ordinance emancipating slaves in the state. Thus, Missouri became the first state to abolish slavery, one month before Congress submitted the Thirteenth Amendment. The new Missouri constitution contained the "Ironclad Oath" which excluded from immediate participation in state and local government all those who had taken any part directly or indirectly in the Rebellion. Professional people were required to take a special oath as a test to eliminate those who had lent themselves to the secession movement. 

   This action was consistent with that taken by the Thirty-ninth Congress which refused to admit Senators and Representatives from the states lately in rebellion until they had been reconstructed. In the 1865 Constitutional Convention was an ordinance stipulating that all judges of the Supreme Court, other state courts, sheriffs, circuit attorneys and county recorders should be ousted from their offices. The presumption was that they were carryovers from the regime of slave power and any decisions they made would reflect the regime of slave power. This drastic measure was adopted by a narrow margin of those who qualified under its provisions to vote. This reflected the fear by Missourians that the war might be succeeded by domestic discord and anarchy. They distrusted the formex enemies of the national government and acted to make sure that the awful cost of victory in preserving the Union should not have been spent in vain. They did not want to be left helpless without the protection of Federal troops. A part of the history of Reconstruction in Missouri, and one that the revisionists stress, relates to the state's general progress after the war. From 1869 to 1871 the state government met through sound measures the heavy financial burden left by the war. It was then that important steps were taken in the progress of education. The Missouri School of Mines was established at Rolla, the College of Agriculture at Columbia and state normal schools at Kirksville and Warrensburg. 

   Lawless outlaw gangs continued to harass the state and it was not until 1881 that their power was broken. Jesse James was killed and many other outlaws hanged, jailed by the law, shot by sheriffs, or lynched by enraged mobs. Others went into hiding. Some former secessionists left LaGrange and other communities to live in Arkansas. An army of embittered followers of Sterling Price and Jo Shelby crossed the border into Mexico, still under arms and unreconciled to the war's outcome. Having survived the terrible ordeal of the Civil War and its aftermath, Missourians looked forward to a shining future. Historians have concluded that "for the most part the Radicals in the 1865 convention and in the legislatures during these times proved to be farsighted." (William E. Parrish). A comparison of Missouri with Kentucky, a neighboring slave state that refused to secede, justifies this conclusion. After the war Kentucky's rebel leaders stepped into the political vacuum and began to assume the power they had relinquished in 1861, with no loyalty qualifications for voters or office holders. The old laws limiting Negro testimony in the courts and blocking a white man's conviction on the word of a Negro witness remained. The Ku Klux Klan flourished in Kentucky and became a curse to the state through its intimidation that made justice a mockery in the courts. 

   In Missouri, as in the nation, the revisionist view of Reconstruction modifies the harsher critical judgments of the past. Such controversial actions of the 1865 convention as the test oaths, the ouster of state and local officials in order to start the post-war era with a clean slate, and the registration of voters by a central agency were not purely arbitrary actions by a tyrannical Radical leadership. They were consistent with national policy as defined by Congress. They served the purpose of transition from war to peace and were intended to be only temporary in their application. 

   The first treaty with the Indians was made at St. Louis November 3, 1804. After the war of 1812, another treaty and the last was made on August 4,1824. The Sacs the British, with Black Hawk as a leader, in the War of 1812. The Indian tribes, Sacs, Foxes and lowas claimed Northeast t Missouri Territory until 1844, when they forced into Kansas. In the spring of 1819 John Bozarth, his son-in-law, John and his eldest son, Squire Bozarth came from and settled 2 miles south of LaGrange. At the the ruins of Le Seur's four log cabins at the mouth of Wyaconda could be plainly seen but Le Seur had abandoned his post on the Wyaconda. Mr. Bozarth built a log cabin and planted 20 acres of corn. In the fall he returned to Kentucky and brought his own family, another son-in-law, Jacob Weaver and his slaves. After this settlement was established other settlements followed. About 1822 John McKinney built a mill on the Wyaconda, near the mouth. Soon after a town was laid out nearby and called "Wyaconda". "Of this town "Beck's Gazatteer" written in 1822 and published in 1823 says: "The surrounding country is fertile, and is handsomely interspersed with prairie and woodland. A saw and grist mill are already in operation here and other improvements are progressing 

   The mill was soon washed away by the backwater and never rebuilt. It is doubtful that this settlement ever contained more than 3 houses and Mckinney's mill. Just below the mill in 1832 the town of LaGrange was established. John S. Marlow was the first man to settle on the present site of LaGrange in 1828. He and an Indian trader named Campbell were the first merchants. River commerce had begun in 1820. The first tavern was kept by Joseph Miller. In April 1823 a steamboat, Virginia went up the river from St. Louis to Fort Snelling, Minnesota. In 1830 the steamboat age had come to the upper Mississippi. By 1840 there was a "pageant of commerce between St. Louis and St. Anthony Falls in Minnesota, the head of navigation". The 1850's were the great years of river trade. In 1821 (Aug.10) Missouri was admitted to the Union as a State. With the exception of Louisiana, it was the first state admitted west of the Mississippi. On July 21, 1831, the Marion County Court created Union Township. In 1830 William Wright platted LaGrange and recorded it in the County of Marion in 1832. In 1837 the first addition to the original plat was made by Wright and Shropshire. The plat of La Grange was recorded 9 years after Gen. LaFayette visited U.S. and LaGrange was named in his honor, being the name of his residence in France and the principal street was named La Fayette. La Grange is a French word for "The Granary", and La Fayette street is now Main Street. 

   Elections in Union Township were held at the house of John Wash, Jr. whose father was one of the Revolutionary soldiers. On June 5, 1833, the first term of the Lewis County Court was held at the home of John Bozarth, which was considered a temporary seat of Justice. 

   In July 1833 cholera spread in Palmyra. 107 people died out of a population around 600. Dr. Higgins, a physician living in LaGrange attended the ill. Col. John Bullock, who lived just above LaGrange went to Palmyra and communicated the disease to his family which six members whom died. Some of the inhabitants of La Grange. moved into the country. Personal intercourse was forbidden by frightened families. Dr. Higgins sent his family to a relative but continued to serve the stricken. He, too, died from cholera. Coffins for the victims were made in the country by John Loudermilk and brought to "lover's leap". From there they were taken away in canoes as fast as needed. Cholera reappeared in 1849 with several deaths and again in 1857. 

   In the summer of 1832 the Black Hawk war caused considerable uneasiness among the settlers. A strong block house for protection and defense against the Indians was built a mile west of the Fabius on the Nall claim. 

   The first brick house was built by John La Fon, near LaGrange in 1836; the next by John Nunn near his mill. Edmond Weber and Judge Wm. Hagwood's brick houses were put up in 1838. James and Ben Hale made the brick and Joseph Buckley made the woodwork. In 1836 C. S. Skinner became postmaster at LaGrange. 

   LaGrange was selected by its founders on account of its river front, deep water close to shore, the narrowing valley and higher land, the hills overlooking the great river and the fertile farm lands adjacent. Early in the 30's LaGrange became a steamboat landing, settlers looking for rich farming lands along the streams of the northeast Missouri disembarked here. Steamers would often lie for several days at the wharf discharging and receiving goods. Long wagon trains came to deliver produce and stock up with goods from the wholesale houses. 

   Located on the LaGrange-Memphis trail was the Wayside Inn built in 1835 and the old teamsters driving their stock to the market in LaGrange would stop at the Inn to rest and feed their stock. Nearby were old camp meeting grounds, a dam and a water well. Salt licks could be seen near the inn and hunters lay in wait for the deer coming for salt. There were three large fireplaces, a porch on one side running the entire length of the building, 12 rooms and two stairways. 

   Due to its strategic water front site it grew rapidly. There were pork packing plants, cooper shops, distilleries, flour mill, tobacco factories, button factories and other diversified industries due to the extensive river traffic. The first citizens of the county were from Kentucky, Virginia and a few from Tennessee, and a few from the free states. The earliest substantial homes were built around a park on top of a hill. 

   The first newspaper in La Grange. was the La Grange. Free Press in 1846. Booth and Doyle were the publishers and R.L. Doyle the editor. The first trustees were Joseph Miller, Thomas J. Richards, A. C. Waltman, William P. Skinner and T. C. Threlkeld. 

   In May 1837 B. G. Houston and P. B. Pritchard were merchants. Dr. R. Craughton was the practicing physician. In November 1839 Dr. J. B. Wiggington opened a tavern. 

   In 1845 J. L. Jenkins, Dr. Joseph Hays and C. S. Skinner comprised the committee who drafted the by-laws and rules for the town. Lewis County had been separated from Marion County and the town of LaGrange became the first incorporated in the new county. On February 23, 1853, LaGrange was incorporated as a city by the Missouri Legislature. Three other cities were granted a charter at the same time: St. Louis, Kansas City and St. Joseph. The LaGrange charter was drawn up by David Wagner, a young lawyer who had a 6 x 3ft office on Main Street. He became the first man elected City Attorney, and office he held until August, 1862, when upon the issuance of Governor Gamble's celebrated order, No. 19, men of Northern Missouri flew to arms. David was elected senior captain of Company A by the hundreds who came to enlist at LaGrange. Later he was elected state senator, then became circuit judge and finally Judge of the Supreme Court of Missouri. 

   The first mayor was G. M. Triplett. In 1854 the councilmen were G.M. Triplett, Joseph Hay, John Talbot, C. S. Skinner, A. C. Waltman and J. L. Jenkins. The first city clerk was Judge William Waggoner, who wrote the statutes for the State of Missouri. At this time LaGrange was known and recognized as an important commercial point and few other places on the river between St. Louis and Keokuk did a more thriving business. U.S. Senator Thomas Hart Benton spoke here in 1850 in an effort to obtain votes for his continuance in the U.S. Senate, also Hon. James Green and Thomas L. Anderson. 

   Borne by the river, prosperity flowed into LaGrange in the 5Os and 60s. Waves of industrious, thrift German immigrants came up from New Orleans. Steamboats clustered around the wharf. River front factories, packing plants and mills flourished. Pioneer log cabins gave way to comfortable and valuable frame and brick houses. There was a considerable number of slaves whose labor contributed to the production of wealth of this county. 

   People were chiefly engaged in agriculture. Considerable quantities of hemp were grown in the bottom lands and rope walks were established. Hemp, corn, wheat, tobacco, bacon and pork and other articles of produce were sent to the markets of the world by the river steamboats, which were running regularly. Thomas Pryce, an immigrant Welshman, landed in New York at the age of 24. He walked from St. Louis to LaGrange arriving here on December 23, 1849. He became an articulate and prolific journalist whose humor and keen observations make the history of LaGrange live today. 

   In 1851 an extraordinary flood of the Mississippi covered the low lands and caused considerable loss of property. The town of Tully was submerged and almost entirely lost. The waves washed Third Street in Canton and the current ran through Second like a "mill-race". At this time the leading citizens from Canton (included were a former U.S. Senator, James S. Green, Charlie Bland and Chauncey Durkee) came to LaGrange, seeking to buy an interest here from Mr. Skinner. They contemplated abandoning Canton as a town. Mr. Skinner told them he would sell them all the lots they desired, but he did not want any partnership in the town. Mr. Pryce, reporting this visit, added that in his opinion the decision was unfortunate as, in the future there would probably be one larger town than both towns could make. 

   At this time water covered the wharf. Water was in the Skinner storeroom and warehouse. The pork men were busy moving their meat from the cellars to the west side of front street, owned and occupied by Durrell and Triplett, where the water had not yet reached the first floor. Just then the workers noticed a steamboat coming up the river. It landed south of the wharf and threw its stage plank into the door of the pork house. In a very short time the crew commenced carrying the meat and piling it on the boat. They continued working until all the meat was removed. A large crowd had gathered watching this rare sight. The captain invited some merchants to ask them to visit the boat. They gladly accepted and when the gong sounded for dinner, all were invited to participate. 

   In 1853 the city of LaGrange was organized and in 1854 the City Council let a contract to open grade and put in gutters on Washington Street. As there was not a good wharf the surplus rock was used to improve the wharf. In 1855 the work was completed but the wharf did not belong to the city. Improvements cost $7,500 but the wharf was on private property. That year Mr. Skinner sold out his business to give more attention to the city affairs, particularly the wharf. In 1856 he took a turn at politics, having joined the "Know Nothing" party. He gave his time to that and planned a fabulous barbecue for the 4th of July. The great Dr. McDowell, a surgeon from St. Louis was to arrive by boat to speak at the affair. That morning thunder and lightning were followed by torrents of water. The barbecue pits were flooded. The weather cleared and Mr. Skinner had his two blacks, Tom and Dan, in charge of the cooking. When Tom got the dinner ready, he retired to decorate his person and soon was on the scene with a clean white frilled shirt and jacket, a long white apron and a large carving knife. Mr. Skinner ordered that everyone who had lost dry wood should report to him and he would replace it, but no claims were received. Every housekeeper brought her choice preserves, canned fruits, cakes, pies, etc. When the guest of honor appeared by boat, after being delayed by the storm, he in his speech to the group, insulted them all. He belittled the foreigners, especially "the lop eared Dutch". "He flayed the Germans alive and then dissected their bodies and consigned their spirits to the internal regions, using the most intemperate, blasphemous and bold obscenity, I ever heard in a public address on America's patriotic and grand day of Jubilee." Mr. Skinner, after the barbeque, soaking wet, contracted pneumonia. Aug. 1, 1856, in "Early Days In Old LaGrange. Several delegations were sent to Monticello to examine records on the wharf and all delegations reported that there were none on record. So "of course, the money spent on these delegations had been thrown away." 

   The Wyaconda Baptist Association, in 1856, voted to establish within its boundaries a Male and Female Seminary. Rev. James M. Lillard was appointed traveling agent to raise money for building purposes. LaGrange contributed the most money and was chosen for the site. The building was completed and the school opened Sept.15, 1858. The first president was W. M. Ellis who retained the office until the Civil War. The state legislature granted a charter on March 12, 1859, to the La Grange Male and Female College". It was well patronized and flourished until it was closed by the war and became a military headquarters for Federal troops. At the end of the war, Dr. J. F. Cook of Kentucky became president, assisted by his brother, Prof. J. N. Cook. They labored zealously to clear the college from debt. After 30 years of service President Cook resigned and was succeeded by Dr. J. T. Muir. In 1929 was moved to Hannibal and is now called the Hannibal - LaGrange College. The LaGrange National "American", August 6, 1859, carried a notice regarding subscriptions of stock for a La Grange branch of the Union Bank of Missouri. An appeal directed to the citizens to take stock in the bank. It opened on August 29, 1859. John M. Cashman was the president and J. N. Hagood, the cashier. The directors John Cason, Willis Anderson, Simeon Connelly, William Hagood, Abram Oyster, John C. Nunn, William Redding, John H. Talbot, James P. Turner and John M. Inan. This accommodation was much appreciated as it the citizens from going to Quincy, Palmyra  for banking privileges. (Thomas Pryce & Hist. of 1909.) Later in July, 1866, the LaGrange Savings organized with I.D. Alverson, president, and Joseph A. Hay, cashier. In 1871 this became the First of LaGrange. It was burglarized February 28, 1887. 

   As early as 1840 the abolitionists began to assert themselves. Late in 1842 an antiabortion movement was in Canton In LaGrange in 1850 secession and slavery questions were a cause of division in the churches. The Episcopal Church, South, represented by Enoch Marvin and the Northern Episcopal Methodist Church, represented by Mr. Chivington, took opposite views. At this time the Baptist and Presbyterian churches were not finished and the Methodist Episcopal was jammed by crowds standing in the church and outside in the cold by windows to hear these two men discourse on the issues. Later Enoch Marvin joined the Confederate Army as a captain and Chivington the Union Army as a Colonel of Calvary. 

   Abolitionists across the river in Illinois were actively involved in "tampering" with slaves. The headquarters of the abolitionists were at Quincy where they had a college presided over by Dr. Richard Eels, called the Eels Institute or the Mission Institute. In July 1841 three abolitionists crossed the Mississippi: George Thompson, James Burr and Alanson Work. They planned to spirit away a number of slaves belonging to R. N. Woolfolk and others. The Negroes however, were faithful to their masters and betrayed the scheme. The liberators were actually arrested by the slaves they came to free. The men were taken to Palmyra and sentenced to 12 years in the penitentiary. Later a dozen slaves in Lewis and Marion Counties ran away and aided by the Illinois abolitionists escaped. "Tom", a slave of Dr. John La Fon and "Lew", a slave of William Hagood, made a break for freedom. John A. Johnson and William Warner were indicted for this. Both men were acquitted. Eels was arrested for aiding slaves to escape, but never brought to trial. A group from Palmyra crossed the river on the ice and burned Eels Institute. 

At the peak of its prosperity, LaGrange was crippled by the Civil War.

   In 1860 the presidential ejection of Lincoln was received by the people of Lewis County with some dissatisfaction, but a majority were disposed to acquiesce to the fact. The first organized expression of opinion was made at a public following April a large secession meeting was held LaGrange and a secession flag raised over the store of J. H. Talbot and Co. Young men and boys went about streets wearing secession cockades and cheering for Jeff Davis. A week later another meeting was held Monticello and a secession flag was raised over the court house. Senator Green made a strong speech in favor immediate secession. At Canton other secession meetings were held. The Union men of this county were strongly opposed to abolition and later accepted the emancipate under strong protest. 

   In spring, 1861, the secessionists were strong but a month later the Federalists began to move. LaGrange's Charlton H. Howe, John Cashman, John Holland and others were leaders. Senator Green canvassed northeast Missouri the secessionists. Justices Martin E. Green and Ralph Smith, together with John H. Talbot of LaGrange were active secessionists. Hundreds of men enrolled a organized with the purpose of resisting secession a fighting on the side of the United States. The home guard was organized in LaGrange, and a German company men joined the guard. On the 4th of July, 1861, at Canton there was a scuffling resulting in the death of John HOWE a member of the home guard. After Howell's death Federal troops in camp at Quincy were sent to Lewis County Colonel Palmer with 800 men arrived on a steamer, "Black Hawk". They were quartered in the college. Judge Martin E. Green was elected Colonel and Captain Joe Palmer was chosen lieutenant colonel of the secessionists. Both m became excellent military leaders. Martin Green and his brother operated a saw and grist mill on the Wyaconda. the close of his term with the state Guards, he entered into service with the Confederate troops. He took part engagements at Athens, Shelbina, Lexington, Crane Creek Pea Ridge, defense of Cornith, Port Gibson, Champion Hills and the defense of Vicksburg, where he was killed June 27, 1863. Colonel David Moore became the leader the Union cause at Athens and defeated Col. Green forces. This was the fight between Missourians for Northeast Missouri which was over with this battle. 

When Col. Joseph C. Porter arrived in Lewis County obtain recruits for the Confederates, Lewis County was the scene of some stirring incidents. The county swarmed with Rebel raiders and Federal parties. Business of all kinds was suspended. Alarming reports and exciting rumors were constantly circulated. The citizens were foraged upon often robbed and maltreated by both sides. Nearly a able-bodied men had taken up arms and their families left to care for themselves. Troops were billeted in the college buildings at LaGrange and in private homes causing the inhabitants much distress. Some citizens were asked to feed the men three meals a day. The soldiers were paid downtown at what now the location of the Solter Hardware Store.

   The people were given a taste of Civil War and the found it bitter and unwholesome. July 9 a company of rebel partisans visited Monticello, held the town a few hours, taking from the citizens a considerable quantity of boots shoes, guns, etc. The County Treasurer was taken prisoner and forced to pay $100 for his release. 

   The next day a number of Union citizens started for Canton for safety but met a detachment of enrolled militia sent to Monticello to protect them. Horses were seized and Staples' grist mill and distillery was burned. The Confederates raided Canton on August 2, 1862, where ex-Senator James S. Green was taken prisoner. . but eventually released. A skirmish occurred near the site of Maywood when 28 men from LaGrange militia were on a scouting trip. A man was killed, one wounded and two taken prisoner. The next day a strong force of Federals left La Grange and scouted the country thoroughly but encountered nothing. 

   Times were changing and a strong party grew in Missouri favoring emancipation, in this party were numbers of slave owners. Company A of the Twenty-First Missouri Infantry was comprised of men from Lewis County. It was engaged in active service in northeast Missouri, in scouting the country and clearing it of rebel partisans and preventing their organization. The regiment participated in the battle of Shiloh, Corinth and Vicksburg. It was also engaged in the battle at Tupelo, Miss. 

   Council meeting February 13, 1852 - A "citizen's committee" is in the process of being formed for the purpose of creating interest in the betterment of our city. It is our goal that each committee can develop programs that won be approved by the city council. Improvements in our business district and residential areas can be experienced through cooperation of civic and fraternal organizations, our river front, probably our greatest asset, can be made into a major attraction for tourists as well as for our own enjoyment. Our city park, the old and newly acquired, needs to be developed for the use and pleasure of all ages. 

   Council Meeting December 4, 1849 - The board took up the subject of fires and the results there from which after being discussed by the members generally. There was an ordinance passed as to prevent the firing of firecrackers within the city limits. 

   In 1858 and through 1860 Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall lived in La Grange. he served two terms under Woodrow Wilson. 

   Council Meeting December 3, 1858 - A report of the city engineer was presented in relation to work done on Monroe Street by J. A. Hay for one third of the original contract for opening Monroe Street which was approved by the board. An account in favor of W. C. Gantt was presented one dollar and fifty cents which was allowed. There was an account presented in favor of Jas. Hutton for furnishing bedding for the calaboose for seven dollars and seventy-five cents for six months service as councilman from 1st of April last both audited which was allowed and drafts ordered for the amounts. A petition of J. Turner, H. Flagler and others asking the board to open or widen Benton Street at the graveyard. 

   Council Meeting February 15, 1859 -  There were two accounts presented duly audited, one in favor of John H. Barnett for hauling for the city for $3.60 and one in favor of Mr. Wright for $1 for paper and candles for the use of city hall, both of which was allowed and drafts ordered drawn for these amounts. Ordinance No.62 was presented and passed in relation to the storage of gun powder. 

   Council Meeting, July 15, 1869 - The following resolution was resolved by the city council as follows: That the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury for the purpose of buying instruments for the German Association Brass Band of LaGrange, Mo. Said instruments to belong to the City of LaGrange, Mo., and that a committee of three be appointed by the city who shall take charge of said instruments and take receipt for each instrument taken by any member of the band and that the city auditor is hereby directed and required to draw a warrant on the city treasurer in favor of the committee appointed under the resolution for the purpose of carrying this into effect and that said committee report to the city council at some future meeting the German Association Brass Band of LaGrange, Mo., is to have the exclusive right and use of the instruments so long as they keep their band by practicing at least once a week, otherwise the city shall take charge of the instruments. 

   In the latter part of 1870 and early part of 1871, the railroad known as the Mississippi and Missouri Air Land RailRoad was constructed from West Quincy through La Grange. In 1872 La Grange had two railroads running through town and a large manufacturing company called the La Grange Iron & Steel Rolling mill was visualized but never opened the door. Until 1906 the factory stood idle until Gardner-Governor Works of Quincy took the plant over. 

       In 1890 Ella Ewing who was the world's tallest woman was born five miles west of La Grange. 

       In 1895 a handstand or gazebo was erected in the north east part of the LaGrange City Park. At this time the park was the center of community activities, chautauquas, religious revivals, patriotic celebrations, ice cream socials and band concerts were held there. A civic band sometimes called "Trombone Band" was composed of about 18 or 20 citizens and flourished for many years. Bandstand was originally built to full 2 story height, sometime later the bandstand was reduced to one story because it had become dangerously weak. The fence around the park was of iron pipe 

   Electricity was turned on in 1898 and although only one residence had lights, nearly all stores were wired. On October 17, 1899, a street fair was held in La Grange attracting 5,000 visitors. In 1898, La Grange had the only woman steamboat agent and Miss Lena Bohon was the agent for five boats, The St. paul, The Quincy, The Sidney, the Dubuque, and The Diamond Jo Line. 
 
  The La Grange Pearl Button Co was formed in 1894 and the Missouri Pearl Button factory was formed in 1899. The Union Button Company was formed in 1900 along with The Independent Button Company.

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Dragon Slayer

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Vixens Cakery

What's a Vixen?

Totally gorgeous and amazing human female. With the cutest smile and a sexy body. Loves partying and has her share fun, but is incredibly smart. Be warned, can get extremely horny and may jump you unexpectedly.

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Baridhara Mohila Samobaya Samity, Ltd.

Baridhara Mohila Samobaya Samity, Ltd., is a women's financial cooperative in Dhaka, Bangladesh. With nearly 40,000 depositers and members, it is believed to be the largest women's organization in Bangladesh, and is thought to be the largest women's financial cooperative in Asia. It began on a small scale in 1989 as an initiative of Worldvision modelled on Canadian credit unions. When Worldvision wished to terminate the project, the membership undertook to keep it in operation; its main growth as an institution took place after Worldvision withdrew from it. Its membership is almost entirely made up of very poor women who are able to enter into term deposit programmes and to borrow at a much lower interest rate than the famous microcredit programmes of Bangladesh.

Baridhara Mohila Samobaya Samity, Ltd., has also established a charitable partnership with Amarok Society of Canada to provide education programmes in very poor neighbourhoods where good quality education is seldom available, training mothers, most of whom were entirely illiterate (women's illiteracy rate is approx. 80% in Bangladesh) to be local teachers of their own and their neighbours' children.

Van Zandt Milmore

Early Life

Billy Van Zandt was born and raised in Middletown, New Jersey in a family with a line of Jersey heritage dating back to the mid 1600s. While his brother, Steven Van Zandt, would follow the Jersey coast music scene, Billy was drawn to the theater. His love for Lucille Ball’s physical humor became a great influence on his brand of comedy.

Jane Milmore was born the first of five girls in Laramie, Wyoming, far from where she would spend most of her upbringing in New York and New Jersey. While attending high school in Keansburg, New Jersey, she became a successful television commercial actress in nearby New York City.

It was during their high school years that the VanZandt /Milmore team met, not knowing that they would become sometime acting accomplices and full-time writing partners. The fateful meeting took place at the Barn Theater in Rumson, New Jersey while the two were involved in a high school drama competition. The very next summer would see them co-starring together for the first time in a production of Neil Simon’s “Star Spangled Girl.”

Career

Van Zandt and Milmore’s collaboration has made them two of the most often produced playwrights in the world, being named “the masters of modern farce” by The New York Times. Van Zandt began to write and star in a number of his own plays before beginning his long collaboration with Milmore. Their first play as a team, “Love, Sex, and the I.R.S.,” is produced somewhere everyday of the year. After making his film acting debut in “Jaws 2,” Van Zandt moved to Los Angeles to further pursue his acting career. Milmore, coming from her commercial acting background, joined him and it was there they were asked by Bob Newhart to write for his self-titled television series “Newhart.” The success of their collaboration on that project jump started the last twenty years of their career together, which have been packed with stage acting, producing, and writing for film and television.

Theater

All those diverse talents come together when they get the chance to perform in their own shows. A few include their off-Broadway productions of “Silent Laughter” and “Drop Dead!,” as well as Billy’s solo stint in “Moon Over Buffalo” starring JoAnne Worley in its West-Coast premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse. The 21 plays Billy and Jane have co-written have been published by Samuel French and produced in over 20,000 theaters worldwide, translated into multiple languages. Additionally, their plays have starred the likes of Craig Bierko of “Boston Legal,” “Seinfeld’s” Barney Martin, Rose Marie of “Dick Van Dyke” fame, as well as Eva Longoria from “Desperate Housewives” in the wedding comedy “What the Rabbi Saw.” Even Oscar winner Olympia Dukakis has directed two of their works “Drop Dead!” and “Do Not Disturb.”

Recently, Van Zandt wrote “The Property Known as Garland,” an Off-Broadway play depicting Judy Garland in her final concert performance, showcasing Adrienne Barbeau as the legendary singer. And, with Milmore, penned “You’ve Got Hate Mail” – a farcial play written entirely in e-mails.

In the past 10 years, the Van Zandt/Milmore production company has sponsored full and part-time scholarships to technical theater students at Brookdale College in New Jersey. To date, they have put over 25 students through college.

Television

Since their time on “Newhart,” Van Zandt and Milmore have produced and written over 300 hours of television. Van Zandt was especially honored and excited to have the opportunity to work with Lucille Ball on her final series. A year after her passing, Billy and Jane received an Emmy nomination for bringing the pilot episode of Ball’s very first show back on the air after a forty year absence. The television special, entitled “I Love Lucy: The Very First Show,” was the highest rated program on network television for the 1989-1990 season.

Van Zandt and Milmore have also become familiar contestants in the arena of new series development. They created “Daddy Dearest” for Don Rickles and Richard Lewis, as well as the original pilot for “Suddenly Susan” at the request of Brooke Shields. Perhaps one of their greatest successes, “Martin,” brought them a People’s Choice Award as well as an NAACP Image Award in the category of “Best New Series. They were to receive the same nominations for “The Hughleys.”

Film

Van Zandt and Milmore have also been on the film front, credited with original projects such as “A Wake in Providence,” which opened the Boston Film Festival and won the Audience Award at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.

Personal

Van Zandt lives in Los Angeles and New Jersey with his wife, actress Adrienne Barbeau, and his twin sons William and Walker.

Milmore also bounces between Los Angeles, New Jersey, and New York with her writer-producer husband Richard Vaczy of “Golden Girls” fame.

Liger

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Cameron Daniel

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The Cubicle Survival Guide: Keeping Your Cool in the Least Hospitable Environment on Earth

The Cubicle Survival Guide: Keeping Your Cool in the Least Hospitable Environment on Earth is a hilarious yet practical book that addresses how to handle annoying coworkers, smelly foods, unsanitary workstations, offensive cubicle decorations, and much more. Written by New York City-based author James F. Thompson, it was published by Random House and released on March 7, 2007. The book also inspired a blog, http://thecubiclesurvivalguide.blogspot.com, that complements the humor and advice offered in the book while also documenting the author's odd and entertaining commentary on life in New York City.

Timmy O'Sullivan

Reported to have found refuge with the elusive hill people, he remains at large.

Tara Tedrow

Tara Love Tedrow is the daughter of Thomas L. Tedrow, a world renowned author and venture capitalist. She attended Celebration High School in Orlando, FL and became the NCFL Champions in Lincoln-Douglas Debate for 2004 and 2005. She is currently attending Wake Forest University.

Mark Weden

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Tyler Tedrow

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Apple

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The Worship of Silence

The Worship of Silence is an Oakland based heavy metal band. Their sound takes aspects from doom, drone, and even hardcore metal genres creating large, expansive pieces of sound. Their songs rang from 8 to 30 minutes in length and often travel through several distinct sound-scapes. Influences include bands such as Sleep, Middian, Earth, and Boris. The Worship of Silence plays semi-regularly in the San Francisco and Oakland area.

Line Up

• Joe -Vocals
  
• Paul Walker -Bass
  
• Sanjeev Brar -Drums
  
• Joshua Baker -Guitar

External Links

http://theworshipofsilence.com
http://myspace.com/theworshipofsilence

The Real Shakespeare

Georgina Harrington on Shakespeare

On February 15th, 1645, William Potipher Shakespeare was born into the rich family of Tim and Susie Shakespeare. The air was crisp outside and the humidity was boiling down. The placenta was flying and the Shakespeare’s midwife, Doris, was singing a song to ensure her dog wasn’t barking too loud. And thus, a legend was born.

362 years later, we regard William Shakespeare as the preeminent playwright of all time. But is this really necessary? Is Shakespeare the captain of the writing team? Does he love to smell tree bark? The answers shall be revealed in due time. But before the secrets are unleashed upon this world, we must delve ourselves into the majesty of Shakespeare’s writing styles and tendencies, his private life and his best friend Henry the IX.

When writing at home, Shakespeare told me that he loved to smell tree bark. It gave him a sense of friendship with the little critters who loved to give him pieces of cheese on his birthday. But of course, Shakespeare did not celebrate his birthday. He felt that if one’s birthdays were put together in a certain way, then one’s real age might be known. Alas, if only Shakespeare knew what kind of birthday presents he would receive from his many admirers due to his fame, perhaps he would’ve celebrated his birthday more often. But that is aside from the point. Shakespeare also told us that he was a dedicated animist. He believed that his chair, or Damien, was the true inspiration of such plays as “Macbeth” and his secret play that was never published entitled: “My Chair Talks to Me in My Sleep.” My colleague and Shakespeare historian genius, Mr. Dr. Prof. Jim Phinklestien also agrees that Shakespeare should’ve used a toothbrush. This is an excerpt from his book entitled: “William Potipher Shakespeare and his Obscurely Shaped Nostril Holes.”

Shakespeare is a really fat liar. He used his best friend’s money to encourage euthanasia in the smallest of children. I discourage everyone to play the banjo. It is a really un-flattering instrument that requires barely any knowledge of Shakespeare. If only everyone could see the reason behind my best friend’s sister named Debra, I would use my immediate cash funds to see that the Pope is replaced with a maniacal grandpa.

I only included this excerpt to show the world that Mr. Dr. Prof. Jim Phinklestien is a hack and should be burned at the stake. Furthermore, Shakespeare would be insulted to a profound state with Phinklestien’s abhorrent racism towards the Pope. As he said in Macbeth, “Doth thine hose for a nose replace thine brain with the curd of the beans?” Realistically, Shakespeare probably would’ve included the Pope as Benvolio’s best friend in “Romeo and Juliet” had King James not spanked him several times. But this is in the past. Shall we not forget how many times Shakespeare used the word “the” in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Working closely with Shakespeare has shown me that not only was he a poetic genius, but also he was a master fashion designer. Here is a diagram of the fashion that Shakespeare set back in the day:

As we can see, Shakespeare took special bovine growth hormones to ensure his skull grew three sizes too big. It was all the rage everywhere and soon, most people, plague stricken and moderately “healthy,” were partying like it was 1492. This date is not only important for the Americas as it is important for Shakespeare because that day was when his great great great great great great great great uncle Bill was singing a song to the Queen of Spain and then he was shot in the back with an arrow and no one cared. I’m sorry dearest pupils; I keep going off on tangents. It’s just that history is so fascinating!

As Shakespeare progressed through his life, he discovered something very interesting about his ability to take his left leg and wrap it around his over-sized head. It was an amazing feat and soon transformed into a one man show entitled: “Holy Flabbergast.” At the end of King James’ life, he had seen “Holy Flabbergast” eight hundred times at the very least. Shakespeare was a man of certain habit. He enjoyed pretending to be richer that he was. (In reality Shakespeare had only eaten once in his entire life, thus his extremely thin composure and large head.) It’s not that Shakespeare had no money (which he didn’t) but more that the King paid for everything and didn’t pay Shakespeare anything extra. In this way, if he wanted to go to Holly’s Brothel for some light, after dinner entertainment, the king had to come as well. James was definitely a third wheel for Shakespeare and Henry IX. As Shakespeare wrote in his diary I found under my house, “I really doth despise that scallywag King James. I doth wisheth he was a Catholic.” Perhaps that’s why Henry IX and Shakespeare got along so well. They were always conniving to butcher mercilessly the Protestant Pope known as King James. Some might argue that because Henry VIII was a protestant Henry the IX was as well. This is a massive lie because he wasn’t a protestant. Period. How else would he and Shakespeare be best friends?

You may notice the above picture of Shakespeare looks unusually like a really bad caricature drawn by some peasant who crawled out of a sewer and saw Shakespeare and thought he would paint him. This is not so. The artist employed to paint Shakespeare’s majesty was none other King James! It appears the controversy surrounding Shakespeare’s apparent loathing towards the monarchy go deeper than one may suspect. Again from the diary of Shakespeare: “King James reminds me of my pure hatred for Protestants. His painting doth make me sad. My soul pineth for a better portrait.” Indeed Shakespeare was a man of incredible secrecy. The fact that his mother was also his grandma was never revealed…. UNTIL NOW! “I hath just discovered my dereastth mother is also my grandmother. Oh well.” It is true that Shakespeare’s life is filled with mystery and deceit. After all his friends died from the plague Shakespeare vowed to never again kiss his pet rat Jeremy. The bubonic plague ruined many people’s lives despite their flower masks they thought would work. Apparently, if everyone wasn’t obsessed with Shakespeare’s fashion trends then they all wouldn’t have had pet rats. Poor deluded medieval society.

Shakespeare is considered a care-free sort of fellow by historian society today, but through my research I have discovered that Shakespeare suffered from the most severe case of Fibromyalgia anyone has ever seen. Every morning Shakespeare would wake up and his extensively stretchy left leg would be wrapped around his neck, choking him to death. One of his fellow actors also commented, “Will doth seem a bit restless. Why, just last week he was sippingeth from a glass and his right appendage with which he doth grasp shooketh uncontrollably and did stab Wakeland in the gullet, killing him instantly.” This was definitely a road block for Shakespeare. Not a night went by that he didn’t cry himself into a nightmare filled sleep. But the fruit of his hellish nightmares did bring forth the play we now enjoy today, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Many years has Shakespeare toiled and no one even liked his plays. The truth is, everyone was just pretending to enjoy his plays because they thought it made him feel special. In reality, Shakespeare was just a bureaucratic fool, a cock-eyed optimist who got caught in the game of romance and international intrigue. Had it not been for the bovine growth hormones clouding his judgement or his Fibromyalgia destroying his love life, (every woman that he was with ended up dead due to random appendage stabbing) and his poetry tearing holes in common sense, Shakespeare would’ve lived a happy life. But dieing at the age of fourteen, nothing seemed to aid his plagued life. And as I end my truth filled and non-imaginative informative piece, I hope the world can see and have sympathy for Shakespeare’s dreadful half-existence.

Georgina Harrington

Narcotic Darwinism

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Coad Knee

The effect seen on brittle coated materials when impacted with water jets. The response of the system is a sudden transition of localised macro damage from the coating to the substrate. Coating damaage is due to direct surface damage due to the effect of Rayleigh waves. The substrate damage and corresponding delamination occurs due to interfacial tension caused by compression and shears waves created at the coating/substrate boundary resulting from the acoustical mismatch of the two materials.

The effect is graphically reprsented as a sudden and significant reduction in the system's damage threshold velocity.

First reported by Edward Coad in his 1996 PhD thesis "The reponse of CVD diamond and other brittle material to multiple liquid impacts" - Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. Initially identified on differing thicknesses of Boron Phosphide (BP) coating deposited on Zinc Sulphide (ZnS) substrate samples and later seen on further coated systems.

Due to the suggested Absolute Damage Threshold Velocity (ADTV), a fracture toughness (K_1c) value of the coating can be estimated knowing the correlation that exists between the two material values.

The Beginning

Mystery surrounds Smash Atoms' past. It is said by some that they rose from the ashes of Mt. Doom after Frodo dropped the ring into it's fire. Others say that the band spawned from the deepest, darkest, most moist crevice of Hell. No one really knows how they came about, but what is known about these four rock gods is that they are taking the world by storm.

Current Projects

The media is eagerly waiting to obtain the sure-fire Triple Platinum EP set to release Thursday night. After struggling in the studio for 7 and a half months, Smash Atoms is relieved to be so close to finishing. Drummer, Chunks Mc Malarchunks, was quoted saying,"After struggling in the studio for 7 and a half months, I'm relieved to be so close to finishing." Well said.

Future Endevoures

Smash Atoms is planning a world wide tour, possible stops include Berlin, Venice, Hong-Kong, not France, Moscow, Mexico City, Heaven, Chicago and New York City. As for future albums, Smash Atoms has already begun writing new material.

Callanan, Francis

== Francis Callanan ==

Born March 29th 1971 in Bronx NY. The youngest of three children, Francis was raised in White Plains NY, for much of his youth. In 1993 Francis finsihed the Westchester County POlice academy and was hired on as a full time police officer in the City of Mount Vernon. He spent 13 years as a police officer working in the Partol and SSD devisions befoe being injured and being forced to retire.

In 2006 Francis returned to College in White Plains to the College of Westchester, whee he is looking to gain an AAS in Computer Networking.

Francis has a wife and two children, Melissa and Megan.

Geoff Bell

Geoff/Geoffrey David Bell (born 19th April 1986 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a young New Zealand broadcaster.

Bell grew up in Springston, a farming community 40 minutes from Christchurch. After attending Springston Primary School, he went to St Andrew's College in Christchurch. There he discovered his passion for television and performance. In 2003 he was accepted into the New Zealand Broadcasting School where he majored in television production.

Bell left the New Zealand Broadcasting School early in June of 2005 to become the intern of popular comedy show “Pulp Sport”.

In January 2006, Bell got his first presenting job at local music television channel “Juice TV” where he presented “Kit Kat Break” every weeknight a 7PM.

In July 2006, he landed the role of co-presenter on MTV NZ’s “Full Tank” and was able to complete his Bachelor of Broadcast Communications (BBC).

Bell left MTV NZ in February 2007 to pursue postgraduate business course at AUT.

Currently he presents "New Zealand Performance Car TV" on TVNZ and SKY.

Ashley N. Wilson

Ashley Wilson was born on March 13, 1987 in Shawnee, OK. She is the oldest of four children. She graduated from Bethel High School and played basketball and softball. She is a sophmore at Seminole State College in Seminole, OK. When she graduates with her associate's degree she plans on attending the University of Oklahoma to achieve her bachelor's degree in elementary education. Ashley wrote this to prove that her fiance' wrote his own biography.

NevellWhite, LLC

'NevellWhite LLC is a marketing strategy and business development firm. We focus on delivering proven solutions to our clients that increase revenue, market share, profitability and shareholder wealth.'

MLT Group is a full service marketing firm in Rochester, MN bringing creative, innovative and accessible website design, video production, and advertising design services to companies throughout the United States and Western Europe. Why trust MLT Group with your marketing challenges? Because our objectives and goals are consistent with yours: helping your business or organization communicate its message to existing and potential customers as creatively, as clearly, as compellingly, and as cost-effectively as possible. So whether your need is for a web site design firm, web hosting, professional video production, print design or other multi-media marketing products, MLT Group is the web development firm and multi-media production company you can trust to provide on-target solutions.

Kelsey Bradford

She is a very open person and cares what you think no matter what she says. Her dad died when she was nine and has been in depression ever since.Don't feel sorry for her.It makes her feel weak.She loves her brother.Biggest hero to her.Everyone else just thinks he's hot.He may not care about her or he may.He doesn't talk enough to tell her.Her mom is her bestfriend.They may fight like sqirrels over a nut but they love eachother. Kelsey loves her friends.More than anything.They kept her alive.They made her happy,sad,smile,frown.They make her stronger.No one could replace them.No matter what.Boys.There just there.Nothing special about them.They dont like her.She doesn't like them.Nuff said. She uses slang.Gangsta slang.More than a black drug dealer.Trust.Myspace is were you can find her.Maybe all day,daily,or not at all.She may not have a life but she has better things to do. She can't spell very well and takes very bad pictures.She loves black and white photo's.She thinks theres a difference of a photo and a picture.A picture is a picture that is intended to be taken and put somewhere.A photo is a randome picture that is like an abstract painting.Its beautiful and makes you happy.Sometimes sad. She isn't very pretty and she knows it.Maybe a little stuck up but put back down when she looks into a mirror.Loves t-shirts with logo's or sayings.Her favorite colors are lime green and black.Guitar Hero is what she will be playing for the rest of her life.With Sims2 Pets for fun. No one can compare to her because she is herself.No one can be like her because she is the only her.No one can replace her.Because she always tried her hardest to make people as happy as possible.Hopefully she fufilled her dream.It varries. ~~~~

Dutch Umbrella

Dutch Umbrella™ is an umbrella sharing system that originated in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia. The concept is inspired by the bicycle sharing system in Holland and is designed to help anyone who gets caught in the rain without an umbrella. Dutch Umbrella™ also aims to promote a spirit of sharing. The City of Brotherly Love being the first testing ground.

When the rain comes, people look for the Dutch Umbrella™ logo in the windows of shops, restaurants and offices throughout the locale. They then stop into the establishment and take an umbrella from a black bin with the Dutch Umbrella logo, called a RainDrop™. All umbrellas are free for public use. When patrons no longer need the umbrella, they return them to any RainDrop™ in the city.

The system is supported by advertising. On each white panel of the umbrella is a different Sponsor’s logo. Businesses get repeat exposure throughout Philadelphia in exchange for their monthly membership fee. An inventory system using RFID technology provides Sponsors with information on the movement of umbrellas to and from their establishments, as well as how often their logo is seen on the streets of Philadelphia. Customers are invited to submit their own “umbrella stories” to the Dutch Umbrella™ website, a repository for umbrella journals and also a resource for places to eat, things to do, and other services in Philadelphia.

The Dutch Umbrella™ concept is expanding to other areas of Center City Philadelphia and will eventually make its way to cities throughout the United States.

For more information, check out the website: www.dutchumbrella.com.

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Hazrat Maulana-e-Fazle Rehman (R.A)

Hazrat Maulana-e-Fazle Rehman (R.A)

Karthik Nair

Karthik Nair is an Indian boy who is now in Australia studying in Grade 6.

His hobbies

Yet to come Watch out!

Keep on Moving: The UB40 Story

The forthcoming documentary, Keep on Moving: The UB40 Story, is a one hour film by Executive Producer and Journalist Tom Jordan. It’s an in-depth look at arguably the world’s most influential reggae band, UB40.

Keep on Moving looks at UB40’s 28-year history, career, discography, live performances and impact on today’s music. It features intimate interviews with every band member as they were finishing up production on their current album, Who You Fighting For?, and as they were preparing for a concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Keep on Moving follows the band in-studio, during rehearsals and live performances.

Keep on Moving reveals the inner workings of the band; their struggles, tragedies and dogged pursuit to spread reggae music around the world. From UB40’s fledgling early years, to the pinnacle of world-wide fame, the film highlights their multi-cultural working-class upbringing, and the friendships that have formed an unbreakable bond, providing the firm foundation that has made UB40 one in a select group of musical acts that have remained together for more than a quarter century.

In addition to each band member, you’ll hear from music industry experts, legendary musicians like The Who’s Roger Daltrey, and childhood friends on how UB40 has influenced the music industry and the way people listen to reggae.

As the band is in the midst of a world-wide tour, and poised to make a return to the United States after a several year absence, the documentary looks at not only the band’s history and influence, but also at their rigorous pursuit to once again tour the U.S. after the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks prevented them from returning until now.

UB40 is one of the most popular reggae bands, attracting listeners of jazz, pop and even rock n roll. Keep on Moving: The UB40 Story shows how these eight childhood friends remained together to become the world’s most successful reggae band, a quarter-century strong.

Fullmobile

Fullmobile^TM is a world wide auto market on the internet. Established in 2004, the site serves all Car Makes like BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Toyota and others. Its free services helps ordinary people buy their cars or sell other cars. Its free also for professional car dealers who buy and sell cars or have whole sale business. Any one car search using advanced search facilites to locate his favorite car. Used cars and New cars are all findable on fullmobile.

External Links:

Fullmobile.com Fullmobile.de

Ping

Ping is a utility used to check wether remote is up(alive) or not. It simply send ICMP echo request to specified remote host.

Vipin test

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Prego Folk dance band based in England.

A tiny thing to do with.....Magnum P.I.

Magnum P.I. is a 80s tv show.

Who is Magnum?

The main character. Full name: Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV.

Tony DiNozzo Cat 09:12, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

Travis Jaarola

A DJ based in Western Australia.

Sam Brunswick

this is me!

Nations Recognized by the United Nations

There are currently 192 UN recognized nations in the world. 09:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)Dr. Orphius

Concrete Jungles - Anil Prasad

From small groups in the forest to the villages; from villages to little towns; from little towns to cities; from cities to metro cities - yes the civilization grows, they say. But really does it grow? Some confusion constantly makes up roar in my mind.

At times I imagine concrete buildings as lifeless trees and men among them as nomads - nomads wandering alone. So the picture goes back to beginning. Only the background settings are different. Earlier Mother Nature set the background. But now it is artificial in our concrete jungles.

Metro cities are really getting wilder now. All dangers existed in the jungle life and more are there in the cities. Only difference is– animals hurt you seldom now, but the man.

Then what about ethics and morality? Of course, ethics and morality are relative. Relative by means of the fact how usual practices are being changed. But the change itself is artificial now. Somebody makes a propaganda that certain changes have come. You believe it blindly and try to cope with such make believe changes.

While looking back to the history of human beings, we feel that changes up to a certain period of time are contributory for a healthy social life. Invention of wheel, fire, fabric, paper etc etc are examples. But were we derailed some how and somewhere in the course of this evolution of society? Because earlier changes were occurred for more intelligent ways of living together, but now it is suspected that ‘whether the changes are for more vicious way of living together?’

Jack Gibson

Jack Gibson is the best person ever!!!!!

Maddy Ockerby

Maddy Ockerby is the best!!!!!

Permenant Insulated Formwork (P.I.F.s)

A modern method of construction using StyroStones,Hollow blocks made from styropor or Neopor that clip together in the same manner as childrens LEGO bricks. Buildings can be constructed rapidly and then pump filled with concrete up to lift heights of 3.5m to form a robust structural shell. In most domestic/residential buildings ,steel reinforcement is not necessary other that for lintels above doorways and window openings. Popular and cost effective method of constructing basements.

Benefits

This method has several advantages compared to traditional building materials, especially in residential and light commercial construction. The advantages of structures built with this method include:

   * Minimal, if any, air leaks -> comfort, less heat loss
   * Superior energy performance -> Lower energy bills
   * Fast construction -> Competitive costs
   * High sound absorption -> Peace and quiet inside
   * Little waste, local materials, long life-cycle -> Environmental friendliness
   * Time-tested structural integrity -> Resistance to forces of nature
   * Low maintenance, high durability, very long lifespan -> Higher resale values
   * Flame-retardant EPS -> If a fire occurs, the expanded polystyrene (EPS) will only burn while a flame is applied directly to the foam; the resulting smoke from burning EPS is said to be "less toxic" than wood smoke
   * When the building is constructed on a concrete slab, the walls and floors form one continuous surface. This keeps out insects.

Mytestsection

testsectioncontent --Norbitban 10:56, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

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