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...This was the weekly poem for Flag Day 2006. It tells the largely-apocryphal but nonetheless inspiring story of one old woman’s act of patriotism during a Confederate advance in the civil war. (summary by LauraFox)...
...d Military Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Jay Alan Sekulow and Robert W. Ash SECTION II: HOMOSEXUALITY 7 Report of the General/Flag Officers’ Study Group . . . . . . . . . . 139 Hugh Aitken, Minter Alexander, Robert Gard, and Jack Shanahan 8 Not Yes or No, but What If: Implications of Open Homosexuality in the US Military . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
...and white bunt- ing with the usual adornment of Williams and 1909 banners, flags and pennants. A Williams shield in bronze was added to the white bunt... ...luipliia, Haverford being only a few miles from that city. 1910 Wins First Flag Rush Immediately after the M. A. C. game on Saturday, a flag rush Ije-... ...a flag rush Ije- tween the lower classes was held on Weston Field. A white flag, on which were the sophomore nu- merals, was nailed to the flag pole n... ...eet from the ground. The freshmen attacked the sophomorea who defended the flag, and twice a freshman arm touched the flag and'once the wind blew it j... ... the men until compelled to act by the gross violation of good manners and flagrant infringement of the rights of others. They will act independently,... ...veries were discredited until 1880 when Lowell erected an ob- servatory at Flagstaff, Ariz., and confirmed the observations of his predecessor. At bot... ...—a characteristic which has become proverbial. Pa- triotism and respect of flag and country were to him practical fundamentals; and his example of loy... ...'' To unprofessing Christians belongs the same com- mand — "shake out that flag!" Special Trustee Meeting' Jan. 31 A special meeting of the trus- tees...
...tical party into a mass socio-cultural organization. The Dravidar Kazhagam flag was adopted in 1946. It was a black rectangular flag in the ratio... ...he Dravidar Kazhagam. As a symbol of that, wear the black shirt. Fly a black flag in your homes. Work for the Dravidian people. [Viduthalai, 20-8-... ...e government accepts Buddha’s philosophy. They have embossed in the national flag the chakra of Emperor Ashoka, who walked the path of Buddha. Does... ... must be broken down. Likewise, if we want freedom, we must burn the national flag. Pakistan was created only by killing 1000, 2000 people. When Jin... ... to come again. “It will not come. If it comes, we will burn the Government’s flag.” Only Gandhi said that the Varnashrama Dharma must be protected...
...c Discord with Ka‘ahumanu. 372 -- Vancouver Listens to Ho‘olau Ali‘i, the Sacred Coconut Shell. 374 -- Ancient Anchors at Pohue, Ka‘u. 376 -- British Flag Flies Over Hilo. 378 -- Request for Reinforcements Begrudged. 381 -- Ka‘eokulani Rebuffed at Kalaupapa. 383 -- Ka‘eokulani Lands on O‘ahu. 385 -- Battle at Ponahawale, ‘Ewa. 388 -- Death of Ka‘eokulani. 390 -- Kalanikupu...
...ng and swimming; and a bead has slipped from the lash and fallen on to the flag. If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a ... ... the rising moon, and a ship crossing its disk; a group of reeds and water-flags, and a naiad’s head, crowned with lotus-flowers, rising out of them; ... ...th untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white ... ...untiring assi- duity with which you have since persevered in it—in the un- flagging energy and unshaken temper with which you have met its difficultie...
...my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! ...
...s ă mute pe acel NU! în lumea mondenităţii şi modernit ăţii, dup ă al doilea flagel mondial. Şi, astfel, teatrul modern european a intrat în consona... ...s fat woman know that the whole Universe is vibration and incantation? “Mad flag!” “Waggish mower!” “Bonjourists like tourists!” “Patriots like d... ...IVIRE LA CULTURA POSTMODERN Ă (fragmente) (...) Nu reiau contradic ţiile flagrante cu afirma ţiile anterioare. Vreau doar s ă subliniez c ă, în ... ...nd notion denied by many contemporary history philosophers)? The strong and flagrant contradiction between what has been taught (however) in school... ...nded by your crazy talk, your meta, the raw, the about, whatever your heart flag you threw out in those 92 and before poems. Paradoxism.... certain...
...reatly disappointed Germany - the unwavering sponsor of EU enlargement. Any further flagrant siding with the United States against the inner core of... ...mendations to improve efficiency, transparency and accountability. Disgusted by the flagrant squandering of scarce resources, the United States - wh... ... the Israelis. They also decry the way Israel manhandles the Palestinian uprising. Flag-burning demonstrations are common occurrences in Ankara and...
...owd gathered in their respective places. Cavalry sol diers stood around a Union flag that waved in the morning breeze, while a Union band played soo... ...utomated video equip ment hidden behind one-way mirrors, and microphones camou flaged in stained-glass Tiffany lamps. When everyone was in their pl...
... of April, 1861, the first gun was fired in Charleston harbor on the Union flag upon Fort Sumter, the call was sounded, and the Northern people rushed... ...p, now more slowly, then more rapidly, but with increasing steadiness, the flag of the Union advanced from field to field toward the final con- summat... ...ly decided, but not yet ended. Sherman was irresistibly carrying the Union flag through the South. Grant had his iron hand upon the ramparts of Richmo... ...government and the imperilled Union, and to vindicate the supremacy of the flag over every inch of the territory of the United States. The fact that L... ...ed troops were enlisted in the military service and following the national flag, supported by all the loyalty of the North, and led by its choicest sp... ... surrender of the Rebel army and the fall of their capital, and the starry flag that he loved waving in triumph over the national soil. When he died b... ... once more to say that I think it is even yet possible for your spirits to flag down and leave you miserable. If they should, don’t fail to remember t...
...w the GIs liberated Germany. Joey's memories of tanks and jeeps with American flags whipping in the wind as they rumbled over the cobble-stoned stre...
...nto that great English-speaking community which is scattered under various flags and governments throughout the world. And according to the line of th... ...training in simple unifying political conceptions; the salu- tation of the flag, for example, or of the idealized effigies of King and Queen. The qual...
...rs—too valuable to be exposed recklessly—directed the battles with signal flags and horns from atop hills away from the action. Captives with no...
...om the sovereign permis- sion to obtain redress, they refused to credit so flagrant an abuse, and were tempted to accuse me of falsehood or of ignoran... ...y the pres- ence of a common danger, witnessed the outrages offered to its flag by the great nations of Europe, whilst it was scarcely able to maintai... ...he com- merce of the world; and as it possesses the keys of the globe, its flags is respected in the most remote seas. The Union is as happy and as fr... ...vernment may very readily be discovered; they are demonstrated by the most flagrant instances, whilst its beneficial influence is less perceptibly exe... ...s as it can be anywhere else: the Americans are already able to make their flag respected; in a few years they will be able to make it feared. I am co...
...tain David G . Farragut was nominated to the Senate for continuance as the flag-officer in 4 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Six command of the... ...ls engaged in the recent brilliant operations of the squadron commanded by Flag-officer Farragut which led to the capture of Forts Jackson and St. Phi... ...bruary, 1861. On the 12th day of April, 1861, the insurgents committed the flagrant act of civil war by the bombardment and the capture of Fort Sumter... ...mes River, or any other way you can. Report to me. A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO FLAG-OFFICER L. M. GOLDSBOROUGH. W ASHINGTON, D.C., June 28, 1862. FLAG-OFF... ...ttles at and near Bull Run, an expedition went out from Washington under a flag of truce to bury the dead and bring in the wounded, and the rebels sei... ...eral Stuart, of the rebel army, has sent in a few of our prisoners under a flag of truce, paroled with terms to prevent their fighting the Indians, an... ...ized many of the United States forts, and had fired upon the United States flag, all before I was inaugurated, and, of course, before I had done any o... ...case of rebellion—so called by the resolutions before me—in fact, a clear, flagrant, and gigantic case of re- bellion; and the provision of the Consti... ...cy, without giving any ground for it whatever. I understand these are very flagrant cases, and that you deem their punish- ment as being indispensable...
... street and no beauty—only a maze of wire ropes over- head and dirty stone flagging under foot. A cab-driver volunteered to show me the glory of the t... ...into the District of Columbia, sit on the Washington statues, and invent a flag of their own, they can legislate, lynch, hunt negroes through swamps, ...
...ad of sixty, being in fact three-score years and none, suddenly struck his flag, and found himself, in his privileged character of Armiger, need- ing ... ...have driven me to an in- stant call for more money—a measure which, as too flagrantly in contradiction to the whole terms on which I had volun- teered... ...remem- ber. “Will they transact with God?” This is the passage; and a most flagrant instance it offers of pure Latinism. Transigere, in the language o... ... cannot be refused or evaded. In reality, the evidence against them is too flagrant and hyperbolical. If we were to quote from Juvenal—“Delphis et Ora... ...econcilable with the Oracle doctrine of the fathers,—there is a still more flagrant argument against the fathers, which it is perfectly confounding to... ... pieces, or forced to fly into strongholds.” On the sec- ond of April, the flag of independence was hoisted in Achaia. On the ninth, a Grecian senate ... ...sulmans ceased to navigate. Spezzia was the first to hoist the independent flag; *Mr. Gordon says that “they could, without difficulty, fit out a hund...