1846 - Neptune's moon Triton discovered by William Lassell 1903 - The Women's Social and Political Union was formed by Emmeline Pankhurst to fight for women's rights in Britain. 1973 – U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax. October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years …
From HuffPost 2013: "As U.S. lawmakers argue about the economic effects of immigration on the country, they might as well consider that a lot of America’s most profitable companies were founded by people born elsewhere. 3.6 million workers around the world in 2011 and were responsible for more than $1.7 trillion in revenues in 2010, according to …
Nothing much more important these days than to make sure everyone you know is registered to vote in November. https://www.elections.ny.gov/VotingRegister.html "Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting." - Franklin Delano Roosev …
Some great news from Michigan, created by high school students. From msn news: A Michigan high school has decided to stop crowning homecoming queens amid bullying issues. Chelsea High School decided to stop the "outdated" tradition because of its competitive and stereotypical nature, according to a Student Council letter. The homecoming queen p …
SURPRISE!! Its not just professional tennis. From npr: In 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell was a graduate student at Cambridge, working on a dissertation about strange objects in distant galaxies known as quasars. She and her supervisor, Antony Hewish, had built a radio telescope to observe them. Data from the telescope scrolled out from a machine — a l …
Didn't like him as my governor. Wasn't thrilled with him as President. Now I adore him. From Yahoo News: Former President Jimmy Carter says it was never his “ambition to be rich” — and it shows in every corner of the quiet, modest life he shares with wife Rosalynn, in a $167,000 two-bedroom rancher in Georgia. Carter, 93, is the only modern preside …
Sometimes I just need to take a day. I had worked all week end, yesterday i went to the beach with my Wife. Wonderful. And today, I just took the day to have a Completely Cayce Day. Started with 8am meditation on the High Line. It is in all its glory and a life-filled place to get in touch with your truest, deepest self. Then breakfast a …
I've been thinking a lot about movies lately. Gothamite John Buscarello "nominated" me on Facebook to list my "Top Ten" that I love or showed me what movies could be. Its a great exercise for me, movies are vehicles for me to get in touch with my feelings, they show me what can be done (I'm a filmmaker myself) and they often inspire. Many have impa …
On August 14, 38 years ago, Lech Wałęsa led shipyard workers in Gdansk, Poland, in a successful strike to protest the dismissal of activist worker Anna Walentinowicz. Part of a growing campaign to gain political freedom and improve economic conditions for Poland’s labor force, the 16,000 workers secured Miss Walentinowicz’s swift reinstatement …
Yesterday I had the glorious experience of spending the day in Atlantic City. There is a wonderful bunch of us who do this annually and it is a very special time to connect in a carefree atomosphere. The great thing about AC is that you can gamble in the shiny casino(s), or go to the beach to sun & swim, or go to the outlet shops and find a gre …
Voter Qualifications To register to vote in the City of New York, you must: Be a citizen of the United States (Includes those persons born in Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands). Be a New York City resident for at least 30 days. Be 18 years of age before the next election. Not be serving a jail sentence or be on parole for a felony con …
From CNN: The investigation of the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, barbarous even in an era in which blacks in the South were subjected to untold viciousness, has been reopened based on "new information," according to a US Justice Department report to Congress. Known as "Bobo" to those who loved him, Emmett's savage murder jolted a nation, spurr …
It is the 199th day of the year. 166 days to go. How are you spending them? Today would be Nelson Mandela's 100th birthday. He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Xhosa clan name, Madiba, which means "Father of the Nation." Mandela's given name was Rolihlahla, which his schoolteachers were unable to p …
My friend Sonia always says #beautyiseverywhere and I've found that the more I see it, the better my life is. Well, here is a great story about the beauty and humanity of FaceBook. Two brothers who had recently found each other through AncestryDNA (another great resource), realized they had a pair of older twin sisters. To find them, they posted on …
As I was riding through Liberty, NY today (Tuesday) I couldn’t help but realize how fortunate we are to live in the greatest country in the world. I am also infinitely fortunate to live in the greatest city in the world where on any day I can get on the subway and find myself in the heart of where our nation was born. Bowling Green Park (first publ …
