Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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CABINET: Daisy's colleague is the Labrador retriever Shiloh, named after the site of the Civil War battle. This highlights Daisy's interest in veterans' affairs...
...years of geologic activity. Dinosaurs that walked the earth 150 million years ago have left tracks in Glen Canyon. Scattered along the lake's canyon walls are ancient petraglyphs chiseled by the Anasazi pueblo dwellers some 700 years ago. The lake is named after Major John Wesley Powell, a Civil War veteran who led the first scientific expedition into this region in 1869. Some of the rocks here still bear his initials. At night, I showed our girls the fluffy film of the Milky Way--light from stars that have been traveling through space for thousands of years. A meteor...
...with a tumultuous life, marked with grave personal, artistic and political decisions. Rich's early poetry, though elegant, is politically lackluster, drawing thematically and stylistically on the works of poets like Yeats, Frost and Auden. Her "angrier" later works emerged from a vibrant background of marriage, family, 1960's civil rights activism, anti-Vietnam War protests, an emergent women's movement and personal decisions about sexuality and liberation...
...situations like the American civil rights movement and in apartheid South Africa, what was moral was resisting the law because the law itself was unjust...
About half way into the court proceeding, civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton led separate processions down the street, chanting "Gore Got More, Gore Got More." As they passed by the Bush camp, the crowd broke into a chant: "President Bush, President Bush." From a lone Gore supporter elbowing his way through the crowd: "Yeah...