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Why Should Being Gay Be A Crime? – Doug Ireland

International Day Against Homophobia - May 17, 2008

Idaho rejects sexual orientation protection

International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO)

Read Doug Ireland’s article about French activist Louis-Georges Tin’s UN resolution to decriminalize homosexuality in 75 countries.

Why Should Being Gay Be A Crime? - Doug Ireland

Enola Gay Pilot Dies @ 92

Paul Tibbets, pilot of the B-29 bomber Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb over Hiroshima, Japan – died at the age of 92

Enola Gay Pilot Dies @ 92

until
there are
no soldiers
we have all
died in
vain

qazse

Manhattan Project Unveiled – NY Times

Manhattan Project Unveiled

Fritz Goro/Time Life Pictures, via Getty Images

The Nevis cyclotron, which was constructed at Columbia University’s Nevis Research Laboratory in Irvington, New York. A plaque at Columbia proclaims it a Registered National Historic Landmark, but there is no mention of ties to the bomb.

Darfur Genocide – U.S. Commemorative Stamp


©oncept: Frank H. Jump image © Benjamin Lowy @ Bob Cesca’s Blog

* blognotes

* Terry Glavin takes quite a drubbing

More NEPA – Klots Throwing Co., Carbondale PA

© Frank H. Jump

© Frank H. Jump
© Frank H. Jump

Klots Throwing Company opened in Carbondale, Pennsylvania in 1894 by Henry D. Klots “to use available workforce of wives and daughters of local coal miners.” Read about Katherine Nougle, an indentured silk throwster from 1392 London.

OPERATION KILLS H.D.KLOTS; Head of Silk Throwster Concern Twice Under Knife for Appendicitis.

March 20, 1914, Friday

© NY Times

Wissel Photos – Old biscuit factory in Villers-Cotterets, France – August 2007

Wissel Photos
Wissel Photos

Faded ad – verbleekte reclame

Picturesque or delapidated – pittoresk of vervallen ?

LGBTs in Iraq – A Loss of Freedom

A Life of Constant Fear: Gays in Iraq
Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Times Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 08, 2007