dadt - xii
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell!12
Shrey Goyal, Varun Singh
____ taught at the University of Pennsylvania
before he joined the Obama White House as
Associate Director of the White House Office of
Public Engagement. He is a non-smoker,
teetotaller and strict vegetarian since birth, and
is currently working on a graduate certificate
in international security from Stanford
University.
Name Lifetime Highest position Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790 President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania
Andrew Jackson 1767–1845 President of the United States
Thomas Jefferson 1743–1826 President of the United States
Abraham Lincoln 1809–1865 President of the United States
James Madison 1751–1836 President of the United States
James Monroe 1758–1831 President of the United States
Franklin Pierce 1804–1869 President of the United States
Zachary Taylor 1784–1850 President of the United States
George Washington 1732–1799 President of the United States
Michael Bloomberg b. 1942 Mayor of New York City
Paul Cellucci b. 1948 Governor of Massachusetts
Bill Clinton b. 1946 President of the United States
Al Gore b. 1948 Vice President of the United States
John Kerry b. 1943 Senator from Massachusetts
Barack Obama b. 1961 President of the United States
Sarah Palin b. 1964 Governor of Alaska
George Pataki b. 1945 Governor of New York
David Paterson b. 1954 Governor of New York
Arnold Schwarzenegger b. 1947 Governor of California
William Scranton b. 1917 Ambassador to the United Nations
Jesse Ventura b. 1951 Governor of Minnesota
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_politicians_who_?????????????????
List of United States politicians who admit to cannabis use
U.S. politicians known for growing cannabis include some of the nation's Founding Fathers and Presidents. Politicians that have admitted to recreational use includes mayors, Governors, includes mayors, Governors, members of the House of Representatives, Senators, and Presidents. Abraham Lincoln admitted in a letter written during his presidency that one of his "favorite things" was "sitting on [his] front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp"
Jason Simmons, an International X-Y-Z
champion, who plays under the name "Midnight
Rider", claims that women tend to start with Z,
while the World X-Y-Z Society states that males
have a tendency to lead with X. At World X-Y-Z
tournaments, Z is used the least, statistically.
Rock-Paper-Scissors
“I put my right hand in the hold and found the pipe that
fed the radiator- God, it was hot. I took the pipe in hand
and overrode the reflex to pull away. Two dols, no,
seven dols- maybe even eight dols. Wait. Five dols, four
dols. Minutes later it was still a comfortable four dols.”
– Richard Kopperdahl, in “Bettervue Hospital”
Dols?
Units for Pain intensity
From Latin ‘ dolor’ (pain)
ConnectHint:
"O Captain! My Captain!"
An extended metaphor poem written in 1865
by Walt Whitman, concerning the assassination
of American president Abraham Lincoln. The
poem was referred to in the film Dead Poets
Society.
“Catherine Martin (production designer and _____'s wife)
and I went to India to work on Midsummer Night's Dream.
We went out one night and there was a big poster up for
a Bollywood movie. I said, "Let's go see that." We did —
2,000 audience members, high comedy, high tragedy,
brother kills brother, [they] break out in some musical
numbers, all jumbled up together in 4 hours of Hindi. We
thought that was amazing… So our question was, 'Could we
create something like that? Could it work?' ”
Inspiration for?
In Italian it is called rimbalzello, in Russian this game is called "baking pancakes"
(pech blini), in Ukrainian, it is called "letting the frogs out" (zapuskaty zhabky), in
Polish, "letting the ducks out" (puszczanie kaczek). In Spanish it is called "making
white-caps" or "frogging(?)" (hacer cabrillas or hacer sapito), among other names.
In Andhra Pradesh it is played in the name of Kappa Gantulu.
__________________ (NASSA), founded by Coleman-McGhee, in 1989 and based
in Driftwood, Texas, sanctioned world championships for four years from 1989
through 1992 in Wimberley, Texas; the next official NASSA World Championships is
expected to be held at Platja d'en Ros beach in Cadaqués, Catalonia, Spain.
Research undertaken by a team led by French physicist, Lydéric Bocquet, has
discovered that an angle of about 20° is optimal. Bocquet and his colleagues were
surprised to discover that changes in speed and rotation did not change this fact.
Skipping Stones
The ___ is invented by Paul Sak and was copyrighted and trademarked by Sak with the help of his son. His company, ____ Incorporated, has a patent pending for it and sells software for BlackBerry devices and computer systems that enables use of the product. The snark or hook was a similar invention by the French poet Alcanter de Brahm (alias Marcel Bernhardt) at the end of the 19th century, that didn’t quite catch on.
“If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for paper and construction were banned in order to save the planet, reverse the Greenhouse Effect and stop deforestation; then there is only one known annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing the overall majority of the world's paper and textiles; meet all of the world's transportation, industrial and home energy needs, while simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil, and cleaning the atmosphere all at the same time... and that substance is -- the same one that did it all before -- ____________”
From the back cover of “The Emperor Wears No Clothes”
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