I am old enough to have known someone who met Abraham Lincoln. I knowingly knew a man who met Hitler, and one who knew Mao.
Once, while writing a paper for school, I dialed the telephone number of a German man, in order to ask him how he pronounced his name. He became so agitated, suspicious and hostile, that I realized that I had inadvertently contacted a war criminal.
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Aloha: Love PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Laikim: Love HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Love is like a chief; the best prize to hold fast to.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Love either finds equality, or makes it.” (John Dryden)
June 12th, 1967: LOVING DAY – Richard and Mildred Loving win their Supreme Court case supporting the legality of their inter-racial marriage. The court voted unanimously to overturn the conviction of the Lovings, a young interracial couple, for being married in the state of Virginia. This decision struck down the anti-miscegenation laws — written to prevent the mixing of the races — that were on the books until 1967 in more than a dozen states, including Virginia. Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama, born in 1961, is the product of an interracial marriage. Read NPR story …
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