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WASHINGTON — From the grave of a suffragist in upstate New York to the 16th Street Baptist Churchin Birmingham, Ala., and the Brandenburg Gate in Germany, President-elect Donald Trump has quite a welcome committee: An estimated 1 million people plan to demonstrate in all 50 states and 32 countries. In the U.S. capital alone, the National Park Servicehas issued permits for 25 separate events the weekend of his Jan. 20 swearing-in as the nation's 45th president. It’s a number that’s “pretty well unprecedented” relative to past inaugurations, said Mike Litterst, a park service spokesman. “The biggest issue is merely finding space for all of these groups that allows for …

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Horses jump through flames in an ancient (500 years old) Spanish tradition called Luminarias thought to bring prosperity and protection. - In the USA we would call this animal cruelty. World News

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Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Ga., on Jan. 15, 1929. King was a Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and civil rights leader who practiced peaceful, nonviolent civil disobedience to protest racial inequality. In 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches, and the following year, he and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In the final years of his life, King expanded his focus to include opposition to poverty and the Vietnam War, alienating many of h…

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Last week hundreds of activists took over a major toll highway in the state of Mexico and allowed drivers to pass through free of charge. Farmworkers and agricultural producers took over municipal offices in the state of Chihuahua and in one occasion forced the municipal workers to evacuate. These are just two examples of the mass actions – which include demonstrations of tens of thousands – rising up all throughout Mexico causing the closure of gas stations, municipal buildings and highways. Since January 1, thousands of Mexicans – adolescents, workers from all sectors, union leaders and farmers – have taken to the streets to protest the 20 percent hike in gasoline…

Comlux’s 767 Boeing Business Jet is typically chartered by heads of state, royal families, business leaders, or sports teams. The aircraft includes a private bedroom with en suite bathroom, office, dining and living room, plus room for entourage and staff. It has cargo space for over 250 bags, and can even transport multiple automobiles.

Artemis of Ephesus CA 1202 Sully 1st floor room 37 showcase 1 (3) The goddess’s body is sheathed in a narrow tunic, decorated with rows of superimposed breasts or bulls’ testicles, symbols of fertility. She is wearing a high calathos on her head. AR19 A close relationship has been established with the ‘ Great Artemis of the Ephesians ‘ (Acts 19:28) and the major goddesses of other peoples. …

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AO 19939 Richelieu room 6 showcase 4 Known for his massive deportations of populations (we find in this text an account of expeditions against Elam, Tyre and Egypt), Ashurbanipal was even more renowned for his taste for literature. Excavations unearthed an immense library that he formed in Nineveh and which included some 22,000 texts and clay tablets. King Ashurbanipal is mentioned in the Bible The capture of Susa, capital of Elam, is refe…

AO 9647 Richelieu room 5 showcase 3 Not currently on display The Yozgat amulet, with its tall conical tiara, shows a Hittite god – possibly Teshub the storm god. The relationship between this cast gold figurine and Syrian storm god statuettes is clear. Despite its small size, it is characteristic of imperial Hittite art. A214A214 Abraham had dealings with these descendants of Heth (Genesis 10:6, 15) who wer…

SpaceX is launching a Falcon 9 rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base near Los Angeles to send 10 Iridium NEXT satellites into Earth’s orbit. In September 2016, Elon Musk’s rocket failed a test launch, when it blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

A new battery of S-400 long-range surface-to-air missiles has been fully deployed in Russia’s Crimea after five months of training, the Russian military announced on Friday.

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A swipe here, a swipe there – credit card spending can easily get out of hand, and when you’re saddled with credit card debt the road toward financial freedom can seem endless. Try this 30-day challenge from personal finance experts Ric Edelman and Lynnette Khalfani-Cox to help you take charge of your finances once and for all. Freeze Your Credit Cards…Literally The first step to regain control of your money is to stop using plastic. Call up your credit card company and place a hold on your account. If you know you need to use your card in the future, put your credit card in a Tupperware and place it in your freezer. Literally freezing your ca…

neurosciencestuff: Infants use prefrontal cortex in learning Researchers have long thought that the region of the brain involved in some of the highest forms of cognition and reasoning – the prefrontal cortex (PFC) – was too underdeveloped in young children, especially infants, to participate in complex cognitive tasks. A new study in the Journal of Neuroscience suggests otherwise. Given the task of learning simple hierarchical rules, babies appeared to employ much the same circuits as adults doing a similar task. The findings suggest that even at the age of 8 months, a baby’s PFC appears properly adapted to the kinds of tasks important to an infant of that ag…

whitehouse: “You see Joe’s heart in the way he consoles families, dealing with cancer, backstage after an event; when he meets kids fighting through a stutter of their own, he gives them his private phone number and keeps in touch with them long after. To know Joe Biden is to know love without pretense, service without self-regard, and to live life fully. As one of his long-time colleagues in the Senate, who happened to be a Republican, once said, ‘If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you got a problem. He’s as good a man as God ever created.’” —President Obama awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to Vice President J…

neurosciencestuff: American professional golfer Tom Kite said two things about distraction that sum up the findings of a new study on the subject: First, “You can always find a distraction if you’re looking for one.” And, second, “Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested.” The new research offers evidence that one’s motivation is just as important for sustained attention to a task as is the ease with which the task is done. It also challenges the hypothesis, proposed by some cognitive neuroscientists, that people become more distractible as they tackle increasingly difficult tasks. A report of the new study appears in the Journal of Experi…