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Another 16 Words

Monday, July 21, 2003

• TITLE: "Another 16 Words " Strange, isn't it, how these things work out. Da Vinci Code. Hah!

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  TRAVELOGUE!Kuwait Here. I'll Be Right Back:
  Chapter 1: A Middle Seat
  Chapter 2: Then Air France Lost Everything Else
  Chapter 3: It's Africa Hot
  Chapter 4: Voting Day

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• "� Concord Hymn �" Sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument, April 19, 1836 (sometimes listed as July 4, 1837):

  By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
  Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,
  Here once the embattled farmers stood,
  And fired the shot heard round the world,
  
  The foe long since in silence slept,
  Alike the Conqueror silent sleeps,
  And Time the ruined bridge has swept
  Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
  
  On this green bank, by this soft stream,
  We set to-day a votive stone,
  That memory may their deed redeem,
  When like our sires our sons are gone.
  
  Spirit! who made those freemen dare
  To die, or leave their children free,
  Bid time and nature gently spare
  The shaft we raise to them and Thee.

• "� United Nations Membership �" Here's the link to the UN Chart showing when countries were admitted.

• "� President's September 20th Address �" Here's the link to the text of the President's Address to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001.

• "� Comoros �" According to the CIA Factbook Comoros is located in "Southern Africa, a group of islands in the Mozambique Channel, about two-thirds of the way between northern Madagascar and northern Mozambique."

  By the way, here's where the infamous Niger is located. It's in West-Central Africa:
  

• Mullfoto of the Day:
  
  
  One the way back from North Carolina, I decided to meander my way back along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

  This photo, overlooking Iron Mine Hollow north of Roanoke, reminds us why, sometimes, Interstate Highways should be left to others.
  
  
  

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  World War II Poster
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  
  Give me Lance Armstrong's Yellow Jersey instead of this Clown Outfit or, I swear, I'll do a swan dive off the Pyrenees.

  (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours) ____________________________________________________________________________________