Linkage, and its Gettysburg Address day
It’s the Eastern Orthodox feast day of Obadiah, and the anniversary of Christopher Columbus stepping his european foot on Puerto Rico.
Lostcity has been drilling down through the years on the enigmatic origins of the Brooks Restaurant in Long Island City.
The Light at the End of the Tunnel?
I am ashamed. For years, I’ve told myself: “One day, I’m going to get to the bottom of the mystery of 1890 Brooks Restaurant in Long Island City, and uncover its shrouded history.” But sloth and inertia took over, and now intrepid reader Ian Schoenherr is having all the “Eureka!”s.
via Lost City: The Light at the End of the Tunnel?.
just a warning, the bulleted links below lead to BRUTAL nature photos and GRAPHIC footage, if you’d rather not think about such things or are squeamish, feel free to skip these links:
- timesonline.co.uk has an incredible series of photos documenting a fight between a herd of hippos and a crocodile. Click here.
- I confess to participation in the debates over which top predator might win in a fight over another apex niche animal, and have done my level best to warn others of the horrible realities of chimpanzee attack– well before the famed mauling in New England, and it gives rise to a notion that Mankind’s innate desire to deforest and exterminate all other life forms upon the earth may be something necessary. Believe it or not, this stuff came up while researching Flushing Creek.
Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, as well.
Here’s the little 10 sentence speech that Lincoln was rumored to have scribbled down on the back of an envelope.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate…we can not consecrate…we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government: of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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If you missed the Gettysburg meeting, you can find Lincoln’s PowerPoint at:
http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/gettysburg-address-november-19-1863/
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