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"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." — Socrates "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance." — Socrates "To find yourself, think for yourself." — Socrates "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom." — Socrates "Wisdom begins in wonder." — Socrates "The unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates "I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think" — Socrates "Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant." — Socrates "By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher." — Socrates "If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be fre...

Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Following his breakthrough role on the TV series Rawhide (1959–1965), Eastwood starred as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti westerns (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) in the 1960s, and as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films (Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, The Enforcer, Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool) during the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, along with several others in which he plays tough-talking no-nonsense police officers, have made him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor, for his work in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). These films in particular, ...

SCIENCE LIFE   RECAPPING NEWS STORIES It's no coincidence that the smartest man who ever lived - Albert Einstein, until someone proves otherwise-spent the last 22 years of his life in the United States. Pushed out of Germany by the Nazis, Einstein moved to U.S. in 1933 and settled in Princeton, N.J., becoming a local fixture in the quaint college town. Like so many before and after, he saw America as safe, humane harbor in a stormy world, one of the nobler aspects of our nation's history. He became an American citizen and was active in social and political causes, especially civil rights. And 100 years on, Einstein's rich legacy continues to inspire the nation's best minds. In September, researchers at the California Institute of Technology- where Einstein was once a fellow - proved the existence of gravitional waves, a theory he had first framed exactly a century early, in 1915. Biography Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the...

TRAVEL    RECAPPING PAST NEWS EVENTS The Eiffel Tower (French: La Tour Eiffel, [tuʁ ɛfɛl], nickname La dame de fer, the iron lady) is a puddle iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889, it has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. The tower is the tallest building in Paris and the most-visited paid monument in the world; millions of people ascend it every year. Named for its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower was built as the entrance arch to the 1889 World's Fair.   Opening on this day in 1889.                           Actors Animals Archaelogy Period Architecture Artist Bicycle Life Biology Life Boat Business Cars Casino Celebrity Countries Engineering Environment Festivals Fish Food Funny Laugh Gadgets...

Edger Allen Poe Fall of the House of Usher (1838) The tale opens with the narrator having arrived at the house of his friend, Roderick Usher. Usher complained of an illness and asked for his comfort. Usher informs the narrator that his sister has died and insists that she is entombed in the house. After two weeks Usher admits that strange sounds are being made by his sister, who was in fact alive when she was put in the vault. Madeline escapes, appears, falling on her brother and they both die. The narrator quickly escapes from the house, and as he hurries away, he sees the house sink into the bog. "Everything we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." — Edgar Allan Poe (Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe) "Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last." — Edgar Allan Poe Major Works In late 1830s, Poe published  ...

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third.During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder, with more than 8 percent of the common stock.He has also authored or co-authored several books. Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is admired by many, a number of industry insiders criticize his business tactics, which they consider anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts.In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of ...

Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River in Black Canyon between Arizona and Nevada, some 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas Nevada. Constructed in the 1930s, the concrete arch-gravity structure was intended to prevent flooding as well as provide much-needed irrigation and hydroelectric power to arid regions of states like California and Arizona. It was originally known as Boulder Dam, but was renamed in 1947 in honor of Herbert Hoover, who as U.S. secretary of commerce and the 31st U.S. president proved instrumental in getting the dam built. At 726 feet high and 1,244 feet long, Hoover Dam was one of the largest man-made structures in the world at the time of its construction, and one of the world's largest producers of hydroelectric power. Region & Background From its source in the Rocky Mountains of north-central Colorado, the mighty Colorado River travels southwest more than 1,400 miles to the Gulf of California, joining with other water sources (including the Gr...

(also known as Transformers 3) is a 2011 American science fiction/action film, part of the Transformers film series, directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and was released on June 29, 2011. In 1961, the Ark, a Cybertronian spacecraft carrying an invention capable of ending the war between the Autobots and Decepticons, crash lands on the far side of the moon. The crash is detected on Earth by NASA, and President John F. Kennedy authorizes a mission to put a man on the moon as a cover for investigating the craft. In 1969, the crew of Apollo 11 lands on the Moon to explore the craft. In the present, the Autobots assist the US military in preventing conflicts around the globe. During a mission to Chernobyl to investigate suspected Alien technology, Optimus Prime finds a fuel cell from the Ark, discovering it had survived its journey from Cybertron. The Autobots are attacked by S...

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Adapted from the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the film portrays the story of Andy Dufresne, a banker who spends nearly two decades in Shawshank State Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover despite his claims of being innocent. During his time at the prison, he befriends a fellow inmate, Ellis "Red" Redding, and finds himself protected by the guards after the warden begins using him in his money laundering operation. In 1947, banker Andrew "Andy" Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, based on strong circumstantial evidence. He is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at Shawshank State Penitentiary in Maine, run by Warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton). Andy is quickly befriended by Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), an inmate serving...