Word: birthed
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Since his "birth" in 1813, Uncle Sam has appeared in political cartoons, army recruitment posters and magazine covers. He has participated in nearly every historical and cultural event of the last two centuries, from the War of 1812 to music by the Grateful Dead. He even had his own comic book. And on Nov. 4 he will be at rallies and on posters, urging every American to participate in the most patriotic day of all: Election Day. A look underneath...
...Obama's birth does not appear to have been planned. His mother and father met at the University of Hawaii and got married when she was already pregnant. To help provide for the new baby, Obama's grandmother, who did not have a college degree, got a job as a secretary at a bank. For more than two decades, she got up at 5 a.m., put on a suit and took the bus to work, arriving first at the office. Eventually - and much more slowly than her male counterparts - she advanced and was promoted to vice president. She earned more...
...Obama victory on Tuesday would add another layer of significance to the rededication of the Lincoln Memorial, planned for this upcoming February to commemorate the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth. On the steps where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, speaking in honor of the president who freed the slaves could stand America’s first black president, a man who has tied himself closely to the Lincoln legacy...
...Klee was forced to emigrate from Germany to Switzerland, the country of his birth, because the Nazis considered his art "degenerate" and there were rumors that he was Jewish. Klee's visualization of the inhumanity of Nazi rule shows that, in contrast to common misconceptions, not everything he created carried the illusion of cheerfulness. In Marked Man, lines in the shape of a swastika stretch like scars across what resembles a child's rendering of a human face. "The more horrifying this world becomes (as it is these days) the more art becomes abstract," Klee wrote in 1914. But while...
...swallow. Second, place pills that are bitter inside empty capsules - no unpleasant taste. Third, explain the critical nature of the disease in one power-packed sentence: Take these medications daily until all are gone, or you will die. If many millions of women can remember to take a birth control pill every day for years, surely those with TB can be convinced to take their medication correctly for six months. Merri Lu Park, ABADIANIA, BRAZIL