Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members and supporters of the Harvard queer community gathered last night to draw chalk body outlines on footpaths in the Yards, symbolizing transgendered people slain in hate crimes...
Next to the chalk outlines (which number about 40), flyers were taped to the ground with the names of Deborah Forte, Rita Hester, Tyra Hunter, Brandon Teena, Rufus Turner, Kristen Page and Chanelle Picket. Each were "trans-people" killed in recent crimes of hate...
Anna M. Baldwin '00, who borrowed the idea of chalk outlines from the group 'Transexual Menace', an international transgender advocacy group, said she organized the event to give more attention to crimes that go unnoticed by the media...
Napoleon thought of one, but not until 192 years later would a tunnel under the Channel linking England and the Continent be finished. Beginning on their respective shores, teams of French and English sandhogs used 1,000-ton boring machines to burrow through the 24 miles of chalk, clearing 20 million tons. The two sides...
...nations of the earth, finding most of them filthy, lazy and wanting in Midwestern virtue. From Libya he once wrote, "No water in river, and country full of Wops." The British he regarded as "pink-coated, horn-blowing, supercilious bankrupts." The Blessed Isles were to him just one big "chalk-cliffed hell." McCormick ably reinforced the trait of editorial looniness so eagerly deployed by William Randolph Hearst, whose career reached its zenith in fomenting the Spanish-American...