Word: stones
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...Callahan [March 27] won the only Congressional Medal of Honor ever awarded to a chaplain. There has been at least one other-Chaplain John M. Whitehead of the 15th Indiana Infantry. The deed judged significant enough to merit the award occurred at the Civil War battle of Stone's River (near Murfreesboro, Tenn.) on Dec. 31, 1862. The medal was issued on April...
...NATO. Turning to another area of U.S. foreign policy, President Johnson marked the 15th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization by telling more than 100 guests at an East Room ceremony that the alliance was "a tested and recognized foundation stone of America's foreign policy." There was an implied slap at Charles de Gaulle's disruptive tactics in Johnson's statement that "we, for our part, will never turn back to separated insecurity." But the President generously added that the U.S. welcomes "the new strength of our transatlantic allies" and sees "no contradiction between national...
...English clergyman, Edward Stone, found that willow tea eased the agues of malaria. By 1840, chemists isolated salicylic acid and thought they had a wonder drug, only to have physicians drop it quickly because it had too many harmful side effects. In 1853, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt did a bit of molecular manipulation in his Strasbourg laboratory and made acetylsalicylic acid (C9HSO4). Having found it, he failed utterly to appreciate its value, and put it on the shelf...
...would not choose to be eulogized. But let us just recall a thought from Pericles' Funeral Oration, which he often quoted: "The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over the native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives...
...starts to play. As each key hits a note it acquires a color as well, until the whole keyboard looks like a Mediterranean awning. D'Avino goes on coloring everything in sight, including the punched-out player roll itself. The colors grow and move quite magically. In Stone Sonata, he moves stones around a stream bed, coloring them as he goes along in varied patterns that suggest the work of a Hopi Indian, always shooting a frame at a time, creating an imaginative suggestion of stones alive in nature, a reason-be-damned admixture of the commonplace with...