“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” — Douglas MacArthur Veterans Day 2018 was on Sunday, November 11th, 2018 and designated as a Federal Holiday […]
Presidential Proclamation on Veterans Day, 2018 On November 11, 1918, the United States and its allies signed an armistice with Germany to end hostilities in World War I. The Great War exacted a tremendous toll on our Nation. More than […]
They press on to the high calling of Christ Jesus, just like those who finish the race.
By Rich Mancuso/ Sports Editor Lee Samuels tells family, friends, and colleagues that a boxing publicist does not deserve recognition. However he has been employed the past 38 years at Top Rank Boxing as their lead publicist. Earlier this year, […]
Benjamin Banneker (1731) Banneker was a free African American who was largely self-educated in astronomy and mathematics. In 1761, he drew attention by building a wooden clock that kept precise time for some 50 years. He accurately predicted a solar […]
It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: […]
light-minded Definition: (adjective) Showing inappropriate levity. Synonyms: flippant Usage: The light-minded woman had been discovering good matches for her daughter almost from the year of her birth. Discuss.
By William Coppola How to rebuild a baseball team that is in need of repair? Here is how it works: Trades, free agency and signing top prospects both here and abroad. Easier said than done. It will take a tremendous […]
By Rich Mancuso/ Sports Editor A few days on the job and GM Brodie Van Wagenen is making progress for the Mets. If you count that progress as in exploring roster moves for the offseason then that’s a start. Realize […]
We Should Be There For Each Other “Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another to show love and to do good. Let us not give up the habit of meeting together, as some are doing. Instead, […]
DREAMChasers is a free test prep and mentoring program to help students from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds test into NYC’s specialized high schools. Students chosen for the program will receive over 300 hours of professional test prep for the specialized […]
Hermann Rorschach (1884) Rorschach, a Swiss psychiatrist, devised his eponymous inkblot test to gauge the perceptions, intelligence, and emotional traits of his patients and used it to gather data for his 1921 book Psychodiagnostics. Based on the idea that people […]
Whence come the highest mountains? … They come out of the sea. That testimony is inscribed on their stones, and on the walls of their summits. Out of the deepest must the highest come to its height. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) […]
refutation Definition: (noun) The speech act of answering an attack on your assertions. Synonyms: defense Usage: His refutation of the charges was short and persuasive. Discuss.
Konrad Lorenz (1903) As a boy, Lorenz nursed sick animals from the local zoo. He became a zoologist and studied the behavior of birds, emphasizing innate as opposed to learned behaviors and focusing on imprinting, a rapid learning process in […]
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