Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (1867) Mannerheim was a Finnish-born soldier and statesman. A career officer in the Russian imperial army from 1889 to 1917, he went on to command the anti-Bolshevik forces in the Finnish Civil War and expelled […]
Great joy, especially after a sudden change and revolution of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue. Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
immerse Definition: (verb) Devote (oneself) fully to. Synonyms: engross, engulf, steep, soak up, absorb, plunge Usage: I swear I will immerse myself in my studies and improve these poor grades. Discuss.
YANKEES SELECT THREE PLAYERS ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE 2019 MLB FIRST-YEAR PLAYER DRAFT The New York Yankees tonight selected three players over the first two rounds of the 2019 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. With their first-round […]
Cases of Interest for the Week of June 3, 2019 Monday, June 3, 2019 ADA Judge Part # Status Defendant Name Case Details Lung, F. Barrett 60 Decision on Motions Idris Abdul-Muhaymin Charged with first-degree Murder and additional charges for […]
Sergeant Gary Beikirch Award: Veterans’ Hall of Fame Year: 2005 Sergeant Gary Beikirch, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, truly embodies the military’s teaching of the value and significance of service to others above self. He feels that the most […]
Otto Loewi (1873) Loewi was a German-born American physiologist and pharmacologist. A professor of pharmacology at Austria’s University of Graz, he was forced into exile by the Nazi purge of professors in 1938 and began teaching at New York University […]
Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom. Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
multitudinous Definition: (adjective) Too numerous to be counted. Synonyms: innumerable, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumbered, countless, infinite Usage: Here, along the lines of multitudinous houses, up one street and down another, he wondered which of them might be occupied by her. […]
By Rich Mancuso/Sports Editor Andy Ruiz Jr. may not have had a bigger upset as Buster Douglas had over Mike Tyson. But Saturday night at Madison Square Garden he was a huge underdog and all week he said that motivated […]
The Watertown Daily Times reports that the last Mohawk World War II Code Talker has died. The upstate paper says Louis Levi Oakes, an enrolled member of the Saint Regis Mohawk tribe, died Tuesday at the age of 94. In […]
If financial arguments prove unconvincing to NASA’s detractors, perhaps saving the planet from destruction may be a more powerful persuader. NASA’s budget is relatively sparse, at less than one-half of one percent of federal spending. It is, however, continuously attacked […]
By Reverend J. Loren Russell, BA Deuteronomy 15:7-11 – CEV 7 After the Lord your God gives land to each of you, there may be poor Israelites in the town where you live. If there are, then don’t be […]
By Robert Press On a rainy Thursday night which cancelled a New York Yankee game The Housing Town Hall meeting by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, State Senators Alessandra Biaggi and Jamaal Bailey, and Assemblywoman Nathalia Fernandez went on to standing room […]
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