We are Pleased to Invite You to The Morris Park Community Association Meeting This Wednesday, June 19th, 7:30 PM at Community Center 1824 Bronxdale Avenue, Bronx, NY FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL TINA: (718) 823-0596
Blaise Pascal (1623) Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist,and religious philosopher. A child prodigy, heearned the envy of René Descartes with anessay he wrote on conic sections when he wasstill a teen. Credited with founding the moderntheory of probability and advancing differentialcalculus, he also made important contributions to physics, notablyin the study of atmospheric pressure. Why did he later abandonhis scientific work to focus on theology and philosophy? More…
Kings are not born: they are made by artificialhallucination. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
claptrap Definition: (noun) Pompous or pretentious talk or writing. Synonyms: blah, bombast, fustian, rant Usage: He talks a lot of pretentious claptrap and rarely getsdown to brass tacks. Discuss.
By William Coppola/ Contributor Bronx Chronicle So much rain and no umbrella. That has been the story for the Yankees and Mets this year. Too late now to think about a dome, maybe next time they build a new ballpark. […]
Thirty years ago this month, the hopes for freedom of nearly a billion people were dashed. Their dreams were crushed by a tyrannical governing system that had already taken the lives of a hundred million in their own homeland, as […]
By Rich Mancuso/ Sports Editor Three games at Atlanta, four at Chicago, four at Philadelphia await the Mets. Indeed a road trip that will define where this team stands after losing three of four to the Cardinals at Citi Field. […]
By Robert Press It was a beautiful Friday morning, the sun was bright, and time seemed to stop before the street renaming for Private First Class Emmanuel Mensah. Family, clergy, members of Emmanuel’s National Guard unit, and others spread out […]
By Reverend J. Loren Russell, BA, MDiv Psalms 37:23-24 NKJV “The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD, And He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For the […]
The New York Yankees announced today that they have acquired 1B/DH Edwin Encarnación from the Seattle Mariners in exchange for RHP Juan Then and cash considerations. Encarnación, 36, hit .241/.356/.531 (58-for-241) with 48R, 7 doubles, 21HR, 49RBI and 41BB in […]
By Rich Mancuso/ Sports Editor With the Mets bullpen struggles there is need for help. Though GM Brodie Van Wegeden said Saturday prior to the Mets-Cardinals game at Citi Field, “We will improve.” Friday at Citi Field the Mets late […]
Karl Landsteiner (1868) Landsteiner was an Austrian-born American medical researcher who was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the four basic human blood groups—A, B, O, and AB—which enabled the first successful blood […]
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today. John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
forgo Definition: (verb) Do without or cease to hold or adhere to. Synonyms: foreswear, waive, dispense with, relinquish Usage: The tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my […]
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