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04:55 - 01 February 2005
todays history lesson
okey dokey, diarylands very own (apple) pie-rat, the one, the only, poolagirl!! has recruited me to reveal all within these 5 lil questions!!

1. how many music files do ya have on the puter?
i have 32. my old hard drive that is collecting dust on my shelf, cause im too lazy to install it has 769 music files. thats a whole lotta shakin goin on!

2. the last CD you bought was?
i dont buy CD's. i goto the library, check them out, and rip them to the hard drive. i do that with DVD's too! its cheaper, cause im a cheap jew.

3.whats the last song you listened to before this message?
the wonder of you. 1967 elvis. that song just makes me swell up with pride!

4.write down 5 songs you often listen to, or that mean a lot to you!
A. an american trilogy by elvis
B. moody blues by elvis
c. loving you by elvis
D. you gave me a mountain by elvis
E. the wonder of you by elvis

5. who are ya gonna pass this onto?
no one, cause i cant remember who done this!!



 

a lil history for ya!


On this day in 1968, Nguyen Ngoc Loan executed a Vietcong officer.
AP photographer Eddie Adams snapped the shooting, and his iconic photo
won a Pulitzer Prize. Loan, the chief of police of the Republic of Vietnam
shot Vietcong agent Nguyen Van Lam in front of Adams and an NBC
film crew. The photo helped change American attitudes about Vietnam; the
public grew wary of a war fought by people who think nothing of shooting
others in the head at point-blank range in the middle of the street. Of
course, it wasn't that simple; the dead man was head of a terrorist squad.
Adams later regretted the photo, telling Time, "The general
killed the Vietcong; I killed the general with my camera."


What is so bitter about this photo, 37 years later, is that similar situations
in Iraq have not made us recoil. We download video of beheadings and watch
in the detached comfort of our homes. We flinch, but not enough to rethink
the kind of war we're fighting. The photo of Nguyen Ngoc Loan cured us of one war, but cannot echo in another.



 









Separated at Birth!!



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THE AYATOLLAH RETURNS TO IRAN:
February 1, 1979


On February 1, 1979, the Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran in triumph after 15 years of exile. The shah and his family had fled the country two weeks before, and jubilant Iranian revolutionaries were eager to establish a fundamentalist Islamic government under Khomeini's leadership.

Born around the turn of the century, Ruhollah Khomeini was the son of an Islamic religious scholar and in his youth memorized the Qur'an. He was a Shiite--the branch of Islam practiced by a majority of Iranians--and soon devoted himself to the formal study of Shia Islam in the city of Qom. A devout cleric, he rose steadily in the informal Shiite hierarchy and attracted many disciples.

In 1941, British and Soviet troops occupied Iran and installed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as the second modern shah of Iran. The new shah had close ties with the West, and in 1953 British and U.S. intelligence agents helped him overthrow a popular political rival. Mohammad Reza embraced many Western ideas and in 1963 launched his "White Revolution," a broad government program that called for the reduction of religious estates in the name of land redistribution, equal rights for women, and other modern reforms.

Khomeini, now known by the high Shiite title "ayatollah," was the first religious leader to openly condemn the shah's program of westernization. In fiery dispatches from his Faziye Seminary in Qom, Khomeini called for the overthrow of the shah and the establishment of an Islamic state. In 1963, Mohammad Reza imprisoned him, which led to riots, and on November 4, 1964, expelled him from Iran.

Khomeini settled in An Najaf, a Shiite holy city across the border in Iraq, and sent home recordings of his sermons that continued to incite his student followers. Breaking precedence with the Shiite tradition that discouraged clerical participation in government, he called for Shiite leaders to govern Iran.

In the 1970s, Mohammad Reza further enraged Islamic fundamentalists in Iran by holding an extravagant celebration of the 2,500th anniversary of the pre-Islamic Persian monarchy and replaced the Islamic calendar with a Persian calendar. As discontent grew, the shah became more repressive, and support for Khomeini grew. In 1978, massive anti-shah demonstrations broke out in Iran's major cities. Dissatisfied members of the lower and middle classes joined the radical students, and Khomeini called for the shah's immediate overthrow. In December, the army mutinied, and on January 16, 1979, the shah fled.

Khomeini arrived in Tehran in triumph on February 1, 1979, and was acclaimed as the leader of the Iranian Revolution. With religious fervor running high, he consolidated his authority and set out to transform Iran into a religious state. On November 4, 1979, the 15th anniversary of his exile, students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took the staff hostage. With Khomeini's approval, the radicals demanded the return of the shah to Iran and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days. The shah died in Egypt of cancer in July 1980.

In December 1979, a new Iranian constitution was approved, naming Khomeini as Iran's political and religious leader for life. Under his rule, Iranian women were denied equal rights and required to wear a veil, Western culture was banned, and traditional Islamic law and its often-brutal punishments were reinstated. In suppressing opposition, Khomeini proved as ruthless as the shah, and thousands of political dissidents were executed during his decade of rule.

In 1980, Iraq invaded Iran's oil-producing province of Khuzestan. After initial advances, the Iraqi offense was repulsed. In 1982, Iraq voluntarily withdrew and sought a peace agreement, but Khomeini renewed fighting. Stalemates and the deaths of thousands of young Iranian conscripts in Iraq followed. In 1988, Khomeini finally agreed to a U.N.-brokered cease-fire.

After the Ayatollah Khomeini died on June 3, 1989, more than two million anguished mourners attended his funeral. Gradual democratization began in Iran in early the 1990s, culminating in a free election in 1997 in which the moderate reformist Mohammed Khatami was elected president!



thats our show for today everybuddy! what say you? one more thing, in 1789 the U.S. Supreme Court held it very first session:
the original members:
john jay; chief justice, 1789-1795
james wilson; associate justice, 1790-1798
john rutledge; associate justice, 1790-1791
william cushing; associate justice, 1790-1810
john blair; associate justice, 1790-1795


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