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Tin Whistle

2008-03-26T01:13:42Z

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[[Image:Tin_Whistle.gif|thumb|300px|An assortment of tin whistles]]The '''Tin Whistle''' is a six holed end-blown flute which originated in the [[British Isles]]. It is also called the Irish Whistle or Penny Whistle. Many tin whistles cost only a few [[dollars]], making them excellent first instruments for children.

J. C. Squire once wrote:

  Now I am a tin whistle 
    Through which God blows, 
  And I wish to God I were a trumpet 
    —But why, God only knows. 

==See also==
*[[Slide whistle]]

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Tim Russert

2008-03-26T01:13:12Z

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[[Image:Tim_Russert_.jpg|thumbnail|right|200px|Russert on the set of [[NBC]]'s [[Meet the Press]]]]
'''Timothy John Russert, Jr'''. was born May 7, 1950, in [[Buffalo]], [[New York]]. He is a political analyst for [[NBC Nightly News]], and their morning show [[NBC Today Show|Today]]. He also holds the position of Managing Editor and Moderator of [[Meet the Press]] ([[NBC]]), and [[The Tim Russert Show]] ([[CNBC]]). Both shows interview the country's policymakers, and journalists on issues facing the nation.

== Television ==
Russert began his major television involvement when he took over the helm of the already well respected [[Meet the Press]] show in December of 1991. The programs growth continued to spike as it became the most watched [[Sunday]] news interview program, and also most quoted world wide.<ref>http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837973/</ref> From the current [[president]]ial candidates, to the sitting president and administration officials, Russert has interviewed nearly all major players in [[United States]] politics today.

Along with Russert’s responsibilities with Meet the Press he frequently appears on [[NBC Nightly News]], [[CNBC]], and [[The Today Show]], to discuss the latest poll numbers or political situation.

In the past he has been involved and hosted many shows; including [[PBS]]’s 1996 show ''Why America Hates the Press''. In 1990 he served as production executive for a NBC’s series ''A Day in the Life of President Bush'' and in 1993, ''A Day in the Life of President Clinton''.<ref>http://www.filmreference.com/film/36/Tim-Russert.html</ref>

== Film ==
Russert has appeared in two films. In 2000 he was in a short, comedic film entitled, ''President Clinton: Final Days (2000)'', and a documentary on the 2000 Bush vs. Gore campaign, ''Election 2000'' which was released in 2001.<ref>http://www.filmreference.com/film/36/Tim-Russert.html</ref>

== Books ==
In 2005 Russert authored “Big Russ and Me”, a book about his father and childhood. Two years later he wrote a second book which became a national bestseller, ''Wisdom of Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters From Daughters and Sons''.

==Political Position ==
Russert has been attacked by both political parties for alleged bias. [[NewsMax]]’s president and CEO [[Christopher Ruddy]], criticized him for his “[[liberal]] media bias" citing his previous work as a "Democratic political operative" for [[New York]]'s former [[Democratic]] Governor [[Mario Cuomo]] and senator [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]] (D-NY).<ref>http://mediamatters.org/items/200606140001</ref> On the liberal side, he is attacked as being either not liberal enough or, as a liberal website stated, “Russert is anything BUT an objective journalist."<ref>http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Time%20for%20change/31</ref>

Russert responds to these criticisms by saying he asks tough questions to everyone on his show despite party affiliation. He said, “It’s a TV show. If you can’t handle TV questions, how you gonna stand up to Iran and North Korea and the rest of the world?”.<ref>http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/06/15/hannitys-new-bff-is-tim-russert/</ref>

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Hippopotamus

2008-03-26T01:12:37Z

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{{Taxonomy
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|phylum=[[Chordata]]
|class=Mammalia
|superorder=Cetartiodactyla
|order=Artiodactyla
|family=Hippopotamidae
|genus=Hippopotamus
|species=H. amphibius
|binomialname=Hippopotamus amphibius
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'''Hippopotamuses''' (from the [[Greek]] for '[[River]] [[Horse]]') are large [[herbivore|herbivorous]] semi-[[aquatic]] [[African]] [[mammals]], and the only four-toed [[ungulate]]s. Once living in northern Africa, the hippopotamus is now only found south of the [[Sahara]]. The hippopotamus may have been the [[behemoth]] mentioned in [[Job]] 40:15-24. The hippopotamus and pygmy hippopotamus are the only living [[species]], a small number of [[extinct]] species are also known from [[fossils]].

==Description==
Hippopotamuses may weigh up to 7000 pounds and reach 5 feet in height. They live in schools<ref>http://www.hipposchool.com/</ref> and submerge themselves in rivers to protect themselves from the sun, coming up for air every 5 minutes or so, although they are able to remain submerged for up to thirty minutes.

===Diet===
A hippopotamus is a [[herbivore]], eating up to 150 pounds of grass in a night. They are able to regurgitate their food, chew it again as [[cud]], and then swallow it for digestion.

===Reproduction===
Hippos are born underwater and have to swim to the surface to breath. They are also able to suckle underwater.

== References ==
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Stephen Schwartz

2008-03-26T01:11:02Z

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'''Stephen Suleyman Schwartz''' (born 1948 in Columbus, Ohio) is a [[neoconservative]] author and journalist. His father Horace Schwartz, was a secular [[Jew]]; his mother was a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] and a member of the [[Communist Party of the United States of America]]; he himself is a practicing [[Muslim]] and the executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism. He has been a vocal supporter of the [[Iraq War]].

==Books==
:The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror
:Is It Good for the Jews?: The Crisis of America's Israel Lobby

==See Also==
:[http://nationalreview.com/comment/comment-schwartz061103.asp Trotskycons?] by Stephen Schwartz, ''National Review Online'', June 11, 2003.
:[http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/authors.asp?ID=321 Stephen Schwartz's columns at FrontPage Magazine].

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Dana Perino

2008-03-26T01:09:49Z

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[[Image:Perino.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Deputy White House Press Secretary Dana Perino at a press briefing]]
'''Dana Perino''' (born May 9, 1972) is the current Deputy White House Press Secretary. On September 14, 2007, she replaced [[Tony Snow]] as White House Press Secretary after Snow stepped down from that position.<ref>http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070831-6.html</ref>

Perino previously worked as a [[television]] [[reporter]] and handled public relations for a [[technology]] company. Before her most recent promotion, she served as a Justice Department press aide, associate director of communication's in the White House Counsel on Environmental Quality as well as filling in as White House Press Secretary during Tony Snow's cancer treatment<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6889037,00.html</ref>.

==References==
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Joseph Fels Barnes

2008-03-26T01:09:14Z

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'''Joseph Barnes''' was with the [[Institute for Pacific Relations]] (IPR) from 1931 to 1934, after which he joined the ''New York Herald-Tribune'', serving as [[Moscow]] correspondent, then in Berlin, and from 1939 to 1948, as foreign editor. Herald-Tribune to become co-publisher of the pro-Communist newspaper called the ''New York Star''. Barnes was an extreme pro-Communist on Chinese affairs.During [[World War II]] Barnes worked for the [[Office of War Information]].<ref>''While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pgs. 73, 79] pdf.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Henry A. Wallace]]
*[[Owen Lattimore]]
*[[I.F. Stone]]

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Beatty-II

2008-03-26T01:08:04Z

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'''The second Beatty''' was laid down on [[Independence Day]] 1944 at Staten Island, [[New York| N.Y]]., by the Bethlehem Steel Co.; launched on 30 November 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Charles H. Drayton and her daughter Miss Mary Drayton; and commissioned on 31 March 1945, Comdr. Malcolm T. Munger in command.

After fitting out, the destroyer conducted her shakedown cruise in the vicinity of [[Guantanamo Bay]], [[Cuba]], and underwent post-shakedown repairs at the New York Navy Yard during late May and the first three weeks of June. Beatty operated out of Norfolk, [[Virginia|Va]]., as a training ship from late June to 24 August, and then sailed for the West Indies on another training cruise. By that time, [[Japan]] had capitulated, ending hostilities. On 12 September, she reported for duty to the Commander, Destroyers, Atlantic Fleet, but returned to training duty out of Norfolk about a week later. That service lasted until 10 November when she sailed for the Pacific. The destroyer reached [[San Diego]] on 25 November but soon continued on to [[Pearl Harbor]] where she resumed training duty.

Beatty returned to the east coast in March 1946 and operated along the eastern seaboard until heading for [[Europe]]an waters in February 1947. She reached England on 25 February and then visited ports in [[France]], [[Belgium]], [[Denmark]], [[Scotland]], [[Sweden]], and [[Portugal]]. She reached her last port of call of the deployment, Gibraltar, late in July and arrived back in Newport on 14 August. After 13 months of operations along the east coast and in the West Indies, the destroyer stood out of Newport on 13 September 1948 bound for the Mediterranean. She joined the 6th Fleet at Gibraltar on 23 September and, in addition to the usual port visits and exercises, patrolled the Palestinian coast between 2 November and 7 December during the first Arab-Israeli war. The warship completed the deployment on 23 January 1949 when she arrived back in Newport. For more than two years--with time out for an overhaul at the Boston Naval Shipyard--Beatty operated along the east coast, in the West Indies, and in the Gulf of Mexico. On 5 March 1951, the destroyer deployed to the Mediterranean Sea once again but returned to Newport at the end of the first week in June.

More 2d Fleet operations occupied her until early autumn. She departed Newport on 2 October, bound for the western Pacific and-- after transiting the Panama Canal and visiting San Diego, Pearl Harbor, and Midway Island--she arrived in Yokosuka, Japan, on 31 October. On 4 November, Beatty joined the screen of Task Force (TF) 77--the fast carrier force--off the coast of Korea. From 6 to 9 November, the destroyer moved inshore to bombard installations at Wonsan harbor. Near the end of the month, she shelled targets at Chongjin, Songjin, and Tachon. Between 5 and 11 December, Beatty operated independently in the vicinity of Hingoan, patrolling for mines and submarines. Relieved of that duty on the 11th, she returned to Yokosuka on the 13th.

The destroyer departed Yokosuka on 28 December and, after a trip to Okinawa, rendezvoused with TF 77 off the Korean coast on 9 January 1952. For the remainder of the month, she served in the screen of the fast carriers and acted as their plane guard. After visiting Sasebo between 31 January and 5 February, she began her final tour of duty screening the carriers. Beatty made one more visit to Yokosuka from 22 to 27 February before heading back to Newport. Steaming via the Indian Ocean, the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean, the warship completed a circumnavigation of the world with her arrival at Newport on 21 April.

Following an overhaul at the [[Boston Naval Shipyard]] during the summer of 1952, she resumed duty out of Newport on 26 September. For almost 13-years, Beatty operated from the base at Newport alternating deployments to the 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea with operations along the east coast of the [[United States]] and in the West Indies. During several of her tours of duty in the [[Mediterranean]], the destroyer was detached from the 6th Fleet for brief periods of service in the [[Indian Ocean]] with the Middle East Force. She also made cruises to northern European ports in 1954 and 1957 following [[NATO]] exercises in the Atlantic. She participated in type training, antisubmarine warfare (ASW), and fleet exercises during all of her assignments. Her operations out of Newport--punctuated by regular overhauls at various east coast naval shipyards--also included refresher training and summer training cruises for Naval Academy and NROTC midshipmen.

There were a number of highlights during that phase of her career. While conducting post-overhaul refresher training late in July 1959, she saved the abandoned motor vessel Nassau Relief from sinking off the coast of the Dominican Republic. Late in September and early in October 1959, Beatty provided services to the Fleet Sonar School at Key West, Fla. In January of 1960, she helped to track a high altitude research balloon during Operation "Skyhook." The destroyer spent two weeks in [[November]] of 1961 cruising off the coast of the Dominican Republic during a time of internal troubles for that nation. A year later in November 1962, Beatty took part in the quarantine of [[Cuba]] established to keep Russian offensive missiles from reaching that island. The last event of particular note in which she took part during this period came in May 1963 when the warship provided support for Project Mercury during Maj. S. Gordon Cooper's 22-orbit Faith 7 space flight.

In April of 1965, Beatty's home port was changed to Norfolk where she arrived on 3 June to begin an overhaul that lasted until October. Though her base of operations changed, her missions remained the same as before--deployments to European waters alternated with operations along the east coast and in the West Indies. She continued that employment until 1 January 1968 when she was placed in a caretaker status with a greatly reduced crew. Later that year, she learned that she was slated to become a Naval Reserve training ship. At the end of the first week in September, the destroyer made the voyage from Norfolk to Tampa, Fla. From that new home port, she helped to train naval reservists until 1972. In March 1972, a survey board found her to be beyond economical modernization, and recommended her disposal. On 14 July 1972, Beatty was decommissioned at Charleston, and her name struck from the Navy list. That same day, she was transferred to the Venezuelan Navy. Renamed Carabobo, she served Venezuela until 1981. Presumably, she was sold for scrap at that time.

Beatty (DD-756) earned two battle stars during the Korean conflict.<ref>Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/b4-list.htm]</ref>

See also [[Beatty-I]].

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