[QUOTE]On September 29 2011 23:29 Stijx wrote: [QUOTE]On September 19 2011 15:39 SpectralFremen wrote: + Show Spoiler +
Hopefully a fate that we all avoided with the end of the cold war.[/QUOTE]
Might be a stupid question, but what is this? MIRVS which is when a nuke has multiple warheads in it. Basically, one can use A MIRV to attack multiple cities at once. Scary eh?
Milk pours down a man's face, used to treat his eyes, which were affected by pepper spray used during an Occupy Wall Street protest on September 25, 2011, in New York City.
Soldiers of the Eight Nation Alliance in China, 1900 AD, from left to right: United Kingdom, United States, Australian (colonial, operating under British authority), British India, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Japan. (Russians not shown)
The prolific writer and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens made his first public appearance in months, as he’s been battling esophageal cancer, at the Texas Freethought Convention. Richard Dawkins awarded him with the Freethinker of the Year Award. Hitchens spoke and answered questions for about an hour with an emotional and humbled audience. The Houston Chronicle has a nice account of the evening. One of the questions came from eight-year-old Mason Crumpacker who asked what books she should read. Hitchens asked to see her after the talk, and he did indeed spend the final moments of the evening with her family as a crowd gathered, writing down a list of books for Mason.
On October 15 2011 01:33 sinii wrote: I want to know what books he recommended!
The linked article actually showed this list - but also:
Actually the hitch list has its own youtube video! In the description and at about 1:35 on the video itself, it says the mother sent this interested person a copy of the list:
Transcribed word for word from the video:
The Magic of Reality- Dawkins Greek and Roman myths- especially those complied by Robert Graves Shakespeare Chaucer Other satirical works ( Montesquieu, Voltaire) David Hume Dickens- all, but especially a Tale of Two Cities Ayaan Hirsi Ali- especially the beginning of Infidel where she speaks about her childhood P.G. Wodehouse "just for a bit of fun" especially "Sunset at Blandings."