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Definition #110 Selfie Snow Goggles

31 Jan 2015 2 Comments

by jeannepoland in Family Tags: ATV, definition, enthusiastic, selfie snow goggles, skating, sleds, snowboards, winter sports enthusiasts, winter warriors

Winter Sports Enthusiasts-2015

Owen, Annika, Oliver
Winter 2014

ATV, skating,

sleds, snowboards, winter warriors:

enthusiastic!

Definition #109 War

30 Jan 2015 1 Comment

by jeannepoland in Family Tags: Barbara Tuchman, conflict, definition, fire on protestors, graphics by Marlyn Exconde, Northern Island, protestors, war

Graphics
by Marlyn Exconde

Barbara Tuchman said, “War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”

It was on this day in 1972 that British army parachutists shot 27 unarmed civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland — an event known as “Bloody Sunday.” The protestors had been marching to oppose the new British policy of imprisoning people without a hearing.

The Northern Irish conflict stemmed from a peace treaty signed in 1923 after Ireland’s successful war for independence from Britain. The treaty partitioned Ireland, designating the largely Catholic south as an independent nation, while leaving six counties of Northern Ireland, which had a Protestant majority, as part of the United Kingdom.

On this day, parachute troopers were given the okay to fire on the protestors. The first person killed was shot in the back. Thirteen people died — half of them were teenagers. All of the protesters were unarmed.

Definition: 108 Poetry and Science

29 Jan 2015 Leave a comment

by jeannepoland in Family Tags: Abraham Vergese, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arturo Vivante, definition, Doctor DeLoca, poetry, Robert Seymore Bridges, science, Walter Percy

Doctor DeLoca and Daughter

Anton Chekhov considered himself a doctor foremost and a writer by hobby.

There are a great number of medical doctors who also wrote fiction and poetry, among them 19th-century American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sherlock Holmes’ creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Seymour Bridges, who is the only physician to have been Poet Laureate of England.

American writer Walker Percy was a medical doctor, and Michael Crichton completed medical school before he became a full-time writer.

Doctor Arturo Vivante wrote more than 70 stories for The New Yorker magazine.

Mystery writer Robin Cook is a physician and author of the best-selling thrillers Coma (1977) and Mutation (1989).

Dr. Abraham Verghese took a break from hospitals to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the early 1990s; he returned to medicine and now teaches and practices at Stanford, where he has a secret unmarked writing office on campus.