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July 29, 2004
In a Chinos World
I love jeans. I'm comfortable in them. I wear them everywhere, mall, parks, even in church. I probably have more than 10 jeans in rotation at this moment. And if I were to have only a pair of pants, it would be (tada) jeans. The sad truth is I wear chinos and sometimes dress pants from monday to friday at work. Do I need to say I hate it? I'm a creative professional in a corporate pharmaceutical world. Go figure.
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July 25, 2004
New York Summer 2004
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July 19, 2004
Back to work.
I'm drinking coffee in front of my work G5, typing this short note to remind myself that I'm back to work. Sigh. :-) The past two weeks was just what I needed. More photos of what happened tomorrow.
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July 12, 2004
Back from DC
Back from 7 days of nothing but DC. One week is too much for one location, though we had terrific times visiting museums, the humidity was just too much to bear. It was really hot. Glad to be back home for some vacation FROM the vacation. Now let's see, what's in my itinerary...ah, finally some rest. :-)
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July 10, 2004
Lincoln and the Holocaust Museum
America's transfer from civil war to peace was made more difficult on April 14, 1865, when Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed, just five days after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. A well-known actor, John Wilkes Booth, desperate to aid the dying Confederacy, stepped into the president's box of Washington's Fords Theater. Booth's decision to pull the trigger altered the nation's power to reconstruct after the war. Booth escaped into the night as Abraham Lincoln was carried to the Petersen boarding house across the street. It was there that President Lincoln died early the next morning, and became the first American president to be assassinated.
LIFE IN SHADOWS: HIDDEN CHILDREN AND THE HOLOCAUST
When World War II ended in 1945, six million European Jews were dead, killed in the Holocaust. More than one million of the victims were children.
Driven by a racist ideology that viewed Jews as “parasitic vermin” worthy only of eradication, the Nazis implemented genocide on an unprecedented scale. All of Europe's Jews were slated for destruction: the sick and the healthy, the rich and the poor, the religiously orthodox and converts to Christianity, the aged and the young, even infants.
Thousands of Jewish children survived this brutal carnage, however, many because they were hidden. With identities disguised, and often physically concealed from the outside world, these youngsters faced constant fear, dilemmas, and danger. Theirs was a life in shadows, where a careless remark, a denunciation, or the murmurings of inquisitive neighbors could lead to discovery and death.
Sam writing a letter to Daniel. :-)
Remember the Children: Daniel's Story, an exhibition for youngsters, opened at the Museum in 1993. It presents the history of the Holocaust in ways that children can understand.
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July 09, 2004
National Zoo
The Smithsonian National Zoological Park or the National Zoo is a part of the Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex. The Smithsonian includes 16 museums, including the National Zoo. It's a 163-acre zoological park set amid Rock Creek National Park in the heart of Washington, D.C. It is home to more than 2,700 individual animals of 435 different species. Their best known residents are the giant pandas, Tian Tian and Mei Xiang.
As a parent of two six year olds, I have ofcourse become somewhat of a zoo critic. This zoo isn't bad at all, they have the usual residents - tigers, elephants etc. What distinguishes this zoo is their research and care of two giant pandas. These pandas are truly amazing and everything in this zoo is being done to take real good care of them. Still, the National Zoo doesn't come close to dethroning our all time favorite zoo - the Bronx Zoo. The Bronx Zoo dwarfs the National Zoo in terms of physical size and number of residents. The congo section alone which house the gorillas is already about a fourth of the zoo in Washington.
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July 08, 2004
Washington, DC
July 5-11, 2004
July 7, 2004 The original Apple computer at the Museum of American History
July 6, 2004 View from John F. Kennedy's tomb
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