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Diarmada (born June 23rd, 1976 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American Archivist best known for being Diarmada.
Thanks to the visionary contribution of Wikipedia to the world wide web by fellow Alabamian Jimmy Wales, Diarmada has been able to present aspects of Alabama's culture, diversity and history.
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Sweet Home Alabama
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Home as of last week, Washington, D.C.
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Buchanan Street, A few blocks from my old apartment in Glasgow, Scotland
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Birmingham, Alabama: The Magic City
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"To me it has always seemed that God is so sickened with men, and their unending cruelty to each other, that he covers the places where they have been as quickly as possible." - William March
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"If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God." - Thomas Jefferson
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"The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a second life waiting, suffering can be endured- especially in other people. The natural environment can be used up. Enemies of the faith can be savaged and suicidal martyrdom praised." - E. O. Wilson
Interesting Stuff
[edit]The Czapski Palace is a palatial complex in the center of Warsaw, Poland. It was constructed in about 1686 for the country's Catholic primate, Michał Stefan Radziejowski, using a design by Dutch-born Polish architect and engineer Tylman van Gameren. The palace was reconstructed between 1712 and 1721, and acquired its present rococo character in 1752–65. The building has been home to various notable individuals, including artist Zygmunt Vogel, composer Frédéric Chopin, and poets Zygmunt Krasiński and Cyprian Norwid. It now houses the Academy of Fine Arts. This photograph shows the front façade of the Czapski Palace's main building.Photograph credit: Adrian Grycuk
Did you know...
[edit]- ... that Fort George (pictured) was the execution site of Maurice Bishop, the prime minister of Grenada?
- ... that choreographer Nat Horne's father, a Baptist minister, opposed dancing, and Horne began his dance training by sneaking out of Saturday-night prayer meetings?
- ... that the television drama This Thriving Land revived public interest in Chinese sage?
- ... that Red Seidelson worked as a dentist at the same time he played in the NFL?
- ... that in 1982 HMS Junella carried a naval mine from the Falkland Islands to Great Britain on her deck, covered by a wet mattress to keep the explosives cool?
- ... that Indonesia's ambassador to the United Nations Umar Hadi co-produced a movie during his tenure as consul general in Los Angeles?
- ... that the Mongol forces at the Chem River Battle used carts with iron-shod wheels to handle the rocky terrain?
- ... that Bijal P. Trivedi wrote on how cystic fibrosis went from being a "death sentence" for children to becoming a treatable condition due to new drugs that brought "weeping with joy"?
- ... that the school of Corpus Christi Church educated at least eleven sets of twins during the 1953 school year?
More 'wooden nickels'
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"Thomas Paine had passed the legendary limit of life. One by one most of his old friends and acquaintances had deserted him. Maligned on every side, execrated, shunned and abhorred -- his virtues denounced as vices -- his services forgotten -- his character blackened, he preserved the poise and balance of his soul. He was a victim of the people, but his convictions remained unshaken. He was still a soldier in the army of freedom, and still tried to enlighten and civilize those who were impatiently waiting for his death, Even those who loved their enemies hated him, their friend -- the friend of the whole world -- with all their hearts. On the 8th of June, 1809, death came -- Death, almost his only friend. At his funeral no pomp, no pageantry, no civic procession, no military display. In a carriage, a woman and her son who had lived on the bounty of the dead -- on horseback, a Quaker, the humanity of whose heart dominated the creed of his head -- and, following on foot, two negroes filled with gratitude -- constituted the funeral cortege of Thomas Paine." - Robert G. Ingersoll
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"...I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." - Eugene V. Debs
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"His power we allow is infinite: whatever he wills is executed: but neither man nor any other animal is happy: therefore he does not will their happiness. His wisdom is infinite: he is never mistaken in choosing themeans to any end: but the course of Nature tends not to human or animal felicity: thereforeit is not established for that purpose. Through the whole compass of human knowledge, there are no inferences more certain and infallible than these. In what respect, then, do his benevolence and mercy resemble the benevolence and mercy of men? Epicurus's old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?" - David Hume

Pages I've created or contribute to
[edit]William March ---- Company K ---- Gustav Hasford ---- Laurence Stallings ---- Roy S. Simmonds ---- Sarah Parcak ---- The Big Fellow ---- The Bad Seed ---- Waterman Steamship Corporation
Pages to create or edit
[edit]John W. Thomason, Jr. ---- Conrad Aiken ---- Robert Clem ---- Babs H. Deal ---- Augusta Jane Evans