He founded the United States Naval Observatory, a government agency that among other things, keeps time.
It's 4:21 AM. I had to wake up so early to do my homework for algebra for my 8 am class. I really don't want to do this any more. If any of you that read this want me to go out with you this weekend...
No.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower
Thursday, October 04, 2007
James Melville Gilliss
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shit.
People should read this.
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