Posts tagged ‘member’

Nixon

July 30th, 2011

Nixon first gained national attention in 1948 when his investigation, as a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, (HUAC) broke the impasse of the Alger Hiss spy case. While many doubted Whittaker Chambers’ allegations that Hiss, a former State Department official, had been a Soviet spy, Nixon believed the allegations to be true. He [...]

David Bowie

March 27th, 2011

View Profile | Leave sickshock a shout David Bowie Though he intended Tin Machine to operate as a democracy, Bowie dominated, both in songwriting and in decision-making. The band's album debut, Tin Machine (1989), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as "a simplistic, naive, radical, [...]

Vanderbilt

December 13th, 2010

Vanderbilt is a charter member of the Southeastern Conference and is the conference's only private school. The university fields six men's and nine women's intercollegiate teams. With fewer than 6,600 undergraduates, the school is also the smallest in the conference; the SEC's next-smallest school, the University of Mississippi, has nearly twice as many undergraduate students. [...]

Leslie Nielsen

December 5th, 2010

Leslie Nielsen: 1926-2010 posted by November 29, 2010 Leslie Nielsen: 1926-2010 Leslie Nielsen Leslie Nielsen 7 His brother Eric was Yukon's federal member of parliament for many years. So Whitehorse International Airport is named Eric Nielson. I've always hoped this amused Leslie as much as it does me! But the switch to comedy came late. [...]

Darko Milicic

November 23rd, 2010

Now this is what I hate about Wolves fans. We are going through this free agency period, and all people do is say "no one wants to come to Minnesota," yet when someone does want to come, all they do is say no. Darko Milicic Darko Milicic At power forward the T'Wolves' frontcourt also boasts [...]