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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #10620 on: January 15, 2012, 05:23:27 am »
And apparently good friends who would love to spend 2 weeks with you, despite their tyrannic husband!

Have fun!

 I'd love to have a friend who wants to spend 2 weeks with me, despite her tyrannic husband.  ;D

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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #10621 on: January 15, 2012, 06:46:31 am »
Happy Birthday!!!



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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #10622 on: January 15, 2012, 06:49:51 am »








Happy birthday, dear Chuck!!!

Düva pööp is a förce of natüre

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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #10623 on: January 15, 2012, 07:33:30 am »
Happy (belated) Birthday Chuck's dad!

Have a great birthday, Chuck!

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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #10624 on: January 15, 2012, 10:08:44 am »
Happy birthday to yoooooooouuu, friend Chuck!!!!
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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #10625 on: January 15, 2012, 11:25:47 am »
Happy Birthday, Chuckie!


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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #10626 on: January 15, 2012, 07:11:44 pm »
Hiya BetterMost friends.




I think that's a fitting birthday cake for me and this site.  ;D

Many thanks to everyone who came here, or to the bday thread here, or my facebook page.  It was great to see all the greetings.  ;D  You made my day!  It was a quiet day, slept in, surfed the 'net, did some reading, worked out and went shopping.

Brother and sister-in-law will be down next Sunday, so that's when the family will celebrate.






1929   Martin Luther King, Jr., is born in Atlanta to teacher Alberta King and Baptist minister Michael Luther King.

1944   Graduates high school at age 15, enters Morehouse College shortly thereafter.

1948   Receives BA in sociology from Morehouse College at age 19.

1951   Receives degree from Crozer Theological Seminary (Chester, Pa.), enrolls in Boston University Ph.D program.

1953   Marries New England Conservatory music student Coretta Scott; they eventually have four children.

1954   Becomes minister of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama.

1955   Receives Ph.D in systematic theology from Boston University. 

1955   The 26-year-old King leads boycott of segregated Montgomery buses, gains national reputation.

1956   King's house is bombed

1956   U.S. Supreme Court ruling prompts Montgomery to desegregate buses.

1957   King helps found Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).

1958   Writes Stride Toward Freedom, about the bus boycott.

1959   Visits India to study nonviolence and civil disobedience.

1960   Joins his father as co-pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta

1963   King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham; writes Letter From Birmingham  City Jail, arguing that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust laws

1963   Delivers "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington attended by 200,000 protesters, creates powerful image, builds momentum for civil rights legislation.

1964   Publishes Why We Can't Wait

1964   Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing segregation in public accommodations and discrimination in education and employment.

1964   King receives Nobel Peace Prize.

1965    King and SCLC join voting-rights march from Selma to Montgomery; police beat and tear gas marchers; King addresses rally before state capitol, builds support for voting rights.

1965   Congress passes Voting Rights Act of 1965, which suspends (later bans) literacy tests and other restrictions to prevent blacks from voting. 

Mid-1960s  King's growing opposition to the Vietnam War angers President Johnson, prompts many white activists to switch to anti-war activities.

1966   Growing popularity of the black power movement, blacks stressing self-reliance and self-defense, indicates King's influence was declining, especially among young blacks.

1966   King turns toward economic issues; SCLC moves civil rights struggle to the North; opens Chicago office to organize protests against housing and employment discrimination.

1967   King plans Poor People's Campaign; advocates redistribution of wealth to eradicate black poverty.

1967   Publishes Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

1968    King is assassinated in Memphis, during visit to support striking black garbage collectors; violent riots erupt in more than 100 U.S. cities. 

1968   Coretta Scott King founds the King Center in Atlanta.

1969   James Earl Ray pleads guilty to King's murder, receives 99-year sentence.

1980   Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site established in Atlanta, includes his birthplace, Ebenezer Church, and the King Center.

1985   Coretta Scott King and three of her children are arrested while protesting apartheid outside the South African embassy in Washington, D.C.

1986   The Federal Martin Luther King holiday is first celebrated.

2006   Coretta Scott King makes the last speech of her life at a "Salute to Greatness" dinner on 14 January. The dinner is part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. celebrations in Atlanta, Georgia. Coretta Scott King died seventeen days later on 31 January from respiratory failure due to complications after a recent serious stroke and cancer. 
 


Tell him when l come up to him and ask to play the record, l'm gonna say: ''Voulez-vous jouer ce disque?''
'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
Will you play my record? One-track mind!

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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #10627 on: January 16, 2012, 06:20:39 am »
Belated birthday greetings lovely man.
I still have all the photos of your wonderful smiling face, from the Brokie Florida gathering. Truly memories to cherish.

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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #10628 on: January 16, 2012, 07:16:14 am »
Here he is........the ROSE amongst the thorns........

Being happy doesn't mean everything is perfect.

It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfection

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Re: Cellar Scribblings
« Reply #10629 on: January 16, 2012, 11:28:49 am »
Here he is........the ROSE amongst the thorns........

Hey lady, watch who you're callin' a thorn...

 ;D
Dawn is coming,
Open your eyes...