Donna Richoux <trio@euronet.nl> wrote: John Dean <john-dean@fraglineone.net> wrote: Peter Morris wrote: Someone posted the following on another message board. Real origin or folk etymology? << I'm getting into this a bit late, but it ought to be said. There's a lot more to the pot and kettles thing than this. It actually indicates a particular
"Black Invention Myths Perhaps you've heard the claims: Were it not for the genius and energy of African-American inventors, we might find ourselves in a world without traffic lights, peanut butter, blood banks, light bulb filaments, and a vast number of other things we now take for granted but could hardly imagine life without. Such beliefs usually originate in books or articles about black
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:17:27 +0300, "sawa" <sawa@home.com> wrote: Benjamin Banneker (mathematician, astronomer, publisher of almanacs, inventor of first clock in the United States, member of commission which laid plan of Washington, DC); Edward Bouchet (first Black to receive a Ph.D. degree [physics] from an American university [Yale, 1876]); George Washington Carver (agricultural scientist
On Jun 29, 9:22 am, rays...@webtv.net (Raymond Speer) wrote: Aye, Stan Engel is correct. The Devil would be in the Details. Whatever formulation goes out under Lee's name, it is not likely to resemble anything that Lincoln wrote. Blacks would remain without property, the suffrage, or legal protection of any human rights. A Southern sympathizer in London might imagine that the
On Jun 11, 5:18 am, rays...@webtv.net (Raymond Speer) wrote: I'm Ray Speer and I'm here to tell you the truth! Glad to hear it. Unlike the character from whom you took that line, there is no Saul Goldman writing this post for you. And the truth is that I thank Harry Turtledove for his book series on Timeline 191. Had I been his editor, I would have asked for changes. The big four
