... able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. Robert Heinlein From Kent Finnell, Music City USA

... Homeric; there was no reason why the wildest glee should seem out of place. Tartarin sent the ram's head to be stuffed and mounted; a suitable inscription was to be engraved upon a plate of massive gold. For had not the gallant Swiss vindicated their race once more? Would not the Gazette de Lausanne literally foam at the mouth with the recital of so doughty an exploit?" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3240190.stm

... Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there. O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the ...

... day in October back in 1917 At 4pm our brave boys fell - that sad fact I did glean. That's when John's life was sacrificed, the record's crystal clear But 4pm in Beersheba is midnight over here...... So as John's gallant sprit rose to cross the great divide, Were lightning bolts back home, a signal from the other side? Is that why Billy bolted and went racing as in pain? Because he'd never feel his master on his back again? Was it ...

... of Chinese peasants or was he trying his best to prevent the drought from destroying the farm lands in China like a gigantic Tsunami ? The Chinese peasant themselves knew better, ..they forgive Mao...for his gallant efforts to try to save their lives. Foreigners refused to help, to give one kilo of rice to the millions of dying Chinese...unless China kowtowed and be quartered ...like how Western ...

... of Chinese peasants or was he trying his best to prevent the drought from destroying the farm lands in China like a gigantic Tsunami ? The Chinese peasant themselves knew better, ..they forgive Mao...for his gallant efforts to try to save their lives. Foreigners refused to help, to give one kilo of rice to the millions of dying Chinese...unless China kowtowed and be quartered ...like how Western countries bullied ...

... of Chinese peasants or was he trying his best to prevent the drought from destroying the farm lands in China like a gigantic Tsunami ? The Chinese peasant themselves knew better, ..they forgive Mao...for his gallant efforts to try to save their lives. Foreigners refused to help, to give one kilo of rice to the millions of dying Chinese...unless China kowtowed and be quartered ...like how Western ...

... of Chinese peasants or was he trying his best to prevent the drought from destroying the farm lands in China like a gigantic Tsunami ? The Chinese peasant themselves knew better, ..they forgive Mao...for his gallant efforts to try to save their lives. Foreigners refused to help, to give one kilo of rice to the millions of dying Chinese...unless China kowtowed and be quartered ...like how Western countries bullied ...

... of Chinese peasants or was he trying his best to prevent the drought from destroying the farm lands in China like a gigantic Tsunami ? The Chinese peasant themselves knew better, ..they forgive Mao...for his gallant efforts to try to save their lives. Foreigners refused to help, to give one kilo of rice to the millions of dying Chinese...unless China kowtowed and be quartered ...like how Western countries bullied ...

... of Chinese peasants or was he trying his best to prevent the drought from destroying the farm lands in China like a gigantic Tsunami ? The Chinese peasant themselves knew better, ..they forgive Mao...for his gallant efforts to try to save their lives. Foreigners refused to help, to give one kilo of rice to the millions of dying Chinese...unless China kowtowed and be quartered ...like how Western countries bullied ...