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Ball point pen on the morning newsprint Watch I Have A Dream Speech UNICEF: Visit unicefusa.org/haitiquake or call (800)4UNICEF Red Cross: Visit redcross.org or call (800REDCROSS World Vision: Visit worldvision.org or call (888)511-6598 Americares: Visit americares.org or call (800)486-4357 Doctors Without Borders Partners in Health CARE Related post ...

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Ball point pen on the morning newsprint I made a small contribution this morning to UNICEF, I can report that their link was very easy to use. Here are some other ways to help. UNICEF: Visit unicefusa.org/haitiquake or call (800)4UNICEF Red Cross: Visit redcross.org or call (800REDCROSS World Vision: Visit worldvision.org or call (888)511-6598 Americares: Visit americares.org or call (800)486-4357 Related post ...

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Ball point pen on the morning newsprint During the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, the young Miep Gies helped to hide eight Jewish people in the offices of Otto Frank, where she worked as a secretary. Upon the discovery and deportation of the hidden, it was Gies who gathered the writings of the youngest, Anne Frank and kept the pages hidden from the Nazis. The teenage Frank died in a concentration camp, but after the war Gies returned the diaries unread to Anne's father. Miep Gies along with Jan Gies, Johannes Kleiman, Victor Kugler, Bep Voskuijl, and Johan Voskuijl, risked their lives to hide Anne Frank and her family. Of that heroic group, Gies, at 100 years old was the last surviving member. She died yesterday from a neck injury sustained in a fall at her home. ...

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Ball point pen on the morning newsprint Art Clokey passed away Friday. What started over fifty years ago as a student project for the USC grad, led to the making of short films for the Howdy Doody Show, a television series, a video games, a feature film and a giant merchandising franchise, all featuring his creation, Gumby, a green clay figure with an asymmetrical head designed to simulate his fathers cowlick hairdo. Together with his side kick, the red talking steed Pokey, they would go on adventures and battle their nemeses the Block Heads. Many remember Gumby as the cigar smoking, foul mouthed, borscht belt comedian as satirized by Eddie Murphy on SNL. Clokey died at his home in Los Osos on California from complications of bladder infections. He was 88. ...

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