LONDON -- The city of Liverpool already has a Beatles museum and its airport is named after John Lennon. Now a local university says it rolling out a graduate program entirely devoted to the Fab Four. Liverpool Hope University said Tuesday that its new master's program, "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society," would give students the opportunity to analyze music and culture through the band's work.
LONDON -- The city of Liverpool already has a Beatles museum and its airport is named after John Lennon. Now a local university says it rolling out a graduate program entirely devoted to the Fab Four.
Liverpool Hope University said Tuesday that its new master's program, "The Beatles, Popular Music and Society," would give students the opportunity to analyze music and culture through the band's work.
Senator Edward Kennedy, patriarch of one of America's most fabled political families, has been awarded a honorary knighthood, it was announced today. The award, in recognition of Kennedy's service to the US-UK relationship and to Northern Ireland, comes as Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits Washington to meet with President Barack Obama and address the US Congress today.
Senator Edward Kennedy, patriarch of one of America's most fabled political families, has been awarded a honorary knighthood, it was announced today.
The award, in recognition of Kennedy's service to the US-UK relationship and to Northern Ireland, comes as Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits Washington to meet with President Barack Obama and address the US Congress today.
Article 1, §9, clause 8
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Figures. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Calm down, MT. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
That's the rule of law in the US: "of any kind whatever". Guess why? Conference of a foreign title of nobility, with or without expressed hereditary property rights, realizes political or social allegiance to the Crown of England. Ambivalent allegiance of a "person holding any office or trust" in the US governments diminunizes sovereignty of the republic, democratic so-called. That's what your "Founding Fathers" believed before and after debating allegiance to the Crown as opposed to British Parliament.
And an order of knighthood is not a Grammy Award® by ballot.
20 years from now you'll be telling someone, "Calm down. Viscount McConnell hasn't much longer to live."
Or, "The Queen is not a king."
Or, "The Consititution is just a piece of paper."
See. Now. The more I think about this, the more pissed off I become. I don't care how many motherfuckin tumors...
Time out for MT. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Here in the U.S. Pacific NW, it is still rainy but getting warmer. The trees are budding, but no leaves yet.
A Dalek from Dr Who was found submerged in a pond by volunteers enlisted to clear it of rubbish... Sales executive Marc Oakland was pushing a rake around the bed of the shallow pool when he found the object with its distinctive eye stalk. The 42-year-old said: "I'd just shifted a tree branch with my foot when I noticed something dark and round slowly coming up to the surface. "I got the shock of my life when a Dalek head bobbed up right in front of me... Pond warden Tony Brown, 70, was leading the volunteer squad clearing dumped rubbish from the pond, near Beaulieu, Hants. He said: "We made a very thorough search of the rest of the bottom of the pond and there were definitely no alien remnants lurking. "We've all agreed it best to keep the pond's exact location under wraps. "The last thing we want are sci-fi fans descending on the pond frantically seraching for other Dalek parts."
Sales executive Marc Oakland was pushing a rake around the bed of the shallow pool when he found the object with its distinctive eye stalk.
The 42-year-old said: "I'd just shifted a tree branch with my foot when I noticed something dark and round slowly coming up to the surface.
"I got the shock of my life when a Dalek head bobbed up right in front of me...
Pond warden Tony Brown, 70, was leading the volunteer squad clearing dumped rubbish from the pond, near Beaulieu, Hants.
He said: "We made a very thorough search of the rest of the bottom of the pond and there were definitely no alien remnants lurking.
"We've all agreed it best to keep the pond's exact location under wraps.
"The last thing we want are sci-fi fans descending on the pond frantically seraching for other Dalek parts."
