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 88888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 Alphabetical Index 2022 9/11 Remembrance Day  A00067 A Day with Bernadette, A Few Moments with Moses the Ethiopian A00063 A Day with Bernadette ... and the Lady  A00144 A Full Card Table of Black Economists  A00163 A Happy Fourth of July Dancing Under the Stars  A00167 A Most Profound Thich Nhat Hanh Memorial  A00113 A Musical Meditation on Rumi A00180 A Poker Game in Heaven  A00155 A Return to Allensworth: From a Field of Weeds to a Field of Dreams  A00149 A Return to Monserrat and a "Miraculous" Introduction to the Black Madonna  A00145 A Side Trip to Dublin and an Exploration of Black Irish Roots  A00146 A Surprising Connection to Our American Soul  A00148 A Tale of Two Black Economists  A00161 Abdul Qadeer Khan, Father of Pakistan's Nuclear Program  A00003 Ahmad Jamal, R. I. P.  A00147 All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and All That...

  At No. 61 on my list of the 100 Greatest Muslims is the scientist and poet Omar Khayyam Omar Khayyam - Wikipedia In reading the article on Omar Khayyam, I noted with interest this particular passage: "The quatrain by Omar Khayyam known as "The Moving Finger", in the form of its translation by the English poet  Edward Fitzgerald  is one of the most popular quatrains in the  Anglosphere . [89]  It reads: The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. [90] [b] "The title of the novel " The Moving Finger " written by  Agatha Christie  and published in 1942 was inspired by this quatrain of the translation of  Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam  by  Edward Fitzgerald . [89]   Martin Luther King  also cites this quatrain of Omar Khayyam in one of his speeches " Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence ": [89] [91] “We may cry ou...

  "It should be noted again that not all blacks today are part of the redneck culture -- far from it -- nor has that culture been the only culture in which blacks lived in the past.  There were small but significant enclaves of New England culture introduced into Southern black communities by teachers from New England who poured into the South immediately after the end of the Civil War, to establish schools and to teach and acculturate the children of freed slaves.  Often these were the only schools available for black children, because the South was slow to begin establishing public schools, especially for blacks.  W. E. B. DuBois called the work of these dedicated missionaries "the finest thing in American history."  (Page 35) ***** "There was yet another route by which New England culture reached some blacks in the nineteenth century. Oberlin College was founded by New Englanders in 1833 and it functioned as a New England college transplanted to Ohio -- "an ...

"A 1951 survey in Detroit found that white Southerners living there were considered "undesirable" by 21 percent of those surveyed compared to 13 percent who ranked blacks the same way." (Page 1)  "More is involved here than a mere parallel which between blacks and Southern whites.  What is involved is a common subculture that goes back for centuries, which has encompassed everything from ways of talking to attitudes toward education, violence, sex -- and which originated not in the South, but in those parts of the British Isles from which white Southerners came. That culture long ago died out where it originated in Britain, while surviving in the American South.  Then it largely died out among both white and black Southerners, while still surviving today in the poorest and worst of the urban black ghettos." (Page1) "During the era when dueling became a pattern among upper class Americans -- between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War -- it was par...