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Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. (Invictus) "abandoning leap seconds would break sundials" Picture of the day Justice was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the French Navy in the early 1900s. She was the second member of the Liberté class, which included three other vessels and was a derivative of the preceding République class. Justice carried a main battery of four 305 mm (12 in) guns, with ten 194 mm (7.6 in) guns for her secondary armament. On entering service, Justice became the flagship of the 2nd Division of the Mediterranean Squadron, participating in the training routine of squadron and fleet maneuvers and cruises, as well as several naval reviews. During World War I, Justice was used to escort troopship convoys carrying elements of the French Army from North Africa to face the Germans invading northern France and also steamed to contain the Austro-Hungarian Navy in the Adriatic Sea, taking part in the minor Battle of Antivari. She was sent to the Black Sea after the war to oversee the surrender of German-occupied Russian warships, and then briefly became a training ship, before being decommissioned in the early 1920s. This photograph shows Justice in 1909 near New York City.Photograph credit: Detroit Publishing Company; restored by Adam Cuerden After I die I promise not to perform any miracles Did you know... Frances Darlington ... that although sculptor Frances Darlington (pictured) was known for her painted relief panels, she also designed a railway poster? ... that a shrine dedicated to the fictional character Ianto Jones is visited by people from around the world? ... that a sprinter who competed for American Samoa at the 2020 Summer Olympics had never competed in a sprinting event beforehand? ... that immigrant midwife Dorothy Dworkin was considered the matriarch of Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital? ... that an Alabama TV station fired nearly its entire news staff and replaced its newscasts with a countdown clock for more than a month? ... that the Kelvite sounding machine used a chemical reaction to determine the depth of water in which a ship was sailing? ... that Zionist activist Georg Kareski defended the Nuremberg Laws in a Nazi newspaper? ... that the 2024 U.S. Supreme Court case Department of State v. Muñoz decided that the fundamental right to marry does not give a U.S. citizen a right to challenge their spouse's visa denial? ... that Toby Olubi helped fund his Olympic bobsled career by being "shot out of a cannon"? Favorite Books: The Time Traveler's Wife Favorite Wikipedia articles: Harrison Bergeron Newcomb's paradox I met a man who wasn't there "Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish that man would go away." Hughes Mearns (1875-1965) What is Texture reading? Empress Orchid (audiobook on audible.com) Newsweek, Wired, National Geographic, Hawaii... Books based in Japan: Cloud of Sparrows Autumn Bridge Accross the Nightingale Floor Fun new words Mokusatsu Looking at: Theo van Gogh (film director) The problem of Hell - Cool article Strange attractors (constantly vandalized articles): Pie Thomas Paine U.S. presidential election, 1860 Abraham Lincoln Anne Frank Articles of Confederation What is Texture watching? Time altering/paradox movies: The Lathe of Heaven Minority Report Donnie Darko Question reality movies: The Matrix The Thirteenth Floor (better than the Matrix in plot and concept) Existenz Mind movies Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind God and the Devil Bruce Almighty The Prophecy Stigmata Devil's Advocate (movie) Constantine The Kizilbash (red-heads) were Turkmen tribes http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif Standard diving dress - grandpa's picture (on the right) Codd's 12 rules - of RDBMS The following is a JOKE It is so terribly sad that I have to explain that the above is a JOKE If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream--and not make dreams your master, If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

For unique design and interesting content, I present you with this Excellent User Page Award. –Frater5 (talk/con) 16:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC)