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		<title>Obama visits Buchenwald</title>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2009/06/05/obama-visits-buchenwald/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 03:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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President Obama today visited the former Nazi death camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany. From what I&#8217;ve read he was the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit since Eisenhower, who was the commander of the Allied Forces when Buchenwald was liberated. Obama&#8217;s great uncle was one of the soldiers who helped liberate Buchenwald.
I think Obama should challenge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Obama &#8211; 44th President of the USA</title>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2009/01/20/barack-obama-44th-president-of-the-usa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.&#8221; 
Presidential Oaths of Office
Inaugural Address below the fold &#8230;

[UPDATE: the whole shabang on the Whitehouse blog]
Hail to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An odd thing that happened in an odd place</title>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2008/12/17/an-odd-thing-that-happened-in-an-odd-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 14:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ping-pong balls are useful. Historic evidence:
A Japanese freighter had been torpedoed during WWII and it’s at the bottom of Tokyo Harbor with a large hole in her hull. A team of engineers was called together to solve the problem of raising the wounded vessel to the surface. One of the engineers tackling this puzzle said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Miriam Makeba</title>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2008/11/10/remembering-miriam-makeba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Africa&#8217;s great voices was lost last night. Miriam Makeba died in Italy, shortly after a concert.  Makeba gave a powerful voice to her people during the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. The South African government revoked her citizenship in 1963, but in the following years she was given honorary citizenship by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everil &#8220;Peg&#8221; Michel, 1908 &#8211; 2007</title>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2007/12/31/everil-peg-michel-1908-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laura&#8217;s grandmother Peg was born on December 6, 1908 in Trevor, Wisconsin &#8211; the same year Bette Davis was born (April 5) and Henry Ford produced his first Model T automobile. She was the daughter of Wayne and Lillian (Frank) Bush. Peg died on December 17, 2007 peacefully in her sleep at a retirement homeÂ in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schießbefehl</title>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2007/08/13/schiesbefehl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty six years ago today, the East German Stalinist regime began fortifying the border across Germany. They built one of the most infamous borders ever: the Berlin Wall. During the 28 years that followed, an estimated 260 people were killed in attempts to cross into West Germany. The Stalinists always denied that the regime gave [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blown up</title>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2007/03/29/blown-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beautiful, melancholic video of the demolition of the Durham Hotel, Durham, North Carolina, in 1975.

video by Billie Mann
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		<title>Justice?</title>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2006/12/30/justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2006 17:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s execution of Saddam Hussein by hanging brings to a violent end a violent life, and raises many more questions than it answers. What impact will the execution have on the civil war in Iraq andthe suffering of the Iraqis? Why execute him on one of Islam&#8217;s most sacred holidays, Eid ul-Adha? Some argue that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Hannukkah</title>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2006/12/15/happy-hannukkah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Happy Hannukkah!
Frohes Lichterfest!
Get your dreidels out and fry some latkes: Today at sundown Jews began to celebrate the eight days of Hannukkah.   
The holiday was called Hanukkah meaning &#8220;dedication&#8221; because it marks the re-dedication of the Temple after its desecration under Antiochus IV. Spiritually, Hanukkah commemorates the Miracle of the Oil. According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schicksalstag</title>
		<link>http://words.yovo.info/2006/11/09/schicksalstag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[November 9 has been a fateful day in German history. The MÃ¤rz revolution was started, the emperor was dethroned and the Berlin Wall fell on that day. During the night of that fateful day in 1938 German Nazis damaged or destroyed &#8220;1574 synagogues (constituting nearly all Germany had), many Jewish cemeteries, more than 7,000 Jewish [...]]]></description>
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