Legal Insurrection Has Moved
Professor Jacobson has come over from the dark side (blogger) and has his own domain and a WordPress installation. Yay!
Beautiful new site Professor!
He is now located at: legalinsurrection.com
I have the new location linked in my Daily Reads blogroll.
It's My Birthday!
I was born on Fathers’ Day and every six or eleven years my birthday falls on Fathers’ Day again. It will next year.
It was the Queen’s Birthday a few years ago (the date the UK celebrates, not her actual birthday which is in April).
I share my birthday with MC Escher, Newt Gingrich, Mohammed El Baeredai, the former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Erin and Diane Murphy (Tabitha Stephens from Bewitched), Venus Williams, Barry Manilow, Greg Kinnear, Jason Patric, Thomas Hayden Church, Bobby Farrelly, Mark Linn Baker, Ralph Bellamy, Joe Piscopo, Kimber Eastwood (Clint’s daughter), James Shigeta, George Clinton, Kami Cotler (the Waltons – Goodnight Elizabeth), Will Forte (SNL), and more.
I also share my birthday with Twitter friends @onefinejay and @littlebytesnews!
Pretty White Flowers
These don’t last long, but they are beautiful while they last.
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D-Day
Sixty-seven years ago today.
There’s a great video and slideshow at the Army’s website here.
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which “we will accept nothing less than full victory.” More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day’s end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded — but more than 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler.
Here is one of eight downloadable wartime posters available there.
