timchao | Shared With: Everyone - May 19 2008 | on, history, and
Quoted: John McCain's choice to manage the GOP convention this summer is lobbyist Doug Goodyear, whose firm once represented Burma's repressive regime.
- timchao | Shared With: Everyone - May 09 2008 | people, society, business, history, work, carreer, jobs
From mikhail
Quoted: The urge to buy is as manufactured as the stuff you have heaped in your shopping basket.
- timchao | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 23 2008 | history
I noticed that hwy 101 in SF was called the James Lick Freeway and wanted to know who he was. Turns out he was a philanthropic land baron, who also helped build the "Lick Old Ladies" home.
Quoted: # In 1884, the Lick Old Ladies Home in San Francisco was established with a grant from the Lick estate.
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