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Grill cheese and red onion rings, cut avocado in slices and put on buttered flatbread like on the picture. Spice the cheese half with pepper, salt and turmeric and fold.

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ourpresidents:

On this day, President John F. Kennedy was born -

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, made the following entry on a notecard, when her second child was born: 

John Fitzgerald Kennedy 
Born Brookline, Mass. (83 Beals Street) May 29, 1917 

In all, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy would have nine children, four boys and five girls. JFK was named in honor of his mother’s father, John Francis Fitzgerald, the Boston Mayor popularly known as Honey Fitz.

Before long, family and friends called this small blue-eyed baby, Jack.  Read More

On the 95th anniversary of the birth of President Kennedy, here’s an album of Kennedy family photos from the JFK Library:

Photo Gallery: JFK’s Youth


"I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is’."
Kurt Vonnegut (via linalambada)

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"My goal in life is not fame or fortune. It is simply to one day own a library with a ladder."
"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."
Dostoevsky (via claerwen)

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shitmystudentswrite:

World War Two could have been started by anything.  For all we know, it could have been because Hitler didn’t like Winston Churchill’s shoes that day.

reuters:

Britain’s Supreme Court will rule on Wednesday on whether to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, the latest chapter in the saga of the self-styled Internet whistleblower and bane of Washington.
Swedish prosecutors want to question Assange over claims of rape and sexual assault made by two female former WikiLeaks volunteers, and he has been fighting a lengthy legal battle against extradition since his arrest in Britain in December 2010.
The Supreme Court will say whether it agrees with his argument that the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) under which his extradition is sought is invalid. Two lower courts have already ruled that he should be extradited.
The former computer hacker gained international prominence in 2010 when WikiLeaks began releasing secret video footage and thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables about Iraq and Afghanistan, in the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history.
READ MORE: UK court to rule on Assange extradition case Wednesday

reuters:

Britain’s Supreme Court will rule on Wednesday on whether to allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to Sweden over alleged sex crimes, the latest chapter in the saga of the self-styled Internet whistleblower and bane of Washington.

Swedish prosecutors want to question Assange over claims of rape and sexual assault made by two female former WikiLeaks volunteers, and he has been fighting a lengthy legal battle against extradition since his arrest in Britain in December 2010.

The Supreme Court will say whether it agrees with his argument that the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) under which his extradition is sought is invalid. Two lower courts have already ruled that he should be extradited.

The former computer hacker gained international prominence in 2010 when WikiLeaks began releasing secret video footage and thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables about Iraq and Afghanistan, in the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history.

READ MORE: UK court to rule on Assange extradition case Wednesday

ilovecharts:

How We Measure the Universe, Animated