George Dennis Carlin (born May 12, 1937 in New York, New York)[2] is a Grammy-winning American stand-up comedian, actor, and author. Carlin is especially noted for his irreverent attitude and his observations on language, psychology, and religion along with many taboo subjects. In fact, Carlin and his \"Seven Dirty Words\" comedy routine were central to the 1978 U.S. Supreme Court case F.C.C. v. Pacifica Foundation,

Democrat Barack Obama become the first African-American to win the White House. Here are his remarks to a huge crowd in his home city of Chicago. In these prepared remarks provided by his campaign, President-Elect Barack Obama calls himself the unlikeliest presidential candidate.

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“We must get the suffrage, we must get votes, that we may send the men to Parliament who will do our work for us; …and we must have the country divided so that the little kings of the counties can't do as they like, but must be shaken up in one bag with us.”

When we start reading the 'Inferno', in fact, we are led to expect that there will be not nine circles but seven, corresponding to the Seven Deadly Sins. Indeed, after the liminal circles of the neither-bad-nor-good and the Virtuous Pagans, the Circles of Incontinence follow precisely the order of sins which Dante does use in the 'Purgatorio': Lust, Gluttony, Avarice and then (with the possible addition of Sloth, which some critics see as a sort of sub-section of Wrath in Hell) Wrath.

On a balmy evening in September 1666, Samuel Pepys sat in a pub by the River Thames and watched London burning. He wrote in his diary: “all over the Thames, with one's face in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of firedrops…and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, we saw the fire …It made me weep to see it.”

In 1804 a young man from Venezuela stood on a small hill in Rome and made a grand declaration. He said, “I swear before you, I swear before the God of my fathers, I swear by my fathers, I swear by my honour, I swear by my country that I will not rest, body or soul, until I have broken the chains with which Spanish power oppresses us.”

In the mid-19th century a doctor had a patient who had suffered a stroke. The patient was unable to speak save for one word. The word was ‘Tan’ which became his name. When Tan died, the doctor discovered damage to the left side of his brain and concluded that the ability to speak was housed there.