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  • NOVA Online: Einstein Revealed
    • But what of Einstein? Well, Einstein felt compelled to apologize to Newton. "Newton, forgive me;" Einstein wrote in his Autobiographical Notes. "You found the only way which, in your age, was just about possible for a man of highest thought and creative power."

     
  • The Ansel Adams Gallery
    • (Art) is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these. Ansel Adams in a letter to Cedric Wright

     
  • Bill Bradley
    • Five principles guided Bradley's senatorial career:  restoring economic growth and security, assuring personal safety and family stability, protecting our natural heritage, championing our civil society in ways that go beyond government, and strengthening America's role in the world.

     
  • Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
    • Georgia O'Keeffe once observed that the landscape of New Mexico included "all the earth colors of the painter's pallette".

     
  • Bohemian Ink: Jack Kerouac
    • The American writer Jack Kerouac, b. Jean Louis Kerouac, Lowell, Mass., Mar. 12, 1922, d. Oct. 21, 1969, became the leading chronicler of the beat generation, a term that he coined to label a social and literary movement in the 1950s.

     
  • H.M. Queen Noor of Jordan
    • Her Majesty Queen Noor was born Lisa Najeeb Halaby on 23 August 1951, to a distinguished Arab-American family. She attended schools in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., New York City and Concord Academy in Massachusetts, before entering Princeton University in its first co-educational freshman class.

     
  • Bonnie and Clyde in Oklahoma
    • Two of the Southwest's more noted desperados during the early 1930's were Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Bonnie and Clyde (or the "Bloody Barrows", as they were then commonly called) terrorized the country, from Texas to Iowa and back, for two years, slaughtering at least a dozen men, most of whom were peace officers. They regularly visited Oklahoma in the course of their depredations