This is the archive for 19 June 2006
By Noel King, VOA News
Khartoum
Humanitarian access in Darfur has been severely hindered by fighting among rebel factions in the region, top U.N. humanitarian coordinator Manuel Aranda da Silva said on Monday.
Ardamata Camp - Sorghum Distribution: Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Ardamata camp outside of Geneina in West Darfur receive sorghum provided by USAID through WFP.Photo credit: USAID
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An anonymous bidder paid nearly $17.4 million on Flag Day for four rare flags from the American Revolution, captured by a British officer in 1779-80 and put up for auction by one of his direct descendants 225 years later.
This painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows the British hero Colonel Banastre Tarleton with the captured, and now auctioned, American battle flags heaped at this feet.
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Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (September 18, 1709 December 13, 1784), often referred to simply as Dr. Johnson, was one of England's greatest literary figures: a poet, essayist, biographer, lexicographer and often considered the finest critic of English literature. He was also a great wit and prose stylist whose bon mots are still frequently quoted in print today.
Read Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson, free from Project Gutenberg
Samuel Johnson circa 1772, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
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