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Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. (Invictus) "abandoning leap seconds would break sundials" Picture of the day Archibald Sinclair, 1st Viscount Thurso (22 October 1890 – 15 June 1970) was a Scottish politician and leader of the Liberal Party. After an education at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Sinclair served on the Western Front during the First World War, rising to the rank of Major and working under J. E. B. Seely and Winston Churchill. After the war he worked with Churchill again when the latter was Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for the Colonies. Sinclair entered the House of Commons as a Liberal MP in 1922, rising to become the party's Chief Whip by 1930. When the Liberal Party joined the National Government of Ramsay MacDonald in 1931, Sinclair was appointed Secretary of State for Scotland, holding the post until his party resigned from the government in 1932. He took over as Liberal Party leader in 1935 after incumbent Herbert Samuel lost his seat in the election. Sinclair returned to government as Secretary of State for Air in 1940, under Churchill's all-party Second World War coalition government. In this role he worked with the Royal Air Force (RAF) to plan the Battle of Britain. Sinclair remained a minister until the end of the coalition in 1945, but then lost his seat in the 1945 general election. He was elevated to the House of Lords in 1952. This portrait of Sinclair was taken by the RAF official photographer during the Second World War.Photograph credit: Royal Air Force official photographer After I die I promise not to perform any miracles Did you know... Desert cottontail ... that rabbits can control their body temperature with their ears (pictured)? ... that both Christian Albright and De'Montre Tuggle were born on the same day, named second-team all-Mid-American Conference in 2020, signed with the Chicago Bears in 2022, and debuted in the CFL in 2023? ... that thrash metal band Hermética has a failed project to release a version of their debut album in English? ... that Oxford suffragist Myvanwy Rhys earned first-class honours from Newnham College, Cambridge, but was denied a degree? ... that the verdict of Pell v The Queen could not be reported on properly for two months? ... that approximately 85 per cent of Welsh children were not in school in 1821? ... that the scenes set in the United States in the Taiwanese film Daughter's Daughter were nearly omitted during the writing process but were retained at the insistence of lead actress Sylvia Chang? ... that an Oklahoma TV station returned to its original call sign after the death of its founder, Gene Autry? ... that Indonesian legislator Jamaludin Malik wore an Ultraman costume to his swearing-in ceremony? Favorite Books: The Time Traveler's Wife Favorite Wikipedia articles: Harrison Bergeron Newcomb's paradox I met a man who wasn't there "Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish that man would go away." Hughes Mearns (1875-1965) What is Texture reading? Empress Orchid (audiobook on audible.com) Newsweek, Wired, National Geographic, Hawaii... Books based in Japan: Cloud of Sparrows Autumn Bridge Accross the Nightingale Floor Fun new words Mokusatsu Looking at: Theo van Gogh (film director) The problem of Hell - Cool article Strange attractors (constantly vandalized articles): Pie Thomas Paine U.S. presidential election, 1860 Abraham Lincoln Anne Frank Articles of Confederation What is Texture watching? Time altering/paradox movies: The Lathe of Heaven Minority Report Donnie Darko Question reality movies: The Matrix The Thirteenth Floor (better than the Matrix in plot and concept) Existenz Mind movies Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind God and the Devil Bruce Almighty The Prophecy Stigmata Devil's Advocate (movie) Constantine The Kizilbash (red-heads) were Turkmen tribes http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif Standard diving dress - grandpa's picture (on the right) Codd's 12 rules - of RDBMS The following is a JOKE It is so terribly sad that I have to explain that the above is a JOKE If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream--and not make dreams your master, If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

For unique design and interesting content, I present you with this Excellent User Page Award. –Frater5 (talk/con) 16:12, 29 May 2006 (UTC)