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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost
“Yes, we are on the move and no wave of racism can stop us. We are on the move now. The burning of our churches will not deter us. The bombing of our homes will not dissuade us. We are on the move now.”
1964 peace laureate Martin Luther King Jr. spoke these words after the end of the Selma to Montgomery marches.
The marches were one of the turning points in the civil rights movement and were organised to protest the blocking of Black Americans' right to vote.
The first march began Sunday, March 7, 1965. A group of 600 marchers, led by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chairman John Lewis and Reverend Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, began the 54-mile (87 km) walk from Selma to Montgomery. The march proceeded until the protesters arrived at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. At the bridge, law enforcement officials attacked the marchers. More than sixty marchers were injured.
Cameras captured the scene of peaceful activists being violently attacked. This caused mass outrage and drew civil rights and religious leaders of all faiths to Selma in protest.
Two days later, Martin Luther King Jr. led around 2,000 marchers in another march. The march was again stopped at the same bridge.
On March 21, the third march began with King and activists setting out from Selma. The march took five days. By the time they reached Montgomery their number had grown to more than 25,000, before they gathered to hear King and 1950 peace laureate Ralph Bunche speak.
Five months later, the U.S. Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which aimed to correct the barriers preventing African Americans from using their right to vote.
More about peace laureate Martin Luther King Jr: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/facts/
Toshinori Wakanoho, a 20-year-old Russian sumo wrestler in the senior division, was arrested Monday by Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of possessing a reefer cigarette.
A search of the Magaki stable to which the wrestler belongs, and of his residence, also turned up reefer butts and a cannabis pipe, according to police.
Michael Todd
There have been as many "future commissioners of the Metropolitan police" as there have been "future prime ministers", but Mike Todd, who was found dead at the age of 50 at the foot of a cliff on Snowdon, was certainly regarded as having the attributes to take on British policing's biggest job. The puzzlement that greeted his apparent suicide was an indication of how Todd (...)Body of Manchester chief constable found at foot of cliff in Snowdonia
One of Britain's most senior police officers, Greater Manchester chief constable Michael Todd, was found dead yesterday at the foot of a cliff in Snowdonia. Police are investigating the possibility that the 50-year-old father-of-three killed himself at the north Wales beauty spot. It is understood that a series of notes to loved ones were found by rescue teams from the RAF, (...)
(...) brightest officers of his generation, having risen to assistant commissioner at Scotland Yard, in charge of frontline policing in all 32 London boroughs (...)
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
The weak economy and tight credit market have slowed buying in all sorts of media, but the drop-off is especially pronounced in newspapers.1 SLEEP INFORMAL to start to sleep
She dropped off in front of the TV.
2 BECOME LESS If the amount, number, or quality of something drops off, it becomes less.
The demand for mobile phones shows no signs of dropping off.
adjective
very noticeable or certain:
I'm told I have a very pronounced English accent when I speak French.
She's a woman of very pronounced views which she is not afraid to air.
《衛報》說，托德被認為是他這一代中最為有智慧的警官之一。他曾經在蘇格蘭場工作，在接手曼徹斯特警察局長職務之前曾經在倫敦的32個區擔任重要工作。
Scotland Yard
Synonym: New Scotland Yard
スコットランド・ヤード ((ロンドン都心部の街路；旧警視庁所在地)); ロンドン警視庁（の刑事捜査部） ((移転後の公式名はNew Scotland Yard)).
⇒Scotland
reef·er2 (rē'fər)
n. Slang.
Marijuana, especially a marijuana cigarette.
[Origin unknown.]
CANNABIS SATIVA印度大麻 一種大麻科的大型植物，其葉子及花被用來製造Marijuana和Hashish兩種麻藥。
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