Simon Byrne "The Emerald Gem" and "Champion of Ireland" fought Sandy McKay "The Champion of Scotland" in 1830.
McKay died from a punch to the throat:

The result of the fight attracted wide publicity and led to rioting in the streets of McKay’s homeland. In Dundee, three people died and 200 were injured in the fracas. In Glasgow, four people died, and the Dragoons were called out to quell rioting after a Roman Catholic church was burned and looted, (as an Irishman the mob would have assumed Byrne to be a Roman Catholic). Byrne was arrested three days later aboard the ferry to Ireland as he tried to leave the country. He was returned in chains to Buckinghamshire and incarcerated in Buckingham Gaol to await his trial, and the prospect of the gallows.

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but fairer we it deem

O! be some other name:
What's in a name?

Miss Australia Sabrina Houssami
Miss Panama Giselle Bissot Kieswetter
Miss Dominican Republic Paola Torres Cohen
Miss United States Brooke Elizabeth Angus
or Miss United States Lisette Diaz
Miss Canada Malgorzata Majewska
Miss Italy Elizaveta Migatcheva
Miss Namibia Anna Svetlana Nashandi

Nor did I wonder at the lily's white,
Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose;
They were but sweet, but figures of delight,
Drawn after you...

“Out of our ugliness will grow the world’s heart”

They were disendorsed after waving the flag of Syria during the dress-rehearsal and refusing to back down for the performance in the final.

Planet of The Arabs

Hooray for tangling!

Steal Away every morning at five

Digital Souls

"...like a little sour frog turd"

Blackboard vs. Moodle

Moodle

Huggy Boy r.i.p.

The result is that, unlike the situation in many European countries, if you're looking for a job in broadcasting it's no disadvantage to tell a potential employer that you used to be a pirate.

"...and he would always explain that the smarter you were, the longer it took to figure it out..."

La Biennale

Without ethics man has no future.

Amey Fearon Mathews:

In recent years, many seemingly unrelated experiences have raised similar, recurring thoughts:

• Wonder and confusion at the polarized global and national responses to September 11th, 2001… and the ease with which key figures were demonized and idolized… the increased perception of only two existing views (“us” and “them,” “the West” and “The East,” “we’ll hear from someone on both sides of the issue,” “hero/defender” and “enemy/aggressor”)
• Travels between California and the Southern U.S., and exposure to good people in both places, with radical & radically different political perspectives.
• A television documentary about Saddam Hussein’s tragic and violent childhood. Where is the invisible line balancing personal responsibility with the effects of circumstance in a person’s life?
• A shop in Northern California selling yoga supplies, alternative magazines about peace and justice, & organic hemp clothing – with a poster on the wall of George Bush’s face aggressively defaced… taking joy in hostility and divisiveness. What does it mean to hate someone for hating?

Before: Portraits of Current World Leaders

in reverse chronological order of discovery:

Bonny Lohtka < 2005 International Digital Art Awards < Chi Wah Man < Digital'05 - EXQUISITE < Julee Holcombe < Conner Contemporary < 3Quarks

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