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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48951)	8/25/2005 10:36:14 AM
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George C. Wallace "In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this Earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." U.S. politician George C. Wallace, born this day in 1919, was a four-time governor of Alabama (1962–66, 1970–78, 1982–86) and a four-time presidential candidate (1964, 1968, 1972, 1976) who led the American South in a fight, eventually abandoned, against federal orders to end racial segregation in the 1960s. While campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, he was wounded and left permanently paralyzed below the waist in an assassination attempt on May 15, 1972, at Laurel, Maryland. In the 1980s Wallace renounced his segregationist ideology and sought reconciliation with civil rights leaders. "In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this Earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." George C. Wallace

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48951)	8/26/2005 6:29:39 AM
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August 26: * 1071 – Seljuk Turks led by Alp Arslan captured Byzantine Emperor Romanus IV in the Battle of Manzikert. * 1346 – Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights was established in the Battle of Crécy. * 1789 – French Revolution: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved by the National Constituent Assembly at Versailles. * 1839 – The slave-held Amistad landed off Long Island in the U.S. state of New York. * 1883 – The volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia generated disastrous tsunamis, destroying many settlements on Java and Sumatra and killing 36,000 people.