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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48967)	8/27/2005 11:58:55 AM
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Mother Teresa - "Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength." Mother Teresa, baptized this day in 1910 in Albania, was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity—a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to the poor, particularly to the destitute of Calcutta (Kolkata), India. She was the recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace. She died in 1997 and was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003. Mother Teresa

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48967)	8/28/2005 8:04:43 AM
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August 28 Civil Rights March on Washington 1963: The civil rights movement in the United States reached one of its climaxes on this day when Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders organized the March on Washington, addressing problems of racial equality. An interracial assembly of more than 200,000 gathered in the nation's capital, in the shadow of the (Abraham) Lincoln Memorial, to demand equal justice for all citizens under the law. There King delivered his famous I Have A Dream speech. 1993: The spacecraft Galileo took pictures of the asteroid Ida. 1914: The first major engagement of the British and German navies during World War I occurred at the Battle of Helgoland Bight. 1850: Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin was performed for the first time, at Weimar, Germany. 1793: The Siege of Toulon in the French Revolutionary Wars began. 476: The Western Roman Empire fell as Emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by the German warrior Odoacer.