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If You're Looking For A Link To the Mueller Report, Look No Further
Editor's Note:
We're not downloading the entire Mueller report, but here is the Justice Department URL to read the report at:
Report On the Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Election, Vol I and II; Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III
https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf?_ga=2.80421777.744576135.1555603755-461170982.1555603755
Mueller received the following military awards and decorations:
Agnes Mary Clerke and The Transit of Venus
Agnes Mary Clerke wrote in 1885: "Throughout the twentieth century there will be no transit of Venus; but the astronomers of the twenty-first will only have to wait four years for the first of a June pair. The rarity of these events is due to the fact that the orbits of the earth and Venus do not lie in the same plane." more »
Dolores Huerta, Medal of Freedom Winner
Susan Samuels Drake writes: "I know the softer side of the woman. She’s the boss I'd go to some mornings before work. That was in 1973, when César, not with great wisdom, placed her as his Administrative Assistant (imagine that tigress caged behind a desk). Dolores’ tensions spilled over to me, at that time César’s secretary, who’d been running the office longer than she had." more »
"An Element of Mystery": The Golden Gate Bridge at 75
Kevin Starr writes: "In its final effect and meaning, however, the Bridge is more than the sum total of any of these. The Golden Gate Bridge embodies a beauty at once useful and transcendent. It emanates a music of mathematics and design and offers enduring proof that human beings can alter the planet with reverence, can mend or complete their environment for social purposes." more »
The Long Arty, Historical, and Scientific Summer: Blue Star Museums for Military and Their Families
Among this year's new participants are the American Civil War Center at in Richmond, VA; the New Mexico Museum of Space History; the Cleveland Botanical Garden in Cleveland, Ohio; the Children's Creativity Museum in San Francisco, CA; the Menil Collection in Houston, TX; and the World Figure Skating Museum & Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, CO. more »