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John Prendergast meeting in South Sudan during the Southern Sudanese independence referendum, 2011 with President Jimmy Carter, 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan and George Clooney (web photo courtesy of wikipedia.com) John Prendergast of the Enough Project is the 2012 UMass Lowell Greeley Scholar for Peace Studies. He has two…
Read More »In this week’s Local History article on the Howl in Lowell website, I write about the Three-Fifths Compromise in the US Constitution, the section of that document that tacitly acknowledged the existence of slavery without ever mentioning that word. While standing firm in opposition to slavery in 1787 may have…
Read More »Here is another video excellent from the UMass Lowell Robotic’s Lab. This video is an overview of the UMass Lowell Robotics Lab’s research, including our work with multi-touch devices for robot control, telepresence, combining art and robotics, and student projects from undergraduate and graduate students.
Read More »The entry beow is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Most attorneys general don’t go after political corruption because acting against colleagues can translate into a dead end politically. But Martha Coakley has a new Public Integrity Division, a welcome addition. And she has the new 2009 ethics…
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Read More »Seen here in Jezebel (1938), Davis’s second Academy Award-winning performance On this day April 5, 1908 – Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known from early childhood as “Betty”, was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ruth Augusta “Ruthie” (née Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. The family was Protestant, of English,…
Read More »The historically minded among you might want to mark a couple of upcoming events on your calendars. On Sunday, April 15, 2012 at 2 pm at the Patrick J. Mogan Cultural Center at 40 French Street in Lowell, I will give a talk on Lowell and the coming of the…
Read More »Many are familiar with the Bread and Roses Strike which took place in Lawrence and which celebrates its centennial this year. What is not so well known is that the Lawrence action led to other strikes, one of which occurred in Lowell that same year. Next Tuesday, April 10, 2012…
Read More »Its opening day for the Boston Red Sox. Here is a video posted by watchmojo detailing the history of “opening day”…kind of.
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