Anniversary of the Oil Expropriation (Mexico)

QUOTE OF THE DAY:
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err." Mahatma Gandhi


TODAY IN HISTORY:

Aleksei Leonov

• 1922 In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only six years.
• 1938 Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
• 1965 Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:

Philip S. Hoffman

Have you seen any Philip Seymour Hoffman movie? Listen to the NPR report on the actor's latest job. Do you think Batman could help the Brazilian police? Watch the BBC report. Introverts have already been mentioned here, have they not? Watch this interesting CNN report. Kony has apparently left Uganda, but where is he now? Watch the Time report on the LRA's leader. What is emotional eating and how can you stop it? Watch the Yahoo video. Finally, this is for our bilingual followers: What's the benefit of being bilingual? Read the New York Times' article.