Rick Santorum, the one-time Republican Party frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election, has officially suspended his campaign. Santorum addressed a crowd Tuesday afternoon from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he formally announced that he would be retiring his quest to seek the GOP’s nomination this election year. He had announced that he would be seeking the Republican Party’s nod last June. “We made a decision over the weekend that, this presidential race is over for me and we will suspend our campaign effective today,” Santorum told an audience at around 2:30 p.m. local time Tuesday afternoon. This past February, polling data from [ Read More ]
Nanos Gigantium Humeris Insidentes: “Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants” is a Western metaphor meaning, “One who develops future intellectual pursuits by understanding the research and works created by notable thinkers of the past”; a contemporary interpretation. However, the metaphor was first recorded in the twelfth century and attributed to Bernard of Chartres. It was famously uttered by seventeenth-century scientist Isaac Newton (source: Wikipedia) Read More from ThingsNews Media Picture of the Day 20 March: Chittorgarh Fort, the largest fort in India Picture of the Day 14 March: European Beech Trees of Mariemont, Belgium Picture of the Day 02 [ Read More ]
Mark Lenzi, who won Olympic diving gold for the United States in 1992, has died at the age of 43. “USA Diving is truly saddened by the passing of Olympic champion Mark Lenzi,” USA Diving chairman Bob Rydze said in a statement posted the federation’s website. “As an Olympic gold and bronze medalist, Mark was one of our country’s greatest divers, and he will be missed tremendously.” Lenzi won the gold medal in the 3-meter springboard at the 1992 Games in Barcelona and earned bronze in the same event at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. He was the first diver [ Read More ]
While out for spin on their boat, a Jacksonville family spotted a stranded dolphin and jumped in to save the animal. Father and daughter George Heheman and Kerry Ware said they were on their boat in the Intracoastal near Fort George Island when they saw the dolphin who accidentally beached herself on a sandbar. “It was just flapping and it looked really helpless so we stopped the boat to see what was going on,” Ware said. They said her calf was waiting in deeper water nearby and the tide was going out quickly, making the water shallower by the minute. [ Read More ]