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POPSPhelps Swam into History as the Winningest Olympic Athlete Ever He finished in 1:52.03, breaking his mark of 1:52.09 from the 2007 worlds. Phelps barely smiled as he looked at the board, breathing heavily and hanging on the lane rope. Hungary's Laszlo Cseh really pushed it at the end, but settled for silver in 1:52.70. Japan's Takeshi Matsuda took the bronze in 1:52.97. Phelps rubbed his eyes and said climbing from the pool, "I can't see anything." A pair of leaky goggles kept him from even seeing the wall as he touched. "My goggles kept filling up with water during the race," Phelps said. "I wanted 1:51 or better." Still, he had two more golds and two more records before lunchtime, leaving him just three wins away from beating Spitz's record in the 1972 Munich Games. "There is nobody in our sport that can win like he wins," U.S. head coach Eddie Reese said. "He is not just winning, he is crunching world records."
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POPSChina's Olympic Terror Plot -Was Another Munich in Progess? Wu also provided further details on a second group arrested in January, alleging they had been manufacturing explosives and were plotting to attack hotels, government offices and military targets in Shanghai, Beijing and other cities. Wu said the gang had been acting on orders from a radical Islamic Xinjiang independence group, East Turkestan Islamic Movement.
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POPSMultilateralism Comes With A Price We must work with our allies, but we also must recognize that multilateralism comes with a price. Coalitions can dilute effectiveness. The European concept of multilateralism is Washington's obeisance to European positions. Western Europe exists in a bubble of stability and affluence, unable to fathom how dangerous extremist ideology in Tehran and Pyongyang can be. Multilateral organizations are not the answer; at best, they are ineffective soap boxes, at worst cesspools of venality. Rose petals and well-digging have never stopped bombs, racism or genocide. A strong military has. Obama says, "Let us remember this history." Let us hope he first learns it. Leadership is about more than rhetoric.
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POPSHave it your way Hilarious ad campaign for Burger King by Munich agency Start. Judging by the edgy content, probably won't be making it to North America, although it's reportedly in use in the Netherlands/Germany...
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POPS12 Compelling Monuments Dedicated to Peace From the most prolific countries in the world, unique, memorable and with a lot of history behind; A lot more details for each monument at the source: http://weburbanist.com/2008/05/16/12-compelling-monuments-dedicated-to-peace-reversing-the-typology-of-the-war-memorial/
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POPS67-Year-Old Equestrian Bound for 2008 Olympics He found a new horse, kept on believing in our training and discipline, and now he has succeeded. I am very happy for him. It also proves that new things are possible in dressage, at any age--even at 67!" Although early records are a little sketchy it seems that Swedish shooter Oscar Swahn holds the record as the oldest competitor ever to win an Olympic gold medal. Swahn won at the London Games in 1908, at age 60. He was still sharp enough to take bronze again at the age of 72 in Antwerp 12 years later. The oldest equestrian competitor is believed to have been British dressage rider Lorna Johnstone. She competed in three Olympic Games, including Munich in 1972 at age 70. It was George Bernard Shaw who said "we don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing!"
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POPSOnly English prisoner at Auschwitz dies, 97 In his book, An Englishman in Auschwitz, Mr Greenman described their arrival in Birkenau. "The women were separated from the men: Else and Barny were marched about 20 yards away to a queue of women...I tried to watch Else. I could see her clearly against the blue lights. She could see me too for she threw me a kiss and held up our child for me to see. What was going through her mind I will never know. Perhaps she was pleased that the journey had come to an end." Mr Greenman later said that the hope of being reunited with Else and Barney kept him going in the gruelling days ahead. After learning his wife and son had been gassed, Mr Greenman dedicated his life to educating people about the holocaust and fighting racism. He never remarried, grieving for his lost family all his life, and spent his last years living at his home in Ilford, east London.
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POPSMargaret Lemon, Anthony van Dyck's model
Van Dyck's early portraits of Margaret show a flirtatious young woman with a brilliant complexion, dark brown hair, and brown eyes. His fascination with her is attested to by the number of times he chose to paint her. The Van Dyck paintings for which she modelled are many and varied and include mythological subjects, such as Cupid and Psyche and a lost portrait of Margaret as Flora, which survives in a preparatory sketch , as well as religious works, including two Lamentations (Alte Pinakothek, Munich; Royal Museum of Arts, Antwerp), for which Margaret served as model for the Virgin Mary. Her impact on Van Dyck's art can be measured both by the length of time she acted as his model and by the number of paintings for which she is known to have posed. Twelve of these paintings, either originals or contemporary copies, survive, including five portraits. No other seventeenth-century woman without substantive ties to the aristocracy was painted as often.
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POPSAppeasement In this sense is seen as a policy of making one-sided concessions, often at the expense of third parties and with nothing offered in return except promises of better behaviour in the future, in a vain attempt to satisfy the aspirations of the aggressor states. The most famous of the appeasers was inevitably Neville Chamberlain. It was during his premiership (1937–40) that appeasement reached its climax with the Munich settlement of September 1938, by which Britain sought to avoid war over Czechoslovakia by agreeing to Nazi demands for the annexation of the German-speaking parts of that state . Among anti-appeasers the name of Winston Churchill inevitably takes first place. Churchill stands as the isolated prophet who consistently warned the government of the dangers posed by Nazi Germany and of the disaster to which the policy of appeasement would inevitably lead.
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