Sienca posted a dictionary word today that was highly appropriate: "mahatma". It's a term used in India to refer to someone who could be revered for high-mindedness, wisdom and selflessness. If capitalized it generally refers to Gandhi, the leader of a social revolution in India that - through non violent protest - won that nation it's independence in 1947.

Mahatma Gandhi greatly influenced Martin Luther King, and barely two decades later this new mahatma helped lead another social revolution, this time in the United States.

PBS is running a episode of American Experience that brings home just how significant the Civil Rights Movement was. The Murder of Emmett Till is a must-see documentary for this day. The interesting thing is, I never learned about this in any of my history classes. I just remember *accidentally* learning about it when I picked up a few copies of a well-know African American magazine (I think it was "Ebony") in my high-school's library. There was an article about the anniversary of Emmett Till's murder, and the significance of it. I was shocked, and amazed to read about a society that seemed eons ago from the late 1980's. And yet... it was only thirty years ago at that point. The images affected me deeply.

If you click on Google today you'll get a search results on Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech.

Univ. of Chicago Scholars Die on Same Day Robert Braidwood and Linda Braidwood, archaeologists who were married 66 years and worked side by side at the University of Chicago, died within hours of each other. He was 95 and she was 93.

They both died of pneumonia Wednesday at University of Chicago Hospitals.

The couple, who had been living in LaPorte, Ind., trained some of the country's best-known archaeologists and co-authored dozens of scientific publications. They were so well known as a team that they were often referred to as "LinBob."

She studied ancient tools; he the rise of civilizations. A 1989 dig in Turkey was their last, although they continued to teach and do research at the university's Oriental Institute.

I find this both sad (to have lost some nifty people) and kinda strangely sweet too.

Texas A&M University has a cool site for Anthropology News, btw.

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