Wednesday, March 25, 2015

The computer revolution of the 20th century................it really began, at least electronic computers..........in the 19th century.....i.e. the 1800s..............but they usually only mention the Americans...................Bill Gates........the recently passed Steve Jobs, etc....................but the Chinese were deeply involved.............and so were people from India.............and i know this is a stone....................




Covering four acres and including a statue of Dr. King by sculptor Lei Yixin, the memorial opened to the public on August 22, 2011, after more than two decades of planning, fund-raising and construction.[4][5] A ceremony dedicating the Memorial was scheduled for Sunday, August 28, 2011, the 48th anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1963[6] but was postponed until October 16 (the 16th anniversary of the 1995 Million Man March on the National Mall) due to Hurricane Irene.[7][8][9]
Although this is not the first memorial to an African-American in Washington, D.C., Dr. King is the first African-American honored with a memorial on or near the National Mall and only the fourth non-President to be memorialized in such a way. The King Memorial is administered by the National Park Service (NPS).

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