Wednesday, September 24, 2003
Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Lost and Found
The creature looks like a brownish woolly badger with a long, pink-tipped snout and can measure up to about 19 inches, according to Prensa Latina's Monday dispatch.
The creature looks like a brownish woolly badger with a long, pink-tipped snout and can measure up to about 19 inches, according to Prensa Latina's Monday dispatch.
Monday, September 22, 2003
The British hanged the next morning, Sept. 22, 1776, at an artillery park near Dove Tavern. Historians place it near what is now 66th Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan.
It was there Hale is reputed to have uttered his famous line: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" — likely a paraphrase of a line from a popular play by British writer Joseph Addison.
Despite Hale's failure as a spy, a life-size statue of him inscribed with his famous last words occupies a place of honor at the CIA's headquarters in McLean, Va.
It was there Hale is reputed to have uttered his famous line: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" — likely a paraphrase of a line from a popular play by British writer Joseph Addison.
Despite Hale's failure as a spy, a life-size statue of him inscribed with his famous last words occupies a place of honor at the CIA's headquarters in McLean, Va.