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Ed Bradley (1941–2006) was an American broadcast journalist best known for reporting with 60 Minutes and
CBS News. Bradley started his television news career in 1971 as a
stringer for CBS at the
Paris Peace Accords. He won
Alfred I. duPont and
George Polk awards for his coverage of the
Vietnam War and the
Cambodian Civil War. Returning to the United States, he became CBS's first Black
White House correspondent. Bradley joined 60 Minutes in 1981 and reported on more than 500 stories with the program during his career, the most of any of his colleagues. Known for his fashion sense and disarming demeanor, Bradley won numerous journalism awards for his reporting, which has been credited with prompting federal investigations into
psychiatric hospitals, lowering the cost of drugs used to treat
HIV/AIDS, and ensuring that the accused in the
Duke lacrosse case received a fair trial. He died of
lymphocytic leukemia in 2006. (Full article...)
... that Gladys Stone Wright got started with a year of free piano lessons and a $5 clarinet?
... that "At the Name of Jesus" has been described as "the only completely objective theological hymn to come from the hand of a 19th-century woman writer"?
Cirsium palustre, the marsh
thistle, is a herbaceous
biennial (or often
perennial) flowering plant in the family
Asteraceae. It is native to Europe, where it is particularly common on damp ground such as marshes, wet fields, moorland and beside streams. In Canada and the northern United States it is an
introduced species that has become
invasive. It grows in dense thickets that can crowd out slower growing native plants. Cirsium palustre can reach up to 2 metres (7 ft) in height and features strong stems with few branches which are covered in small spines. In its first year the plant grows as a dense
rosette and in subsequent years a candelabra of dark purple or occasionally white flowers, 10–20 millimetres (0.4–0.8 in) with purple-tipped
bracts. In the northern hemisphere these are produced from June to September. The plant provides an important source of nectar for
pollinators. This C. palustre flower was photographed in
Niitvälja, Estonia.Photograph credit:
Ivar Leidus