Witnify Blog http://blog.witnify.com Just another WordPress site Fri, 21 Mar 2014 02:29:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Cassius Clay Muhammad Ali on the Origin of the Name Cassius Clay http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20209 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20209#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 23:03:31 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20209 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20209'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

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Boxer Muhammad Ali, formerly known as Cassius Clay, describes where the Clay name came from and he explains how he first got into boxing. This interview happens on February 9, 1960, 4 years before he changed his name to Muhammad Ali.

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20209 0 Cassius Clay Muhammad Ali: “I’m No Longer Clay, I’m No Longer a Slave’ http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20108 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20108#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:55:20 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20108 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20108'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

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Boxer Muhammad Ali, formerly known as Cassius Clay, describes why he changed his name to Ali and explains how he reacts when someone uses the wrong name when they speak to him. Ali changed his name in 1964 at the direction of his religious leader, Elijah Muhammad.

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20108 0 J. D. Salinger Joyce Maynard Discusses Her J. D. Salinger Affair http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20176 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20176#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:39:37 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20176 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20176'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

Author Joyce Maynard shares intimate details of her nine-month affair with reclusive writer J.D. Salinger, whom she calls “Jerry,” in 1972 when he was 53 and she was only 18. Discover why she decided to write about this part of her life 25 years later in “At Home in the World” and what Salinger thought about Maynard when she told him about writing the book.

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20176 0 Walter Cronkite on His Vietnam War Commentary http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20102 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20102#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:49:51 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20102 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20102'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

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Walter Cronkite, anchorman of the CBS Evening News, discusses his Vietnam War coverage and the importance of his commentary. Cronkite reported live from Vietnam in February 1968.

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20102 0 Walter Cronkite Cronkite on the Creation of His Sign Off: ‘That’s the Way It Is’ http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20097 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20097#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:34:10 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20097 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20097'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

Anchorman Walter Cronkite explains where the idea for his sign off came from and describes the initial reaction to the slogan. Cronkite hosted the CBS Evening News for 19 years and died on July 17, 2009.

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20097 0 A Ukrainian Soldier Shares His Thoughts on the Invasion http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20055 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20055#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2014 19:51:37 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20055 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20055'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

“We don’t want fratricidal war,” says a Ukrainian soldier as he awaits the Russian invasion of Crimea, Ukraine, and adds, “We’re preparing for the worst.”

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20055 0 2014 Crimean Crisis Ukrainian Citizens & Soldiers React to the Russian Invasion http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20054 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20054#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2014 23:50:01 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20054 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20054'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

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Vice reporter Simon Ostrovsky interviews Ukrainian civilians and base commanders as he covers Russia's military intervention of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, which began on February 27, 2014.

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20054 0 2014 Crimean Crisis Roland Oliphant on the Military Intervention http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20056 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20056#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2014 23:43:45 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20056 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20056'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

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The Telegraph's Roland Oliphant reports from the border of Crimea, Ukraine where Russia's military intervention began on February 27, 2014. Oliphant points out the pro-Russian sign that stands on the border of the city and describes the presence of the Russian military surrounding Crimea.

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20056 0 Hugo Chávez Sean Penn on His Meeting With Hugo Chavez http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20018 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20018#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2014 23:25:10 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=20018 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=20018'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

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Actor and political activist Sean Penn describes meeting President Hugo Chavez during his visit to Venezuela and shares his thoughts on the local media. On March 5, 2013 Chavez passed away after a battle with cancer.

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]]> http://blog.witnify.com/?feed=rss2&p=20018 0 Hugo Chávez George Galloway on Hugo Chavez as a World Leader http://blog.witnify.com/?p=19992 http://blog.witnify.com/?p=19992#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2014 20:17:40 +0000 http://sb2.witnify.com/sb3/?p=19992 Continue reading]]> function SocialClick(sender,social_site,tracking_string) { var action_name = 'like' switch(social_site) { case 'facebook': action_name = 'share' break; case 'twitter': action_name = 'tweet' break; default: action_name = 'like' } ga('send', 'social', social_site, action_name + '_' + tracking_string, 'http://blog.witnify.com/?p=19992'); window.open(sender.href,tracking_string,'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=600px,height=500px'); return false; }

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George Galloway, a campaign adviser to Hugo Chavez, remembers his friend and explains why he was one of the greatest world leaders in history. Chavez passed away on March 5, 2013 while in office as the President of Venezuela.

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