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Dare to Celebrate 60 Days of America's Diversity| Beads on a String

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:00:00 +0000

It will soon be that time again, Black History Month. Woohoo! Let's kick some traditional history booty and start a new tradition....let's celebrate on the daily and call it America History Forever. Have you ever thought about how history was written in More than Black &White? This is what you get when you take it on the limb and applaud every race every day: Learn more about Beads on a String America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History

1.Prejudices Will Die. Education can bring unification.
2Understanding: You would become more tolerant to the feelings of others.
3.Surprise: You would be amazed at the everyday things that were invented by more than one race.
4.Sharing: You will be able to teach the youth of today to value other's opinions.

Get a free copy of Beads on a String America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History. The first Multiracial multi-media American history book.

This is my belief: “I feel that we as Americans are all equal and held together by a common thread. Like a treasured beaded necklace of different colors held together on a string, we are held together by our necessities and our circumstances and our humanity. Every color helps to make the necklace beautiful. We can never be a totally separate entity! Americans of all colors are so integrated that if we hurt one, we hurt all. Just like that necklace of treasured beads, leave one out and the gap is seen. Break the chain and many of us are lost.”
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America's Only Totally Diverse History Book

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:00:00 +0000

Out of the mouth comes the abundance of your heart. If we start celebrating every race, sexual orientation and ethnicity, some issues can be eliminated.The sad thing about dealing with race issues is the fact, if you have never had a dealing with blatant racism you will believe the hype the issue doesn't exist. The color line is not imaginary, an illusion, nor is it a child's chalk drawing that can be erased with the swipe of the foot or the blast of a water hose. Minorites get a bad rap and when it comes to being Black, African-American, or whatever they want to call us, we are the first to be thrown under the bus. Just look at the candidates involved in the political circus going on for the role as the newest President of the U.S.

The African American race is 'the' most hated race in America. It is not (nothing but stereotype coming) because we are all lazy (n-word) sitting on the front stoop eating watermelon and chicken. It is not because all we do is shuck and jive, rap and have babies. It's not because all we do is steal, kill each other and slide through our education by the color of our skin, it is because the responsibility for the horror of slavery of our race has not been wholly accepted. It's like beating up on someone, feeling sorry for it, but still having to see that person on a daily basis. Eventually the guilt will eat you until the victim (in your mind) becomes the problem and you have to attack him on a daily basis. A lose, lose situation.

I really don't care what anyone feels about this statement because it can not be unjustified. You may dislike The Mexicans, but they can be accepted as Caucasian easily. You may dislike the Jewish ethnicity, but they can also be accepted as Caucasian. And yes, I know I didn't use a hyphen between the AA word, it is really just another sign of separation between the races.

It is felt we should just get over slavery like it was a dream, just like the Holocaust was a dream. Denial runs amuck. Kind of hard to get over generations of families being destroyed and scattered. We may never know who are our true relative. By acceptance I mean apologizing for something our ancestors have done. And I say 'OUR' because I am quit sure there has to be an iota of White blood in my DNA, just by the color of my skin. I say 'OUR' because I know from history some greedy, vengeful Africans aided in our down fall. It is no harder than me going to my neighbor and saying I'm sorry my brother is/was a murderer and a thief and stole or hurt your family. Sure I wasn't there, but I know he did it and I apologize and I empathize and sympathize.

This constant strip down, slap in the face of our POTUS hurts a lot of people of all colors and has the potential of causing the entire race relationship to fall a step backward. It just shows we have not gotten over. It shows a Black person in America still has to be validated. I am saddened. I felt lower than a zero. Some are still unable to accept the even status of the African American race. Some are unable to accept the equal footing of any race beyond their own. I truly believe if we start celebrating the accomplishments of every race, teach our children about every ethnicity on a daily basis, the differences will be less defined and we will become more accepting.

History was written in more than Black & White and Beads on a String-America’s Racially Intertwined Biographical History lauds loudly the accomplishments of all races that helped make America the great country it has become. America’s glorious multi-racial history is finally acknowledged.

With hyperlinks and videos it celebrates hundreds of people such as Hiawatha who fought for freedom of his people, Lonnie Johnson who invented the ‘Super Soaker’, Dalip Singh Saund was a member of the United States House of Representatives, Rev. Rick Warren blessed the 2008 Presidential Inauguration, G.C. Gerster was one of the first surgeons in America, Yamato Ichihashi was one of the first academics of Asian ancestry in the United States; Antonio Meucci invented the telephone, Michael Jackson entertained; Minoru Yamasaki second-generation Japanese-American architect designed the World Trade Center, and Amadeo Peter Giannini founded the of Bank of Italy which later became Bank of America.

Beads on a String-America’s Racially Intertwined Biographical History never stops celebrating our heritages from the naming of the country by Martin Waldseemuller to the elimination of overt racial discrimination, through education, entertainment and to the glorious day of racial, political and what we believed would be the social unification with Barack Obama’s Presidential election.

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Dare to Celebrate 60 Days of America's Diversity| Lei Yixin & Bernard Rustin

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:08:00 +0000

I love history and giving applause and credit to those who deserve it. These two people are the bookmarks to the newest page in history. Along with Black History Month let's celebrate American History and diversity.

LEI YIXIN

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Lei Yixin is the sculpture of the statue for the Martin Luther King's national memorial "Stones of Hope".

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The focal point of the memorial is a 1,600-metric-ton granite structure called the mountains of despair, a theme from Reverend King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. A sculpture of King is carved from the center piece.

Lei was born to a family of scholars in Changsha, Hunan, China and was one of millions of "bourgeois educated youth" sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. As a way to develop a skill other than farming during the seven years he spent toiling in the fields, Lei started drawing. His diary became his scrapbook, with a few lines of comments of his drawings. When Lei applied to college, he submitted the diary as his portfolio. Lei was among the first class of students after the Cultural Revolution to be able to go to art school in 1978; he graduated in 1982.

Lei came to the attention of the American public when he was named artist-of-record and commissioned to sculpt the centerpiece for the proposed monument to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The announcement of Yixin spurred an international protest spearheaded by Gilbert Young and Lea-Winfrey Young, co-founders of the organization King Is Ours, a multi-racial and multi-cultural organization formed to protest the decisions made by the King Memorial Project Foundation which included choosing Yixin without due process. According to Agence France-Presse, it was only by chance that memorial organizers found Lei when they visited an international granite-carving festival in the American state of Minnesota. Yixin was "discovered" under a tree, taking a nap after he was pointed out to the King Memorial Project Foundation committee with the words, "you should talk to that guy over there," pointing to Lei.

BAYARD RUSTIN born March 17, 1912 in West Chester, Pennsylvania was an African-American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He was an earlier and principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Rustin was one of the most influential civil rights activists of the 1950s and '60s, yet he maintained a low profile, reserving the spotlight for other prominent figures, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and A. Phillip Randolph. He counseled Martin Luther King, Jr. on the techniques of nonviolent resistance. Because of his homosexuality, his role was hidden from the world.

He was a firm believer in and practitioner of nonviolent forms of protest. Reared by his maternal grandparents. Rustin's grandmother, Julia, was a Quaker, though she attended her husband's A.M.E. Church. She was also a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

When Rustin and Randolph organized the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, Senator Strom Thurmond railed against Rustin as a "Communist, draft-dodger, and homosexual" and produced an FBI photograph of Rustin talking to King while King was bathing, to imply that there was a homosexual relationship between the two. Both men denied the allegation of an affair, but despite King's support, NAACP chairman Roy Wilkins did not allow Rustin to receive any public recognition for his role in planning the march. Rustin died on August 24, 1987, of a perforated appendix.

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Dare to Celebrate America | 60 Days of America's Divercity

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:31:00 +0000

Amazon Review: J. Ellis "I just finished Beads on A String and in all sincerity I have to say it is a work of subtle genius."

This month and beyond Black History Month, I will attempt to enlighten you on people you may or may not know who have helped to make America the awesome country it has become.

History was written in more than Black and White. Beads on a String-America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History celebrates America's history by including the contributions of all Americans regardless of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. A bound tribute to the innovative, inventive and remarkable attributes made by the common man. It is the only American History book to do so.

In putting together Beads on a String-America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History, my goal was to be as thorough and entertaining as possible. To gain the attention of the youth of the world so they could be proud of their ancestor's contribution to the formation of America while accepting the works of others.

VIDEOS FROM THE BOOK:

A Change Has Come

Martin Luther King

From Martin to Obama

Lift Every Voice

We Shall Over Come

Why We Are Proud

We Are the Ones

The Dreams of Generations

Rev. Rick Warren

The Inventor of the Supersoaker

Gone Too Soon/Heal the World

Yes, We Can

It's a New Day

AFLOWTEXTLINK ,PAGE,3,, Change Has Come

The inauguration of President Obama ushered in a giant change in America and around the world.

Dr. Joseph Lowery former president of Southern Christian Leadership conference delivered the benediction as Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America.

From Martin to Obama

The Civil Rights Movement MFLOWTEXTLINK ,PAGE,23,,artin Luther King

In the United States, Civil Rights are the rights that a nation's inhabitants enjoy by law. The term is broader than "political rights," which refer only to rights devolving from the franchise and are held usually only by a citizen, and unlike "natural rights," civil rights have a legal as well as a philosophical basis. In the United States civil rights are usually thought of in terms of the specific rights guaranteed in the Constitution: freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press, and the rights to due process of law and to equal protection under the law.

The civil-rights movement, led especially by Martin Luther King, Jr. in the late 1950s and 60s, and the executive leadership provided by President Lyndon B. Johnson, encouraged the passage of the most comprehensive civil-rights legislation to date, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It prohibited discrimination for reason of color, race, religion, or national origin in places of public accommodation covered by interstate commerce, i.e., restaurants, hotels, motels, and theaters.

Lift Ev'ry Voice

James Weldon Johnson composed the lyrics of Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing for which his brother J. Rosamond Johnson composed the music. This is commonly known as the "Negro (or Black) National Anthem." R&B singer Kim Weston sings "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" in front of a 100,000 at Wattstax--a festival at the Los Angeles Coliseum on August 20, 1972 organized by the Memphis Stax label to commemorate the 7th anniversary of the Watts riots and black power, pride, culture, tradition and heritage struggle. The party and peacefulness was seen by some as "African Americans answer to Woodstock".

WFLOWTEXTLINK ,PAGE,72,,e Shall Over Come

JOAN BAEZ, born 1941 in New York City is an American folk singer and political activist. Baez began singing traditional folk ballads, blues, and spirituals in Cambridge, Mass., coffeehouses in a clear soprano voice with a three-octave range. She made folk music, which had been largely ignored, popular. Baez's records were the first folk albums to become best-sellers.

Why We Are Proud

HELEN ZIA (謝漢蘭 pinyin: Xiè Hànlán) born in 1952 is a second generation Chinese American and an award-winning journalist and scholar who has covered Asian American communities and social and political movements for decades. She was born in New Jersey to first generation immigrants from Shanghai She was also a vocal anti-war activist, voicing her Opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, and a firm believer in feminism.

Zia has been outspoken on issues ranging from civil rights and peace to women's rights and countering hate violence and homophobia.

We Can Change the World

The Dreams of Generations

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, JR. (born August 4, 1961) is the first African American President, elected 2008. He was the only African American serving in the U.S. Senate. He delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention while still serving in the Illinois State Senate. In November 2004, Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate by a landslide in a presidential election year marked by Republican gains.

Presidential Inauguration Prayer

REV. RICK WARREN Richard Duane "Rick" Warren (born January 28, 1954) is an American evangelical Christian minister and author. He is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church, an evangelical megachurch located in Lake Forest, California, currently the eighth-largest church in the United States (this ranking includes multi-site churches). He is also a bestselling author of many Christian books, including his guide to church ministry and evangelism, The Purpose Driven Church, which has spawned a series of conferences on Christian ministry and evangelism. He is perhaps best known for the subsequent devotional, The Purpose Driven Life, which has sold over 30 million copies, making Warren a New York Times bestselling author.

The Inventor of the Super Soaker

LONNIE G. JOHNSON (born October 6, 1949) is best known as the inventor of the Super Soaker water gun. The Super Soaker was the top selling toy in the United States in 1991 and 1992.

Gone Too Soon/Heal the World

MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer-songwriter, dancer, actor, choreographer, businessman, philanthropist and record producer. Referred to as the King of Pop, he is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time while also being regarded as one of the most influential. His unrivaled contributions to music, dance and fashion and a much-publicized personal life made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.

Yes, We Can

A tribute to the tenacity of the American People

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Gifting Our History

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:19:00 +0000

The worst thing about the death of someone is not the fact they are gone, but the reality you are to remain without them. The only thing to make the loss better is to take their memory and build up on it.

I am truly awaken to how short our time is, and how much I am 'not' doing to make my life memorable to someone else.

This book, Beads on a String-America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History will be my contribution to America and the world. A bound tribute to the history makers down to the common man.

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Here We Go a Wassailing- Taking a Video Break

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:33:00 +0000

It's getting cold outside and what better way to take a break during our wassailing than to chill in front of remembered videos. These were and still are my favorite. Recorded them back in the day on VCR. Thank God for Youtube, right.
Okay, sit back wrap the blankets around your legs and enjoy the scenes from our childhood.

Here We Go a Wassailing- Bernice Mcfadden @Queenazsa

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:05:00 +0000

If you have been reading my blog (glad you're here if this is your first time) you will know I love Christmas and visiting blogs so I am sharing that joy with others and do a little wassailing to my favorite blogs and people. If you don't know what wassailing is here is a definition: The House-Visiting wassail, very much similar to caroling, is the practice of people going door-to-door singing Christmas carols.
Last year I cheerfully knocked on the doors of inspiring individuals, this year I want to share the season's joy with 'groups' I have joined. So come along with me throughout the month of December as I make a wassailing to blogs, websites and a few individuals I find inspiring, funny, educational or plainly a must read.

Today we're wassailing Bernice McFadden and her blog Naki. I can't even explain the affinity I have with Ms. McFadden. I've never met her and yet I love her voice. The first time I 'heard it was on 'twitter' of course. Something about the way her words flow, her dedicated submersion in life just inspires me.

Ms McFadden is the author of Sugar, Glorious, so many others and most recently she is waiting for the January release of

Gathering of Waters and the re-release of The Warmest December,which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. I am so in awe of her. Makes me wonder how I missed hearing of her in life.
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Get ready Bernice, pull on your jacket and come to the door cuz here we come a-wassailing.

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30 days of blogging-Here We Go a Wassailing- Mellow & June

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:18:00 +0000

I love Christmas and visiting blogs so I thought why don’t I share these joys with others and do a little wassailing. Today we're wassailing an individual, Kimberly Ranee Hicks and her blog Mellow and June. If you don't know what wassailing is here is a definition: The House-Visiting wassail, very much similar to caroling, is the practice of people going door-to-door singing Christmas carols.

Kimberly has the most awesome blog where she reviews, interviews, and shares her insights. Her latest post "If You Say It, They May Answer" is a must read. I love what she says so much I have subscribed to her newsletter. Kimberly is the author of Silent Knight .

Last year I cheerfully knocked on the doors of inspiring individuals, this year I want to share the season's joy with 'groups' I have joined. So come along with me throughout the month of December as I make a wassailing to blogs, websites and a few individuals I find inspiring, funny, educational or plainly a must read.

Get the cookies and hot chocolate ready Kimberly cuz here we come a-wassailing.

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Carleen Brice

Jesse Ferguson

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Luke Romyn

John T. Willis

*SWEET TREATS

A LITTLE MUSICAL VIDEO BREAK

Wassailing Three Queens

The Art of Reading & Reviewing

Wassailing & Whining

M. Kathy Brown

30 days of blogging-Here We Go a Wassailing- Book Junkies Library

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:57:00 +0000

Get your library card ready we're wassailing the newest library on the web, The Book Junkie's Library. Before we start let’s have a little history on the wassailing as provided through Wikipedia. The House-Visiting wassail, very much similar to caroling, is the practice of people going door-to-door singing Christmas carols.

I love Christmas and visiting blogs so I thought why don’t I share these joys with others? Last year I cheerfully knocked on the doors of inspiring individuals, this year I want to share the season's joy with 'groups' I have joined. So come along with me throughout the month of December as I make a wassailing to blogs, websites and a few individuals I find inspiring, funny, educational or plainly a must read.

We've met the Junkies, now let's wassail on over to THE BOOK JUNKIES LIBRARY . Dust off the shelves BOOK JUNKIES LIBRARY cuz here we come a-wassailing!

The Book Junkies Library is a page setup by Grace Guerra. Grace describes the library as such: "A different kind of library, where the best books aren't always those from the most famous writers." While on the web site you can visit author pages, read interviews, and check out their books. The library also has a Featured Authors Page, where 3 great books are showcased every month!.The Book Junkie Library on Facebook

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Book Junkies

Carleen Brice

Jesse Ferguson

Vainbuthonest-

Luke Romyn

John T. Willis

*SWEET TREATS

A LITTLE MUSICAL VIDEO BREAK

Wassailing Three Queens

The Art of Reading & Reviewing

Wassailing & Whining

M. Kathy Brown

Here We Go a Wassailing with Book Junkies

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:34:00 +0000

I love Christmas and visiting blogs so I thought why don’t I share these joys with others? Last year I cheerfully knocked on the doors of inspiring individuals, this year I want to share the season's joy with 'groups' I have joined. So come along with me throughout the month of December as I make a wassailing to blogs, websites and a few individuals I find inspiring, funny, educational or plainly a must read.

Before we start let’s have a little history on the wassailing as provided through Wikipedia. The House-Visiting wassail, very much similar to caroling, is the practice of people going door-to-door singing Christmas carols.
My first wassail this year will be to The Book Junkies on Facebook. Get ready BOOK JUNKIES cuz here we come a-wassailing!

Book Junkies is a group for both readers and Indie writers. It is an outstanding site. Not made just to advertise the publication of a book, but a way to connect with readers. We have events, group reads, projects, reviews etc going on all the time. Here there are over 800 members, people are free to post basically whatever they want as long as we are respectable. You can meet beta readers, book reviewers and some of the most awesome Indie authors. Come on over and make friends.

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Here We Come A-Wassailing".

Carleen Brice

Jesse Ferguson

Vainbuthonest-

Luke Romyn

John T. Willis

*SWEET TREATS

A LITTLE MUSICAL VIDEO BREAK

Wassailing Three Queens

The Art of Reading & Reviewing

Wassailing & Whining

M. Kathy Brown

Remembrance

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:12:00 +0000

"Do something today in which the world may talk hereafter." Admiral Collingwood

This is my American flag. It is a picture I put together and wore on a t-shirt. It is an image I have placed in 'Our' history book I have written. The fire in my soul burns eternal. For the belief my family and the world will unite and realize we need each other. And more than that, we need God. As humans we spend our time placing blame on one person and we forget the fact as we point we point back to ourselves.

As we all know, today is Veteran's Day. You may not know the guy to the left, but he, along with others gave up days of their lives, (sometimes their literal lives) and those of their family in order to protect the world we live in. Much thanks goes out to them and the men and women of the armed services.

This guy is my dad, Adam J. Wade. Though he has passed away many years ago, he remains my dad. Not only was he a part of the armed forces, he was a force in the fight for desegregation at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.

(Page 30 of Beads on a String.)

Even in my small part of the world believers for equality played a major part in changing history. In 1956 in Beaumont, Texas my father (Adam J. Wade) and my cousin Robert Sampia (in picture from Beaumont Enterprise 1956) became members of one of the first groups of African-Americans to integrate Lamar State College of Tech now Lamar University. They endured threats, racial slurs and attacks from the Klu Klux Klan.

This fight led to the ability for my own daughters to graduate from Lamar. His fight for equality ran deep in his DNA and flows through me. I too want to do something that the world will one day speak of.

Today is a great day to think of all of the great contributors to America's history and growth. Beads on a String-America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History owns up to the fact history was written in more than black and white and it is time we acknowledge that fact.

"Do something today in which the world may talk hereafter." Isn't that an awesome statement?
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Tour Through Indieland- Stopping at 21Blackstreet

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:30:00 +0000

Continuing with the tour spotlighting sites dedicated to the independent author, we pause at 21BlackStreet. 21 BlackStreet is a content provider of the written word by people of the African diaspora and deal exclusively with African American content, giving the ability to write for a specific audience. 21blackstreet gives you all the tools you need to self-publish your unique content so that you can share your insights with the world.

Their forum- TheWellfed Black Writer offers an enormous amount of advice and tips.
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Please take time to visit a few past stops.

1st stop IAN-The Independent Author Network
2nd Stop-A Little More Than Sample Sunday
3rd Stop- Tim Ellis
4th Stop-In the Chair

On the Train to Indieland and Book Junkies Library

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:45:00 +0000

I realize I have been really lax in keeping up the tour of Indieland. Put it down to Summer's heat and the death of my laptop. Feel free to revisit our previous stops. What is Indieland, you ask. Well it is the most wonderful world known to the independent author. It is a world of free thinkers who willing share their knowledge, blogs and websites for the promotion of writers like themselves. In Indieland the feeling of acceptance and the wish for all to succeed is extraordinary. To prove how wonderful it is, our next stop on the Indie Land tour is the brainchild of Grace Guerra, a once stoic die-hard book reader of all that was traditionally published, who realized the art of writing is not held tightly in the hands of the legacy published, but flows freely from the individual writer. She has been transformed and as such, embraces the Indie author and developed a wonderful site to aid other readers.

Our next stop is called Book-Junkies Library- as the site says- " Not your ordinary library, but a place for you to find a great read from an independent writer." I love that. If you would like your book in the library, find awesome reviewers and/ or beta readers, take advantage of terrific links, or just want to read incredible scribe from awesome writers, visit Book Junkies Library.

If you have further questions email Grace @ grace@book-junkies-library.com. Her Facebook
Please take time to visit a few past stops.

1st stop IAN-The Independent Author Network
2nd Stop-A Little More Than Sample Sunday
3rd Stop- Tim Ellis
4th Stop-In the Chair

Searching for Indie Authors? Go to eTLC

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:00:00 +0000

Our Next Stop on the tour--eTLC - A Showcase for Independent Authors. eTLC purpose is to provide the reader an outlet to discover the work of independent (indie) authors.This has become one of my favorite spots. More than because I am an author, but because I am a reader. I like the setup of the product page and then the second page which holds an excerpt. Just look how gorgeous my page- Fishing Trip and D.N.A. pages are. The site is beautiful and the monitor of the site, Kenneth Wayne does a lot of promoting both on Facebook and on other social networks.

The Electronic Text and Literature Cloud (eTLC) posts only ebooks not under contract with a major publisher. We hope this will increase your chance of finding that gem by an indie. Please email us if you have any suggestions on how to improve this site. If you would like to submit an ebook for posting, please click SUBMISSIONS.

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Don't forget, you can backtrack and visit our previous stops.

1st stop IAN-The Independent Author Network
2nd Stop-A Little More Than Sample Sunday
3rd Stop- Tim Ellis
4th Stop-In the Chair

Celebrating Amerigo Vespucci...uhm, Columbus Day

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 13:12:00 +0000

NAMING AMERICA

In our quest to learn about America's colorful history and to ascertain the inclusion of the contributions from every race that has made America the great nation it is, our biggest wonder was how this great country received its name. Why the great America wasn't called 'Columbus'? Should this nation not have been named after the person said to have discovered the new worlds? In actual fact, it has been. In 1507 the map maker Martin Waldseemuller named North and South America, after Amerigo Vespucci.

The phrase "united States of America" was first used officially in the Declaration of Independence, adopted on July 4, 1776. On November 15, 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation, the first of which stated "The Stile of this Confederacy shall be 'The United States of America.'" The name was originally proposed by Thomas Paine. Why wasn't America named after Christopher Columbus? For a while the Americas were also known as Columbia, after Columbus, prompting the name District of Columbia for the land set aside as the U.S. capital. Columbia remained a popular name for the United States until the early 20th century, when it fell into relative disuse; it is still used poetically, and appears in various names and titles. Columbus Day is a holiday in the United States, and other countries in the Americas, commemorating Columbus' October 1492 landing.

Mundus Novus ("New World") was a Latin translation of a lost Italian letter sent from Lisbon to Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici. It describes a voyage to South America in 1501-1502. Mundus Novus was published in late 1502 or early 1503 and soon reprinted and distributed in numerous European countries. Lettera di Amerigo Vespucci delle isole nuovamente trovate in quattro suoi viaggi ("Letter of Amerigo Vespucci concerning the isles newly discovered on his four voyages"), known as Lettera al Soderini or just Lettera, was a letter in Italian addressed to Piero Soderini. Printed in 1504 or 1505, it claimed to be an account of four voyages to the Americas made by Vespucci between 1497 and 1504.

It was the publication and widespread circulation of the letters that led Martin Waldseemüller to name the new continent America on his world map of 1507 in Lorraine. Along with placing the name on the map Waldseemüller also published Vespucci's accounts of his travels in a book. A Latin translation was published by Waldseemüller in Cosmographiae Introductio, a book on cosmography and geography, as Quattuor Americi Vespucci navigationes ("Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci"). Vespucci used a Latinized form of his name, Americus Vespucius, in his Latin writings, which Waldseemüller used as a base for the new name, taking the feminine form America. This public revelation caused many people to believe Vespucci was trying to steal the credit of the discovery from Christopher Columbus. And just who was this Amerigo Vespucci?

Amerigo Vespucci born March 9, 1451 was born in Florence, Italy and was an Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer. He played a senior role in two voyages which explored the east coast of South America between 1499 and 1502. On the second of these voyages he discovered that South America extended much further south than previously known by Europeans. This convinced him that this land was part of a new continent, a bold contention at a time when other European explorers crossing the Atlantic Ocean thought they were reaching Asia

Vespucci's real historical importance may well be more in his letters, whether he wrote them all or not, than in his discoveries. From these letters, the European public learned about the newly discovered continent of the Americas for the first time; its existence became known throughout Europe within a few years of the letters' publication. If Vespucci's claims are accurate he reached the mainland of the Americas shortly before Cabot, and at least 14 months before Columbus.

In 1508 Spain gave Vespucci the responsibility for training pilots for ocean voyages. He died in Seville in 1512 from Malaria.

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Are You Making History?

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:19:00 +0000

The worst thing about the death of someone is not the fact they are gone, but the reality you are to remain without them. The only thing to make the loss better is to take their memory and build up on it.

With the sad news of the deaths of both Fred Shuttlesworth- (a great Civil Rights Activist) and Steve Jobs (An innovator), I am truly awaken to how short our time is, and how much I am 'not' doing to make my life memorable to someone else.

This book, Beads on a String-America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History will be my contribution to America and the world. A bound tribute to the history makers down to the common man.

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Lei Yixin & Bayard Rustin--Designers of the Dream

noreply@blogger.com (Ey Wade) — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 01:59:00 +0000

I love history and giving applause and credit to those who deserve it. These two people are the bookmarks to the newest page in history.

Lei Yixin is the sculpture of the statue for the Martin Luther King's national memorial "Stones of Hope".

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