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Pulitzer
Prize winning Author Joseph J. Ellis says in this new biography
that Americans see their first president on dollar bills,
quarters, and Mount Rushmore, but only as "an icon--distant,
cold, intimidating." Ellis gives us a fresh portrait.
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Another fascinating fact from the history wizard's archives
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The
Yinyang Symbol 
The two forces in eastern philosophy
known as yin and yang complement one another and are both found in every aspect
of life. Yin is associated with the earth, darkness, water and the female. Yang,
its opposite, is associated with light, heaven, air, odd numbers and the male.
When these two forces are in harmony with one another, they are two halves of
the circle, one light and the other dark. The small circles within each half
show that part of each opposite is always found within the other. They are not
in fact really opposites at all, but rather two sides of the same thing. The
Chinese language acknowledges this inseparable reciprocity by having one word --
"yinyang" -- rather than the English phrase "yin and yang."
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to Taoism
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