Alphabet soup for modern times: CIA, GOP and IRS.

Kettles aren’t the only things called black: the black box process, the black boxes  found on airplanes and the black box warning on pharmaceuticals.

Five is a number found in many religions: the five pillars of Islam, the five books of Moses and the five lorem ipsum dolar.

The Chicago Seven

“The Chicago Seven” was the name given to the individuals arrested on charges of inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Davis, Rennie
Dellinger, David
Froines, John
Hayden, Tom
Hoffman, Abbie
Rubin, Jerry
Weiner, Lee

Perhaps the three most prominent were Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin of the Yippies, and Tom Hayden, who later married the actress Jane Fonda and served in the California State Assembly from 1982-2000.  They were eventually acquitted on February 18, 1970, but not until going through a trial that included one defendant, Bobby Seale, being bound and gagged and eventually having his case severed from the others turning the Chicago Eight into the Chicago Seven.

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