"Michael Collins" is a story about the birth of a nation, and there is no happy ending.

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W. Griffith's 1915 "The Birth of a Nation, " regarded as the first great American film epic, whose glorification of the Ku Klux Klan makes contemporary audiences uneasy at best, infuriated at worst.

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They will be there to attend a ceremony on Saturday to mark the birth of a new nation.

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And when they made it through the most difficult time which may have determined the difference between the birth or extinction of a nation, they gave thanks.

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Director DW Griffith (of Birth of a Nation fame) discovered the sunny village of Hollywood in 1910 while filming the 17-minute long motion picture, In Old California.

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Sadly, unlike Sam Adams who lived to see the fruits of his efforts give birth to a new nation, Andrew Brietbart has passed on while there is still much work to be done.

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W. Griffith's 1915 epic "Birth of a Nation, " but the film ultimately affirms Lincoln's recognition that compromise (including possible moral compromise) is an indispensable element of statecraft.

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But in the days ahead, this ragged guerrilla force is likely to play a crucial role both politically and militarily in the troubled birth of Asia's newest nation.

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People who have been following the torturous birth-pains of eBook-nation will instantly recall that this very same feature caused a bit of a fracas when Amazon included a text-to-voice feature in the Kindle 2, which it released in February 2009.

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This is a very painful concession for me, because these places were the cradle of our national birth and no nation willingly gives up such historic assets unless it is defeated in war, which we were not.

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