January 3, 2007


I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
George Burns



Wild
Dashes
From by-ways
Cause crashes
On highways
Burma Shave
1941


Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
Alexander Woollcott





ABRAHAM LINCOLN
  • 1822 - Attends school for a few months.
  • 1824 - Does plowing and planting and work for hire for neighbors. Attends school in the fall and winter. Borrows books and reads whenever possible.
  • 1828 - On Jan. 20, his married sister Sarah dies while giving birth. In April, Abraham, now 19, and Allen Gentry take a flatboat of cargo of farm produce to New Orleans. During the trip they fight off an robbery attack by seven black men. At New Orleans Abe observes a slave auction.
  • 1830 - In March, Abe and his family begin a 200 mile journey to move to Illinois where they settle on uncleared land along the Sangamon River, near Decatur. Abe makes his first political speech in favor of improving navigation on the Sangamon River.
  • 1831 - Abe makes a second flatboat trip to New Orleans. His father moves again, but Abe doesn't go and instead settles in New Salem, Illinois, where he works as a clerk in the village store and sleeps in the back. Wrestles a man named Jack Armstrong to a draw. Learns basic math, reads Shakespeare and Robert Burns and participates in a local debating society.
    • THE HISTORY PLACE


    "Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
    Albert Einstein



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
    Ulysses S. Grant His real name was Hiram Ulysses Grant. He changed it because he didn't want to enter West Point with the initials H.U.G.
    Ulysses S. Grant 1869-1877



    It goes up, but at the same time goes down. Up toward the sky, and down toward the ground. It's present tense and past tense too, come for a ride, just me and you.

    What is it?



  • Never wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, and the pig likes it.
  • I can teach my cat any trick he wants to do!
  • My goal in life is to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.
  • Eat a live toad in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
  • Every day, the hummingbird eats its own weight in food. You may wonder how it weighs the food. It doesn't. It just eats another hummingbird.



    • There are more old Drunkards than old Doctors.
    1736


    Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
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