January 17, 2007


Never give in and never give up.
Hubert H. Humphrey



Let's make Hitler
And Hirohito
Look as sick as
Old Benito
Buy defense bonds
Burma Shave
1942


America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas.
--John Burton Brimer





ABRAHAM LINCOLN
  • March 12, 1864 - President Lincoln appoints Grant as general-in-chief of all the Federal armies. William T. Sherman succeeds Grant as commander in the West.
  • June 3, 1864 - A costly mistake by Grant results in 7,000 Union casualties in twenty minutes during an offensive against entrenched Rebels at Cold Harbor, Virginia.
  • June 8, 1864 - Abraham Lincoln is nominated for president by a coalition of Republicans and War Democrats.
  • July 18, 1864 - Issues a call for 500,000 Volunteers for military service.
  • Aug 31, 1864 - Makes a speech to 148th Ohio Regiment.
  • Sept 2, 1864 - Atlanta is captured by Sherman's army. Later, the president on advice from Grant approves Sherman's march to the sea.
  • Oct 19, 1864 - A decisive Union victory by Gen. Philip H. Sheridan in the Shenandoah Valley.
  • Nov 8, 1864 - Abraham Lincoln is re-elected president, defeating Democrat George B. McClellan. Lincoln gets 212 of 233 electoral votes and 55 percent of the popular vote.
  • Dec 20, 1864 - Sherman reaches Savannah in Georgia leaving behind a path of destruction 60 miles wide all the way from Atlanta.
  • THE HISTORY PLACE


    Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
    Albert Einstein



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
    Harry S Truman "Tell him to go to hell!" - Truman's first response to the messenger who told him that Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted him to be his running mate
    Harry S Truman 1945-1952



    Name a five letter word which has three consonants all the same and two different vowels. Every now and then you see this while running a Window95/98 on your PC.



  • Elephant: a mouse built to government specifications.
  • Humans were invented by water, for transporting it uphill.
  • I am at two with nature.
  • It is hard to soar like an eagle when you are surrounded by turkeys.
  • It's a good thing we have gravity, or else when birds die they would just stay right up there. Hunters would get all confused.



  • Pox take you, is no curse to some people.
    1736


    Acorns were good until bread was found.
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