July 2, 2007


Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
P. J. O'Rourke



Spring
Has sprung
The grass has riz
Where last year's
Careless drivers is
Burma Shave
1951


There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Thomas A. Edison




AL-BIRUNI
973 - 1048
Arab Scholar

Al-Biruni was one of the most learned men of his age who corresponded with the great philosopher Ibn Sina. He spent a large part of his life in Ghazna, Afghanistan. In 1017 he travelled to India. Conversant in Turkish, Persian, Sanskrit, Hebrew and Arabic Al-Biruni became the most important interpreter of Indian science to Islam.

In astronomical works he discussed the theory of the earth's rotation on its axis, in physics he advanced hydrostatic laws and in geography he advanced the visionary view that the Indus valley had once be a sea basin
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"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats."
Woody Allen in regard to the KKK



PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
Herbert Hoover Hoover worked in Australia at the turn of the 20th century as a mining engineer.
Herbert Hoover 1929-1933



TWO x TWO = THREE Each letter stands for one and only one digit, and no digit is represented by more than one letter. Can you work out what digits the letters in the above multiplication stand for so that the identity above is actually correct?



"The reason the Mets have played so well at Shea this year is they have the best home record in baseball."



A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.



Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
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