July 16, 2007


Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



A chin
Where barbed wire
Bristles stand
Is bound to be
A no ma'ams land
Burma Shave
1952


Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughan




DANTE
1265 - 1321
Italian Poet

 Dante Alighieri grew up in Florence. When he was nine, a meeting with Beatrice, the daughter of a Florentine aristocrat, influenced the rest of his life. His platonic devotion to her continued despite her marriage, and despite his own marriage to a daughter of a powerful Guelph family. In 1300, he became one of the six priors of Florence. He joined a democratic political group which was opposed by the pope. After his opponent's triumph Dante was exiled, wandered to various cities, possibly Paris and Oxford, and made his final home in Ravenna.

The dates of his various works are not known. The 'Vita nuova', which tells of his passion for Beatrice, is probably the earliest. He wrote several poems, as well as treatises on government and language. But his fame as the greatest poet of Italy rests on the Christian epic 'Divine Comedy', a vision of hell, purgatory, and heaven which gives a wideranging view of the culture of his age. 'The Divine Comedy' became the first masterpiece of world literature written in a modern European language.
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If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secret of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.
Bernard Meltzer



PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
Washington Washington was the only president elected unanimously, receiving all 69 of the electoral votes cast.
George Washington 1789-1797



A house with two occupants, sometimes one, rarely three.
Break the walls, eat the boarders, then throw away me.
What am I?



A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.



Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.



“Do not consider any act of kindness insignificant, even meeting your brother with a cheerful face.”
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