July 21, 2007


I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
H. L. Mencken



His
Tomato
Was the mushy type
Until his beard
Grew over-ripe
Burma Shave
1952


Anyone who has ever said cheaters never prosper, obviously never played Monopoly.
Charlie Kenna




Shakespeare
1564- 1616
English Playwright

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. Around 1591 he moved to London and became an actor. He joined the Lord Chamberlain's company of players, later 'the King's Men'. When the company built the Globe Theatre in 1597, he became a partner, living at a house in Silver Street until c.1606, then moving near the Globe. He returned to Stratford c.1610, living as a country gentleman at his house, New Place.

Shakespeare is generally acknowledged to be one of the most extraordinary writers in history. His 37 plays and 154 sonnets explore the complexity of the human soul with unparalleled insight. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times in so many countries. His creative power is one of the great feature of his genius, and to many people Hamlet, or King Lear seem far more real than historical characters like Caesar.

Authorship is still a controversial subject for certain plays, and the modern era of Shakespeare scholarship has been marked by an enormous amount of investigation into the authorship, text, and chronology of the plays, including detailed studies of the age in which he lived, and of the Elizabethan stage.
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Emily Dickinson



PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
John Quincy Adams Adams was the first president to be photographed.
John Quincy Adams 1825-1829



Iron roof, glass walls, burns and burns and never falls.

What am I?



Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should deconstitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrasing Amendment.



But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?



All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.
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