December 25, 2007


“When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue.
My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.”
Bessie Smith blues singer



" Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! "
— George Bailey (James Stewart ), It's a Wonderful Life. (1946)



I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming into my neighborhood after dark.
Dick Gregory



MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE
20TH CENTURY
1930

1930 amd 1931
  • Nazis Win 107 Seats In Parliament
  • London Naval Accords
  • Gandhi leads a revolt in India
  • Chiang Kai-Shek attacks communists
  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff
  • Peruvian president deposed
  • Revolt in Brazil
  • Cyclotron invented
  • Flash bulb is introduced
  • HISTORY CENTRAL


    Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
    William Feather



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
    Gerald Ford Ford was the head boxing coach and assistant football coach at Yale University.
    Gerald Ford 1974-1977



    A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I?



    Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it



    It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.



    I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.



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