January 3, 2008


I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
W. Somerset Maugham



"I'll admit I may have seen better days, but I'm still not to be had for the price of a cocktail, like a salted peanut. "
— Margo Channing (Bette Davis), All About Eve (1950)



Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel.
Josh Billings



MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE
20TH CENTURY
1939

1938 and 1939
  • Germans Enter Prague
  • Madrid Surrenders
  • Passenger Service Across Atlantic Ocean
  • Pact of Steel
  • The White Paper
  • Hatch Act passes
  • DDT discovered as an insecticide
  • Soviet-German Non-Aggression Treaty
  • Einstein writes a letter to FDR
  • Igor Sikorsky Flies A Helicopter
  • Germans develop the first jet-powered airplane
  • Germany invades Poland
    • HISTORY CENTRAL


    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
    Mahatma Gandhi



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA

    Presidents who would be considered "Washington outsiders" (i.e., the 18 presidents who never served in Congress) are: Washington, J. Adams, Jefferson, Taylor, Grant, Arthur, Cleveland, T. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover, F. Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and G. W. Bush.



    You hear it speak, for it has a hard tongue. But it cannot breathe, for it has not a lung.
    What is it?



    "You are invited to take advantage of the chambermaid." -- A sign in a Japanese hotel.



    Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.



    Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.



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