January 5, 2008


Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Lawrence Durrell



" People want me to do everything for them. What they don't realize is that they have the power. You want to see a miracle? Be the miracle. "
— God (Morgan Freeman), Bruce Almighty (2003)



Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain



MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE
20TH CENTURY
1941

1940 and 1941
  • Lend-Lease bill passed
  • Battle of Matapan
  • German forces invade Greece & Yugoslavia
  • Germans attack Crete
  • German battleship "Bismarck" sunk
  • German forces invade Russia
  • Atlantic Charter
  • Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
  • Penicillin first used to treat humans
    • HISTORY CENTRAL


    "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."
    John Burroughs



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA

    The ancestry of all 43 presidents is limited to the following seven heritages, or some combination thereof: Dutch, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Swiss, or German.



    Which word from Group B belongs with the words from Group A?

    A. BLAST, PAPER, BOX, BANK

    B. JUICE, BAG, CRADLE, CARPET



    Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
    A medley of extemporanea;
    And love is thing that can never go wrong;
    And I am Marie of Romania.



    It is a wise father that knows his own child.



    No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.



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