January 7, 2008


“I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.”
Bessie Smith blues singer



"Mr. Kowalski is too busy making a pig of himself... Your face and your fingers are disgustingly greasy."
— Blanche Dubois (Vivien Leigh), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)



Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte



MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE
20TH CENTURY
1943

1942 and 1943
  • Casablanca Conference
  • Surrender at Stalingrad
  • Bombing of Germany
  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
  • Battle of Kursk
  • Palermo
  • Quebec Conference
  • Allies Land in Italy
  • Teheran Conferance
    • HISTORY CENTRAL


    Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA

    The tallest president was Lincoln at 6'4"; at 5'4", Madison was the shortest



    Often talked of, never seen,
    Ever coming, never been,
    Daily looked for, never here,
    Still approaching, coming near.
    Thousands for it's visit wait
    But alas for their fate,
    Tho' they expect me to appear,
    They will never find me here.



    In baseball, you don't know nothing.



    Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.



    I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.



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