January 8, 2008


“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.”
William Butler Yeats



"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
— Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), Gone with the Wind (1939)



The chief end of a man is to frame general ideas - and... no general idea is worth a damn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE
20TH CENTURY
1944

1944 and 1945
  • US Troops Land at Anzio
  • Russians Recapture Kerch Peninsula
  • Russia Cross Polish Border
  • Monte Cassino Falls
  • Rome Liberated
  • D-Day
  • Battle of The Philippine Sea
  • Bretton Woods Conference
  • Southern France Invaded
  • Paris Liberated
  • Market Garden Fails
  • Dumbarton-Oaks Conference
  • Return to the Philipines
  • Battle Of Leyte
  • Surigao Straits
  • Battle Of Leyte
  • Battle Of Samar
  • B-29 Raids on Japan
  • Battle of the Bulge
    • HISTORY CENTRAL


    Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves
    William Feather



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA

    Fourteen Presidents served as vice presidents: J. Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore, A. Johnson, Arthur, T. Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman, Nixon, L. Johnson, Ford, and George H.W. Bush.



    Why is a manhole cover round and not square?
    Can you think of two reasons?



    Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.



    Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.


    It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.



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