January 11, 2008


“One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
Sir Thomas More



"Stella! Hey, Stella!" — Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)



I would have made a good Pope.
Richard M. Nixon



MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE
20TH CENTURY
1947

1946 and 1947
  • Truman Doctrine
  • Marshall Plan
  • India Independent
  • Pakistan Independent
  • Revolt Against French Rule Madagascar
  • Partition of Palestine
  • Taft-Hartley Act
  • Yeager Breaks Sound Barrier
  • B - 47 Enters Service
  • Gigantic Spruce Goose Flies
  • HISTORY CENTRAL


    Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it
    G. Bernard Shaw



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA

    Four Presidents won the popular vote but lost the presidency: Andrew Jackson won the popular vote but lost the election to John Quincy Adams (1824); Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote but lost the election to Rutherford B. Hayes (1876); Grover Cleveland won the popular vote but lost the election to Benjamin Harrison (1888); Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election to George W. Bush (2000).



    See if you can translate the following?
    Y Y U R Y Y U B I C U R Y Y 4 M E



    Czekaj "tatka latka"
    Translation: Wait for years, daddy. Wait for years FOR daddy.
    English equivalent: You can wait till the cows come home
    Polish proverb


    Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.



    A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.



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