January 12, 2008


It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
Winston Churchill



"This here's Miss Bonnie Parker. I'm Clyde Barrow. We rob banks."
— Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty), Bonnie and Clyde (1967)



When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer "Present" or "Not guilty."
Theodore Roosevelt



MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE
20TH CENTURY
1948

1948 and 1949
  • Communists Control Czechoslavakia
  • Berlin Blockaded and Airlift
  • Soviets Recall Advisors From Yugoslavia
  • Defeat in Manchuria
  • South Africa Apartheid
  • State of Israel Declared
  • US Recognizes Israel
  • Organization of American States
  • Civil War In Costa Rica
  • Polaroid Camera
  • Quantum Dynamics Theory
  • Soviets Introduce MIG -15
    • HISTORY CENTRAL


    One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
    Elizabeth Bowen



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA

    The term "First Lady" was first used in 1877 in reference to Lucy Ware Webb Hayes. Most First Ladies, including Jackie Kennedy, are said to have hated the label.



    A farmer in California own a beautiful pear tree. He supplies the fruit to a nearby grocery store. The store owner has called the farmer to see how much fruit is available for him to purchase. The farmer knows that the main trunk has 24 branches. Each branch has exactly 12 boughs and each bough has exactly 6 twigs. Since each twig bears one piece of fruit, how many plums will the farmer be able to deliver?



    I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.



    Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.



    “An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.”



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