January 28, 2008


A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis



"1,500 people went into the sea... when Titanic sank from under us... there were twenty boats floating nearby... and only one came back. Six were saved from the water... myself included. *Six*. Out of 1,500. Afterward, the 700 people in the boats had nothing to do but wait... wait to die... wait to live... wait for an absolution... that would never come."
— Old Rose (Gloria Stuart), Titanic (1997)



The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
Hilaire Belloc



MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE
20TH CENTURY
1964

1963 and 1964
  • China Explodes A Bomb
  • Tanganyika and Zanzibar Merge
  • Tonkin Gulf Resolution
  • Beatles in America
  • Civil Right Act of 1964
  • Warren Commission
  • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Receives Nobel Prize
  • Presidential Election
  • Reports on Smoking
  • IBM- System 360
  • Verrazano Bridge
    • HISTORY CENTRAL


    Principles are meaningless if abandoned when inconvenient. - Matt Rogers
    Matt Rogers



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
    Abraham Lincoln had a substitute fight for him during the Civil War. Not a paid substitute as some might think. When J. Summerfield Staples, the son of an army chaplain, heard that Lincoln felt that the president should be fighting in the war (but couldn't because of all his duties), Staples volunteered to fight as a substitute. Both he and his father survived through the war, and returned home to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. If one traveled to the cemetary there, they would find a headstone that reads:
    
J. Summerfield Staples
A private of
Co. C176 Reg. P.V.
Also a member of the
2, Reg. D.C. Vol.
A substitute for
Abraham Lincoln
died
Jan. 11, 1888
Aged 43 yrs,-4 mos. & 27 days



    How can a woman in New York, without getting a divorce or becoming a widow, or otherwise legally separated, legally marry 10 men?



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    O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!



    The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use oneself.



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