January 31, 2008


Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
Henry ford



"Child, you're out of your mind. You know you can't wear red to the Olympus Ball."
— Aunt Belle (Fay Bainter)
"Can't I? I'm goin' to. This is 1852, dumplin'. 1852, not the Dark Ages."
— Julie Marsden (Bette Davis), Jezebel (1938)



If cats could talk, they wouldn't.
--Nan Porter



MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE
20TH CENTURY
1967

1967 and 1968
  • Military Coup in Greece
  • Six Day War
  • Johnson meets Kosygin
  • Che Guevera Killed
  • Heart Care improves
  • HISTORY CENTRAL


    The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.
    Richard Bandler



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
  • Abe Lincoln is the U.S. president most frequently portrayed in films.
  • Lincoln was named for his grandfather.
  • Lincoln and his wife held seances in the White House. They had great interest in psychic phenomena.
  • Lincoln loved the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
  • Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be born outside of the original thirteen colonies. He was born in Kentucky.



  • Here is one with whiskers:
    How far can a dog run into the woods?



    "Is forbidden to steal towels please. If you are not a person to do such thing is please not to read notis." -- A sign in a Tokyo hotel.



    O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.



    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence
    Two roads diverged in a wood
    And I took the one less traveled by
    And that has made all the difference



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