February 2, 2008


The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
~Charles DeLint



"Eight words back in '72. 'I covered up. I was wrong. I'm sorry'. The American public would have forgiven him. But we never opened our mouths, John. We failed him."
— H. R. Haldeman (James Woods)
"Dick Nixon apologize? That will be the day. Most of his armor would fall off."
— John Ehrlichman (J.T. Walsh), Nixon (1995)



Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore



MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE
20TH CENTURY
1969

1969
  • Juan Carlos Succeeds
  • Non-Proliferation Agreement
  • Violence in Northern Ireland
  • The Return of Okinawa
  • Clashes on Soviet Chinese Border
  • War of Attrition
  • Woodstock
  • War Between Honduras and El Salvador
  • Apollo 11
  • First 747 Flight
  • Concorde Airborne
    • HISTORY CENTRAL


    Some things have to be believed to be seen
    Ralph Hodgson



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
  • Wilson couldn't read until he was 9 years old.
  • Wilson was the second president to personally address Congress. (the first being Washington)
  • In 1895 he suffered a retinal hemorrhage which left him blind in his right eye.
  • Wilson is the only president buried in Washington D.C. (Taft and Kennedy are buried in Arlington, but it's in Virginia.)



    • How high would you have to count before you would use the letter A in the English language spelling of a whole number.



    One more drink and I'll be under the host.



    O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!



    Who wrote "The Pied Piper Of Hamelin."



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