Monday, January 26, 2009

[1654 - 150 Portuguese Jewish families flee Recife, Brazil, later
establish first Jewish community in future USA]

[1837 - Michigan enters the Union as twenty-sixth state]

[1880 - Douglas MacArthur, General, USA, born in Little Rock, Arkansas]

[1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen (Edward Chester Babcock), Academy
Award-winning composer, born in Syracuse, New York]

[1925 - Paul (Leonard) Newman, Academy Award-winning actor,
born in Shaker Heights, Ohio]

[1928 - Roger Vadim (Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov), director, born in Paris]

[1935 - Henry Jordan, Pro Football Hall of Famer, born in Emporia, Virginia]

[1950 - Indian constitution takes effect; Republic of India is most populous democracy in world]

[1986 - Super Bowl XX: Chicago Bears 46, New England Patriots 10]

[1997 - Super Bowl XXXI: Green Bay Packers 35, New England Patriots 21]

Freedom from Want

A thousand wants,
A hundred needs,
In the end,
Want nothing,
Need no one.
No woman, no man,
No thing.
Free, at last.

Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,
And those that after a TO-MORROW stare,
A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries,
"Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There!"