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Franklin bifocals Sunday, January 26, 2014

Recife, Brazil - Jewish homes    Recife, Brazil - early synagogue
[1654 - 150 Portuguese Jewish families flee Recife, Brazil, and later establish the first Jewish community in the future USA]

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

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

Actor Charles Lane    Actor Charles Lane
[1905 - Charles Lane (Levison), actor, born in San Francisco]

Songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen    Songwriter Jimmy Van Heusen    Jimmy Van Heusen's 4 Oscars
[1913 - Jimmy Van Heusen (Edward Chester Babcock), Academy & Oscar Award-winning composer, songwriter, born in Syracuse, New York]

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

Actor William Redfield
[1927 - William Redfield, actor, born in New York City]

Director Roger Vadim    Actor Roger Vadim    Director Roger Vadim
[1928 - Roger Vadim (Roger Vladimir Plemiannikov), screenwriter, actor, director, producer, born in Paris]

Packer Tackle Henry Jordan    Packer Tackle Henry Jordan
[1935 - Henry Jordan, Pro Football Hall of Fame Green Bay Packer Defensive Tackle, born in Emporia, Virginia]

Film Critic Gene Siskel    Film Critic Gene Siskel
[1946 - Gene (Eugene Kal) Siskel, movie critic, born in Chicago]

Gandhi with Nehru    Republic of India flag
[1950 - The Indian constitution takes effect; The Republic of India becomes the most populous democracy in world]

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

Super Bowl XXXI - Reggie White & Mike Holmgren    Super Bowl XXXI ring
[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!"

QUATRAIN XXIV
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam


William's Whimsical Words:

Omar was wise.

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