Poor William's Almanack, January 27, 2005, Charming Colin

January 27, 2005

[1756 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, born in Austria]

[1832 - Lewis Carroll, mathematician, writer, born at Daresbury in Cheshire, England]

[1872 - Judge Learned Hand, famous jurist, born in Albany, New York]

[1900 - Admiral Hyman Rickover, Father of the Nuclear Navy, born in Poland]

Lawrence Durrell, writer of Justine Lawrence Durrell, writer of Clea
[1912 - Lawrence Durrell, writer, born in Darjeeling, India]

Auschwitz - main gate Auschwitz - Jews arriving in trains
Auschwitz - gas chamber
Auschwitz - naked men Auschwitz - corpses
[1945 - Soviets liberate Auschwitz]

Charming Colin
(Sung to the tune of Billy Boy)

Colin Powell General Colin Powell - Bush the First

O, why have you gone Colin Powell, Colin Powell?
O, why did you go charming Colin?
You stuck around so long, and sang the party song.
He's an Old Soldier who now doth leave his Georgie.

Colin Powell - George W. Bush

William's Whimsical Words:

The purge is complete.

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