Saturday, January 28, 2017        Lunar New Year

      
[1857 - William Seward Burroughs, inventor, born in Rochester, New York]

           
[1887 - Artur Rubinstein, pianist, born in Lodz, Poland]

[1904 - University of Chicago awards first college sports letters (on blankets)
to seniors on its football team]

   
[1906 - Robert Alton (Hart), choreographer, born in Bennington, Vermont]

   
[1910 - Arnold Moss, actor, born in Brooklyn]

          
[1912 - Jackson Pollock, abstract painter, born in Cody, Wyoming]

[1986 - Space shuttle Challenger explodes soon after launch, killing seven astronauts]

A Schism With Isms

Beware a belief that ends with an ism.
It has lived too long.
Orthodoxy's arisen.

William's Whimsical Words:

Does that admonition include skepticism?

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