Poor William's Almanack, February 9, 2009, No Time

Ben Franklin's bifocals Monday, February 9, 2009

Ninth President William Harrison
[1773 - William Henry Harrison, 9th U.S. President, born in Charles City County, Virginia]

USS Constellation vs. l'Insurgente
[1799 - USS Constellation (Captain Truxtun commanding) captures French l'Insurgente]

[1866 - George Ade, humorist, journalist,
playwright, born in Kentland, Indiana]

United States Weather Bureau original building
[1870 - United States Weather Bureau is authorized by Congress]

[1874 - Amy Lowell, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, born in Boston]

[1891 - Ronald (Charles) Colman, Academy Award-winning
actor, born in Richmond, Surrey, England]

[1901 - (Waldo) Brian Donlevy, actor, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland]

President Kennedy and Secretary Rusk
[1909 - Dean Rusk, Secretary of State, born in Cherokee County, Georgia]

The Indianapolis Speedway Brickyard in 1911
[1909 - Brickyard Founded; Indianapolis Motor Speedway incorporated by Carl G. Fisher]

Hall of Fame Owner Bill Veeck's Placque
[1914 - Bill (William Louis) Veeck, Jr., Baseball Hall of Famer, born in Chicago]

[1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee, actress, dancer, stripper, born in Seattle, Washington]

[1923 - Brendan Behan, dramatist, born in Dublin]

[1950 - Senator Joseph McCarthy claims communists infiltrated US State Department]

No Time hourglass running

time fast moving
Why is it that we never seem to have the time to do it right,
But we always have the time to do it over?

hourglass sand pouring

William's Whimsical Words:

No time like the present, and no present so great a gift as time.

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