Tuesday, February 28, 2012
[1797 - Mary Lyon, educator, born in Buckland, Massachusetts]
[1824 - Charles Blondin (Jean Francois Gravelet), acrobat, aerialist born in St Omer, France]
[1827 - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is chartered for commercial transportation.]
[1890 - Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer, born in Kiev, Ukraine]
[1893 - Launching of USS Indiana (BB-1), the first true modern battleship in the U.S. Navy]
[1894 - Ben Hecht, screenwriter, author, born in New York City]
[1901 - Linus Pauling, Nobel peace prize 1962, Nobel prize in chemistry 1954, born in Portland, Oregon]
[1903 - Vincente (Lester Anthony) Minnelli, Academy Award-winning director, born in Chicago]
[1915 - Zero (Samuel Joel) Mostel, actor, born in Brooklyn]
[1945 - Charles Aaron 'Bubba' Smith, pro football player, actor, born in Orange, Texas]
[1953 - Jim Thorpe, athlete (Olympic
gold 1912), dies at age 64]
[1993 - ATF raids Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and is repulsed]
Who among us needs not an Antidote
To the Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda Things
That come in uninvited, and go
Bump in the Night of our Minds?
William's Whimsical Words:
Who among ye has not spent a lifetime preparing to be precisely the persons that ye are today?
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