Monday, March 5, 2012
[1770 - British sentries at the Boston Customs House shoot into a rioting crowd, killing five civilians]
[1770 - An African-American sailor in the crowd, Crispus Attucks, was the first to fall dead]
[1859 - Sholem Aleichem (Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich), author, playwright, born in Pereyaslav (near Kiev), Russian Empire]
[1908 - Rex (Reginald Carey) Harrison, Academy Award-winning actor, born in Huyton,
Lancashire, England]
[1927 - Jack (John Joseph Edward) Cassidy, actor, born in Richmond Hill, New York]
[1946 - Winston Churchill delivers 'Iron Curtain' speech
at Fulton, Missouri]
[1958 - Andy (Andrew Roy) Gibb, singer, born in Manchester, England]
A wise and dear mentor, the Roshi Hogen, once sent william his favorite poem:
The Waves of the Setsu River
Mount Ro and the misty rains
and the waves of the River Setsu;
Before I had been there, my thousand
longings never ceased.
Then I went -- and came back;
Nothing Special.
Mount Ro and the misty rains
and the waves of the River Setsu.
11th Century Poet
William's Whimsical Words:
I have not been to Mount Ro,
But I have felt its misty rains on my cheek.
I have not visited the River Setsu,
But, thanks to you, I have heard the rippling of its waves.
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