Saturday, March 10, 2012
[1876 - Alexander Graham Bell's first successful experiment with the telephone]
[1888 - Barry Fitzgerald (William Joseph Shields), Academy Award-winning actor, born in Dublin]
[1903 - Bix Beiderbecke, jazz cornet player, born in Davenport, Iowa]
[1918 - Heywood Hale Broun, sportscaster,
born in New York City]
[1937 - Joe Viterelli, actor, born in the Bronx]
[1945 - Firebombing of Tokyo: U.S. warplanes drop 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo, 16 square miles are incinerated, and 80,000 to 130,000 Japanese civilians are killed]
[1970 - A US Army captain is charged with the My Lai, Vietnam, war crimes massacre]
Perhaps the USA leadership could learn something from the Carthaginian Barca,
who is quoted in Livy's History at XXII, 51, as follows:
"You know how to win a victory, Hannibal, but not how to use it."
William's Whimsical Words:
There be not many Carthaginians about these days to extoll their victories.
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