Tuesday, March 14, 2006

[1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, baroque composer, born in Magdeburg Germany]

[1743 - City of Boston conducts first town meeting in Faneuil Hall]

[1794 - Eli Whitney patents cotton gin]

[1879 - Albert Einstein, Nobel physicist, born in Ulm, Germany]

[1883 - Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64]

[1885 - Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado" premieres in London]

[1896 - Official opening of Sutro Baths at San Francisco Ocean Beach]

[1919 - Max Shulman, novelist, playwright, born in St. Paul, Minnesota]

Immortality

	  Hardly passes any day,

		That I don't recall and say,

		  	something that my Mother told me.

		 
	  Neither do I turn the page,

		  of the diary of my age,

		  	and do not what my Father showed me.

William's Whimsical Words:

Your parents and your country of origin are accidents of birth.

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