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franklin-bifocals-60 Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Spring - umbrella opening    The Vernal Equinox    Spring - bees in apple blossoms


Artist George Caleb Bingham    Artist George Caleb Bingham
[1811 - George Caleb Bingham, artist, born in August County, Virginia]

Playwright Henrik Ibsen    Playwright Henrik Ibsen
[1828 - Henrik Ibsen, playwright, born in Skien, Norway]

Writer Harriet Beecher Stowe    Beecher Stowe - Ad For Uncle Tom's Cabin
[1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin]

Tenor Lauritz Melchior
[1890 - Lauritz (Lebrecht Hommel) Melchior,
operatic tenor, born in Copenhagen, Denmark]

Psychologist B.F. Skinner    Psychologist B.F. Skinner
[1904 - B.F. (Burrhus Frederic) Skinner, psychologist, born in Susquehanna, Pennsylvania]

CBS President Dr. Frank Stanton
[1908 - Frank Nicholas Stanton, broadcasting pioneer,
president CBS, born in Muskegon, Michigan]

Actor Michael Redgrave    Actor Sir Michael Redgrave
[1908 - Sir Michael (Scudamore) Redgrave, actor, born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England]

Actor Wendell Corey
[1914 - Wendell Reid Corey, actor,
born in Dracut, Massachusetts]

Pamela Harriman    Hostess Pamela Harriman    Ambassador Pamela Harriman
[1920 - Pamela Beryl Harriman (Digby), hostess, U.S. ambassador to France, born in Farnborough, Hampshire, England]

USS Langley (CV-1) anchored off Panama Canal in 1930
[1922 - US Navy commissions USS Langley (CV-1), its first aircraft carrier]

Comedian Ray Goulding "And now this is Ray Goulding, saying...write if you get work." Bob & Ray
[1922 - Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob and Ray), born in Lowell, Massachusetts]

Tv's Mr. Rogers    Tv's Mr. Rogers   
[1928 - Fred McFeely Rogers, children's TV show host, born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania]

Libby Riddles Iditarod Huskies pulling sled    Iditarod Champ Libby Riddles
[1985 - Libby Riddles is the first woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race]



Good Life, Good Death

If you would a goode Life lead,
And if you would a goode Death get,
Live Healthy, and without Regret.


William's Whimsical Words:

Positively Franklinesque.

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