Monday, March 26, 2007
[1773 - Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer, navigator, author, born in Salem, Massachusetts]
[1859 - A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman, poet, born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England]
[1874 - Conde Nast, publisher, born in New York City]
[1874 - Robert Frost, four-time Pulitzer prize-winning poet, born in San Francisco]
[1911 - Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, born in Columbus, Mississippi]
Martyrdom
A funeral is a ceremony wherein the living bury the dead. Martyrdom is a status that permits the dead to bury the living.
William's Whimsical Words:
Martyrdom is a mantle that looks becoming only on saviors and saints.
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