Poor William's Almanack, March 26, 2008, Martyrdom

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[1773 - Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer, navigator, author, born in Salem, Massachusetts]

Poet A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman
[1859 - A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman, poet, born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England]

Conde Nast house
[1874 - Conde Nast, publisher, born in New York City]

[1874 - Robert Frost, four-time Pulitzer prize-winning poet, born in San Francisco]

Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
[1911 - Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, born in Columbus, Mississippi]

[1916 - Sterling Hayden (Sterling Relyea Walter), actor, born in Upper Montclair, New Jersey]

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.

Martyrdom of St. Agnes

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