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Pocahontas
[1614 - Pocahontas, daughter of chief of Powhatan Indians, marries
English tobacco planter John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia]

Booker T. Washington Portrait    Educator Booker T. Washington
[1856 - Booker T. Washington, educator, leader, author, born in Hale's Ford, Virginia]

Seedman W. Atlee Burpee
[1858 - Washington Atlee Burpee, botanist,
born in Sheffield, New Brunswick]

Actor Spencer Tracy    Spencer Tracy as the old man
[1900 - Spencer (Bonaventure) Tracy, Academy Award-winning actor, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin]

Actor Melvyn Douglas   Actor Melvyn Douglas
[1901 - Melvyn Douglas (Melvyn Edouard Hesselberg), Tony, Emmy and Academy Award-winning
actor, born in Macon, Georgia]

Actress Bette Davis    Actress Bette Davis
[1908 - Bette (Ruth Elizabeth) Davis, Academy and Emmy Award-winning actress, born
in Lowell, Massachusetts]

Producer Albert R. Broccoli
[1909 - Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli, film producer, born in New York City]

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird
[1916 - (Eldred) Gregory Peck, Academy Award-winning
actor, born in La Jolla, California]

Astronaut Judith Resnik
[1949 - Dr. Judith A. Resnik, electrical engineer,
astronaut, born in Akron, Ohio]

Billionaire Aviator Howard Hughes    Aviator Howard Hughes by his plane
[1976 - Howard Hughes, billionaire, aviator, dies]


Being a Skeptic

Being a skeptic means one reserves the right to question and reject any assertion, no matter the source. It also means not becoming so wedded to any belief that one loses the ability to revise or discard it in the face of new evidence or changed conditions.


There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche


William's Whimsical Words:

It is ever so more convenient to simply accept a belief system based on faith, and never question it.

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