Saturday, April 26, 2008

[1785 - John James Audubon, ornithologist, artist, born in Les Cayes, Haiti]

[1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, born in Hartford, Connecticut]

[1886 - Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey (Gertrude Malissa Nix Pridgett), blues singer, born in Columbus, Georgia]

[1893 - Anita Loos, novelist and screenwriter, born in Mt. Shasta, California]

[1900 - Charles Francis Richter, seismologist, born near Hamilton, Ohio]

[1952 - USS Hobson sinks after colliding with USS Wasp; 176 lives lost]

[1986 - Accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station in Soviet Union]

[1986 - Accident at Chernobyl nuclear power station in Soviet Union. 32 die, dozens more suffer radiation burns]

Humility

In youth we are often arrogant and proud, thinking that this becomes us. It need not. In later years we can enjoy a well-deserved and honestly earned humility.

He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened.

William's Whimsical Words:

We are still waiting for the meek to inherit the Earth.

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