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Monday, May 16, 2005

Voltaire
[1717 - Voltaire imprisoned in Bastille]

Steamboat loaded with cotton captain searching
Steamboat Pilot at the wheel Steamboat Natchez on the big river
[1817 - Steamboat service begins on Mississippi River]

Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond Henry Fonda Western
[1905 - Henry Fonda, Academy Award-winning actor, born in Grand Island, Nebraska]

Billy Martin Portrait Real Billy Martin
[1928 - Billy Martin, baseball player, manager, born in Berkeley, California]

[1929 - First Academy Awards presented]

[1946 - Irving Berlin musical, Annie Get Your Gun, opens on Broadway at Imperial Theatre, runs for 1,147 performances]

Donald E. Ballard Navy Medal of Honor [1968 - Donald E. Ballard, Navy Corpsman, receives Medal of Honor for action in Quang Tri Province, with 3rd Marine Division unit]

Is There No End to these Nursery Rhymes?

Ickory Stickory Slop

mouse-ran-up-clock
Hickory, dickory, dock!
The troops went to Iraq.
The clock struck one, and two, and three,
And still the country wasn't free,
Stickory, Trickery, Flop!

grandfather clock

William's Whimsical Words:

At least no one was trying to blow up the mouse.

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