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Ben Franklin's bifocals Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Writer Voltaire
[1717 - Voltaire is imprisoned in the Bastille]

Mississippi Steamboat loaded with cotton

Captain searching the Mississippi Mississippi Steamboat Pilot at the wheel
[1817 - Steamboat service begins on Mississippi River]

Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond  Henry Fonda in a 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]

Navy Corpsman 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 running up the 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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