Monday, May 29, 2017
Memorial Day, Observed

Korea, June 21, 1951, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment Memorial Service in the field.
Photo Credit: USAA

Memorial Day, Observed

   
[1736 - Patrick Henry, patriot, born in Studley, Virginia]

   
[1790 - Rhode Island joins the United States of America as State Number 13]

[1848 - Wisconsin is the 30th state to be admitted to the Union]

      
[1874 - G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, writer, born in London]

   
[1880 - Oswald Spengler, historian, philosopher, born in Blankenburg
(Harz), Germany]

      
[1894 - Beatrice (Gladys) Lillie, actress, comedienne, born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada]

           
   
[1903 - Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope), comedian, entertainer, actor, born in Eltham, England]

      
[1914 - (Walter) Stacy Keach, Sr., actor, born in Chicago]

   
[1917 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th U.S. President, born in Brookline, Massachusetts]

   
[1953 - Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are the first men to reach the top of Mount Everest]

William's Third Law of Social Engineering

Every attempt to alter the human condition gives rise to an equivalent and contrary unintended consequence.

William's Whimsical Words:

and every unintended consequence is followed by a new attempt at social engineering.

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