Monday, June 21, 2010
Summer Solstice

    
[1788 - U.S. Constitution is ratified by New Hampshire, making it officially the law of the land]

[1834 - Cyrus McCormick patents his reaper]

   
[1859 - Henry Ossawa Tanner, artist, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

[1892 - Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian,
born in Wright City, Missouri]

   
[1903 - Al (Albert) Hirschfeld, caricaturist, born in St. Louis, Missouri]

   
[1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, writer, playwright, critic, born in Paris]

  
[1921 - Judy Holliday (Tuvim), actress, born in New York City]

[1925 - Maureen Stapleton, Academy, Tony, & Emmy
Award-winning actress, born in Troy, New York]

[1935 - Francoise Sagan (Quoirez), author, born in Cajarc, France]

[1945 - Enemy resistance in Okinawa ends with Japanese surrender]

[1947 - First postwar Mille Miglia begins in Brescia, Italy]

[1956 - Arthur Miller, playwright, defies House Committee on Un-American Activities,
refuses to name suspected communists]

[1964 - Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman,
CORE civil rights workers, disappear in Neshoba County, Mississippi]

Out of Your Mind

Out of Body, Out of Mind.
Look down on one and into another.
If soul and body are separate,
Genius and insanity be joined at the hip.

William's Whimsical Words:

William has never had an out of body experience, but has definitely been out of his mind on occasion.

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