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Ben Franklin's bifocals Friday, June 26, 2009

General Abner Doubleday
[1819 - Abner Doubleday, Major General, USA,
born in Ballston Spa, New York]

atlantic-city-boardwalk
[1870 - Atlantic City Boardwalk opens]

Playwright Sidney Coe Howard
[1891 - Sidney Coe Howard, playwright,
screenwriter born in Oakland, California]

Nobel & Pulitzer Prize-winning Novelist Pearl S. Buck
[1892 - Pearl Buck, Nobel & Pulitzer Prize-
winning author, born in Hillsboro, West Virginia]

Blues Musician Big Bill Broonzy
[1893 - Big Bill Broonzy, blues singer, guitarist,
born in Scott County, Mississippi]

Actor Peter Lorre
[1904 - Peter Lorre (Laszlo Lowenstein), actor, born in Rozsahegy, Hungary]

Le-Mans Grand Prix - 1906 - pit stop
[1906 - French Grand Prix, first such race anywhere, staged at Le Mans]

Babe (Mildred) Didrikson Zaharias     Athlete Mildred Didrikson Zaharias
[1914 - Babe (Mildred) Didrikson Zaharias, Olympic HoF athlete, golf pro, born in Port Arthur, Texas]

Commentator Alex Dreier
[1916 - Alex Dreier, reporter, newscaster,
actor, born in Honolulu, Hawaii]

Belleau Wood - Marines with machinegun
[1918 - US Marine brigade captures Belleau Wood]

Egypt signing United Nations Charter
[1945 - Fifty nations come to San Francisco for signing of United Nations Charter]

USA signing United Nations Charter


Right to Vote

You are Right to Vote.
Not because it is Duty.
It's a Covenant.


William's Whimsical Words:

One that must be regularly refreshed.

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