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Ben Franklin's bifocals Saturday, July 10, 2010

Visionary Nicola Tesla
[1856 - Nicola Tesla, scientist, inventor, born in Smiljan, Croatia]

Painter James McNeill Whistler   Whistler's The White Girl
[1834 - James (Abbott McNeill) Whistler, artist, born in Lowell, Massachusetts]

Brewer Adolphus Busch
[1839 - Adolphus Busch, brewer, born in Kastel,
Hesse, Germany]

Writer Marcel Proust   Marcel Proust    Writer Marcel Proust in 1896
[1871 - Marcel Proust, author, critic, essayist, born in Auteuil, France]

Lyricist Mitchell Parish
[1900 - Mitchell Parish, songwriter, lyricist, born in Shreveport,
Louisiana]

Sci-fi Writer John Wyndham
[1903 - John Wyndham (John Wyndham
Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris),Sci-Fi author,
born in Knowle, Warwickshire, England]

Comic Book Artist Joe Shuster   Joe Shuster, co-creator of Superman
[1914 - Joe Shuster, comic book artist, born in Toronto, Canada]

Writer Saul Bellow    Writer Saul Bellow
[1915 - Saul Bellow, Nobel & Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, born in Lachine, Quebec]

Mr Wizzard Don Herbert    Teacher Don Herbert
[1917 - Don Herbert (Donald Jeffrey Herbert Kemske), science teacher, actor, born in Waconia, Minnesota]

News Anchor David Brinkley
[1920 - David Brinkley, TV journalist, born in
Wilmington, North Carolina]

Jean Kerr   Writer Jean Kerr - Please Don't Eat the Daisies
[1923 - Jean Kerr (Collins), author, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania]

Clarence Darrow for the defense in the Scopes Trial
[1925 - Trial begins in Dayton, Tennessee, of John Scopes, high school science teacher, accused of
teaching evolution in violation of Tennessee state law]

Actor Nick Adams
[1931 - Nick Adams, actor, born in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania]

Arthur Ashe    Tennis Hall of Famer Arthur Ashe
[1943 - Arthur Ashe, Tennis Hall of Famer, born in Richmond, Virginia]

Rainbow Warrior Greenpeace Vessel
[1987 - French agents sink Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbor killing Fernando Pereira]


Stray Cat

He was found with his brother under a bush
Ran up a tree and refused to come down.
The neighborhood rescue squad was called.
When they caught him they were all appalled.

Smelling of gasoline, with every rib showing,
This bedraggled kitten was hardly a prize.
Too frightened to purr when held or petted.
He hid in dark places showing only cat eyes.

startled cat saying yikes!


William's Whimsical Words:

Still does sometimes.

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