Friday, August 17, 2012

[1786 - Davy Crockett, frontiersman, politician, born
near Limestone, Tennessee]

   
[1879 - Samuel Goldwyn (Schmuel Gelbfisz), movie pioneer, producer, born in Warsaw, Poland]

   
[1888 - Monty (Edgar Montillion) Woolley, actor, born in New York City]

      
[1892 - Mae West, Actress, Film Star, born in Brooklyn]

[1917 - Isabel (Eloise Gwendolyn) Sanford, Emmy
Award-winning actress, born in New York City]

   
[1923 - Larry Rivers (Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg), artist, born in The Bronx, New York]

[1933 - Glenn Corbett (Rothenburg), actor, born
in El Monte, California]

       
[1987 - Rudolph Hess, Nazi war criminal, dies at age 93 in Spandau Prison]

So Little Time

The nanosecond is so very small.
If you stop to think of it,
You won't see it at all.

But nanosecond has shorter cousins.
To make just a single nano,
Takes picos by the dozens.

If picoseconds aren't brief enough,
To satisfy your short timing span.
Squeekosecond; it's over before it began.

William's Whimsical Words:

If time is money, and money is the root of all evil; is time evil?

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