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Ben Franklin's bifocals Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Writer James Fenimore Cooper
[1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, novelist, born in Burlington, New Jersey]

President & Chief Justice William Howard Taft     27th President William H. Taft
[1857 - William Howard Taft, 27th President, Supreme Court Chief Justice,
born in Cincinnati, Ohio]

Humorist & Writer Robert Benchley
[1889 - Robert Benchley, humorist, author, born in Worcester, Massachusetts]

Mystery Writer Agatha Christie
[1890 - Agatha (Marie Clarissa) Christie (Miller),
writer, born in Torquay, Devon, England]

King of Country Music Roy Acuff
[1903 - Roy Claxton Acuff, Country Music great, born in Maynardville, Tennessee]

Actress Penny Singleton
[1908 - Penny Singleton (Dorothy McNulty),
actress, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

Comedian Nipsey Russell
[1924 - (Julius) Nipsey Russell, comedian,
actor, born in Atlanta, Georgia]

Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann
[1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel physicist, born in New York City]

swastika
[1935 - Nuremberg Laws are enacted in Nazi Germany]

Inchon landings
[1950 - U.N. forces make amphibious landings at Inchon, South Korea]

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama
[1963 - Four Black children are killed by a KKK bomb at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church,
Birmingham, Alabama, during Sunday services]


Endangered Species

It's true; it's true.
It's never been truer.
There are those who talk,
And then there's the Doer.


William's Whimsical Words:

It may only take one to get it done

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