Tuesday, March 2, 2010

[1793 - Sam[uel] Houston, 1st president of Texas,
born near Lexington, Virginia]

[1807 - Congress abolishes the African slave trade]

[1836 - American Texans meet at Washington-on-the-Brazos
to declare independence from Mexico]

[1899 - Legislation creating Mount Rainier National Park is signed]

[1904 - Theodor Geisel(Dr. Seuss), author, born in Springfield, Massachusetts]

   
[1909 - Mel (Melvin Thomas) Ott, Baseball Hall of Famer, born in Gretna, Louisiana]

[1914 - Martin Ritt, director, born in New York City]

   
[1917 - Desi Arnaz (Desiderio Alberto Arnez y De Acha III), producer, bandleader, born in Santiago de Cuba]

   
[1919 - Jennifer Jones (Phyllis Isley), Academy Award-winning actress, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma]

[1934 - Doug Watkins, jazz bassist, born in Detroit]

   
[1950 - Karen Carpenter, singer, born in New Haven, Connecticut]

Free Will

If you believe in God than you also believe that the Creator endowed us with free will. Now there are billions of us wandering about on the face of this planet, each of whom has the stuff of free will inside.

Not one of us really knows how to use it.

William's Whimsical Words:

Somewhere in this universe, or in another, or in the places in the Cosmos between universes, God must be laughing.

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