Monday, March 10, 2008
[1876 - Alexander Graham Bell's first successful experiment with the telephone]
[1888 - Barry Fitzgerald (William Joseph Shields), Academy Award-winning actor, born in Dublin, Ireland]
[1903 - Bix Beiderbecke, jazz cornet player, born in Davenport, Iowa]
[1945 - Firebombing of Tokyo, U.S. warplanes drop 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Tokyo,
16 square miles incinerated, and 80,000 to 130,000 Japanese civilians killed]
[1970 - US Army captain charged with My Lai, Vietnam, war crimes]
Winning The Peace
Perhaps the current leadership could learn from the Carthaginian Barca,
who is quoted in Livy's History at XXII, 51, as follows:
"You know how to win a victory, Hannibal, but not how to use it."
William's Whimsical Words:
There be not many Carthaginians about these days.
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