Thursday, March 26, 2009

[1773 - Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer, navigator,
author, born in Salem, Massachusetts]

[1850 - Edward Bellamy, author, born in
Chicoppee Falls, Massachusetts]

[1859 - A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman, poet,
born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England]

[1874 - Conde Nast, publisher, born in New York City]

  
[1874 - Robert Frost, four-time Pulitzer prize-winning poet, born in San Francisco]

[1880 - Duncan Hines, author, traveler, food rater,
born in Bowling Green, Kentucky]

   
[1911 - Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright,
born in Columbus, Mississippi]

[1916 - Sterling Hayden (Sterling Relyea Walter), actor,
born in Upper Montclair, New Jersey]

Martyrdom

A funeral is a ceremony wherein the living bury the dead. Martyrdom is a status that permits the dead to bury the living.

William's Whimsical Words:

Martyrdom is a mantle that looks becoming only on saviors and saints.

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