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Thursday, March 26, 2015
![Astronomer Nathaniel Bowditch](pix/bowditch-nathaniel_memorial.jpg)
[1773 - Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer, navigator, born in Salem, Massachusetts]
![Author Edward Bellamy](pix/bellamy-edward.jpg)
[1850 - Edward Bellamy, author, born in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts]
![Poet A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman](pix/housman-a-e2.jpg)
[1859 - A.E. (Alfred Edward) Housman, poet, born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, England]
![Publisher Conde Montrose Nast](pix/nast-conde2.jpg)
[1874 - Conde Montrose Nast, publisher, born in New York City]
![The Face of Poet Robert Frost](pix/frost-robert-face.jpg)
[1874 - Robert Frost, four-time Pulitzer prize-winning poet, born in San Francisco]
![Author Duncan Hines](pix/hines-duncan3.jpg)
[1880 - Duncan Hines, author, traveler, food rater, born in Bowling Green, Kentucky]
![Playwright Tennessee Williams](pix/williams-tennessee.jpg)
[1911 - Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Williams, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, born in Columbus, Mississippi]
![Actor Sterling Hayden](pix/hayden-sterling3.jpg)
[1916 - Sterling Hayden (Sterling Relyea Walter), actor, born in Upper Montclair, New Jersey]
![R & B Singer Rufus Thomas](pix/thomas-rufus.jpg)
[1917 - Rufus Thomas, Jr., blues and soul singer, born in Cayce, Mississippi]
![Actor Strother Martin](pix/martin-strother.jpg)
[1919 - Strother Martin Jr., actor, born in Kokomo, Indiana]
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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