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franklin-bifocals-60 Friday, April 1, 2011

[All Fools Day] Jester with puppet mask - Which one are you?

Poet & Playwright Edmond Rostand    Rostand's Classic - Cyrano de Bergerac
[1868 - Edmond Rostand, poet, playwright, born in Marseilles, France]

Composer Sergei Rachmaninov    Composer Sergei Rachmaninov    Composer Sergei Rachmaninov
[1873 - Sergei Rachmaninov, composer, born in Novgorod Province, Russia]

Actor Lon Chaney, Sr.    Actor Lon Chaney, Sr.
[1883 - Lon (Leonidas Frank) Chaney, actor, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado]

Actor Wallace Beery    Actor Wallace Beery
[1885 - Wallace Fitzgerald Beery, Academy Award-winning actor, born in
Kansas City, Missouri]

Actor Ned Glass    Actor Ned Glass
[1906 - Ned Glass, actor, born in Poland]

Psychologist Abraham Maslow    Maslow's famous needs hierarchy
[1908 - Abraham H. Maslow, psychologist, born in Brooklyn, New York]

Actor Toshiro Mifune    Actor Toshiro Mifune
[1920 - Toshiro Mifune, actor, born in Tsingtao (now Qingdao), China]

Writer William Manchester   Writer William Manchester
[1922 - William Raymond Manchester, writer, born in Springfield, Massachusetts]

George Grizzard    Tony-winning Actor George Grizzard
[1928 - George Cooper Grizzard, Jr., Tony Award-winning actor, born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina]

Drummer Jeff Porcaro    Drummer Jeff Porcaro
[1954 - Jeffrey Thomas 'Jeff' Porcaro, musician, born in Hartford, Connecticut]

[2002 - Senate ratifies Kyoto Treaty - President Bush pledges USA will take lead in reducing greenhouse gasses]


Is There A Supreme Being?

Hubble Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC3370

Hubble Image of 2004 Light Echo from V838

One has only to look at the amazing color pictures of our universe taken through the eye of the Hubble to know that no human being could have ever conceived this, let alone have built it. Of course, that doesn't answer the question.

Hubble Image of Deep Space


William's Whimsical Words:

The answer to the question is, of course, 42.

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