Poor William's Almanack, April 15, 2009, No Suffering

franklin-bifocals-60 Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Artist & Inventor Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci's La Gioconda (Mona Lisa)
[1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, artist, painter, inventor, born in Tuscan town of Vinci]

[1741 - Charles Willson Peale, portrait painter,
born in Chester, Queen Anne's County, Maryland]

[1783 - Continental Congress ratifies articles of peace ending Revolutionary War with Britain]

[1843 - Henry James, author, born in New York City]

Painter Thomas Hart Benton - Cut the Line
[1889 - Thomas Hart Benton, artist, born in Neosho, Missouri]

Blues Singer Bessie Smith
[1894 - Bessie Smith, blues singer, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee]

[1912 - British ocean liner Titanic sinks into North Atlantic]

[1917 - Hans Conried, actor, born in Baltimore, Maryland]

[1922 - Harold Lee Washington, Chicago mayor, born in Chicago]

[1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress, born in New York City]

Original McDonald's
[1955 - Ray Kroc opens first McDonald's in Des Plaines, Illinois]

USS Bainbridge (CGN-25) in Suez Canal
[1961 - Launching of first nuclear-powered frigate, USS Bainbridge(DLGN-25)]
n.b. This is not the Destroyer Bainbridge that was involved in the recent dust-up off the horn of Africa.
(US Navy-4, Pirates-0).

No Suffering

Suffer not fools gladly.
Suffer not scoundrels at all.

William's Whimsical Words:

Suffer not.

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