Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Yom Ha-Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day)
[753 B.C. - Traditional date for founding of Rome by Romulus and Remus]
[1816 - Charlotte Bronte, writer, born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England]
[1838 - John Muir, naturalist, Sierra Club founder, born in Dunbar, Scotland]
[1905 - Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown, Sr., California
Governor, born in San Francisco]
[1915 - Anthony Quinn, Academy Award-winning actor, born in Chihuahua, Mexico]
[1918 - Manfred von Richthofen,"The Red Baron," killed in action by Allied fire]
[1946 - John Maynard Keynes, economist, dies]
Popeye, The Sailor Man
A clever fellow encountered once,
Had a card that marked him no dunce.
On it was a picture of an ugly sailor.
With forearms that would daunt a tailor.
He urged us eat spinach with our ham.
The message said, "I yam what I yam!"
William's Whimsical Words:
and, that's all that I yam.
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