Thursday, June 25, 2009

  
[1788 - Virginia enters the United States of America as tenth state]

[1798 - Alien Act, allowing president to deport dangerous aliens, is passed by US Congress]

[1874 - Rose O'Neill, illustrator, author, doll
designer, born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania]

[1876 - George Armstrong Custer and 265 men of
his 7th Cavalry command die at Little Big Horn]

[1886 - Henry 'Hap' Arnold, General Army
Air Force, born in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania]

[1887 - George Francis Abbott, Tony & Pulitzer award-winning
producer, director, writer, born in Forestville, New York]

[1893 - Charlotte Greenwood, actress, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

   
[1903 - George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), author, born in Motihari, Bengal, India]

[1903 - Anne Revere, Tony & Academy Award-
winning actress, born in New York City]

[1915 - Peter Lind Hayes (Joseph Conrad Lind), actor,
born in San Francisco]

[1950 - North Korea invades South Korea]

[1973 - John Dean begins testimony
before Senate Watergate Committee]

The Hereafter

The Hereafter is not a necessary component of one's belief system.
The Here is.

William's Whimsical Words:

Too great a reliance on a belief in an afterlife lies at the root of countless evils.

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