Monday, July 18, 2016

      
[1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray, author, born in Calcutta, India]

      
[1903 - Chill Wills, actor, singer, born in Seagoville, Texas]

          
[1906 - Clifford Odets, playwright, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

      
[1910 - Lou Busch (Louis Ferdinand Bush) (aka Joe 'Fingers' Carr), pianist, arranger, composer, born in Louisville, Kentucky]

             
[1911 - Hume Cronyn (Blake), Emmy Award-winning actor, born in London, Ontario, Canada]

          
[1913 - Red (Richard Bernard) Skelton, Emmy Award-winning comedian, born in Vincennes, Indiana]

   
[1914 - Joe Hill is sentenced to death in Utah (later executed by firing squad)]

             
[1918 - Nelson Mandela, Nobel Peace prize-winning South African President, born in Mvezo, Cape Province, South Africa]

[1918 - The WW-1 Battle of Aisne-Marne begins]

[The Aisne-Marne Cemetery & Memorial]

   
[1929 - Screamin' Jay (Jalacy) Hawkins, singer, pianist, born in Cleveland, Ohio]

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[1937 - Hunter S. (Stockton) Thompson, journalist, author, born in Louisville, Kentucky]

Be Present

Writers must live in the present because they know that something that is just about to happen may needs end up on the page that they may write.

[The Aisne-Marne Chateau-Thierry Memorial at night]

William's Whimsical Words:

Writers live in the present and soldiers die in it.

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