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Ben Franklin's bifocals Sunday, August 4, 2013

US Revenue Cutter Massachusetts under sail
[1790 - The U.S. Coast Guard is created]

Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley    Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley
[1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, lyric poet, born at Field Place, near Horsham, Sussex, England]

Fleet Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
[1884 - Isoroku Yamamoto, Fleet Admiral,
born in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan]

Trumpeter Louis Armstrong    Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong    Jazz Great Louis Armstrong    Jazz Great Louis Armstrong
[1901 - (Daniel) Louis Armstrong, jazz trumpeter, singer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana]

Miler Glenn Cunningham
[1909 - Glenn Cunningham, Track & Field
Hall of Famer, born in Elkhart, Kansas]

Diplomat Raoul Wallenberg    Humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg    Humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg
[1912 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat, humanitarian, angel, born in Stockholm, Sweden]

Maurice 'Rocket' Richard    Hockey Great Maurice Richard
[1921 - Maurice 'Rocket' Richard, Hockey Hall of Famer, born in Verdun, Quebec, Canada]

Race Car Driver Juan Manuel Fangio    Juan Manuel Fangio in the German Grand Prix of 1957    World Champion Driver Juan Manuel Fangio
[1957 - Juan Manuel Fangio wins his last auto race, captures world Formula I driving championship for fifth consecutive year]

Painting of Tonkin Gulf incident and USS Maddox
[1964 - USS Turner Joy and USS Maddox report a second attack by North Vietnamese PT boats in The Tonkin Gulf]


Praiseworthy

Hasten not now to ascribe
Virtue to self while still alive.
Seek no praise, honest nor faint.
When you pass on you'll be a saint.


William's Whimsical Words:

Faint praise is surely damning.
So are effusiveness and fawning.

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