Monday, August 6, 2012

      
[1809 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet laureate of England, born at Somersby, Lincolnshire, England]

       
[1881 - Sir Alexander Fleming, Nobel Prize-winner for penicillin, born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland]

   
[1881 - Leo (Leopoldo Antonio) Carrillo, actor, born in Los Angeles]

          
[1883 - Scott Nearing, radical economist, sociologist, pacifist, vegetarian, born in Morris Run, Pennsylvania]

   
[1892 - Hoot (Edmund Richard) Gibson, actor, born in Tekamah, Nebraska]

      
[1911 - Lucille Ball, comedienne, actress, born in Jamestown, New York]

   
[1917 - Robert (Charles Durman) Mitchum, actor, born in Bridgeport, Connecticut]

   
[1927 - Lois Nettleton, actress, born in Oak Park, Illinois]

   
[1928 - Andrew "Andy" Warhol (Warhola), Jr, artist, movie producer, born in Forest City, Pennsylvania]

[1945 - US drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan]

[1948 - Bob Mathias wins decathlon for USA
at London Olympics]

Truthseekers Beware

Seek not to discover that which better serves you to hold in ignorance.

William's Whimsical Words:

Many questions need not be asked, and some of those that are should not be answered.

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