Wednesday, August 29, 2007
[1885 - First motorcycle, made by Gottlieb Daimler, is patented]
[1809 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, physician, author, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts]
[1915 - Ingrid Bergman, Academy Award & Emmy-winning actress, born in Stockholm, Sweden]
[1920 - Charlie (Charles) Parker Jr., jazz musician, born in Kansas City, Kansas]
[1924 - Dinah Washington (Ruth Lee Jones), singer, born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama]
[1949 - USSR detonates its first atomic bomb]
[2005 - Hurricane Katrina makes landfall near New Orleans, as predicted five days previously by the US Weather Service]
Un-civil Disobedience
University of Chicago in the Fifties,
Cal-Berkeley in the Sixties,
Kent State for the ages, all
Earthquake epicenters of student dissent.
Can someone tell us where the spirit went?
Once, tectonic plates of youthful rebellion,
Ground together on plains of public opinion,
Met glacial movements of established order.
Casting up mountain ranges of aspiration,
Reaching for peaks of hope that never came.
William's Whimsical Words:
Time to open another bottle of this stuff?
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