Thursday, November 26, 2009 Thanksgiving Day

[Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1721]

[1832 - Mary Edwards Walker, U.S. Army surgeon,
women's rights leader, born in Oswego, New York]

[1883 - Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree),
abolitionist, women's rights advocate,
dies in Battle Creek, Michigan]

[1909 - Eugene Ionesco, playwright,
actor, born in Slatina, Romania]

[1910 - Cyril Cusack, actor, born in
Durban, Natal, South Africa]

[1912 - (Arnold) Eric Sevareid, Emmy-winning
news commentator, born in Velva, North Dakota]

[1922 - King Tutankhamen's tomb is discovered by Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter]

[1922 - Charles Monroe Schulz, cartoonist, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota]

[1933 - Robert Goulet (Stanley Applebaum), singer,
actor, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts]

Thanks Given

On this day I give thanks that I live on in reasonable comfort, that most of my family is in good health and thriving, and that my country and many of its citizens have awakened to the reality that two of the three branches of our government are in the hands of those who care not one whit for us, and couldn't get it right even if they did.

William's Whimsical Words:

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

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