Monday, December 15, 2008
[1791 - Three-fourths of the states having ratified the ten Articles, the Bill of Rights was adopted]
[1832 - Gustave Alexandre Eiffel, engineer, designer, born in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France]
[1892 - J. (Jean) Paul Getty, oil magnate, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota]
[1904 - Kermit Bloomgarden, Tony Award-winning producer, born in Brooklyn]
[1918 - Jeff Chandler (Ira Grossel), actor, born in Brooklyn]
[1961 - Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death by a Jerusalem court]
To Horace, To Horace!
The Bush-Cheney administration and its wars validate the words of the poet Horace, written in 23 B.C.:
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Odes, Book III, iv, line 65
William's Whimsical Words:
Wisdom requires a plan for that which follows the application of force.
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