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Franklin bifocals Friday, December 21, 2012     Winter

Winter - digging out
[The Winter Solstice]


Mayflower in Plimoth Harbor    Mayflower pilgrims landing
[1620 - Mayflower arrives, and pilgrims from England land at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts]

   Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli
[1804 - Benjamin Disraeli, statesman, born in London]


Young Joseph Stalin    Joseph Stalin    Stalin pointing (pray not at you)    Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin
[1879 - Joseph Stalin (Dzhugashvili), born in Gori, Georgia]

Golf Champion Walter Hagen
[1892 - Walter Charles Hagen, golf champion,
born in Rochester, New York]

TV Exec. Pat Weaver    TV Exec. Pat Weaver with daughter Sigourney
[1908 - Sylvester Barnabee "Pat" Weaver, Jr., President NBC-TV, born in Los Angeles]

Frank Zappa    Musician Frank Zappa       Singer Frank Zappa    Composer Frank Zappa
[1940 - Frank Vincent Zappa, musician, songwriter, singer, composer, born in Baltimore, Maryland]

Guitarist, Carl Wilson    Singer, guitarist, Carl Wilson    Singer, guitarist, Carl Wilson    Singer Carl Wilson
[1946 - Carl Dean Wilson, musician (guitar), singer, songwriter, Beach Boy, born in Hawthorne, California]

Track Star Florence Griffith-Joiner   Track Star Florence Griffith-Joiner, Flo-Jo
[1959 - Florence Griffith Joyner(Flo-Jo), Olympic gold medalist, born in Los Angeles]


Pan Am 103 cockpit    Pan Am 103 - Lockerbie crater
[1988 - Pan Am World Airways Flight 103 is the target of a terrorist attack over Lockerbie, Scotland]

ambulance with lights flashing


[1991 - Soviet Union formally ceases to exist, dissolves into Russia and 14 other states]


What a Day

This day in history marks the beginning of an important settlement in what is now our country, the birth of a brutal dictator who murdered millions of his own people and began the Cold War, the disintegration and collapse of the Soviet Union that brought an end to that Cold War, and the emergence of the terrorist threat that now preoccupies our nation and most of the rest of the world.


William's Whimsical Words:

Enough, already!

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