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Franklin bifocals Wednesday, December 22, 2010

John Paul Jones in US Navy Uniform
[1775 - Congress commissions first naval officers,
including Lieutenant John Paul Jones]

Composer Giacomo Puccini    Composer Giacomo Puccini in 1908
[1858 - Giacomo Puccini, opera composer, born in Lucca, Italy]

Baseball Hall of Famer Connie Mack    Connie Mack Hall of Fame Plaque    Baseball Hall of Famer Connie Mack in dugout
[1862 - Connie (Cornelius Alexander) Mack (McGillicudy), Baseball Hall of Fame catcher, manager, born in East Brookfield, Massachusetts]

Pulitzer prize-winning poet Edwin Arlington Robinson
[1869 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, Pulitzer prize-
winning poet, born in Head Tide, Alna, Maine]

Actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft    Academy Award-winning Actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft    Actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft
[1907 - Dame Peggy (Edith Margaret Emily) Ashcroft, Academy Award-winning actress, born in Croydon, England]

TV Host Gene Rayburn
[1917 - Gene Rayburn (Eugene Rubessa), actor, comedian, TV host,
born in Christopher, Illinois]

Actress Ruth Roman
[1922 - (Norma) Ruth Roman, actress, born in
Lynn, Massachusetts]

Bee-Gee Maurice Gibb
[1949 - Maurice Gibb, singer, songwriter, born in Douglas, Isle of Man]


Birthday Wishes

Birthdays pleasant times should be.
I can not recall a sad one,
When You are My age, you see,
It's nice just to have had one.


William's Whimsical Words:

Growing older is better than the alternative.

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