Today I found out that on this day...
- in 1950 the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified, limiting the President to two terms or a maximum of ten years in office.
I also found out that...
- in 1991 in Desert Storm, the 100 hour ground war ended as Allied troops entered Kuwait just four days after launching their offensive against Iraqi forces.
And it's also...
- the day American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born (1807-1882) in Portland, Maine. He was best known for Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and The Wreck of the Hesperus. I seem to remember having to memorize all those poems when in high school.
There's also a wonderful literary birthdays site I frequent and, along with Longfellow, this day is the birthday of...
- Boston-born African American dramatist and poet Angelina Weld Grimke (1880-1958);
- John Steinbeck, California novelist and 1962 Nobelist (1902-1968);
- Chicago native, novelist and short story writer James Thomas Ferrell (1904-1979);
- Chicago author Peter DeVries (1910);
- India-born British novelist Lawrence Durell (1912-1990), author of The Alexandria Quartet; and
- U.S. novelist Irwin Shaw (1913-1984).
A friend sent me some random thoughts she found online the other day. They are so true, and I thought I'd share a few with you.
- About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends. -Herbert Hoover-
- It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -Abe Lincoln-
- Just when you think you have hit bottom, someone tosses you a shovel.
- Confidence is what you have when you don't really understand the situation.
So, after all that information, I'll leave you with this one thought: Life is what happens after you make other plans. Just live today and have a good day! (Sources: The History Place http://www.historyplace.com/; Waterboro Public Library http://www.waterborolibrary.org/)
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"Listen, my children, and you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere....one if by land, two if by sea/And I on the opposite shore will be/Ready to spread...the alarm/to every Middlesex village and farm."
Isn't it funny we can remember lines we learned as children but can't remember what we had for supper 2 nights ago?
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