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Tuesday, September 04, 2007

September 4......

September 4 is the 247th (248th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 118 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Certainty "Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous." — Will Durant

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On War is Hell "I cannot tell you how proud watching that war coverage makes me. I know a lot of people are saying that they think that it's, that you know what we're doing is imperialistic. I watch the way we handle ourselves over there and I've never felt more patriotic in my life." — Dennis Miller, "Tonight Show," NBC, 4-3-03.

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "If somebody has a bad heart, they can plug this jack in at night as they got to bed and it will monitor their heart throughout the night. And the next morning, when they wake up dead, there'll be a record." {emphasis added} — Mark S. Fowler, FCC chairman

Thought for the day: "Put your brain in gear before starting your mouth."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}


NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

A Path into Victoria Crater


Credit: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Cornell, JPL, NASA; Acknowledgement: Eduardo Tesheiner
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation


EVENTS

● 422 - St. Boniface I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself King of Italy.

● 1260 - The Senese Ghibellines, supported by the forces of King Manfred of Sicily, defeat the Florentine Guelphs at Montaperti.

● 1530 - Russian Czar Ivan "The Terrible" was born.

● 1609 - English navigator Henry Hudson began exploring the island of Manhattan.

● 1618 - "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed

● 1626 - First patent in American history, for device to restrain natives, to W. Claiborne, Jamestown, Virginia.

● 1639 - U.S.'s first prohibition law, outlawing the drinking of toasts, passed in Massachusetts. The law was repealed in 1645 as unenforceable.

● 1645 - The first Lutheran church building erected in America was dedicated at Easton (near Bethlehem), Pennsylvania.

● 1776 - Francois Rene Chateaubriand was born. He was a French poet, novelist, statesman, historian and explorer.

● 1781 - Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (the City of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of the Little Portion) by 44 Spanish settlers in Bahia de las Fumas, (Valley of Smokes).

● 1802 - Birth of Marcus Whitman, American Presbyterian and pioneer medical missionary. In 1836 his family became the first whites to reach the Pacific coast by wagon train. Whitman and his wife Narcissa were murdered by the Cayuse Indians in present-day Washington state in 1847.

● 1825 - New York Governor Clinton ceremoniously emptied a barrel of Lake Erie water in the Atlantic Ocean to consumate the "Marriage of the Waters" of the Great Lakes and the Atlantic.

● 1839 - Cherokee Nation West established after "Trail of Tears" forced relocation.

● 1842 - Work on Koln cathedral recommences after 284-year hiatus

● 1847 - Anglican clergyman Henry Francis Lyte, 54, suffering from asthma and consumption, penned the words to his hymn, "Abide With Me," before preaching his last sermon in Devonshire, England. (Lyte died 2-1/2 months later.)

● 1862 - Civil War Maryland Campaign Gen. Robert E. Lee begins his move taking the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North crossing the Potomac at Whites Ford.

● 1864 - Bread riots in Mobile, Alabama

● 1870 - Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.

● 1882 - Thomas Edison's Pearl Street electric power station began operations in New York City. It was the first display of a practical electrical lighting system.

● 1884 - Britain ends its policy of penal transportation to New South Wales in Australia.

● 1886 - Legendary Apache leader Geronimo surrenders to General Nelson A. Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Arizona, ending the last major U.S.-Indian conflict. Geronimo had led a small band of Apache men, women, and children out of forced internment on the San Carlos reservation, successfully evading thousands of U.S. and Mexican troops, regiments of Indian auxiliaries, and an unknown number of civilians for over 18 months in the wilderness of the Southwest.

● 1888 - George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak, and receives a patent for his camera which uses roll film. The camera took 100 exposures per roll.

● 1894 - In New York City, 12,000 tailors strike against sweatshop working conditions.

● 1899 - An 8.3 earthquake hit Yakutat Bar, AK.

● 1908 - Birth of Richard Wright, novelist and short-story writer. Among the first American black writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel "Native Son" (1940). Natchez, Mississippi.

● 1917 - Henry Ford II was born. He was the head of the Ford Motor Company for 40 years.

● 1917 - The American expeditionary force in France suffered its first fatalities in World War I.

● 1918 - American troops land at Archangel in North Russia, one year after the Russian Revolution, to "protect U.S. interests." They stay 10 months.

● 1920 - Last day of Julian civil calendar (in parts of Bulgaria)

● 1923 - Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.

● 1927 - Charles Lindbergh visits Boise, Idaho, on his cross-country tour

● 1939 - The Polish ghetto of Mir is exterminated

● 1939 - World War II: Japan declares neutrality in European war.

● 1940 - For the first time in World War II, a German submarine attacks a United States ship (the USS Greer) despite US neutrality and causing tensions to heighten. {Lend-Lease was a sign that the neutrality was a false front.}

● 1944 - World War II: The British 11th Armoured Division liberate the Belgian city of Antwerp.

● 1945 - US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan

● 1948 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands abdicates for health reasons.

● 1949 - Right wingers riot at Peekskill, New York to stop Paul Robeson concert.

● 1950 - 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.

● 1951 - The first live transcontinental television broadcast takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.

● 1954 - 1st passage of McClure Strait, fabled Northwest Passage completed.

● 1956 - The IBM RAMAC 305, the first commercial computer that used magnetic disk storage, was introduced.

● 1957 - American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis - Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent nine African American students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock.

● 1957 - Homosexuality 'should not be a crime;' The Wolfenden Report suggests consenting sex between homosexual adults "in private" should no longer be a criminal offence in Britain.

● 1957 - The Ford Motor Company began selling the Edsel. The car was so unpopular that it was taken off the market only two years. {The name was one of Henry Ford's sons' names.}

● 1961 - US authorizes Agency for International Development

● 1963 - Swissair Flight 306 crashes near Dürrenäsch, Switzerland, killing all on board.

● 1964 - NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1)

● 1964 - Forth Road Bridge opened; The Queen officially opens Europe's longest suspension bridge linking Edinburgh to Perth across the River Forth.

● 1966 - National Guard confronts white supremacist mobs in Cicero, Illinois, outside Chicago.

● 1967 - 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200

● 1967 - Michigan Gov. George Romney said during a TV interview that he had undergone a "brainwashing" by U.S. officials during a 1965 visit to Vietnam. The comment is widely believed to have derailed his campaign for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination.

● 1967 - Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins: U.S. Marines engage the North Vietnamese. The ensuing four-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.

● 1970 - Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha receives the "Robe of Faghr" (prophet Muhammad's cloak) and is officially appointed as the 42nd master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi order by his father, Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha.

● 1971 - A Boeing 727 carrying Alaska Airlines Flight 1866 crashes into Chilkoot Mountain near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.

● 1972 - Thieves steal 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was at the time the largest art theft in North America.

● 1973 - John Ehrlichman and G. Gordon Liddy were indicted with two others in connection with the burglary of a psychiatrist's office two years earlier.

● 1973 - The Assemblies of God opened its first theological graduate school in Springfield, MO, making it the second Pentecostal denomination to establish its own school of theology. (The first such school was opened by Oral Roberts in Tulsa.)

● 1975 - The Sinai Interim Agreement concerning the Arab-Israeli conflict is signed.

● 1978 - Simultaneous demonstrations against nuclear weapons and power in Red Square, Moscow, and on White House lawn, Washington D.C.

● 1978 - Floods devastate northern India; At least two million people are made homeless as the worst floods in living memory hit northern India.

● 1980 - Congress establishes reservation for reinstated Siletz tribes of Oregon.

● 1982 - Ten thousand dance on nuclear reactor site, Gorleben, West Germany.

● 1982 - The Dorothy May Apartment-Hotel building in Los Angeles, CA was set on fire by an arsonist killing 25 people.

● 1982 - Three thousand protest against arrival of nuclear-powered ship, Japan.

● 1983 - U.S. officials announced that there had been an American plane, used for reconnaissance, in the vicinity of the Korean Air Lines flight that was shot down.

● 1984 - Brian Mulroney leads the Progressive Conservative Party to power in Canada in the 1984 federal election and ending 20 years of nearly uninterrupted Liberal rule.

● 1985 - Titanic wreck captured on film; The first pictures of the wreck of the Titanic are released 73 years after the liner sank with the loss of 1,500 lives.

● 1986 - South African security forces halted a mass funeral for the victims of the riot in Soweto.

● 1987 - West German pilot Mathias Rust was convicted by a Soviet court and sentenced to four years in a labor camp. The charges were concerning his daring flight into Moscow's Red Square. He was released after one year.

● 1988 - Bangladesh officials reported that at least 882 people had been killed by floods that had inundated their nation.

● 1989 - A reconnaissance satellite was released by the Air Force's Titan Three rocket. The Titan Three set over 200 satellites into space between 1964 and 1989.

● 1991 - Rte 35 Theater in Hazlit, the last drive-in in NJ, closes

● 1993 - Pope John Paul II started his first visit to the former Soviet Union.

● 1995 - The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance.

● 1996 - Scattered protests around the country greet the latest gratuitous U.S. bombing of Iraq. About 100 gather at the Federal Building in Seattle; in Washington D.C., eight are arrested for dumping buckets of rubble on the White House lawn.

● 1996 - War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.

● 1997 - A triple suicide bombing in the heart of Jerusalem killed seven people, including the three assailants.

● 1997 - Three Buddhist nuns acknowledged in testimony to the U.S. Senate that their temple outside Los Angeles illegally reimbursed donors after a fund-raiser attended by Vice President Al Gore, and later destroyed or altered records.

● 1998 - In Mexico, bankers stopped approving personal loans and mortgages.

● 1998 - The International Monetary Fund approved a $257 million loan for the Ukraine.

● 1998 - While in Ireland, U.S. President Clinton said the words "I'm sorry" for the first time about his affair with Monica Lewinsky and described his behavior as indefensible.

● 1999 - The United Nations announced that the residents of East Timor had overwhelmingly voted for independence from Indonesia in a referendum held on August 30. In Dili, pro-Indonesian militias attacked independence supporters, burned buildings, blew up bridges and destroyed telecommunication facilities.

● 2006 - "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, 44, died after a stingray's barb pierced his chest.

● 2007 - Three men are arrested on suspicion of terrorism while leaving a vacation home in Oberschledorn, Germany. They had amassed a vast quantity of explosive-making materials.


BIRTHS

● 1241 - Alexander III of Scotland (d. 1286)

● 1383 - Count Amadeus VIII of Savoy (d. 1451)

● 1454 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (d. 1483)

● 1563 - Wanli, Emperor of China (d. 1620)

● 1596 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet (d. 1687)

● 1717 - Job Orton, English minister (d. 1783)

● 1768 - François-René de Chateaubriand, French diplomat (d. 1848)

● 1803 - Sarah Childress Polk, First Lady of the United States (d. 1891)

● 1824 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer (d. 1896)

● 1832 - Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat (d. 1915)

● 1846 - Daniel Burnham, American architect (d. 1912)

● 1851 - John Dillon, Irish nationalist (d. 1927)

● 1866 - Simon Lake, American inventor; built the submarine "Argonaut" (d. 1945)

● 1885 - Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (d. 1971)

● 1886 - Albert Orsborn, General of The Salvation Army (d. 1967)

● 1890 - La Argentina, Spanish dancer (d. 1936)

● 1891 - Fritz Todt, Nazi official (d. 1942)

● 1892 - Darius Milhaud, French composer (d. 1974)

● 1896 - Antonin Artaud, French playwright (d. 1948)

● 1901 - William Lyons, British industrialist (Jaguar cars) (d. 1985)

● 1905 - Mary Renault, English novelist (d. 1983)

● 1906 - Max Delbrück, German biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)

● 1908 - Edward Dmytryk, American film director (d. 1999)

● 1908 - Richard Wright, American writer (d. 1960)

● 1909 - Eduard Wirths, Nazi physician (d. 1945)

● 1913 - Mickey Cohen, American gangster (d. 1976)

● 1913 - Stanford Moore, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)

● 1914 - Rudolf Leiding, German auto executive, third postwar chairman of Volkswagen (d. 2003)

● 1917 - Henry Ford II, American industrialist (d. 1987)

● 1918 - Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster

● 1919 - Howard Morris, American comic actor and director (d. 2005)

● 1920 - Teddy Johnson, British singer

● 1920 - Clemar Bucci, Argentine racing driver

● 1924 - Joan Aiken, English writer (d. 2004)

● 1925 - Forrest Carter, American author (d. 1979)

● 1926 - Bert Olmstead, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1927 - John McCarthy, American computer scientist

● 1928 - Dick York, American actor (d. 1992)

● 1929 - Thomas Eagleton, American politician (d. 2007)

● 1931 - Mitzi Gaynor, American actress

● 1932 - Carlos Romero Barcelo, Puerto Rican politician

● 1932 - Dinsdale Landen, English actor (d. 2003)

● 1934 - Clive Granger, Welsh-born economist, Nobel laureate

● 1937 - Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer

● 1937 - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor and director (d. 2006)

● 1941 - Marilena Chaui, Brazilian philosopher

● 1941 - Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician

● 1942 - Raymond Floyd, American professional golfer

● 1942 - Jerry Jarrett, American professional wrestling promoter

● 1942 - Merald "Bubba" Knight, R&B singer (Gladys Knight & The Pips)

● 1944 - Jennifer Salt, Actress

● 1944 - Ron Ward, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1945 - Danny Gatton, American musician (d. 1994)

● 1946 - Gary Duncan, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service)

● 1946 - Greg Elmore, American drummer (Quicksilver Messenger Service)

● 1948 - Samuel Hui, Hong Kong singer

● 1949 - Tom Watson, American golfer

● 1950 - Doyle Alexander, American baseball player

● 1950 - Ronald LaPread, R&B musician (The Commodores)

● 1951 - Judith Ivey, Actress

● 1951 - Martin Chambers, English drummer (The Pretenders)

● 1951 - Marita Ulvskog, Swedish politician

● 1952 - Rishi Kapoor, Indian actor

● 1955 - Brian Schweitzer, Governor of Montana

● 1957 - Khandi Alexander, American actress ("CSI: Miami")

● 1957 - Patricia Tallman, American actress

● 1958 - David Drew Pinsky (Dr. Drew), American radio show host

● 1958 - George Hurley, American drummer (Minutemen (band))

● 1959 - Kevin Harrington, Australian actor

● 1960 - Damon Wayans, American actor and comedian ("My Wife and Kids")

● 1960 - Kim Thayil, Rock musician (Soundgarden)

● 1962 - Kiran More, Indian cricketer

● 1961 - Kevin Kennedy, English actor

● 1962 - Ulla Tørnæs, Danish politician

● 1963 - Sam Yaffa, Finnish Musical (Hanoi Rocks, New York Dolls)

● 1963 - John Vanbiesbrouck, American hockey player

● 1964 - René Pape, German bass

● 1965 - Sergio Momesso, French Canadian ice hockey player

● 1968 - Phill Lewis, American actor

● 1968 - Mike Piazza, baseball player

● 1968 - John DiMaggio, American actor

● 1969 - Alexander Coe, Welsh DJ and record producer

● 1969 - Noah Taylor, English-born actor

● 1970 - Dave Buchwald, American hacker and film maker

● 1970 - Igor Cavalera, Brazilian drummer (Sepultura)

● 1970 - Daisy Dee, West Indian-born singer

● 1971 - Ione Skye, English actress

● 1971 - Lance Klusener, South African cricketer

● 1971 - Maik Taylor, Irish footballer

● 1971 - Anita Yuen, Hong Kong actress

● 1972 - Françoise Yip, Canadian actress

● 1973 - Jason David Frank, American actor

● 1973 - Aaron Fultz, American baseball player

● 1974 - Carmit Bachar, American musician (Pussycat Dolls)

● 1974 - Nona Gaye, American singer and actress

● 1975 - Nikolaos Lyberopoulos, Greek footballer

● 1976 - Katreeya English, Thai singer, actress, model

● 1977 - Sun-Woo Kim, Korean Major League Baseball player

● 1977 - Mark Ronson, English DJ/Producer and co-founder of Allido Records

● 1977 - Lucie Silvas, English musician

● 1978 - Wes Bentley, American actor ("American Beauty")

● 1979 - Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player

● 1979 - Pedro Camacho, Portuguese composer

● 1979 - Kosuke Matsuura, Japanese racing driver

● 1980 - Hitomi Shimatani, Japanese singer

● 1981 - Beyoncé Knowles, American singer

● 1981 - Lacey Mosley, American singer (Flyleaf)

● 1981 - Adam Liam McCleery, Irish-born model

● 1982 - Alessandra Rubi Streignard Villarreal, Spanish singer

● 1983 - Yuichi Nakamaru, Japanese idol, (member of KAT-TUN)

● 1986 - James Younghusband, Philippine footballer

● 1991 - Carter Jenkins, American actor


DEATHS

● 799 - Musa al-Kazim, Shia Imam (b. 745)

● 1037 - King Bermudo III of Leon (b. 1010)

● 1063 - Toghrül, Turkish conqueror of Persia and Baghdad

● 1199 - Joan of England, Queen consort of Sicily, wife of William II of Sicily (b. 1165)

● 1537 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian

● 1588 - Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1532)

● 1767 - Charles Townshend, English politician (b. 1725)

● 1780 - John Fielding, English magistrate and social reformer (b. 1721)

● 1784 - César-François Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (b. 1714)

● 1794 - John Hely-Hutchinson, Irish statesman (b. 1724)

● 1804 - Richard Somers, American naval officer

● 1852 - William MacGillivray, Scottish naturalist and ornithologist (b. 1796)

● 1864 - John Hunt Morgan, American Confederate military leader (b. 1825)

● 1907 - Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (b. 1843)

● 1909 - Clyde Fitch, American dramatist and playwright (b. 1865)

● 1916 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)

● 1963 - Robert Schuman, French politician (b. 1886)

● 1965 - Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875)

● 1974 - Marcel Achard, French playwright (b. 1899)

● 1974 - Creighton Abrams, U.S. Army general (b. 1914)

● 1974 - Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (b. 1884)

● 1977 - E. F. Schumacher, German economist and statistician (b. 1911)

● 1977 - Jean Rostand, French biologist (b. 1894)

● 1977 - Stelios Perpiniadis, Greek musician (b. 1899)

● 1986 - Hank Greenberg, baseball player (b. 1911)

● 1986 - Otto Glória, Brazilian football coach (b. 1917)

● 1987 - Bill Bowes, English cricketer (b. 1908)

● 1989 - Georges Simenon, French author (b. 1903)

● 1989 - Ronald Syme, New Zealand-born classicist and historian (b. 1903)

● 1990 - Irene Dunne American actress (b. 1898)

● 1991 - Tom Tryon, American actor and novelist (b. 1926)

● 1991 - Dottie West, American singer (b. 1932)

● 1991 - Charlie Barnet, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1913)

● 1993 - Hervé Villechaize, French actor (b. 1943)

● 1995 - William Kunstler, American lawyer and activist (b. 1919)

● 1997 - Aldo Rossi, Italian architect (b. 1931)

● 2001 - Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American radio personality (b. 1962)

● 2002 - Vlado Perlemuter, Lithuanian pianist (b. 1904)

● 2003 - Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and conductor (b. 1921)

● 2003 - Lola Bobesco, Romanian-born violinist (b. 1921)

● 2004 - Alphonso Ford, American basketball player (b. 1971)

● 2004 - Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (b. 1929)

● 2004 - James O. Page, American paramedic (b. 1936)

● 2006 - Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)

● 2006 - Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)

● 2006 - Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality (b. 1962)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Caletricus
● St. Candida the Elder
● St. Hermione
● St. Magnus
● St. Marinus
● St. Monessa
● St. Rhuddlad
● St. Rosalia
● St. Rose of Viterbo.
● Sts. Rufinus, Silvanus, and Victalicus
● St. Salvinus
● St. Thamel & Companions
● St. Theodore
● St. Ultan of Ardbraccan.

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 22 (Civil Date: September 4)
● Martyr Agathonicus of Nicomedia and his companions: Martyrs Zoticus, Theoprepius, Acindynus, Severian, Zeno and others who suffered under Maximian.
● Virgin Martyr Eulalia of Barcelona.
● St. Anthusa.
● Hieromartyr Athanasius, Bishop of Tarsus in Cilicia, and Martyrs Charesimus and Neophytus.
● St. Bogolep of St. Paisius of Uglich Monastery.
● New-Martyr Bishop Ephraim of Selenginsk (1918).
● New-Martyr Priest John Vostorgov (1918).

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Irenaeus, Deacon, Or, and Oropsus.

● Lutheran:
● Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, missionary

● Maronite Church:
● Aaron and Moses

● Roman festivals - start of the Ludi Romani a.k.a. Ludi Magni, until 19 September.

● Vatican City - Triumph of the Cross

● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Namibia, South Africa : Settlers' Day - ( Monday )
● US, Canada, Guam, Virgin Islands : Labor Day (1894) - ( Monday )



Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:


On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

Liberal Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004

Quotes from the Right of the Day taken from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled by Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004


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