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Saturday, January 05, 2008

January 5......

January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 360 (361 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

Day of the week in surrounding years:
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—MON—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—TUE—2010
1983,. . . .,1994,2000,2005—WED—2011
1984,1989,1995,. . . .,2006—THU—2012
. . . .,1990,1996,2001,2007—FRI—. . . .
1985,1991,. . . .,2002,2008—SAT—2013
1986,1992,1997,2003,. . . .—SUN—2014

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Truth "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." — Winston Churchill

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Caring for Our Health "I was blessed Wednesday by the birth of a grandson, Max Novak. His mother, Angie, left the hospital after one night. She was dying to bring her son home. A new law guaranteeing a 48-hour stay for new mothers was pushed by President Clinton as a campaign gimmick: A classic case of unneeded governmental meddling, further burdening the overburdened health care system." — Robert Novak. "Capital Gang," CNN, 1-25-97. {What this traitorous putz failed to mentioned was the guarantee was to make it available to the new mother if she so wished, no mother would be forced to stay against her will.}

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him." — Few sports figures—and indeed, few figures of any endeavor—have achieved the verbal notoriety of Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, former catcher of the New York Yankees. This is one of the indescribable utterances of Hall of Shame member #6.

{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.}


MOON PHASE

Berkeley, California—Times are Pacific Standard Time (PST)
Jan 5, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 9% Age: 90% Rise: 5:23 AM Set: 2:30 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 5, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 9% Age: 90% Rise: 5:26 AM Set: 3:04 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 5, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 9% Age: 90% Rise: 5:30 AM Set: 2:07 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 5, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waning Crescent Percent of Full: 10% Age: 90% Rise: 5:08 AM Set: 1:40 PM

NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

M51: Cosmic Whirlpool


Credit: S. Beckwith (STScI) Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA), ESA, NASA
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation



EVENTS

● 1066 - Edward the Confessor, King of England dies.

● 1463 - Poet François Villon is banned from Paris.

● 1477 - Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is killed and Burgundy becomes part of France.

● 1500 - Duke Ludovico Sforza conquers Milan.

● 1527 - Felix Manz, first Anabaptist martyr, sentenced to death and executed by drowning, Zurich, Switzerland.

● 1554 - A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

● 1675 - Battle of Colmar: the French army beats Brandenburg.

● 1715 - Advertisement in Boston newspaper offered for sale Indian woman "fit for all manner of household work."

● 1757 - Louis XV of France survives the assassination attempt by Robert–François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France with the traditional and gruesome form of Capital punishment used for regicides, being pulled (quartered) by horses.

● 1759 - George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.

● 1781 - Former American General Benedict Arnold, who defected to the British, helps the Redcoats plunder and burn Richmond, Virginia.

● 1834 - Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell.

● 1835 - Birth of American feminist Olympia Brown, Prairie Ronde, Michigan.

● 1846 - The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.

● 1854 - The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.

● 1869 - First black labor convention in U.S..

● 1874 - Birth of Leon Jules Leauthier, Manosque. Anarchist shoemaker who stabbed and seriously wounded the Minister of Serbia. Sentenced to life, but is killed during a prison uprising at ïles du Salut (October 1894).

● 1878 - Birth of Nelly Roussel. Free thinker, anarchist, feminist. Partner of the sculptor Henri Godet. Agitated, with Paul Robin, to spread neo-Malthusian ideas, opposing the repressive ideology and laws outlawing contraception and its propaganda. She spoke throughout France, demanding complete freedom for women, founded on new relationships between the sexes.

● 1881 - Paris Commune leader Louis-Auguste Blanqui dies, Paris, France. Huge crowd attends his funeral.

● 1895 - Dreyfus Affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island after being falsely convicted.

● 1896 - An Austrian newspaper reports that Wilhelm Roentgen discovered a type of radiation later known as X-rays.

● 1898 - Birth of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/dramatist, murdered by Franco's fascists in 1936. Accused of subversive activity, evidence today suggests that it was a hate crime in response to his homosexuality. His writings were censored until Franco died (1975).

● 1900 - Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.

● 1909 - Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.

● 1912 - Prague Party Conference.

● 1913 - First Balkan War: During the Naval Battle of Lemnos Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.

● 1914 - Ford Motor Company raises its basic wage from $2.40 for a nine-hour day to $5 for an eight-hour day. {This was for the white "technician" assembly line worker. Black workers continue to receive less until the union wins them equal pay.}

● 1919 - Gottfried Feder founds the German Workers' Party, a political party that would later evolve into the Nazi Party. Among a number of extremist political groups operating in Germany after World War I, the relatively unknown Workers' Party combined socialist {corporatist} economics with militant German nationalism and an opposition to democracy.

● 1919 - Spartacists, led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, lead revolt to renew November revolution. It lasts six days (in Berlin); both are murdered by the so-called "democratic" left on the 15th.

● 1919 - Winnipeg (Canada) Central Trades and Labour Council delegates urge workers not to register if draft is reenacted.

● 1925 - First woman governor, Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming, sworn in.

● 1932 - Spanish civil guards kill six people celebrating reinstatement of fired worker.

● 1933 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay.

● 1934 - Birth of Winnie Mandela, a leader of African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa.

● 1942 - John B. Hughes of the Mutual Broadcasting Company opens an attack on Japanese Americans in California. He charges they are engaged in espionage and their dominance in produce production and control of the food supply are part of a master war plan. The press attack is joined by "patriotic" organizations and white farming interests. President Roosevelt goes on to authorize interning West Coast (but not Hawai'ian) Japanese Americans in remote desert concentration camps.

● 1943 - Black American botanist George Washington Carver dies.

● 1945 - Japanese pilots received the first order to become kamikaze, or "Divine Wind." The suicidal blitz of the Kamikazes revealed Japan's desperation in the final months of World War II. Most of Japan's top pilots were dead, but youngsters needed little training to take planes full of explosives and crash them into ships. At Okinawa, they sank 30 ships and killed almost 5,000 Americans.

● 1945 - The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.

● 1960 - Spanish anarchist/guerilla Francisco Sabaté dies in a shootout with the fascist civil guard.

● 1962 - A replica of the miraculous statue, the Holy Infant of Good Health, is presented to Pope John XXIII.

● 1964 - Committee Against Nuclear Power Plants in New York stops plant planned for Queens.

● 1968 - Czechoslovakia's Stalinist ruler, Antonin Novotny, is succeeded as Communist Party leader by Alexander Dubcek, a Slovak who supports diplomatic reforms. Two months later, Novotny resigns the presidency, and Dubcek introduces a series of far-reaching political and economic reforms, including increased freedom of speech and an end to state censorship. Dubcek's efforts to establish "Communism with a human face" are celebrated across the country, and the brief period of freedom becomes known as the "Prague Spring." In August, the Soviet Union responds to Dubcek's liberal reforms with a Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

● 1968 - Dr. Benjamin Spock, opposed to the Vietnam War, is indicted for conspiring to violate draft law, along with Coffin, Mitchell Goodman (married to Denise Levertov), Michael Ferber, and Marcus Raskin for delivering draft cards (October 1967).

● 1970 - Joseph A. Yablonski, unsuccessful reform candidate to unseat "Tough Tony" Boyle as President of the United Mine Workers, is murdered, along with his wife and daughter, in their Clarksville, Pennsylvania home by assassins acting on Boyle's orders. Boyle was later convicted of the killing. West Virginia miners went on strike the following day in protest.

● 1970 - State of Mississippi integrates first three districts of its public schools.

● 1972 - President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a space shuttle program.

● 1974 - An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.

● 1975 - South Africa - Twelve thousand black workers strike at Vaal Reefs gold mine.

● 1975 - The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.

● 1976 - Cambodia is renamed Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge.

● 1981 - Death of Lanza del Vazzo, founder of Communaire de l'Arche, France.

● 1987 - "Fiscal conservative" President Ronald Reagan produces the nation's first trillion-dollar budget, projecting 1988 outlays of $1,024.3 billion, revenues of $916.6 billion, and a deficit of $107.8 billion. Oddly, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Still more oddly, when the deficit is reduced the following decade, the rich get richer still and the poor get even poorer.

● 1989 - China - Riots against African students.

● 1989 - Two French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on three airlines at JFK airport in security test.

● 1991 - 19 arrested in "Homes Not War" protest, Tucson, Arizona.

● 1993 - The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.

● 1993 - Washington state executes Westley Allan Dodd by hanging (the first legal hanging in America since 1965).

● 1996 - Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.

● 1997 - Russian forces withdraw from Chechnya.

● 2000 - The first day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit.

● 2005 - Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, was discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.

● 2007 - Taiwan High Speed Rail open between Taipei and Kaohsiung.


BIRTHS

● 1209 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272)

● 1548 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)

● 1587 - Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)

● 1592 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1666)

● 1614 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662)

● 1696 - Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1757)

● 1717 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793)

● 1762 - Constanze Weber, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)

● 1779 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (d. 1820)

● 1779 - Zebulon Pike, American explorer (d. 1813)

● 1838 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)

● 1846 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1926)

● 1855 - King Camp Gillette, American inventor (d. 1932)

● 1864 - Bob Caruthers, baseball player (d. 1911)

● 1864 - Byron B. Johnson, baseball executive (d. 1931)

● 1865 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)

● 1874 - Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)

● 1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (d. 1967)

● 1879 - Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946)

● 1880 - Nikolay Medtner, Russian composer (d. 1951)

● 1893 - Zoltán Böszörmény, Hungarian Nazi politician (d. unknown)

● 1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952)

● 1895 - Elizabeth Cotten, American musician (d. 1987)

● 1900 - Yves Tanguy, French painter (d. 1955)

● 1902 - Stella Gibbons, English novelist (d. 1989)

● 1904 - Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)

● 1906 - Kathleen Kenyon, English archaeologist (d. 1978)

● 1908 - George Dolenz, American actor (d. 1963)

● 1909 - Stephen Kleene, American mathematician (d. 1994)

● 1910 - Hugh Brannum, American actor (d. 1987)

● 1910 - Jack Lovelock, New Zealand athlete (d. 1949)

● 1911 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, French actor (d. 2001)

● 1914 - George Reeves, American actor (d. 1959)

● 1914 - Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (d. 1955)

● 1915 - Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian-born cartographer (d. 2004)

● 1917 - Jane Wyman, American actress (d. 2007)

● 1917 - Wieland Wagner, German stage director (d. 1966)

● 1920 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Italian pianist (d. 1995)

● 1921 - Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer (d. 1990)

● 1921 - Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

● 1923 - Sam Phillips, American music producer (d. 2003)

● 1926 - William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet

● 1926 - Hosea Williams, American activist (d. 2000)

● 1928 - Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani statesman (d. 1979)

● 1928 - Walter Mondale, American politician

● 1929 - Wilbert Harrison, American singer (d. 1994)

● 1931 - Alvin Ailey, American choreographer (d. 1989)

● 1931 - Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist

● 1931 - Robert Duvall, American actor

● 1932 - Umberto Eco, Italian writer

● 1932 - Chuck Noll, American football coach

● 1934 - William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (d. 1971)

● 1936 - Florence King, American humorist

● 1938 - King Juan Carlos I of Spain

● 1938 - Jim Otto, American football player

● 1938 - Ngugi wa Thiongo, Kenyan writer

● 1940 - Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (d. 1994)

● 1940 - Yuri Ershov, Russian mathematician

● 1941 - Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker

● 1941 - Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian cricketer

● 1942 - Maurizio Pollini, Italian pianist

● 1942 - Jan Leeming, British television presenter and newsreader

● 1942 - Charlie Rose, American talk show host

● 1942 - Terenci Moix, Spanish writer (d. 2003)

● 1945 - Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-born film director

● 1946 - Diane Keaton, American actress

● 1948 - Ted Lange, American actor

● 1949 - George Brown, American drummer (Kool & The Gang)

● 1950 - Chris Stein, American guitarist (Blondie)

● 1950 - John Manley, Canadian politician

● 1950 - Ioan Petru Culianu, Romanian-born professor (d. 1991)

● 1950 - Charlie Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur

● 1951 - Steve Arnold, English footballer

● 1953 - Steve Archer, Contemporary Christian singer (The Archers)

● 1953 - Pamela Sue Martin, American actress

● 1954 - Alex English, American basketball player

● 1956 - Chen Kenichi, Japanese-born chef

● 1957 - Kevin Hastings, Australian rugby league footballer

● 1959 - Clancy Brown, American actor

● 1960 - Glenn Strömberg, Swedish footballer

● 1960 - Phil Thornalley, English bass guitarist (The Cure)

● 1960 - Steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series)

● 1962 - Suzy Amis, American actress

● 1962 - Perry Fenwick, English actor

● 1962 - Danny Jackson, American baseball player

● 1963 - Jeff Fassero, American baseball player

● 1964 - Grant Young, American drummer (Soul Asylum)

● 1965 - Vinnie Jones, British footballer and actor

● 1966 - Kate Schellenbach, American drummer (Luscious Jackson)

● 1967 - Joe Flanigan, American actor

● 1968 - Andrew Golota, Polish boxer

● 1968 - Ricky Paull Goldin, American actor

● 1968 - Carrie Ann Inaba, American dancer and choreographer

● 1968 - Joé Juneau, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1968 - DJ Bobo, Swiss Singer

● 1969 - Marilyn Manson, American singer

● 1969 - Paul McGillion, Scottish actor.

● 1970 - Rick Campanelli, Canadian TV presenter

● 1971 - Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress.

● 1972 - Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer.

● 1973 - Phil Joel, Australian bassist (Newsboys).

● 1975 - Kylie Bax, New Zealand model.

● 1975 - Bradley Cooper, American actor.

● 1975 - Warrick Dunn, American football player.

● 1975 - Mike Grier, American ice hockey player.

● 1976 - Matt Wachter, American bassist (30 Seconds to Mars).

● 1976 - Diego Tristán, Spanish footballer.

● 1978 - Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver.

● 1979 - Kyle Calder, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1979 - Ronnie O'Brien, Irish footballer - plays for Toronto FC

● 1981 - Corey Flynn, New Zealand rugby player.

● 1981 - Brooklyn Sudano, American actress.

● 1982 - Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier.

● 1984 - Amanda Hearst, American heiress

● 1985 - Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor (d. 2001)

● 1985 - Yoon So-Yi, South Korean actress

● 1986 - Deepika Padukone, Indian model and actress

● 1996 - Max Baldry, British actor


DEATHS

● 842 - Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph (b. 794)

● 1066 - Edward the Confessor, King of England (b. 1004)

● 1400 - John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (bc. 1350)

● 1465 - Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b. 1394)

● 1477 - Charles, Duke of Burgundy (killed in battle) (b. 1433)

● 1524 - Marko Marulić, Croatian poet (b. 1450)

● 1527 - Felix Manz, Swiss leader (executed) (b. 1498)

● 1588 - Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528)

● 1589 - Catherine de' Medici, queen of Henry II of France (b. 1519)

● 1655 - Pope Innocent X (b. 1574)

● 1713 - Jean Chardin, French explorer (b. 1643)

● 1740 - Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1667)

● 1762 - Empress Elizabeth of Russia (b. 1709)

● 1771 - John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (b. 1710)

● 1846 - Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (b. 1812)

● 1858 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (b. 1766)

● 1860 - Saint John Nepomucene Neumann, first American bishop to be canonized (b. 1811)

● 1891 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)

● 1904 - Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist (b. 1839)

● 1910 - Léon Walras, French economist (b. 1834)

● 1922 - Ernest Shackleton, Irish explorer (b. 1874)

● 1933 - John Calvin Coolidge, Jr., 30th President of the United States (b. 1872)

● 1937 - Marie Booth, child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1864)

● ((1938)) - Amelia Earhart is presumed dead and the search for her and Fred Noonan has ended.

● 1941 - Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903)

● 1943 - George Washington Carver, American educator (b. 1860)

● 1946 - Kitty Cheatham, American singer (b. 1864)

● 1951 - Andrei Platonov, Russian writer (b. 1899)

● 1954 - Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (b. 1891)

● 1956 - Mistinguett, French singer (b. 1875)

● 1963 - Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player (b. 1896)

● 1970 - Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)

● 1970 - Roberto Gerhard, Catalan composer (b. 1896)

● 1971 - Douglas Shearer, Canadian film engineer (b. 1899)

● 1976 - Mal Evans, Beatles' "roadie" (b. 1935)

● 1979 - Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922)

● 1981 - Harold C. Urey, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1893)

● 1981 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)

● 1982 - Hans Conried, American actor (b. 1917)

● 1987 - Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-born Canadian cross-country skier (b. 1875)

● 1988 - Pete Maravich, American basketball player (b. 1947)

● 1990 - Arthur Kennedy, American actor (b. 1914)

● 1991 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (b. 1922)

● 1994 - Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)

● 1994 - Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator (b. 1912)

● 1996 - Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist (b. 1966)

● 1997 - André Franquin, Belgian cartoonist (Gaston Lagaffe) (b. 1924)

● 1997 - Burton Lane, American composer and lyricist (b. 1912)

● 1998 - Sonny Bono, American entertainer and politician (b. 1935)

● 1998 - Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (b. 1943)

● 2001 - Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942)

● 2003 - Massimo Girotti, Italian film actor (b. 1918)

● 2003 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920)

● 2003 - Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923)

● 2004 - Tug McGraw, American baseball player, father of Tim McGraw, country singer (b. 1944)

● 2005 - Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (b. 1954)

● 2007 - Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles (b. 1910)

● 2007 - Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● Sts. Apollinaris and Syncletica
● St. Cera
● St. Charles of Sezze
● St. Convoyon
● Martyrs of Egypt
● St. Emiliana
● St. Gaudentius
● St. Gerlac
● St. John Nepomucene Neumann
● St. Lomer
● St. Paula
● St. Roger
● St. Simeon Stylites
● St. Talida
● St. Telesphorus, pope

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 23 (Civil Date: January 5)
● Nativity Fast.
● Forefeast of the Nativity of Christ
● Holy Ten Martyrs of Crete: Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius,
● St. Paul, Bishop of Neo Caesarea.
● St. Niphon, Bishop of Cyprus.
● St. Nahum, Enlightener of the Bulgarians.
● St. Niphon, monk.
● St. Theoctistus, Archbishop of Novgorod.
● St. David of Echmiadzin in Armenia.
● New Martyr Priests John (1918).
● New Martyrs Priest Nicholas (1918).

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Schinon.

● Mungday (Discordianism)

● National Bird Day



THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING SEVEN SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.

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

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

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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