1) "If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely -- by that time, you're both dead." ~ Anne Bancroft, actress
2) "We build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there." ~ Anne McCaffrey, writer
3) "And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me." ~ Anne Boleyn, Queen of England
4) "I was raised to pretend." ~ Anne Heche, actress
5) "Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty." ~ Anne Rice, writer
6) "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~ Anne Frank, writer
7) "There's something very addictive about people pleasing. It's a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate." ~ Anne Hathaway, actress
8) "Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose -- not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember." ~ Anne Sullivan, teacher
9) "The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere." ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh, writer
10) "I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life." ~ Anne Tyler, writer
11) "See into life, don't just look at it." ~ Anne Baxter, actress
12) "He that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose." ~ Anne Bronte, writer
13) "When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground, and swish my tail -- none of which is easy." ~ Princess Anne, British royalty
14) "I do not at all understand the mystery of
grace -- only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where
it found us." ~ Anne Lamott, writer
15) "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."~ Anne Bradstreet, poet
1493 – On his second voyage to the West Indies, Christopher Columbus first comes ashore on an island he had spotted the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista. The island is later renamed Puerto Rico. Of course, Columbus wasn't the first to discover it. Indigenous aboriginal peoples, known as Tainos, had already populated the island for centuries by this time.
1816 – The Royal University of Warsaw is established in Warsaw, Poland. Today, the University of Warsaw is the largest in all of Poland, with an enrollment of over 56,000 students and a staff of over 6,000, including over 3,100 educators.
1831 – James A. Garfield, the 20th U.S. President, is born. Fifty years later, Garfield is gunned down in a train station by a madman who had been stalking him for weeks. He dies two months later.
1862 – Billy Sunday, fleet-footed professional baseball player, is born. After eight seasons in the big leagues, Sunday will retire from baseball and go on to become a celebrated and fiery evangelist as well as one of the strongest supporters of Prohibition.
1863 – President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Despite Lincoln's assertion in the speech that "the world will little note nor long remember what we say here," hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren in the ensuing years have had to memorize, word for word, exactly what Lincoln said that memorable day.
1916 – Samuel Goldfish and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures, one of the earliest motion picture production companies. In 1924, Goldwyn Pictures merged with Metro Pictures and Louis B. Mayer pictures, and the alliance became known as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, or MGM for short. Sound familiar?
Yep, that's the one!
1917 – Indira Gandhi is born. Gandhi will go on to become the four-term Prime Minister of India (1966-77, 1980-4), the first woman to hold that position. She is also only the second female in the world to ever become the head of her country's government. (Sirimavo Bandaranike of Sri Lanka was the first.)
1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland, and Sweden join the United Nations.
1955 – National Review publishes its first issue. The fortnightly magazine was founded by the late William F. Buckley, Jr. Self-described as "America's most widely read and influential magazine and web site for conservative news, commentary, and opinion," the National Review still boasts a total circulation of 166,755 in a day and age where print magazines are on their way out.
1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel. Apparently, it didn't quite live up to the hype. Maybe it was the bad karma from the blatant sexism in this commercial...
1969 – Apollo 12astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1976 – Jack Dorsey is born. Thirty years later, Dorsey will go on to create a popular online social networking service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters. You might have heard of it? It's called Twitter.
1985 – In Geneva, Switzerland, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time. This would be one of several meetings between the two world leaders in an effort to end the Cold War, which had been going on for decades by that time.
1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals. Busted!
This is not even that great of a song.
How'd it win a Grammy in the first place?
1998 – The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton.
1998 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait Of The Artist Without A Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million. Wow! I wonder what it would have sold for if he'd painted himself with mutton chop sideburns?
Did you ever look at a gorilla and wonder what it's thinking? Probably not. But I've wondered. Of course, I have. Because I'm that guy.
Anyway...based on my "highly developed skills" of observation and imagination, I have determined what's actually going on in the minds of these hairy guys and gals. Enjoy...
"Tell me the truth: Does this rock make me look fat?"
"Why are you smiling? Do you really find seizures amusing?"
"I pooped today. Do I get a sticker?"
"Yes, in fact, I am 'picking and grinning'..."
"I'm very disappointed in you, General Petraeus."
"Laid back...with my mind on my money and my money on my mind."
"This is my foot. You didn't need it anyway."
"I see your point. But you are wrong. End of discussion."
"Hi there, little lady. Come here often? Can I buy you a banana?"
"This is why I'm hot."
"Hi-Yo, Silver! Away!"
"You know you want me, ladies."
"No one says that about my mother and gets away with it. No one!"
