Poor Sarah Palin

Today: Queen Elizabeth I was born on this day in 1533.

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists primarily in dealing with men." -- Joseph Conrad.

Yesterday: The first Pilgrims set sail for the new world on Sept. 6, 1620.

"There is no such thing as an American. They are all exiles uprooted, transplanted and doomed to sterility." -- Evelyn Waugh.

Hold it right there now, Pilgrim

The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock on this day in 1620.

"A Pilgrim Father was one who, leaving Europe in 1620 because not permitted to sing psalms through his nose, followed it to Massachusetts, where he could personate God according to the dictates of his conscience." – Ambrose Bierce.

"It is a pity that instead of the Pilgrim Fathers landing on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock had not landed on the Pilgrim Fathers." – Chauncey Depew.