Columbus Day.
"America is a mistake, a great mistake." -- Sigmund Freud.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
Sunday, September 7, 2008
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.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
The last shall be first
Writer James Joyce died on this day in 1941. He wrote:
"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."
Friday, December 14, 2007
Rejected motto of the South Pole Tourism Bureau
The South Pole was discovered on this day in 1911.
"Great God! this is an awful place!" -- Robert F. Scott, Polar explorer.
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