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- The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
- Bad analogies on high school papers
1767 Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States 1854 German immunologist Emil von Behring 1913 Hollywood movie mogul Lew Wasserman 1916 Trumpet playing band leader Harry James 1935 Actor Judd Hirsch 1940 Grateful Dead Bassist Phil Lesh 1998 Ron and Jeanne buy a home.
1493 Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first voyage to the New World. 1916 General John "Black Jack" Pershing marched into Mexico to capture revolutionary leader Pancho Villa, who had staged several cross-border raids. The two-year expedition was unsuccessful. 1985 Two decades of military rule in Brazil ended with the installation of a civilian government. 44 BC Julius Caesar was assassinated by Brutus and other Roman nobles in Rome.
1842 Cherubini died, he was 82. Cherubini was the leading arbiter of Parisian musical taste for decades. He was the establishment figure against whom Berlioz was the great rebel. 1918 Lili Boulanger died. She was 24 years old and suffering from tuberculosis. We often speak of the teacher Nadia Boulanger, but it was her sister who was the first woman to win the Prix de Rome. What might she have composed had she lived? 1990 A judge ruled that 2 Live Crews Nasty As They Wanna Be was obscene and a record store employee was arrested for selling it to an 11 year-old girl
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