Today in History
1885 - First Japanese arrive in Hawaii.
Today's Birthdays
1943 - Joe Pesci
1944 - Alice Walker
1928 - Roger Mudd
Word Power
desecrate
to treat a sacred thing with disrespect. The vandals DESECRATED the chapel doors, painting vile language across them.
Fun Fact
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain smoked forty cigars a day for the last years of his life.
Notable Quote
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact.
— George Eliot (1819-1880)