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Thou wouldst be loved?--then let thy heart From its present pathway part not; Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise.
6/6 (1859): Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales. The date is still celebrated as Queensland Day.
He put the Belt around my life I heard the Buckle snap -- And turned away, imperial, My Lifetime folding up -- Deliberate, as a...
1/15 (1967): The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.
4/22 (1836): Texas Revolution: A day after the Battle of San Jacinto, forces under Texas General Sam Houston identify Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna among the captives of the battle when some of his fellow soldiers mistakenly give away his identity.
1/20 (1961): John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the youngest man to be elected into that office, and the first Roman Catholic.
11/11 (1919): Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.
The event gained wide media attention as it was the only shuttle launch in the program's history to occur on the United States' Independence Day.
Four Trees -- upon a solitary Acre -- Without Design Or Order, or Apparent Action -- Maintain -- The Sun -- upon a Morning meets...
1/1 (1985): The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
I hide myself within my flower, That fading from your Vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me -- Almost a loneliness.
She rose to His Requirement -- dropt The Playthings of Her Life To take the honorable Work Of Woman, and of Wife -- If ought...
I faint, I perish with my love! I grow Frail as a cloud whose pale Under the evening's ever-changing glow: I die like mist upon the gale, And like a wave under the calm I fail.
When I hoped I feared -- Since I hoped I dared Everywhere alone As a Church remain -- Spectre cannot harm -- Serpent cannot charm...
11/11 (1813): War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm: British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
1/20 (1991): Sudan's government imposes Islamic law nationwide, worsening the civil war between the country's Muslim north and Christian south.
4/1 (1725): J. Bach's later Easter Oratorio in its first version is performed at the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig on Easter Sunday.
1/20 (1401): The Taula de canvi (Catalan: "Table of change"), described as Europe's first-ever public bank, began operations inside Barcelona's Llotja de Mar.
The Flower must not blame the Bee -- That seeketh his felicity Too often at her door -- But teach the Footman from Vevay --...
But once I dared to lift my eyes-- To lift my eyes to thee; And since that day, beneath the skies, No other sight they see.
The Snow that never drifts -- The transient, fragrant snow That comes a single time a Year Is softly driving now -- So thorough in...
In thee, I fondly hop'd to clasp A friend, whom death alone could sever; Till envy, with malignant grasp, Detach'd thee from my breast for ever.
11/11 (1965): Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.
FROM thee, Eliza, I must go, And from my native shore; The cruel fates between us throw A boundless ocean’s roar: But boundless oceans, roaring wide, Between my love and me, They never, never can divide My heart and soul from thee.