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My head is heavy, my limbs are weary, And it is not life that makes me move.
4/22 (1977): Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
"Faith" is a fine invention When Gentlemen can see -- But Microscopes are prudent In an Emergency.
8/6 (1661): The Treaty of The Hague is signed by Portugal and the Dutch Republic.
12/24 (1939): World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
8/6 (1960): Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.
Not at Home to Callers Says the Naked Tree -- Bonnet due in April -- Wishing you Good Day --
5/8 (1899): The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
Rome has fallen, ye see it lying Heaped in undistinguished ruin: Nature is alone undying.
In this short Life That only lasts an hour How much -- how little -- is Within our power
9/2 (1912): Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
1/1 (1822): The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
12/24 (1868): The Greek Presidential Guard is established as the royal escort by King George I.
8/6 (1926): First public screening using the Vitaphone process
ÆGLE, beauty and poet, has two little crimes; She makes her own face, and does not make her rhymes.
4/9 (1991): Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
11/11 (1620): The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.
1/20 (1649): The High Court of Justice for the trial of Charles I begins its proceedings.
7/4 (1951): William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
11/9 (1921): The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista or PNF) is founded in Italy.
1/20 (1841): Hong Kong Island is occupied by the British during the First Opium War.
3/15 (2019): Fifty-one people are killed in the Christchurch mosque shootings.
12/24 (1800): The Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise fails to kill Napoleon Bonaparte.