take a trip down memory lane as fun to talk to as a box of rocks as fun to talk to as a brick wall puts a twinkle in your eye smoke like a fiend lock step dead nuts holding pattern join us for a game of talk that's my story and I'm sticking to it ...
which means fifth. A Roman Senate renamed the month to Julius (July) in honour of Julius Caesar, who was born on 12 July. The Anglo-Saxon names for the month includedHeymonathorMaed monath
"Someone painted pictures on my Windowpane last night -- Willow trees with trailing boughs And flowers, frosty white, And lovely crystal butterflies; But when the morning sun Touched them with its golden beams, They vanished one by one." - Helen Bayley Davis, Jack Frost...
1945: 'ATOM BOMB ROCKS JAPS' On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States war machine unleashed a secret weapon it had been developing for years when a B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay dropped a single, oddly shaped bomb called Little Boy over Hiroshima, Japan. Little Boy was a 9,700-pound ...
As for dads in the Tri-State area (South Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota), sayings are much more popular than jokes. The Mount Rushmore State's most popular dad-ism is 'Back in My Day...'. In the Hawkeye State it's 'Ask Your Mother'. ...
painted crimson red and all the horsemen's faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hillarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from a hell more horrible yet that the brimstone land of christian reckoning, ...
"first snow house sparrows darken the hedgerow" -Ellen Compton "I am rich today with autumn's gold, All that my covetous hands can hold; Frost-painted leaves and goldenrod, A goldfinch on a milkweed pod, Huge golden pumpkins in the field...
Frost-painted leaves and goldenrod, A goldfinch on a milkweed pod, Huge golden pumpkins in the field With heaps of corn from a bounteous yield, Golden apples heavy on the trees Rivaling those of Hesperides, Golden rays of balmy sunshine spread ...