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On this day, May 21 ...

1927 - Charles A. Lindberg completed the first solo nonstop airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. The trip began May 20.

Quotable Quotes

 “I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.”

~ Bill Dana [William Szathmary], 1924-    , American actor & comedian (José Jiménez)

"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog."

~ Edward Hoagland, 1932-    , American nature & travel writer & essayist ("Hoagland on Nature")

"A clean house indicates that there is a broken computer in it."

~ Author unknown

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

~ Guillaume Apollinaire, 1880-1918, French poet & art critic, coined the word "surrealism"

"It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper."

~ Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-    , American comedian, actor & writer

"One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman."

~ Charles-Louis Philippe