"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." John Keats (1795~1821)

"Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals."

Juliette Low, good scout (1860~1927)

"It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays." the great Ethel Waters (1896~1977)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN8-Yy8Rl3s

Oh now, happy deathday (1926, the year before the lone Lindy flew the Atlantic), great Harry Houdini. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUbytEgTXZQ&feature=related

How did Erich Weiss of Hungary come up with his stage name? Do acquaint yourself with the French magician, Robert Houdin (December 7, [b. on Pear Harbor day, did he but know it] 1805 – June 13,1871)

http://www.magicexhibit.org/story/story_robertHoudin.html

And, jfytk [just for you to know], 13 years before Houdini was sucker-punched into the next world, the first transcontinental motor way was dedicated on Halloween, 1913. 3,389 miles from NYC to San Francisco.... now that's a trip I'd like to take, Mr. Peabody.

http://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/

And, and, and, happy birthday John Keats, Juliette Low, who was born in Savannah, GA, at a most inconvenient time, and Ethel Waters, ever so much more to her story than the old lady I remember, singing for Billy Graham's Crusades....

Off I go to lay in a supply of candy for the scary little beggars, bless 'em.