True... not so good for him, huh?


This day in 1942 saw the beginning of the end for the Germans "Afrika Korps", and Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, at the Battle of El Alamein in WWII


Today in 1980 ex-actor Ronald Reagan, Republican Governor of California, trounced Jimmy Carter in the U.S. elections to become America's 40th President


The first rapid-fire machine gun was patented today in 1862, by Richard Jordan Gatling of Indianapolis


Just ONE WEEK before the Armistice that brought WWI to an end, poet Wilfred Owen was killed in France at the age of 25.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind