"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." ~ Wernher Von Braun

THIS DAY IN HISTORY - 1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.

"If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it." ~ Charles Kettering

THIS DAY IN HISTORY - 1639 - First post office in the colonies is set up in Massachusetts.

"We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us." ~ Albert Einstein

THIS DAY IN HISTORY - 1390 - First trial for witchcraft in Paris. (Croissants and cheese served for participants ;) )

"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America." ~ James Joyce

THIS DAY IN HISTORY - 1881 - 1st American fishing magazine, American Angler published. (No one believed a word that was printed in the magazine)

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." ~ Bertrand Russell

THIS DAY IN HISTORY - 876 - Battle at Andernach: Louis the Young beats Charles the Bald (Somehow I think this little dispute may have been personal and just caused by a lot of name calling and the two guys should have just slugged it out!!)