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REFORMIST (RE-FORM`IST): A reformer.
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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. - Hebr. 13:8 NIV
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What single ability do we all have? The ability to change.
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* ***** Events For Today ("on this day")
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*-First Transcontinental Motorcycle Trip completed
*-17th Amendment proposed by US Congress (1916)
*-Food Stamps first issued Rochester, New York (1939)
*-First Color Photo taken
*-US Sedition Act passed (1918)
*-First Woman Prime Minister in France (1991)
*-Demonstration of a flat "Recording Disk" (1888)
*-First Envelope made
*-Junko Tabei became the first woman to climb Mt.
* Everest (1975)
*-Pete Townsend spends a night in jail (1969)
*-First Academy Awards Ceremony held (1929)
*-The comic strip "Pogo" was first published
*-First US Nickel issued (1866)
*-Jim Henson dies (1990)
*-Hyundai founded (1947)
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* ***** Births For Today (birthday trivia)
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*-William Henry Seward
*-Edmund Kirby-Smith
*-Henry Fonda
*-Billy Cobham
*-Pierce Brosnan
*-Gabriela Sabatini
*-Mare Winningham
*-Niles Spencer
*-Liberace
*-Olga Korbut
*-Tracey Gold
*-Woody Herman
*-Studs Terkel
*-Debra Winger
*-Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
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> *-First Transcontinental Motorcycle Trip completed
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I believe many Harley guys spend more time revving their engines than
actually driving anywhere; I sometimes wonder why they bother to have
wheels on their motorcycles.
~ Dave Barry
//Owen McManus
**You see, I don’t know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.
- Henry Winkler **
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