T.S. Eliot said, “April is the cruelest month,” probably harking back to Chaucer.
April 20th tends to be special too. Hopefully April got it all out of it’s system already.
Lincoln’s death, FDR’s, sinking of Titanic, San Fran quake of 1906, tax day, Hitler’s birthday, Lenin’s...
Whoopie!!!
Now-let’s us all just BLAME THE CALINDAR!
Problem solved. Just jump from March directly to May.
Lot of stuff happens in September also...especially around the 11th...
http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1221.html
I despise the misuse of the word “tragedy”, which is everywhere now.
Attacks cannot be tragedies. A tragedy is an accident or natural event that has a horrible outcome.
The bombing in Boston was an attack, a horrible event. It is properly described as:
Atrocity
Barbarism
Murder
Evil
Carnage
Bloodbath
Butchery
Massacre
Slaughter
It is not a disaster, a tragedy, an unfortunate event, nor a calamity.
I wish we could could a few journalists that were fluent in English.
Some good things happened in mid-April as well. On April 19 1775, the American Revolution began. And the Battle of San Jacinto took place on April 21, 1836. Had the Texans not won that fight, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah and Nevada would probably be part of Mexico today.