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Monday, February 4, 2008

The ultimate beginning of life

Ken, official oldest son of New MexiKen, reports on the meaning of life, four-year-old style:

Sofie asked some important questions this evening:

Babies come from mommies, so where did the first mommy come from?
(Answer: evolution)

Where did the first animal come from?
(Answer: early life in water)

Where did first plants in water come from?
(Answer: elements combined from energy in lightning storm)

Where did elements come from?
(Answer: big bang)

But, where did first toy come from?

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Filed under Kids & Cute Stories on February 4, 2008

It ought to be a national holiday

Today is NewMexiKen’s birthday.

Also Dan Quayle is 61, Alice Cooper is 60, Lawrence Taylor is 49 and Clint Black is 46.

Charles Lindbergh was born on this date in 1902. The following is the from the beginning of his obituary in 1974:

In Paris at 10:22 P.M. on May 21, 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, a one-time Central Minnesota farm boy, became an international celebrity. A fame enveloped the 25-year-old American that was to last him for the remainder of his life, transforming him in a frenzied instant from an obscure aviator into a historical figure.

The consequences of this fame were to exhilarate him, to involve him in profound grief, to engage him in fierce controversy, to turn him into an embittered fugitive from the public, to accentuate his individualism to the point where he became a loner, to give him a special sense of his own importance, to allow him to play an enormous role in the growth of commercial aviation as well as to be a figure in missile and space technology, to give him influence in military affairs, and to raise a significant voice for conservation, a concern that marked his older years.

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