Geophysicist Frank Press , who estimated that the North American continent is 23 to 30 miles thick, was born in Brooklyn in 1924. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, generally considered the most significant 20th century German poet, was born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, in 1875. In 1872 the U.S. brigantine Mary Celeste was found adrift and deserted, with its cargo intact, in the Atlantic Ocean between the Azores and Portugal. Singer and actress Lillian Russell, the most photographed woman of her era, was born in Clinton, Iowa, in 1861. English writer and painter Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh, was born in Langar Rectory, Nottinghamshire, in 1835.
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle, author of The French Revolution and the autobiographical Sartor Resartus was born in Ecclefechan, Scotland, in 1795. As It Lays, and The White Album, was born in Sacramento, California in 1934. The twenty-first amendment ended Prohibition on this day in 1933, which had begun 13 years earlier. Lady be Good, and Girl Crazy, was born in New York City in 1896. Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.