Happy Birthday Jan

Jan Bickerton, today is your day!!

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. — John Lennon

Happy Birthday!!!!

Also born on this day in 1849 Emma Lazarus, American poet.

"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus (1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal's lower level. (source=Wiki)

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Emma Lazarus (1883 manuscript), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Today in music, 1971 - John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent the second day filming the Imagine promotional film at their home in Tittenhurst Park Ascot, England. Today's footage included the morning walk on the grounds though the mist and John Lennon singing ‘Imagine’ in the white room on his white piano. (source=This Day In Music)



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