On This Date In 564 Buddhists celebrate the commemoration of the birth of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, thought to have lived in India from 563 B.C. to 483 B.C. Actually, the Buddhist tradition that celebrates his birthday on April 8 originally placed his birth in the 11th century B.C., and it was not until the modern era that scholars determined that he was more likely born in the sixth century B.C., and possibly in May rather than April. 

On This Date In 1378 Bartolomeo Prignano (c. 1318 – October 15, 1389), was unanimously elected Pope, and served as Pope Urban VI from 1378 to 1389. 

On This Date In 1455 Alfons de Borja (December 31, 1378 – August 6, 1458), served as Pope Calixtus III from April 8, 1455 to his death in 1458. 

On This Date In 1630 The Winthrop Fleet, a well planned and financed expedition forming the nucleus of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, departed Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. Seven hundred men, women, and children were distributed among the ships of the fleet, and landed at Salem, Massachusetts on June 12 after nine weeks at sea. The passengers took up residence in Salem, Boston, and the nearby area. 

On This Date In 1803 Toussaint-Louverture (May 20, 1743–April 8, 1803), a leader of the Haitian Revolution, died. Born in Saint Domingue, in a long struggle for independence, Toussaint led enslaved Africans to victory over Europeans, abolished slavery, and secured native control over the colony in 1797 while nominally governor of the colony. 

On This Date In 1865 The Battle of Appomattox Station was fought during the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War. The advantage of position gained by the action gave the Federals control of the strategic ground necessary to force General Robert E. Lee's surrender. 

On This Date In 1904 The Entente-cordiale, a series of agreements between the United Kingdom and France, were signed. Beyond the immediate concerns of colonial expansion addressed by the agreement, the signing of the Entente cordiale marked the end of almost a millennium of intermittent conflict between the two nations and their predecessor states, and the start of a peaceful co-existence that has continued to date. 

On This Date In 1913 The Seventeenth Amendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution was passed by the Senate on June 12, 1911, the House of Representatives on May 13, 1912, and ratified by the states on this day in 1913. The amendment supersedes Article I, S 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, and transfers Senator selection from each state's legislature to popular election by the people of each state. It also provides a contingency provision enabling a state's governor, if so authorized by the state legislature, to appoint a Senator in the event of a Senate vacancy until either a special or regular election to elect a new Senator is held. 

On This Date In 1935 The Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 was passed on during the "Second Hundred Days" as a part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. It was a "large-scale public works program for the jobless" which included the Works Progress Administration, and allocated $5 billion for this purpose. The bill included funds for the Federal Arts Project, the Federal Writer Project, and the Federal Theater Project.

On This Date In 1943 The Stanley Cup Final, a best-of-seven series between the Boston Bruins and the Detroit Red Wings, was won by The Red Wings. Appearing in their third straight Finals, they won the series 4–0 to win their third Stanley Cup. 

On This Date In 1944 The Crimean Offensive (8 April 1944 - 12 May 1944), a series of offensives by the Red Army in the effort to liberate Crimea from the German Wehrmacht occupation, was fought. The result of the battle was complete victory for the Red Army, and a botched evacuation effort across the Black Sea, leading to significant German and Romanian losses. 

On This Date In 1948 Claude “Butch” Harmon won the 12^th Master’s Tournament. Harmon was one of the finest playing PGA Professionals in history and patriarch of a family of nationally-renowned instructors. He won the 1948 Masters by five strokes, which also elevated his teaching reputation for generations. He posted 11 top-10 performances while competing in 56 majors. 

On This Date In 1954 Sam Snead, defeating Ben Hogan 70-71 in an 18-hole playoff at the 18^th Master’s Tournament, won his third Green Jacket. Sam Snead: "The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt." 

On This Date In 1960 ”Elvis Is Back!” , the tenth album by Elvis Presley, was released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo. It was Presley's first album to be released in true stereo, and peaked at #2 on the Top Pop Albums chart. 

On This Date In 1963 The 35th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1962, were held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, and were hosted by Frank Sinatra. 

On This Date In 1968 Coretta Scott King and three of her children led some 20,000 marchers through the streets of Memphis four days after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., holding signs that read, "Honor King: End Racism," "Union Justice Now," or, simply, "I Am A Man." National Guardsmen lined the streets, perched on M-48 tanks, bayonets mounted, as helicopters circled overhead. She led another 150,000 in a funeral procession through the streets of Atlanta the next day. 

On This Date In 1974 Hank Aaron's 715th home run came in the fourth inning of the Atlanta Braves' home opener with the Los Angeles Dodgers, breaking Babe Ruth’s record of 714. A crowd of 53,775 people, the largest in the history of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, was with Aaron that night to cheer when he hit a 4th inning pitch off the Dodgers' Al Downing. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/features/1999/aaron/aaron_story/

On This Date In 1975 ”Toys in the Attic”, the third album by American hard rock band Aerosmith, was released.

On This Date In 1975 After a weeklong mission to South Vietnam, Gen. Frederick Weyand, U.S. Army Chief of Staff and former Vietnam commander, reported to Congress that South Vietnam could not survive without additional military aid. Questioned again later by reporters who asked if South Vietnam could survive with additional aid, Weyand replied there was "a chance." As Weyand reported to Congress, the South Vietnamese were battling three North Vietnamese divisions at Xuan Loc, the last defense line before Saigon. Indeed, it became the last battle in the defense of the Republic of South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese forces managed to hold out against the attackers until they ran out of tactical air support and weapons, finally abandoning Xuan Loc to the communists on April 21. Saigon fell to the communists on April 30. 

On This Date In 1979 In the Rebel 500 event at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina, drivers Darrell Waltrip and Richard Petty swapped the lead four times in a last-lap battle before Waltrip finally won the race. 

On This Date In 1994 Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of the American grunge band Nirvana, was found dead at his home in Seattle, Washington from suicide. 

On This Date In 2008 "Just Dance", a dance-pop song recorded by American pop musician Lady Gaga, was released. The song was written by Gaga and features labelmate Colby O'Donis, additional vocals by Akon and was produced by RedOne. It was released as the lead single from Gaga's debut album, “The Fame” in 2008. The song was written by Gaga in ten minutes as "a happy record". An uptempo dance song, "Just Dance" also has influences of R&B and lyrically speaks about being intoxicated at a club. 

Happy Birthday Betty Ford (1918), John Gavin (1931), Darlene Gillespie (1941), Tom DeLay (1947), John Schneider (1960), Terry Porter (1963), Robin Wright Penn (1966), Patricia Arquette (1968), Chuck Todd (1972), and Taylor Kitsch (1981). 

RIP Mary Pickford (1892 - 1979), Ilka Chase (1900 - 1978), Melvin Calvin (1911 - 1997), Sonja Henie (1912 - 1969), and Edward Mulhare (1923 - 1997).

It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. Albert Einstein

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Albert Einstein

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else. Albert Einstein

When the solution is simple, God is answering. Albert Einstein

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas. Albert Einstein

If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. Albert Einstein

February 6, 2011. A video of clips from the beginning of the NBA till now. I made this video for a school project. The video is in HD. It has footage of LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Ervin "magic" johnson, Dwayne Wade, Bill Russell, Larry Bird and many other stars. Footage from all the National Basketball Association teams. Footage from the 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, 2000's. Playoff/ Finals plays: dunks blocks buzzer beaters game winners.

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On This Date In 1605 Pope Leo XI (2 June 1535 – 27 April 1605), born Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici, was Pope from 1 April 1605 to 27 April of the same year. He died on the 27th day of his pontificate, and was succeeded by Pope Paul V.

On This Date In 1621 At the Plymouth settlement in present-day Massachusetts, the leaders of the Plymouth colonists, acting on behalf of King James I, made a defensive alliance with Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags. It was the first treaty between a Native American tribe and a group of American colonists. 

On This Date In 1700 English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools' Day by playing practical jokes on each other.

On This Date In 1789 The first U.S. House of Representatives, meeting in New York City, reached quorum and elected Pennsylvania Representative Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg as its first speaker. 

On This Date In 1854 "Hard Times - For These Times" (commonly known as Hard Times) was first published, and was the tenth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was serialised, every week, between April 1 and August 12, 1854. It sold well, and a complete volume was published in August, totalling 110,000 words.

On This Date In 1865 The Battle of Five Forks was fought in the southwest of Petersburg, Virginia, in Dinwiddie County, during the Appomattox Campaign of the American Civil War. The battle, sometimes referred to as the "Waterloo of the Confederacy," pitted Union Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan against Confederate Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Pickett's loss at Five Forks triggered Lee's decision to abandon his entrenchments around Petersburg and begin the retreat that led to his surrender at Appomattox Court House on April 9. 

On This Date In 1873 The RMS Atlantic struck an underwater rock called Marr's Head 50 metres from Meagher's Island, Nova Scotia, quickly filled with water and flipped on its side. 535 people died, leaving only 371 survivors.

On This Date In 1877 Ignoring the taunts of fellow miners who said he would only find his own tombstone, prospector Edward Schieffelin began his search for silver in the area of present-day southern Arizona. Later that year, Schieffelin was not only alive and well, but had found one of the richest silver veins in the West. He named it the Tombstone Lode.

On This Date In 1918 The Royal Air Force (RAF) was formed with the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). The RAF took its place beside the British navy and army as a separate military service with its own ministry. 

On This Date In 1919 The 1919 Stanley Cup Final ice hockey play-off series to determine the 1919 Stanley Cup champion ended with no champion decided, being suspended after five games had been played due to an outbreak of Spanish Influenza. This was the first and only time since its donation in 1893 that the Stanley Cup was not awarded after the playoffs began. 

On This Date In 1937 At the 1937 Masters, Byron Nelson caught and passed Ralph Guldahl for his first major championship victory and his third PGA Tour win.

On This Date In 1939 The Spanish Civil War, a major conflict that devastated Spain from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939, ended this day. 

On This Date In 1942 The Second World War commenced in Borneo at the end of 1941, after several years of mounting regional tension. This is the day Japanese Imperial Forces gained control of Borneo Island.

On This Date In 1945 After suffering the loss of 116 planes and damage to three aircraft carriers, 50,000 U.S. combat troops of the 10th Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Simon B. Buckner Jr., landed on the southwest coast of the Japanese island of Okinawa, 350 miles south of Kyushu, the southern main island of Japan.

On This Date In 1946 An undersea earthquake off the Alaskan coast triggered a massive tsunami that killed 159 people in Hawaii. 

On This Date In 1948 Soviet troops stop U.S. and British military trains traveling through the Russian zone of occupation in Germany and demand they be allowed to search the trains. British and U.S. officials refused the Soviet demand, and the problems associated with the Soviet, British, and U.S. occupation of Germany grew steadily more serious in the following months, as the Cold War continued to develop.

On This Date In 1963 The ABC television network air the premiere episode of General Hospital, the daytime drama that would become the network’s most enduring soap opera, and the longest-running serial program produced in Hollywood. On the same day, rival network NBC debuted its own medical-themed soap opera, The Doctors.

On This Date In 1970 President Richard Nixon signed legislation officially banning cigarette ads on television and radio. Nixon, who was an avid pipe smoker, indulging in as many as eight bowls a day, supported the legislation at the increasing insistence of public health advocates. 

On This Date In 1976 Apple was founded. When Apple was originally founded as a partnership on April Fools' Day 1976, there were three founders: Woz, Jobs, and a fellow by the name of Ronald Gerald Warne, 41. Read more here: http://www.amazon.com/Apple-Confidential-2-0-Definitive-Colorful/dp/1593270100

On This Date In 1981 ”Reckoning”, a 1981 live double album by the Grateful Dead, was released.

On This Date In 1984 Marvin Gaye was shot and killed by his own father one day short of his 45th birthday. 

On This Date In 1989 Through the 8^th of April the Fourth International Special Olympics Winter Games were held in Reno, Nevada, and Lake Tahoe, California. More than 1,000 athletes from 18 countries participated.

On This Date In 1993 Race car driver and owner Alan Kulwicki, who won the 1992 National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) Winston Cup championship by one of the tightest margins in series history, was killed in a plane crash near Bristol, Tennessee, where he was scheduled to compete in a race the following day. 

On This Date In 1998 Coretta Scott King called on the civil rights community to join in the struggle against homophobia. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x91580

On This Date In 2001 A mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals surveillance aircraft and a People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) J-8II interceptor fighter jet resulted in an international dispute between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) called the Hainan Island incident. 

On This Date In 2004 Sen. Robert Byrd cast his 17,000th Roll Call vote (and became the first to do so) against a "motion to invoke cloture on the committee substitute to H.R. 4." (In English, he voted against welfare reform.). http://soulofthesenate.org/timeline.html#2004 

On This Date In 2007 ”Buffalo”, a live album by Frank Zappa, was released as a two-CD set. It is the second installment on the Vaulternative Records label that is dedicated to the posthumous release of complete live shows of Zappa's (the first release being FZ:OZ). 

On This Date In 2009 NATO membership was enlarged to 28 with the entrance of Albania and Croatia. 

On This Date In 2010 John Forsythe, the debonair actor whose matinee-idol looks, confident charm and mellifluous voice helped make him the star of three hit television series, including ABC’s glamour soap “Dynasty,” died of complications from pneumonia. He was 92. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/arts/television/03forsythe.html?_r=1 

Happy Birthday Jonathan Haze (1929), Debbie Reynolds (1932), Don Hastings (1934), Jimmy Cliff (1948), John Abizaid (1951), Jennifer Runyon (1960), Jessica Collins (1971), Juuso Riksman (1977), and Grant Cooper (1985).  

RIP Edward Clark (1815 - 1880), Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924), Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918), Alberta Hunter (1895 - 1984), and Gordon Jump (1932 - 2003). 

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. Pete Seeger 

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero 

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. Ronald Reagan 

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. Ayn Rand 

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The 2011 Trend Report is now available at http://www.trendhunter.com/trendreports, and to celebrate, we are releasing our annual video / 2011 trend forecast so that you can see all of the hottest consumer trends for 2011 in fashion, design, pop culture, eco, tech and advertising. This is a sample of our in-depth marketing research at Trend Hunter PRO and TrendReports.com. Enjoy! 

Bring on the new season! And may it always sound so sweet!

A military cargo plane, flying over a populated area, suddenly loses power and starts to nose down. The pilot tries to pull up, but with all their cargo, the plane is too heavy. So he yells to the soldiers in back to throw things out to make the plane lighter. They throw out a pistol. "Throw out more!" shouts the pilot. So they throw out a rifle. "More!" he cries again. They heave out a missile, and the pilot regains control. He pulls out of the dive and lands safely at an airport. They get into a jeep and drive off. Pretty soon they meet a boy on the side of the road who's crying. They ask him why he's crying and he says "A pistol hit me on the head!" They drive more and meet another boy who's crying even harder. Again they ask why and the boy says, "A rifle hit me on the head!" They apologize and keep driving. They meet a boy on the sidewalk who's laughing hysterically. They ask him, "Kid, what's so funny?" The boy replies, "I sneezed and a house blew up!"

On This Date In 1634 The first English settlers-a carefully selected group of Catholics and Protestants-arrived at St. Clement's Island on Maryland's western shore aboard the Ark and the Dove, and founded the settlement of St. Mary’s.

On This Date In 1774 British Parliament passed the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city's residents pay for the nearly $1 million worth (in today's money) of tea dumped into Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773.

On This Date In 1776 The Battle of Saint-Pierre, a military confrontation near the Quebec village of Saint-Pierre, south of Quebec City, took place. This confrontation occurred during the Continental Army's siege of Quebec following its defeat at the Battle of Quebec. The Patriot forces routed the Loyalist forces, killing at least 3 and capturing more than 30.

On This Date In 1807 The British abolished the Trans-Atlantic system of African slave trade.

On This Date In 1865 The Battle of Fort Stedman took place. Confederate General Robert E. Lee made Fort Stedman his last attack of the war in a desperate attempt to break out of Petersburg, Virginia. The attack failed, and within a week Lee was evacuating his positions around Petersburg.

On This Date In 1879 Little Wolf, the chief of the Bowstring Soldiers, an elite Cheyenne military society, and often called "the greatest of the fighting Cheyenne," surrendered to his friend Lieutenant W. P. Clark.

On This Date In 1907 The Montreal Wanderers finished out the ECAHA season with a perfect 10-0 record, and went on to defeat the newly crowned league champion, the Kenora Thistles, in a two-game, total-goal series, 7-2 (Wanderers win), 6-5 (Thistles win), to win the Stanley Cup.

On This Date In 1911 In one of the darkest moments of America's industrial history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burned down, killing 145 workers. The tragedy led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of factory workers.

On This Date In 1918 And less than three weeks after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk formally brought an end to Russia's participation in the First World War, the former Russian province of Belarus declared itself an independent, democratic republic.

On This Date In 1932 The Supreme Court handed down its decision in the case of Powell v. Alabama. The case arose out of the infamous Scottsboro case. Nine young black men were arrested and accused of raping two white women on a train in Alabama. The boys were fortunate to barely escaped a lynch mob sent to kill them, but were railroaded into convictions and death sentences. The Supreme Court overturned the convictions on the basis that they did not have effective representation.

On This Date In 1933 President Herbert Hoover accepted the newly commissioned USS Sequoia as the official presidential yacht. For 44 years, the Sequoia served as an occasional venue for recreation and official gatherings for eight U.S. presidents.

On This Date In 1935 American author William Faulkner has his novel, “Pylon”, a fictionalized version of New Orleans and set in New Valois, published.

On This Date In 1941 Yugoslavia, despite an early declaration of neutrality, signed the Tripartite Pact, forming an alliance with Axis powers Germany, Italy, and Japan.

On This Date In 1944 While detained, [Dr. Moses Koffinas] learned of German plans to deport Jews, and smuggled a note out to Sabetai Kabelis, a prominent member of the Jewish Community Board, advising the Jews to flee. Unfortunately, Kabelis chose not to relay the warning to the Jews of Ioannina, and on March 25, 1944, the entire Jewish community of 1,860 people, including Kabelis himself, was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Kabelis realized too late his error in judgement.

On This Date In 1946 In conclusion to an extremely tense situation of the early Cold War, the Soviet Union announced its troops in Iran would be withdrawn within six weeks. The Iranian crisis was one of the first tests of power between the United States and the Soviet Union in the postwar world.

On This Date In 1957 France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg signed a treaty in Rome establishing the European Economic Community (EEC), also known as the Common Market. The EEC, which came into operation in January 1958, was a major step in Europe's movement toward economic and political union.

On This Date In 1958 Sugar Ray Robinson defeated Carmen Basilio to regain the middleweight championship. It was the fifth and final title of his career.

On This Date In 1965 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. marched alongside 25,000 demonstrators in Montgomery, Alabama, to demand voting rights for black Americans.

On This Date In 1967 The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., led a march of 5,000 antiwar demonstrators in Chicago, and in speaking to them, King declared that the Vietnam War was "a blasphemy against all that America stands for."

On This Date In 1968 President Johnson, still uncertain about his course of action in Vietnam, convened a nine-man panel of retired presidential advisors. The group, which became known as the "Wise Men," reached a consensus after a two-day deliberation: they advised against any further troop increases and recommended that the administration seek a negotiated peace.

On This Date In 1975 In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, King Faisal was shot to death by his nephew, Prince Faisal.

On This Date In 1982 Danica Patrick, the first woman to win an IndyCar Series race, America's top level of open-wheel racing, was born in Beloit, Wisconsin.

On This Date In 1983 The moonwalk, or backslide, gained worldwide popularity after Michael Jackson executed it during his performance of his song "Billie Jean" on the March 25, 1983, television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, and was considered his signature move. The moonwalk has since become one of the best known dance techniques in the world.

On This Date In 1983 ”The Outsiders”, a 1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, an adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton, was released.

On This Date In 1988 ”Biloxi Blues”, the second of playwright Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical trilogy (number one was Brighton Beach Memoirs; number three, Broadway Bound), directed by Mike Nichols, was released.

On This Date In 1994 At the end of a largely unsuccessful 15-month mission, the last U.S. troops departed Somalia, leaving 20,000 U.N. troops behind to keep the peace and facilitate "nation building" in the divided country.

On This Date In 2001 On Oscar night, the ever-quirky Icelandic singer Bjork turned heads by showing up on the red carpet in an outfit resembling a dead swan. Over a nude body stocking and above a large white tutu-like skirt, the swan’s neck was draped around Bjork’s shoulders like a shawl, with its head lying on her chest. Bjork took the stage to perform her nominated song, “I’ve Seen It All,” which lost in its category to Bob Dylan’s “Things Have Changed,” from Wonder Boys.

On This Date In 2008 The invasion of Anjouan (code-named Operation Democracy in Comoros), took place. It was an amphibious assault led by the Comoros, backed by African Union (AU) forces, including troops from Sudan, Tanzania, Senegal, along with logistical support from Libya and France.

On This Date In 2009 Historian and civil rights activist John Hope Franklin died at age 94. He was particularly well-known for his efforts to fight for racial equality in the United States, for his work on the 1954 Supreme Court decision which overturned America’s legalised ‘separate but equal’ apartheid, and for his book “From Slavery to Freedom”, first published in 1947, which sold over 3.5 million copies.

On This Date In 2010 Minnesota Wild beat Philadelphia Flyers, 4-3, New York Rangers win over New Jersey Devils, 4-3, and Tampa Bay Lightning defeated Boston Bruins, 5-3

Happy Birthday Gene Shalit (1926), Jim Lovell (1928), Gloria Steinem (1934), Anita Bryant (1940), Aretha Franklin (1942), Paul Michael Glaser (1943), Elton John (1947), Bonnie Bedelia (1948), Marcia Cross (1962), Sarah Jessica Parker (1965), Danica Patrick (1982), and Katharine McPhee (1984).

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great. Mark Twain

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Pamela Vaull Starr

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. Zig Ziglar

Honoring WOMEN all over the world in 2011;

featuring Boyz II Men, “A Song for Mama”

This is but a humble sampling in tribute to some of the great women throughout history ... set to the song, Hero, by Mariah Carey. See Contributor comments and essay!