Moral Courage

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

Thursday, April 21, 1910. Samuel Clemens passes.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, died at the age of 74 at his home in Redding, Connecticut. 

His last word were written, being "Give me my glasses".  He wrote them to his daughter.

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Wednesday, April 20, 1910. Halley's Comet was visible to the naked eye for the first time since its return to the Solar System.

Labels: 1900s, 1910, Halley's Comet, Outer space