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• Aug 4, 1914: Germany invaded Belgium and, in response, Britain declared war on Germany.
• Aug 4, 1944: Anne Frank and her family were found hiding in Amsterdam by Nazis.
• Aug 4, 1916: Denmark ceded the Danish West Indies, including the Danish Virgin Islands, to the United States for 25 million.
• More events from This Day in History: Aug 4

2008-08-04

• 00:00 UTC Robert Benchley
  “Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.”

  

• 00:00 UTC Henry Morgan
  “A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can’t help himself.”

  

• 00:00 UTC Malcolm Forbes
  “Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”

  

• 00:00 UTC Evan Esar
  “It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.”

  

2008-08-03

• 00:00 UTC Samuel Butler
  “All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.”

  

• 00:00 UTC Hermann Hesse
  “When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.”

  

• 00:00 UTC Alice James
  “One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.”

  

• 00:00 UTC James F. Byrnes
  “Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.”

  

2008-08-02

• 00:00 UTC Oscar Wilde
  “The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.”

  

• 00:00 UTC C. E. Montague
  “To be amused by what you read–that is the great spring of happy quotations.”

  

• 00:00 UTC Samuel Johnson
  “There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.”

  

• 00:00 UTC Michael Fry and T. Lewis
  “The more things change, the more they remain… insane.”

  

• The 1995 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency – Language: English
• The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor by Various – Language: English
• Religious and Moral Poems by Phillis Wheatley – Language: English
• Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso – Language: English
• The Book of Stories for the Storyteller by Fanny E. Coe – Language: English
• Under the Andes by Rex Stout – Language: English
• Filosofiset mietelmät by Francis Bacon – Language: Finnish
• Mother America by Sam McClatchie – Language: English
• Arizona Sketches by J. A. Munk – Language: English
• Stories of Siegfried by Mary Esther Miller MacGregor – Language: English
• Laurence Sterne in Germany by Harvey Waterman Thayer – Language: English
• The Rover Boys on the Plains by Edward Stratemeyer – Language: English
• Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson – Language: English
• Anne’s House of Dreams by L. M. Montgomery – Language: English
• Maggie, a Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane – Language: English

2008-08-04

• 15:00 UTC Taken for Granite – Warning about some granite countertops emitting radon and radiation.

2008-08-03

• 15:00 UTC Starbucks Coupon – Internet-distributed Starbucks coupons — valid or not?

2008-08-01

• 15:00 UTC Amazing Duck Story – Tale of rescued ducklings in downtown Spokane.

2008-07-31

• 15:00 UTC An American Tail – Barack Obama’s campaign plane: a tale of two tails.

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