-- card: 67506 from stack: in.0 -- bmap block id: 0 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 4410 -- name: -- part contents for background part 14 ----- text ----- June 15 -- part contents for background part 13 ----- text ----- In 1215, King John signed the Magna Carta at Runnymede, England, granting his barons more liberty. In 1520, Pope Leo X threatened to excommunicate Martin Luther if he did not recant his religious beliefs. In 1775, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to appoint George Washington head of the Continental Army. -- part contents for background part 16 ----- text ----- New York Gov. Mario Cuomo (1932) Singer Waylon Jennings (1937) Singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson (1941) Comedian-actor Jim Belushi (1954) -- part contents for background part 17 ----- text ----- "The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause." ------------------------------------------- Henri Bergson, French author and philosopher (1859-1941)