Blow Out the Candles July 24

Bears place kicker Kevin Butler is turning the big 5-0 today.

Butthead, a member of the Super Bowl XX championship team is the Bears All-Time leading scorer with 1116 points.

Hall of Famer Tommy McCarthy was born in Boston, Massachusetts on this date in 1863.

 Tommy "sliding"

Hall of Fame forward Karl Malone is celebrating hid 49th birthday today.

 Like peanut butter & jelly or Smith and Wesson

Malone & Sloan

Legendary aviator Amelia Earhart was born in Atchison, Kansas on this date in 1897.

1963 Air Mail Stamp

Some pictures of Miss Earhart:

This is the image used on the National Chicle card

Jazz age icon, painter, writer and wife of F. Scott, Zelda Fitzgerald was born in Montgomery, Alabama on this date in 1900.

"I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs."

"By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future."

"We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion."

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

"There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention."

Self Portrait

 Marriage at Cana

Times Square