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Tecumseh
(c. 1768–1813)
In 1810 William Henry Harrison, then governor of Indiana Territory, was negotiating with Tecumseh in order to try to prevent open hostilities. He ordered a chair to be brought for the Shawnee chief. The man who brought it said, "Your father, General Harrison, offers you a seat."
"My father!" Tecumseh exclaimed. "The sun is my father and the earth is my mother, and on her breast will I lie." Ignoring the chair, he stretched himself out on the ground.

Biographical note:
Chief of the American Shawnee Indians
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“Oh mine papa”
My dad had a great sense of humor. His initials were B.J. and when I and my sisters were teenagers we began calling him "Baby Joy". It always made him laugh and lift his eyebrows in the air. After I grew up and moved away, he emailed me almost every day and usually signed his emails with a row of x's and o's followed by the name "Daddio" (a nickname he'd given himself!). On several occasions, though, he'd sign using "Baby Joy" and I knew he was sitting at his computer with a big smile on his face and his eyebrows arched high above his eyes.
The following photos and quotes are a reflection of the relationship I had with my father. I hope they speak to you as we honor all fathers this month.
Even though I'm old, I surely do miss my daddy sometimes.
—Kasha Linka
“Highlight on Fathers”
ANECDOTES
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Sid Luckman
Joseph P. Kennedy
Louis Mountbatten
Cyrus the Great
Jan Masaryk
Ernest Hemingway
Blaise Pascal
Johann von Goethe
Daniel Webster
Bishop Milton Wright
Amazing Fathers in Nature
Mom & Dad
Q&A
Father:
Don't you think our son gets his brains from me?
Mother:
Probably, dear. I still have all of mine.