Guardian angel serve as an Hypothesis to salve many doubts, whereof common Philosophy affordeth no solution: By the 19th century, the guardian angel was no longer viewed in Anglophone lands as an intercessory figure, but rather as a force protecting the believer from performing sin. A parody appears in Byron's "Don Juan": "Her guardian angel had given up his garrison" (Canto I, xvii). Clarence Odbody, the guardian angel in the 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life", "earned his wings" through bringing awareness that life was worth living to the film's protagonist, George Bailey. Guardian angel A guardian angel is an angel that
George S. Sandstrom George S. Sandstrom During the early 1900s George S. Sandstrom, of Oakland, California, made what is called a Banjo ukulele, or banjolele. A combination of a ukulele and a banjo, which at the time sold for about $2.00. On December 12, 1917 George Sandstrom of Oakland California filed patent application number 206746. He was awarded patent number 1354268, titled "Banjo," on September 28, 1920. The patent specifications describe George Sandstrom's invention, in part, as "...a tightening device for banjo heads and other musical instruments having an open circular rim, a flexible head interposed within the opening of the said rim,