Monthly Archives: September 2016

ON THIS DAY: September 2, 2016

Posted on September 2, 2016 by wordcloud9

September 2nd is ∞ Calendar Adjustment Day * Lazy Mom’s Day Bring Your Manners to Work Day * ∞ V-J Day II * ____________________________________________________________ WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS Marshall Islands – Dri-jerbal (Labor Day) Spain – Ceuta: Día de … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: RESISTANCE

Posted on September 2, 2016 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD In 1895, Japan was at war with China for supremacy over Korea, which was China’s most important client state. Japan wanted access to Korea’s coal and iron, and to use it as a buffer zone to prevent Chinese or Russian … Continue reading →

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We have a new writer.

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Chuck Stanley

By Chuck Stanley, Editor We were lucky enough to get Dr. Nicole Plyler Fisk to come on board as a writer.She is a very special person.  She teaches English, and points out that she has gone both the adoptive and … Continue reading →

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Flowers For Socrates, From Aleppo

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Nicole Plyler Fisk

by Nicole Plyler Fisk I’m honored to be a contributing writer to this blog (thanks, Chuck, for the invite). For my first piece, I thought that something with flowers would be appropriate, so I’m adapting a diary I posted, originally, … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: September 1, 2016

Posted on September 1, 2016 by wordcloud9

September 1st is Emma M Nutt Day * ∞ World Letter Writing Day * ∞ No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day (celebrates words that don’t rhyme, like orange) __________________________________________________________ WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS Australia – Birdsville, Queensland: Birdsville Races Canada – … Continue reading →

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Trump’s immigration policy as ethnic cleansing prescription

Posted on September 1, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   So we now have heard from an orange realtor pitching the US a Southern Wall timeshare that Mexico will pay for. And being Latino is not illegal, nor is being Muslim, yet that is what is now … Continue reading →

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