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ON THIS DAY: December 16, 2016
December 16th is Boston Tea Party Day* Chocolate Covered Anything Day Free Shipping Day * ….Ugly Christmas Sweater Day * ______________________________________________________________ MORE! Anton Dvorak, Beatrix Potter and Jimi Hendrix , click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Anton Dvorak, Arthur C. Clarke, Beatrix Potter, Jimi Hendrix, Ludwig van Beethoven, Margaret Mead, Noel Coward, Philip K. Dick
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Word Cloud: ENCRYPTED
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD When the Germans invaded Denmark in April, 1940, Piet Hein (1905-1996) was a 34-year-old scientist and inventor, who had to decide between three responses: do nothing, flee to “neutral” Sweden — or join the Danish resistance movement. As he explained … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Denmark, Nazis, Poetry, Science, Word Cloud, World War II
Tagged Encrypted, Grooks, Kumbel, Piet Hein, superellipse
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ON THIS DAY: December 15, 2016
December 15th is Bill of Rights Day * Cat Herders Day National Cupcake Day National Gingerbread Latte Day ______________________________________________________________ MORE! Jane Austen, Gustave Eiffel and Franklin D. Roosevelt, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Betty Smith, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gustave Eiffel, Jane Austen, Maxwell Anderson, Muriel Rukeyser, Sitting Bull
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Earth art… “Most people wouldn’t know (art) if it came up and bit them on the ass.” – Frank Zappa
“Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.” – Frank Zappa By ann summers This is why I always wanted my own bulldozer… (2015) Artist Michael Heizer, in the Nevada desert for 43 … Continue reading
Posted in Art, California, History, Installation Art, Media, Memorial, Mythology, Sculpture, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Art, conceptual art, Culture, earth art, environment, fine arts, galleries, installation, Media, Michael Heizer, museums, Nevada, RACE, Sculpture, visual art
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ON THIS DAY: December 14, 2016
December 14th is Bouillabaisse Day Monkey Day Roast Chestnuts Day * Quantum Theory Day * ____________________________________________________________ MORE! Aphra Behn, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager. click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Aphra Behn, Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, Margaret Chase Smith, Roald Amundsen, Shirley Jackson, Tycho Brahe, Wilma Mankiller
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ON THIS DAY: December 13, 2016
December 13th is National Cocoa Day National Day of the Horse * National Popcorn String Day * National Violin Day ______________________________________________________________ MORE! Kenneth Patchen, Grandma Moses and Yasser Arafat, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Abel Tasman, Carlos Montoya, George Gershwin, Grandma Moses, Kenneth Patchen, Sir Francis Drake, Yasser Arafat
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Tin-Pot Chrome: Trump’s tweets as insider trading under 2012 STOCK act … SAD!
By ann summers PEOTUS Trump is now no better than CNBC/FBN/Bloomberg stock touts, whose ranks have given us the ‘bagger party as well as Cramer-clones. High-frequency Trading or just high. Darn that asymmetric information. How many crony millionaires could be created … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Capitalism, Celebrity, Corruption, Economic Policy, Economics, Financial, Government, History, information Technology, Investing, Jurisprudence, Media, Political Science, Politics, Presidential Elections, Propaganda, SEC, Society, Stock Market, Uncategorized, United States, Wall Street
Tagged 2012 STOCK Act, Conspiracy Theories, Donald Trump, insider trading, Jim Cramer, Journalism, Media, tweets
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ON THIS DAY: December 12, 2016
December 12th is Gingerbread Decorating Day * National Ambrosia Day National Ding-a-Ling Day * National Poinsettia Day * ______________________________________________________________ MORE! Gustave Flaubert, Edvard Munch and Dionne Warwick, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Chief Justice John Jay, Dionne Warwick, Edvard Munch, Gustave Flaubert, Helen Frankenthaler, U.S. 2000 Election, William Lloyd Garrison
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TCS: Giving Frigates and Fairylands to Kids
Good Morning! ____________________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
Posted in Emily Dickinson, Literature, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Each Peach Pear Plum, Giving Frigates and Fairylands to Kids, Hilaire Belloc, Neil Gaiman, TCS
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ON THIS DAY: December 11, 2016
December 11th is Have a Bagel Day International Mountain Day * UNICEF Founding Day * World Choral Day * Worldwide Candle Lighting Day * _____________________________________________________________ MORE! Louis XVI, Grace Paley and ‘Bill W’ Wilson, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged 'Bill W' Wilson, Angry Birds, Big Mama Thornton, Fiorello La Guardia, Grace Paley, Louis XVI, Salman Rushdie
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