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Monthly Archives: May 2017
ON THIS DAY: May 31, 2017
May 31st is Macaroon Day Save Your Hearing Day Senior Health and Fitness Day Speak in Sentences Day World MS Day * World No-Tobacco Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Walt Whitman, Chien-Shiung Wu and Buddy Holly, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Buddy Holly, Chien-Shiung Wu, Jerry Seinfeld, Patricia Harris, Rameses II, Walt Whitman, Walter Sickert
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ON THIS DAY: May 30, 2017
May 30th is Loomis Day * Hole in My Bucket Day Mint Julep Day Water a Flower Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Mahlon Loomis, Agnès Varda and Benjamin Britten, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Agnès Varda, Benjamin Britten, Benny Goodman, Cornelia Otis Skinner, J.M.W. Turner, Jerome B. Weisner, Mahlon Loomis
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Rest in peace my friends
I’d like you to meet five guys I met when I was in Vietnam. These guys were the crew aboard a Lockheed C-130E serial number 62-1785, of the 314th Tactical Airlift Wing based at Ching Chuan Kang Ab, China. Lockheed … Continue reading
Posted in American History, Heroism, Memorial, USAF, Vietnam, World History
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ON THIS DAY: May 29, 2017
May 29th is Biscuit Day Coq Au Vin Day Escalator Day * Paperclip Day Learn About Composting Day International Day of UN Peacekeepers * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Joseph Haydn, Sojourner Truth and Oswald Spengler, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Alfonsina Storni, Dorothea Dix, John Winthrop, Joseph Haydn, Oswald Spengler, Sojourner Truth, T. H. White
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TCS: LAST NOTES – Bugles for the Fallen
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 France, Germany, Italy, The Coffee Shop, United Kingdom, United States, War
Tagged LAST NOTES - Bugles for the Fallen, Laurence Binyon, Memorial Day
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“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth . . .”
This was true when Picasso said it. It is true now. Just watch this TED talk. Then do something. That is all.
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ON THIS DAY: May 28, 2017
May 28th is Amnesty International Day * Brisket Day Hamburger Day Sierra Club Day * Menstrual Hygiene Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Ian Fleming, Alan Turing and Gladys Knight, click
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Tagged Alan Turing, Betty Shabazz, Gladys Knight, Ian Fleming, Jim Thorpe, John Fogerty, Lizzie Black Kander
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ON THIS DAY: May 26, 2017
May 26th is Paper Airplane Day Blueberry Cheesecake Day International Chardonnay Day Don’t Fry Friday Heat Awareness Day World Lindy Hop Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Dorothea Lange, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Peggy Lee. click
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Tagged Aleksandr Pushkin, Dorothea Lange, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Mamie Smith, Peggy Lee, Sally Ride, Sonia Sotomayor
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Word Cloud: MAYDEEP
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD “Now is the month of maying” says the old song by Thomas Morley. Our month of maying is drawing to a close, but we have explored far more than spring romance. Many of these end-of-May poets have taken … Continue reading
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Tagged Elizabeth Coatsworth, G.K. Chesterton, Linda Pastan, May Swenson, Maydeep, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Theodore Roethke, Walt Whitman
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