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Monthly Archives: September 2017
TCS: Everybody Dance!
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 Short Video, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Bees, Everybody Dance!, Ferris Bueller, Mock Turtle Song, Sea Horses, TCS, Twist and Shout, Whooping Cranes
10 Comments
ON THIS DAY: September 10, 2017
September 10th is International Drive Your Studebaker Day * Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day* National Swap Ideas Day TV Dinner Day * World Suicide Prevention Day * ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Thomas Wolsey, Elsa Schiaparelli and Abebe Bikila, click
ON THIS DAY: September 9, 2017
September 9th is Drive Your Studebaker Day “I Love Food” Day Teddy Bear Day Wiener Schnitzel Day Wonderful Weirdos Day * ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Abraham Lincoln, Phyllis Whitney and Otis Redding, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, James Agate, James Hilton, Mary Hunter Austin, Otis Redding, Phyllis Whitney, Queen Elizabeth II
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ON THIS DAY: September 8, 2017
September 8th is Ampersand Day * . . Date-Nut Bread Day Oncology Nurses’ Day Pardon Day * U.N. International Literacy Day * ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Michelangelo, Jacqueline Ceballos and Antonín Dvořák, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Antonín Dvořák, Bess Myerson, Frederic Mistral, Jacqueline Ceballos, Jessie Willcox Smith, Michelangelo, Ruby Bridges Hall
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Word Cloud: ECSTASY
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD If you look up “complex” in the dictionary, you may find a picture of H.D. (1886-1961). Since most Americans and many people in the rest of the world have not had “the benefit of a Classical education,” … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Bryher, Circe, Claudia Homonoea, Ezra Pound, H.D., Helen of Troy, Hilda Dolittle, Richard Aldington
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ON THIS DAY: September 7, 2017
September 7th is Buy a Book Day * Acorn Squash Day ADHD Awareness Day * Grandma Moses Day * Salami Day * Superhuman Day * Neither Rain Nor Snow Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Sam Cook, Grandma Moses and Desmond Tutu, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Buddy Holly, Desmond Tutu, Edith Sitwell, Grandma Moses, Sam Cook, Taylor Caldwell, Uncle Sam
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ON THIS DAY: September 6, 2017
September 6th is Coffee Ice Cream Day Louisa Ann Swain Day * National Read a Book Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Ferdinand Magellan, Jane Addams and Eric Clapton, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Billy Rose, Eric Clapton, Ferdinand Magellan, Jane Addams, Marie Zakrzewska, Marquis de Lafayette, Zelia Nuttall
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Wildfires Burning Over One Million Acres in US Right Now
View from Lookout Mountain, CO. Not clouds. Not Smog. Smoke from wildfires 800 miles away. Smoke from wildfires in the western United States. About 1.4 million acres of fires at the present time and over 7.5 million acres burned so … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change Deniers, Climatology, Colorado, Politics, Science, United States, Wildfires
Tagged environment, Media, Politics
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ON THIS DAY: September 5, 2017
September 5th is Jury Rights Day * Cheese Pizza Day Be Late for Something Day * Two-Ingredient Cocktail Day U.N. International Day of Charity * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Amy Beach, Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Amy Beach, Anwar Sadat, Arthur Koestler, John Cage, Menachem Begin, Peter the Great, William Penn
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ON THIS DAY: September 4, 2017
September 4th is Eat an Extra Dessert Day Macadamia Nut Day Newspaper Carrier Day * National Wildlife Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Anton Bruckner, Mary Renault and Jimi Hendrix, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Anton Bruckner, Bobby Darin, Daniel Burnham, George Eastman, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Jimi Hendrix, Mary Renault
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