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Monthly Archives: January 2018
ON THIS DAY: January 29, 2018
January 29th is Corn Chip Day Curmudgeons Day Freethinkers Day * National Puzzle Day * Seeing Eye Dog Day * __________________________________________ MORE! Anton Chekov, Muna Lee and Paddy Chayefsky, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Alice C. Evans, Anton Chekov, Edgar Allan Poe, Germaine Greer, Muna Lee, Paddy Chayefsky, Robin Morgan
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TCS: The Library of Congress and the First Librarian
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
ON THIS DAY: January 28, 2018
January 28th is Blueberry Pancake Day National Kazoo Day * International Data Protection Day * __________________________________________ MORE! Colette, Jackson Pollock and Titian, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Charlemagne, Colette, Jackson Pollock, Jane Austen, Jose Marti, Kathleen Lonsdale, Titian
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ON THIS DAY: January 26, 2018
January 26th is Dental Drill Day * Peanut Brittle Day National Spouses Day Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement * __________________________________________ MORE! Glenn Curtiss, Julia Morgan and Gustavo Dudamel, click
Word Cloud: CUMULATION
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD It’s not easy to sum up a person’s life. No one is just one thing, and no one stays the same from one year to the next, especially when a single event can radically alter someone’s … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Theatre, Word Cloud
Tagged Caribbean, Cumulation, Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize for Literature, Robert Lowell, Saint Lucia, T.S. Eliot Prize
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ON THIS DAY: January 25, 2018
January 25th is Irish Coffee Day * Opposite Day (Robert) Burns Night * A Room of One’s Own Day * __________________________________________ MORE! Robert Burns, Nellie Bly and Joe Sheridan, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Gloria Naylor, Joe Sheridan, Molly Holzschlag, Nellie Bly, Robert Burns, Roman Emperor Claudius, W. Somerset Maugham
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ON THIS DAY: January 24, 2018
January 24th is Cell Phone Recycling Day * Belly Laugh Day Compliment Day Eskimo Pie Day * Lobster Thermidor Day Peanut Butter Day __________________________________________ MORE! Hadrian, Indira Gandhi and Thurgood Marshall, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Edith Wharton, Frederick the Great, Hadrian, Indira Gandhi, Marguerite Durand, Thurgood Marshall, William Congreve
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