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Monthly Archives: April 2018
TCS: Lend Me Your EARS – Part One – Shakespeare’s Songs and Poetry
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 Poetry, The Coffee Shop, Theatre
Tagged Akala Raps Shakespeare, Al Pacino, Lend Me Your EARS, Philippe Sly sings Roger Quilter, Shakespeare's songs, TCS, The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company
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The reign of error of the Trump regime’s Final Days will be narrated by The National Enquirer.
By ann summers Mike Pence is about the Race Bannon resemblance, but he’s really in the wrong Sarah Huckabee Sanders multiverse if he thinks he’s going to be 46* because Mighty Mango will probably not be impeached. They’ll cut ribbons … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, American History, Celebrity, Government, History, inequality, Police, Political Science, Politics, Racism, Society, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Donald Trump, impeachment, Media, Mike Pence, Politics, Racism, Racism in the United States
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ON THIS DAY: April 15, 2018
April 15th is Glazed Ham Day Jackie Robinson Day * Rubber Eraser Day * World Art Day * U.S. Income Tax Day (Actual deadline is Tuesday this year) _________________________________________ MORE! Henry James, Bessie Smith and Hu Yaobang, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Bessie Smith, Ella Baker, Henry James, Hu Yaobang, Jackie Robinson, Tomas Tranströmer, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
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ON THIS DAY: April 14, 2018
April 14th is Webster’s Dictionary Day * Look Up at the Sky Day National Dolphin Day Pan American Day * National Pecan Day Slow Art Day * International Moment of Laughter Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Temür Khan, Loretta Lynn and David Hare, … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: April 13, 2018
April 13th is Donate Life/Blue & Green Day * Make Lunch Count Day * Peach Cobbler Day Scrabble Day * Thomas Jefferson Day * _________________________________________ MORE! John Dryden, Eudora Welty and Seamus Heaney, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Eudora Welty, John Dryden, Mikis Theodorakis, Nella Larsen, Rae Armantrout, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Jefferson
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Word Cloud: WORD-WARRIOR
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Looking up a word in another language is often a doorway into the past of its speakers. When I did a search for the Maori word for “warrior,” the answers were far more than just words: … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: April 12, 2018
April 12th is American Immigration Lawyers Association Day of Action Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality Monument Day * D.E.A.R. Day * Polio Vaccine Day * Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day International Day for Street Children * International Day of Human Space Flight * _________________________________________ … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Beverly Cleary, Bill Haley, Ida Pollock, Jim Gary, Keiko Fukuda, Lydia Cacho, Yuri Gagarin
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Depression-era policy to return for farmers screwed by Trump trade war.
By ann summers Grand Kleptocrat Trump will crater the US economy because he thinks trade wars are simply about firms, industries, and markets, rather than people working and living in regions. It’s not as simple as the revanchist profit touted by Agent Orange. … Continue reading
Posted in Capitalism, China, Economic Policy, Foreign Policy, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Uncategorized
Tagged agriculture, Politics, Trade Deals, trade war, US Trade Deals
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ON THIS DAY: April 11, 2018
April 11th is Barbershop Quartet Day Cheese Fondue Day U.S. Submarine Day * International “Louie Louie” Day * World Parkinson’s Disease Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Leo Rosten, Annie Besant and Richard Berry, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Annie Besant, Charles Evans Hughes, Dean Acheson, Johanna Elberskirchen, Leo Rosten, Mary White Ovington, Richard Berry
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ON THIS DAY: April 10, 2018
April 10th is ASPCA Day * National Equal Pay Day * Golfer’s Day * National Sibling Day * Encourage a Young Writer Day * National Farm Animals Day * International Safety Pin Day * _________________________________________ MORE! William Hazlett, Dolores Huerta and Isaac Hayes, click