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ON THIS DAY: April 9, 2018
April 9th is Global Day to End Child Sexual Abuse * Appomattox Day * Jenkin’s Ear Day * Winston Churchill Day * Cherish an Antique Day Chinese Almond Cookie Day National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day * _________________________________________ MORE! … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Bob Hope, Charles Baudelaire, Emily Hobhouse, Florence Smith Price, J. William Fulbright, James Cook, Joolz Denby
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TCS: Shakespeare’s Mysterious Offstage Life
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
Tagged Anne Hathaway, Christopher Marlowe, Othello, Sonnets, TCS, The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida, William Shakespeare
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ON THIS DAY: April 7, 2018
April 7th is Coffee Cake Day National Beer Day * International Beaver Day * International Snailpapers Day * World Health Organization Day * Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide * _________________________________________ MORE! Ravi Shankar, Janis Ian and Dag … Continue reading
Shortfinals is back and we have him here.
by Chuck Stanley Shortfinals is back and we have him here. It has been 1,484 days since shortfinals wrote one of his encyclopedic photo-blog posts for the Daily Kos blog. Shortfinals is the nom de plume of G. Ross Sharp. … Continue reading
Posted in Aviation, United Kingdom
Tagged Air&Space, museums, New Writer, Photography, RAF, shortfinals, Smithsonian, The People's Mosquito, Writing
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The Carvers of Ripon
What remains of my family in the U.K. is spread rather far and wide. What this means in practical terms, is that if I want visit them all in one trip, I have some long drives ahead of me. … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, England
Tagged architecture, church, MIddle Ages, Ripon Cathedral, woodcarving
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ON THIS DAY: April 6, 2018
April 6th is Army Day * Twinkie Day * New Beers Eve * National Tartan Day * National Teflon Day * National Student Athlete Day * International Day of Sport for Development and Peace * _________________________________________ MORE! Raphael, Celestina Cordero and René Lalique, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Abastenia St. Leger Eberle, Celestina Cordero, Hal Holbrook, Johann Kuhnau, Raphael, Rene Lalique, Rose Scheiderman
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Word Cloud: EVERYDAY
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD I wrote this poem after opening my copy of For the Sleepwalkers to begin work on an earlier, shorter version of this profile, which I originally published at another website. There was still a faint smokiness in the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged A Penny Patron of The Arts, Edward Hirsch, Everyday, For the Sleepwalkers, Poet’s Choice, Rainer Maria Rilke, Simone Weil, The Washington Post
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More Train Stories
My career on the railroad started 20 years after the last SP/ATSF/UP steam-powered train left town. I watched the workforce dry up from more than 200,000 employees down to 20,000 nation wide. I watched double track get torn up and … Continue reading
Posted in California, History, Kansas, Railroad
Tagged Locomotives, Santa_Fe, Steam_Engine, Trains
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ON THIS DAY: April 5, 2018
April 5th is Caramel Day Go For Broke Day * Gold Star Spouses Day * Deep Dish Pizza Day * Read A Road Map Day Star Trek First Contact Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Thomas Hobbes, Bette Davis and Sadao Munemori, click
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