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ON THIS DAY: May 24, 2018
May 24th is National Memory Day National Escargot Day National Scavenger Hunt Day World Schizophrenia Day * Aviation Maintenance Technician Day * _________________________________________ MORE! John Hancock, Sarah Hale and Joseph Brodsky, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Arthur Wing Pinero, Bob Dylan, John Hancock, Joseph Brodsky, Sarah Josepha Hale, Sylvia Daoust, Tansu Çiller
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A Poem for World Turtle Day
by Mary Oliver: The Turtle breaks from the blue-black skin of the water, dragging her shell with its mossy scutes across the shallows and through the rushes and over the mudflats, to the uprise, to the yellow sand, to dig … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Poetry
Tagged Endangered Species, Mary Oliver, National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, The Turtle, World Turtle Day
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ON THIS DAY: May 23, 2018
May 23rd is National Taffy Day * National Lucky Penny Day World Turtle Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Ben Franklin, Margaret Fuller and Robert Moog, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Carolus Linnaeus, Elizabeth Gunn, Hélène Boucher, Margaret Fuller, Norrie May-Welby, Robert Moog
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ON THIS DAY: May 22, 2018
May 22nd is National Maritime Day * Sherlock Holmes Day * U.S. Colored Troops Day * Vanilla Pudding Day World Goth Day * International Day for Biological Diversity * _________________________________________ MORE! John Wycliffe, Mary Casatt and Arthur Conan Doyle, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Betty Williams, John Wycliffe, Lyndon B. Johnson, Mary Casatt, Mehbooba Mufti, Peter Matthiessen
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TCS: The Map-Making Sheep of the Faroe Islands
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 The Coffee Shop
Tagged Faroe Islands, Faroe Islands Tourist Board, Google Street View, Hanus G Johansen, Heifer International, Map-Making, Sheep, Sheep View 360, TCS
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ON THIS DAY: May 20, 2018
May 20th is Eliza Doolittle Day * Morel Mushroom Day * Pick Strawberries Day National Rescue Dog Day Weights & Measures Day * World Autoimmune Arthritis Day _________________________________________ MORE! Henri Rousseau, Sigrid Undset and Charles Lindbergh, click
ON THIS DAY: May 19, 2018
May 19th is May Ray Day Devil’s Food Cake Day Hepatitis Testing Day National Scooter Day National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day _________________________________________ MORE! Johns Hopkins, Nellie Melba and Harold Pinter, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Charles Sumner, Harold Pinter, Johns Hopkins, Nancy Astor, Nellie Melba, Ruth Ella Moore, Tina Strobos
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ON THIS DAY: May 18, 2018
May 18th is Cheese Soufflé Day No Dirty Dishes Day International Museum Day * Buy a Musical Instrument Day * National HIV Vaccine Awareness Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Mathew Brady, Ester Boserup and Walter Sisulu, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Bertrand Russell, Dame Henrietta Moore, Ester Boserup, Jacqueline Cochran, Mathew Brady, Tina Fey, Walter Sisulu
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Word Cloud: GUILT
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Last week’s Word Cloud was about Tracy K. Smith, the current U.S. Poet Laureate, and a previous winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This year’s Pulitzer Prize in Poetry winner, Frank Bidart, was also mentioned. Sadly, Frank … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged "Ellen West", Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, Frank Bidart, Guilt, Herbert White, Louise Glück, National Book Award in Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
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