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Monthly Archives: June 2018
ON THIS DAY: June 18, 2018
June 18th is Autistic Pride Day * Go Fishing Day International Sushi Day * International Picnic Day National Splurge Day Sustainable Gastronomy Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Li Yuan, Susan B. Anthony and Gamal Nasser , click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Frances Sargent Osgood, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Henry Clay Folger, Li Yuan, Lisa Randall, Sherry Turkle, Susan B Anthony
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TCS: Talking With Trees
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 Greece, Spain, The Coffee Shop
Tagged NatGeo Short Film Showcase, Olive Trees, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Talking With Trees, TCS
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A Poem for Fathers’ Day
Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged A Poem for Fathers' Day, Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Robert Hayden, Those Winter Days
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ON THIS DAY: June 17, 2018
June 17th is Fathers’ Day Apple Strudel Day Eat Your Vegetables Day World Tesselation Day * World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought * _________________________________________ MORE! John Kay, Susan B. Anthony and M.C. Escher, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Birgitte Thott, Charles Eames, Evelyn Graham Irons, John Kay, Kingman Brewster, M.C. Escher, Susan B Anthony
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ON THIS DAY: June 15, 2018
June 15th is Lobster Day Global Wind Day * Magna Carta Day * Nature Photography Day * World Elder Abuse Awareness Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Benjamin Franklin, Margaret Abbott and Mario Cuomo, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Bessie Coleman, Edvard Grieg, Erik Erikson, Malvina Hoffman, Margaret Abbott, Mario Cuomo
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Word Cloud: SUMMER-LONG
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD While Memorial Day has become the unofficial start of summer for Americans, the actual start of the season here in the Northern Hemisphere is the Summer Solstice. The Solstice this year began at 6:07 AM, U.S. … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged John Koethe, Lynda Hull, Mary Oliver, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Sara Teasdale, Stacie Cassarino, Summer-long
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ON THIS DAY: June 14, 2018
June 14th is National Bourbon Day International Bath Day * Strawberry Shortcake Day UN World Blood Donor Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Charles Babbage, Margaret Bourke-White and Archimedes, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Archimedes, Charles Babbage, Irmelin Sandman Lilius, Kublai Khan, Lise Nørgaard, Margaret Bourke-White, Robert Bunsen
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ON THIS DAY: June 13, 2018
June 13th is International Albinism Awareness Day * Cupcake Lover’s Day Random Acts of Light Day * Sewing Machine Day * Weed Your Garden Day Kitchen Klutzes of America Day _________________________________________ MORE! Ibn Battuta, Fanny Burney and Thurgood Marshall, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Carlos Chávez, Dorothy L. Sayers, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Fanny Burney, Ibn Battuta, Thurgood Marshall, W. B. Yeats
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“look at that view, wouldn’t that make a great condo?” Trump sells a North Korean time share
By ann summers Trump in his continuing nouveau vulgarianism pulled a real estate sales stunt at the Singapore summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, showing an iPad video that crudely references the classic DPRK propaganda film series Nation and Destiny Singapore … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Celebrity, China, Foreign Policy, Government, Government Propaganda, History, Imperialism, Media, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Uncategorized
Tagged Donald Trump, korea, Mainstream Media, Media, North Korea, nuclear, Politics, Singapore
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