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ON THIS DAY: March 31, 2019
March 31st is Bunsen Burner Day * Cesar Chavez Day * Crayola Crayon Day * Eiffel Tower Day * World Backup Day International Hug A Medievalist Day * International Transgender Day of Visibility * _______________________________________ MORE! Bianca Visconti, Kamala Suraiyya … Continue reading
A Poem for Women’s History Month
Ada Limón (1976- ) is the author of Lucky Wreck, The Carrying, Bright Dead Things, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Sharks in the Rivers. _________________________ To read her poem, How to Triumph Like a Girl, click
Posted in History, Poetry
Tagged Ada Limón, How to Triumph Like a Girl, March is Women's History Month, Women's History Month
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ON THIS DAY: March 30, 2019
March 30th is Earth Hour * ‘I Am in Control’ Day * National Doctor’s Day * National Pencil Day * Take a Walk in the Park Day Virtual Vacation Day _________________________________________ MORE! Anna Sewell, Shahka Sherkat and Jill Carroll, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Anna Sewell, Charlotte Johnson Baker, Jill Carroll, Mary Whiton Calkins, Melanie Klein, Norah Jones, Shahka Sherkat
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Word Cloud: RULEBREAKER (Redux – Women’s History Month)
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD My Theatre Arts teacher in high school told me: “You should know the rules before you break them.” It wasn’t an original thought, but most thoughts aren’t – after all, about 108 billion people have been living and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Anne Carson, Bertolt Brecht, Charles Laughton, Classical Greek, Jean-Luc Godard, Rulebreaker, Women's History Month
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ON THIS DAY: March 28, 2019
March 28th is Barnum & Bailey Day * Black Forest Cake Day National Triglycerides Day * Something on a Stick Day Weed Appreciation Day * _______________________________________ MORE! Clara Lemlich, Laura Chinchilla and Iris Chang, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Ángela Ruiz Robles, Clara Lemlich, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, Iris Chang, Laura Chinchilla, Vina Mazumdar, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova
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ON THIS DAY: March 27, 2019
March 27th is Celebrate Exchange Day * World Theatre Day * Spanish Paella Day Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day International Whisk(e)y Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Jane Colden, Veronika Tushnova and Julia Alvarez, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Billie Holiday, Gloria Swanson, Jane Colden, Jelena Dimitrijević, Julia Alvarez, Mother Jones, Veronika Tushnova
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ON THIS DAY: March 26, 2019
March 26th is Nougat Day Spinach Day Legal Assistants Day Live Long and Prosper Day * Epilepsy Awareness Purple Day _______________________________________ MORE! Mary Beale, Mahadevi Verma and Nancy Pelosi, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Dorothy Porter, Gaura Devi, Julie-Victoire Daubié, Mahadevi Verma, Maria Autsch, Mary Beale, Nancy Pelosi
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TCS: A Tiny House Romance
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 A Tiny House Romance, Arthur Vaso, Garçonnière, Little Paris, Paris in the Spring, pied-à-terre, TCS, Thomas Jefferson
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