Monthly Archives: October 2019

ON THIS DAY: October 23, 2019

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October 23rd is Boston Cream Pie Day * iPod Day * (Science) Mole Day * TV Talk Show Host Day * San Juan Capistrano Swallows Depart Day _____________________________________ MORE! Graça Machel, Ang Lee and Adele, click

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ON THIS DAY: October 22, 2019

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October 22nd is International Stuttering Awareness Day * National Color Day National Knee Day * National Nut Day National Smart is Cool Day _____________________________________ MORE! Doris Lessing, Deepak Chopra and Julie Dash, click

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ON THIS DAY: October 21, 2019

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October 21th is Apple Day * Babbling Day Back to the Future Day * Celebration of the Mind Day * Count Your Buttons Day Pumpkin Cheesecake Day Reptile Awareness Day _________________________________ MORE! Albertina Sisulu, Dizzy Gillespie and Jane Heal, click

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TCS: Under Any Shred of Sky – Kurdish Poetry

Posted on October 21, 2019 by wordcloud9

. .  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 … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: October 20, 2019

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October 20th is All-American Rose Day Brandied Fruit Day International Sloth Day * World Osteoporosis Day World Statistics Day * Youth Confidence Day _____________________________________ MORE! Enolia McMillan, Jomo Kenyatta and Kamala Harris, click

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ON THIS DAY: October 19, 2019

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October 19th is Donuts for Doughboys Day * Evaluate Your Life Day LGBT Center Awareness Day * Seafood Bisque Day Urban Wildlife Conservation Day _____________________________________ MORE! Helen Purviance, Samora Machel and Cara Santa Maria, click

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ON THIS DAY: October 18, 2019

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October 18th is Chocolate Cupcake Day National No Beard Day Hard-Boiled Detective Day * World Menopause Day International Necktie Day Rocky Horror Picture Show Day * _____________________________________ MORE! Mary Wroth, Félix Houphouët-Boigny and Violeta Chamorro , click

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Word Cloud: EERIE

Posted on October 18, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD What a lot of words we have in English for the things that give us that unsettling tingly feeling! eer-ie – adjective uncanny, sinister, ghostly, unnatural, unearthly, odd, supernatural, otherworldly, strange, abnormal, weird, freakish, creepy, scary, spooky, freaky, frightening, bone-chilling, spine-chilling, hair-raising, blood-curdling . . . Middle English, originally of northern English-Scots origin, … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: October 17, 2019

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October 17th is Black Poetry Day * Mulligan Day * National Pasta Day Wear Something Gaudy Day * International Day for the Eradication of Poverty * _____________________________________ MORE! Elinor Glyn, Jupiter Hammond and Sathima Benjamin, click

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Total Black: A Poem for Black Poetry Day

Posted on October 17, 2019 by wordcloud9

Coal  by Audre Lorde I Is the total black, being spoken From the earth’s inside. There are many kinds of open. How a diamond comes into a knot of flame How a sound comes into a word, coloured By who … Continue reading →

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