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Monthly Archives: October 2019
ON THIS DAY: October 16, 2019
October 16th is National Dictionary Day * National Feral Cat Day * National Liqueur Day World Food Day * Ether Day/ World Anaesthesia Day * _____________________________________ MORE! Wu Zetian, Günter Grass and Hema Malini, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Charlotte Brontë, Günter Grass, Hema Malini, Lucy Stanton, Noah Webster, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, Wu Zetian
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ON THIS DAY: October 15, 2019
October 15th is International Rural Women’s Day * I Love Lucy Day * World Maths Day * Breast Health Day * National Grouch Day * World Students Day * White Cane Safety Day * Global Handwashing Day Latino AIDS Awareness … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Agustina Bessa-Luís, Edward Gibbon, Isabella Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Penny Marshall, Varian Fry, Victoria Spivey
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ON THIS DAY: October 14, 2019
October 14th is Peace Corps Speech Day * Indigenous Peoples Day Columbus Day (U.S.) Be Bald and Free Day National Dessert Day World Standards Day * _____________________________________ MORE! Lillian Gish, Spencer Williams and Shula Marks, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Alicja Dorabialska, Katherine Mansfield, Lillian Gish, Masaoka Shiki, Shula Marks, Spencer Williams, William Penn
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TCS: In Beauty – Poems for Indigenous Peoples Day
. . 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
ON THIS DAY: October 13, 2019
October 13th is U.N. International Day for Disaster Reduction * English Language Day * National M&M Day U.S. Navy’s Birthday * Yorkshire Pudding Day _____________________________________ MORE! Luisa de Guzmán, Naguib Mahfouz and Mollie Katzen, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Arna Bontemps, Luisa de Guzmán, Mary H. Kingsley, Mollie Katzen, Moturu Udayam, Naguib Mahfouz, Paul Simon
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ON THIS DAY: October 12, 2019
October 12th is World Arthritis Day * Old Farmer’s Day * Free Thought Day * National Gumbo Day National Savings Day * U.N. Spanish Language Day * _____________________________________ MORE! Ding Ling, Art Clokey and Clémentine Célarié, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Alice Childress, Art Clokey, Clémentine Célarié, Dick Gregory, Ding Ling, Douglas Adams, Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse
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ON THIS DAY: October 11, 2019
October 11th is International Day of the Girl Child * General Pulaski Memorial Day * National Coming Out Day * Sausage Pizza Day _____________________________________ MORE! Eleanor Roosevelt, Coleman Hawkins and Merieme Chadid, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Anita Hill, Coleman Hawkins, Eleanor Roosevelt, General Kazimierz Pulaski, Lucy Field Wanzer, Merieme Chadid, Thích Nhất Hạnh
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Word Cloud: DARKNESS
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The pages of our calendars are flying off like autumn leaves. To the delight of children, we are nearing that annual candy-scavenge in America: Halloween. Our celebrations of the eerie and macabre are pretty bland compared to … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Edna St. Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, Hughes Mearns, Maurice Kilwein Guevara, Robert Frost, Walter del al Mare, William Shakespeare, Yusef Komunyakaa
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ON THIS DAY: October 10, 2019
October 10th is Angel Food Cake Day National Handbag Day U.S. Naval Academy Day * Shift10 Day * World Homeless Day * World Mental Health Day * World Day Against the Death Penalty * International Stage Manager’s Day * _____________________________________ … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Aksella Luts, Dilsa Demirbag-Sten, Fiona Rae, Fridtjof Nansen, K. Shivarama Karantha, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Mercè Rodoreda
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ON THIS DAY: October 9, 2019
October 9th is World Post Day Curious Events Day Fire Prevention Day * Leif Erikson Day * Nautilus Night * Pizza and Beer Day * _____________________________________ MORE! Maria Filotti, Abdullah Ibrahim and Nona Hendryx, click
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Tagged Abdullah Ibrahim, Alice Mae Lee Jemison, Bruce Catton, John Lennon, Maria Filotti, Mary Shadd Cary, Nona Hendryx
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