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Monthly Archives: June 2020
ON THIS DAY: June 24, 2020
June 24th is Celebration of the Senses Day * Pralines Day Swim a Lap Day International Fairy Day Stonewall National Monument Day * ______________________________ MORE! Anita Desai, Lawrence Block and Vicky Phelan, click
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Tagged Ambrose Bierce, Anita Desai, Carolyn Shoemaker, Lawrence Block, Pablo Picasso, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Vicky Phelan
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ON THIS DAY: June 23, 2020
June 23th is National Hydration Day * Plastic Pink Flamingo Day * Pecan Sandies Day UN Public Service Day * International Widows Day * International Women in Engineering Day * ___________________________________ MORE! Huda Sha’arawi, Alan Turing and Lena Horne, click
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Tagged Alan Turing, Giambattista Vico, Huda Sha’arawi, Jean Anouilh, Lena Horne, Verena Holmes, Wilma Rudolph
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ON THIS DAY: June 22, 2020
June 22nd is Chocolate Éclair Day Journey’s End Day * Onion Rings Day Worldwide VW Beetle Day * World Rainforests Day _________________________________ MORE! Katherine Dunham, Chuck Berry and Miri Yu, click
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Tagged Ada E. Yonath, Chuck Berry, J.R.R. Tolkein, Joseph Papp, Katherine Dunham, Miri Yu, Octavia E. Butler
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TCS: Reading Poetry at Night in a Plague Year
. Good Morning! _________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early riserson Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum,so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole inyour brainpan, feel free to add a comment. … Continue reading
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ON THIS DAY: June 21, 2020
June 21st is Daylight Appreciation Day * World Make Music Day * Atheist Solidarity Day Day of the Gong * Go Skateboarding Day International Yoga Day * National Seashell Day Peaches ‘N’ Cream Day World Humanist Day UN World Hydrography … Continue reading
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Tagged Benazir Bhutto, Daisy Turner, Frida Kahlo, Jean-Paul Sartre, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, Paolo Soleri, Shirin Ebadi
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ON THIS DAY: June 20, 2020
June 20th is American Eagle Day * Kouign Amann Day * Nystagmus Awareness Day * Vanilla Milkshake Day UN World Refugee Day * ___________________________________ MORE! Helena Rasiowa, Muhammad Ali and Virginia Raggi, click
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ON THIS DAY: June 19, 2020
June 19th is Garfield the Cat Day * National Watch Day World Sickle Cell Day * National Martini Day Sauntering Day * International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict * __________________________________ MORE! Laura Hobson, Abe Fortas and … Continue reading
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Word Cloud: ESSENCE
Essence was originally posted in February 2017, for Black History Month.It seems timely to republish it during the ongoing national discussion ofRacism in America. by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Essence – ‘the indispensable quality of something that determines its character’ – I … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, Being Black in America, Black History, Cancer, Charlie Parker, Essence, Langston Hughes, Lucille Clifton
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ON THIS DAY: June 18, 2020
June 18th is International Picnic Day Autistic Pride Day * Go Fishing Day National Splurge Day International Sushi Day * Sustainable Gastronomy Day * ________________________________ MORE! Susan B Anthony, Thabo Mbeki and Marta, click
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Tagged Angela Johnson, Marta, Mona Mahmudnizhad, Paul McCartney, Susan B Anthony, Thabo Mbeki, Winston Churchill
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