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ON THIS DAY: August 28, 2020
August 28th is Radio Commercials Day * Cherry Turnover Day National Bow Tie Day Red Wine Day Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day _________________________________ MORE! Evadne Price, James Wong Howe and Rita Dove, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Ayyankali, Emmett Till, Evadne Price, James Wong Howe, Priya Dutt Roncon, Rita Dove, Tasha Tudor
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Word Cloud: ALCHEMIST
by NONA BLYTH CLOUD There’s a wide spectrum of relationships between poets and readers. Some poets write with a searing clarity, and some write as if daring you to make any sense of their poems. Some write poems so personal … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Word Cloud
Tagged Alchemist, American letters at the Library of Congress, Body of This Death, Louise Bogan, Mid-20th Century New York Literary Scene, The Blue Estuaries, The New Yorker, U.S. Poet Laureate
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ON THIS DAY: August 27, 2020
August 27th is Banana Lovers Day Just Because Day National Pots de Creme Day The Duchess Who Wasn’t Day * ___________________________________ MORE! Mary Anderson, Man Ray and Rosalie Wahl, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Canada's 'Famous Five', Katharine McCormick, Man Ray, Mary Anderson, Rhazes, Rosalie Wahl, William Least Heat-Moon
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A Poem for National Dog Day
Since today is National Dog Day, here’sa tribute to that All-American Dog, the Mutt. _________________________________________ To read David Baker’s poem, Mongrel Heart, click
Posted in Poetry
Tagged A Poem for National Dog Day, David Baker, Dogs, Mongrel Heart, National Dog Day
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ON THIS DAY: August 26, 2020
August 26th is U.S. Women’s Equality Day * Cherry Popsicle Day National Toilet Paper Day National Dog Day * ________________________________ MORE! Nikky Finney, Betty Friedan and Bella Abzug, click
ON THIS DAY: August 25, 2020
August 25th is Banana Split Day * Kiss and Make Up Day Whisky Sour Day Park Service Founders Day * _________________________ MORE! Althea Gibson, Harry Truman and Taslima Nasrin, click
ON THIS DAY: August 24, 2020
August 24th is Pluto Demoted Day * Sack Like a Visigoth Day * Strange Music Day * Vesuvius Day * William Wilberforce Day * _________________________________ MORE! Edith Sampson, Stephen Fry and Ava Du Vernay, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Ava Du Vernay, Edith Sampson, Jorge Luis Borges, Lavania Fontana, Sophie Brahe, Stephen Fry, William Wilberforce
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TCS: Something Disappearing as We Say Its Name
. 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
Posted in Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Emily Dickinson, Helen Humphreys, Kathleen Norris, Omar Khayyam and Edward FitzGerald, Robert Frost, TCS: Something Disappearing as We Say Its Name, The White House Rose Garden, Thomas Moore, William Butler Yeats
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ON THIS DAY: August 23, 2020
August 23rd is International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition * Ride the Wind Day * Spongecake Day Valentino Day * _________________________________ MORE! Nazik Al-Malaika, Frank Capra and Halimah Yacob, click
ON THIS DAY: August 22, 2020
August 22nd is Be an Angel Day * Eat a Peach Day Pecan Torte Day Tooth Fairy Day Take Your Cat to the Vet Day _________________________________ MORE! Dorothy Parker, Ray Bradbury and Althea Gibson, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Althea Gibson, Denton Cooley, Dorothy Parker, Josef Strauss, Karen Silkwood, Mary McGrory, Ray Bradbury
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