Category Archives: Countries

ON THIS DAY: September 3, 2016

Posted on September 3, 2016 by wordcloud9

September 3rd is U.S. Bowling League Day Cabernet Day Penny Press Day * Welsh Rarebit Day World Beard Day International Vulture Awareness Day ____________________________________________________________ MORE! World Festivals and Holidays, Frederick Douglas, the Bonneville Salt Flats and a Mutant Alligator, click

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The Cats of Aleppo … and Their Keeper

Posted on September 2, 2016 by Nicole Plyler Fisk

by Nicole Plyler Fisk If there’s one thing I’ve learned from teaching Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games series to freshman composition students, it’s that — despite what presidential candidate Donald Trump would have us believe — we should not wax poetic over bombing anything. … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: September 2, 2016

Posted on September 2, 2016 by wordcloud9

September 2nd is ∞ Calendar Adjustment Day * Lazy Mom’s Day Bring Your Manners to Work Day * ∞ V-J Day II * ____________________________________________________________ WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS Marshall Islands – Dri-jerbal (Labor Day) Spain – Ceuta: Día de … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: RESISTANCE

Posted on September 2, 2016 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD In 1895, Japan was at war with China for supremacy over Korea, which was China’s most important client state. Japan wanted access to Korea’s coal and iron, and to use it as a buffer zone to prevent Chinese or Russian … Continue reading →

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Flowers For Socrates, From Aleppo

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Nicole Plyler Fisk

by Nicole Plyler Fisk I’m honored to be a contributing writer to this blog (thanks, Chuck, for the invite). For my first piece, I thought that something with flowers would be appropriate, so I’m adapting a diary I posted, originally, … Continue reading →

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Trump’s immigration policy as ethnic cleansing prescription

Posted on September 1, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   So we now have heard from an orange realtor pitching the US a Southern Wall timeshare that Mexico will pay for. And being Latino is not illegal, nor is being Muslim, yet that is what is now … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: TRANSLATION

Posted on August 26, 2016 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD The Nobel award committee’s citation called her the “Mozart of poetry,” a woman who mixed the elegance of language with “the fury of Beethoven.” Wislawa Szymborska (1923-2012) was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.  The Nobel … Continue reading →

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It Takes 290 to Win

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Terry Welshans

Terry Welshans On November 8, 2016, ballots will be cast to elect the 45th President of the United States. We elect our President in a two-step process that was established at the Constitutional Convention September 6, 1787. The first step … Continue reading →

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The Coffee Shop: Mad Englishman Near the Midnight Sun – Part 2

Posted on August 15, 2016 by wordcloud9

The Coffee Shop is an open thread-style discussion forum for human interest news of the day. —oooOooo– There are several hosts, each host being responsible for picking a “theme of the day” and starting the discussion. But in an open thread, … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: AFTERIMAGE

Posted on August 5, 2016 by wordcloud9

 NONA BLYTH CLOUD Writing poetry in reaction to headline news is risky business. Even some of the best poets have written work so momentary about a particular incident it’s glaringly out-of-place in their future collected works. But when a poet … Continue reading →

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