Category Archives: History

ON THIS DAY: September 2, 2017

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September 2nd is Calendar Adjustment Day * Grits for Breakfast Day Bring Your Manners to Work Day * V-J Day II * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Teddy Roosevelt, Christa McAuliffe and Barak Obama, click

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ON THIS DAY: September 1, 2017

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September 1st is Emma M Nutt Day * World Letter Writing Day * No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day (words that don’t rhyme) International Day of the Taiji Dolphins * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Johann Pachelbel, Ann Richards and Bobby Fischer, click

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ON THIS DAY: August 31, 2017

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August 31st is National Trail Mix Day National Eat Outside Day Love Litigating Lawyers Day * We Love Memoirs Day * International Overdose Awareness Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Meriwether Lewis, Maria Montessori and Kurt Weill, click

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ON THIS DAY: August 30, 2017

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August 30th is Frankenstein Day * Grief Awareness Day * Slinky Day * Toasted Marshmallow Day International Whale Shark Day * U.N. International Day of the Disappeared * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Mary Shelley, John Gunther and Sylvia Earle, click

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ON THIS DAY: August 29, 2017

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August 29th is According to Hoyle Day * Chop Suey Day Individual Rights Day * More Herbs, Less Salt Day U.N. International Day Against Nuclear Tests * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Edmond Hoyle, Ingrid Bergman and Isaac Hayes, click

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ON THIS DAY: August 28, 2017

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August 28th is Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day Cherry Turnover Day National Bow Tie Day National Red Wine Day Radio Commercials Day * Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! William Herschel, Tasha Tudor and Emmett Till, click

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ON THIS DAY: August 27, 2017

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August 27th is Just Because Day The Duchess Who Wasn’t Day * National Pots de Creme Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Man Ray, Norah Lofts and Léon Theremin, click

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ON THIS DAY: August 26, 2017

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August 26th is National Women’s Equality Day * National Cherry Popsicle Day National Dog Day * International Tongue Twister Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Michelangelo, Zona Gale and Charles de Gaulle, click

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ON THIS DAY: August 25, 2017

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August 25th is Banana Split Day * Kiss and Make Up Day Whisky Sour Day World Daffodil Day * Park Service Founders Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE!  Galileo, Leonard Bernstein and Dolly Parton, click

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Charlottesville and the Crisis of Identity and Tribalism in America

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Steven D. Searls

I’ve given a great deal of thought to the events that went down in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12th, when the now infamous “Unite the Right” rally degenerated into a street fight as police stood by and did nothing. We … Continue reading →

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