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ON THIS DAY: August 24, 2017
August 24th is Pluto Demoted Day * Strange Music Day * Vesuvius Day * Waffle Iron Day * William Willberforce Day * Sack Like a Visigoth Day * new! ________________________________________________________________ MORE! William Wilberforce, Jean Rhys and Abbie Hoffman, click
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Tagged A. S. Byatt, Abbie Hoffman, Charles McKim, George Stubbs, Jean Rhys, Jorge Luis Borges, William Wilberforce
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ON THIS DAY: August 23, 2017
August 23rd is Spongecake Day National Ride the Wind Day * Valentino Day * International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & Its Abolition * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Arnold Toynbee, Malvina Reynolds and Mahatma Gandhi, click
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Tagged Arnold Toynbee, Hannah Frank, Jack Butler Yeats, Lillie Hitchcock Coit, Mahatma Gandhi, Malvina Reynolds, William Ernest Henley
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ON THIS DAY: August 22, 2017
August 22nd is Be an Angel Day * Eat a Peach Day Pecan Torte Day Tooth Fairy Day National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Claude Debussy, Dorothy Parker and Count Basie, click
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Tagged Althea Gibson, Annie Proulx, Claude Debussy, Count Basie, Dorothy Parker, Mary McGrory, Ray Bradbury
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ON THIS DAY: August 21, 2017
August 21st is National Senior Citizens Day * National Spumoni Day Sweet Tea Day World P.O.E.T. Day (Piss Off Early Today) ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Aubrey Beardsley, Lili Boulanger and Count Basie, click
ON THIS DAY: August 20, 2017
August 20th is National Honey Bee Day * Chocolate Pecan Pie Day National Lemonade Day * National Radio Day International Homeless Animals Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Bernardo O’Higgins, Connie Chung and Akira Kurosawa, click
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Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Bernardo O’Higgins, Connie Chung, Edgar Guest, Eero Saarinen, H.P. Lovecraft, Maria van Oosterwijck
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Trump trapped by his own prevarications
By ann summers The protests against those protesting Confederate statuary removal are justified to eradicate the “… systematic propaganda campaign to advance the racial cause of the Confederacy”, despite Trump’s apparent and continued sympathy for it using false equivalence. … Continue reading
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ON THIS DAY: August 19, 2017
August 19th is Coco Chanel Day * National Aviation Day * International Orangutan Day Soft-Serve Ice Cream Day World Honey Bee Day World Humanitarian Day * World Photography Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! John Flamsteed, Coco Chanel and Gene Roddenberry, click
ON THIS DAY: August 18, 2017
August 18th is Bad Poetry Day Ice Cream Pie Day Fajita Day * Mail Order Catalog Day * Pinot Noir Day Serendipity Day * _______________________________________________________________ MORE! Antonio Salieri, Rosalynn Carter and Vladimir Nabokov, click
Realpolitik, Surrealpolitik: Steve Bannon talks to liberals
By ann summers More puzzling is the fact that Bannon would phone a writer and editor of a progressive publication (the cover lines on whose first two issues after Trump’s election were “Resisting Trump” and “Containing Trump”) and assume that … Continue reading
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Tagged assange, Donald Trump, Media, Politics, Steve Bannon, trade war, trumprussia, US Trade Deals
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ON THIS DAY: August 17, 2017
August 17th is Black Cat Appreciation Day * National I Love My Feet Day * National Non-Profit Day * new! National Thrift Shop Day Vanilla Custard Day ________________________________________________________________ MORE! Luigi Boccherini, Hazel Bishop and V.S. Naipaul, click
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