Category Archives: History

USS Lolli-Trump … “We are going to start winning again!”

Posted on March 10, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers An Iranian built mockup of a US Nimitz-class carrier is destroyed during the IRGCN Noble Prophet exercise. (ONI Photo) Iranian officials had more than a dozen speedboats attack a replica of a US aircraft carrier today and … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: March 10, 2017

Posted on March 10, 2017 by wordcloud9

March 10th is International Bagpipe Day * Harriet Tubman Day * Land Line Telephone Day Mario (Mar.10) Day Middle Name Pride Day Pack Your Lunch Day U.S. Salvation Army Day * U.S. Paper Money Day * Women & Girls HIV/AIDS … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: March 9, 2017

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March 9th is Crab Meat Day Get Over It Day * Meatball Day World Kidney Day * ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Gustav Stickley, Glenda Jackson and the Smothers Brothers, click

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If the GOP could only stop being gutless about #RussiaGate …

Posted on March 8, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Unfortunately, those blissfully naive Americans who need to be swayed from their support or even tacit tolerance of Lord Dampnut may need the rhetorical message of a xenophobic CT to get to the discourse space where he must … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: March 8, 2017

Posted on March 8, 2017 by wordcloud9

March 8th is ‘A Day Without a Woman’ Strike International Women’s Day * National Proofreading Day * National Peanut Cluster Day Discover What Your Name Means Day ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Johannes Kepler, ‘Tilly’ Shilling and Groucho Marx, click

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ON THIS DAY: March 7, 2017

Posted on March 7, 2017 by wordcloud9

March 7th is Be Heard Day * Cereal Day * Roast of Pork Day Unique Names Day ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Luther Burbank, Kōbō Abe and Lorena A. Hickok, click

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ON THIS DAY: March 6, 2017

Posted on March 6, 2017 by wordcloud9

March 6th is Sofia Kovalevskaya Math Day Day of The Dude * Fun Facts About Names Day Oreo Cookie Day * Frozen Food Day * White Chocolate Cheesecake Day ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Michelangelo, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Ho Chi Minh, click

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ON THIS DAY: March 5, 2017

Posted on March 5, 2017 by wordcloud9

March 5th is Absinthe Day Boston Massacre Day * Cheese Doodle Day Mercator Day * Namesake Day ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Copernicus, Annie Oakley and Winston Churchill, click

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ON THIS DAY: March 4, 2017

Posted on March 4, 2017 by wordcloud9

March 4th is Toy Soldier Day Iditarod First Day ∞ Pound Cake Day ∞ National Grammar Day Marching Band Day ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Antonio Vivaldi, Jeanette Rankin and Charlie Chaplin, click

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a Moat of their Own: Bannonism’s neo-reactionaries & other new-age fascists

Posted on March 4, 2017 by ann li-summers

   By ann summers Under Bannon’s influence, the Trump administration is shaping up to be much more ideologically extreme than many people were expecting. “[Bannon] has spectacularly grand ambitions, to transform our country and its place in the world,” … … Continue reading →

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