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ON THIS DAY: October 18, 2016
October 18th is Alaska Day * Chocolate Cupcake Day No Beard Day Hard-Boiled Detective Day * Rocky Horror Picture Show Day * ____________________________________________________________ MORE! Moby-Dick, Persons Day and the BBC, click
Posted in Alaska, History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged BBC, Heidelberg University, Moby Dick, Persons Day, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tommy Dorsey
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ON THIS DAY: October 16, 2016
October 16th is National Dictionary Day * National Ether Day * National Feral Cat Day * National Liqueur Day World Food Day * ____________________________________________________________ MORE! Noah Webster, Margaret Sanger and the Chinese Long March, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Bengal, Desmond Tutu, Girton College, Margaret Sanger, Noah Webster, Porfirio Díaz and President Taft, Walt Disney
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ON THIS DAY: October 15, 2016
October 15th is National Mushroom Day National Red Wine Day World Maths Day * World Rural Women’s Day * World Students Day * ____________________________________________________________ MORE! Edward Gibbon, Charlotte Brontë, and Abe Lincoln’s beard, click
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Tagged Abe Lincoln's beard, Charlotte Brontë, Edward Gibbon, Ernest Hemingway, Freedom of Information Act, Marie Antoinette, Night on Bald Mountain
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ON THIS DAY: October 13, 2016
October 13th is World Sight Day * National M&M Day U.S. Yorkshire Pudding Day U.N. International Day for Disaster Reduction * ______________________________________________________________ MORE! Emperor Claudius, B’nai B’rith and the Ford Edsel, click
After Trump’s defeat, a new American Warlordism
By ann summers Trump’s now inevitable loss will signal perhaps a Democratic age for at least two years until the residual misogyny gains yet another mid-term resurgence of reactionary fervor as they did in 1994 (class), 2010 (race), and 2018 (gender). … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Civil War, Democracy, History, Libertarians, Media, Uncategorized
Tagged Donald Trump, secession, warlords
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ON THIS DAY: October 12, 2016
October 12th is World Arthritis Day * Emergency Nurses Day * Free Thought Day * National Fossil Day * U.N. Spanish Language Day * International Top Spinning Day ____________________________________________________________ MORE! Salem Witch Trials, Raincoats and Jesus Christ Superstar, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Edith Cavell, Jesus Christ Superstar, Macintosh Raincoat, Original Oktoberfest, Salem Witch Trials, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The White House
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ON THIS DAY: October 11, 2016
October 11th is Ada Lovelace Day * International Day of the Girl Child * Face Your Fears Day General Pulaski Memorial Day * National Coming Out Day * National Food Truck Day * ____________________________________________________________ MORE! General Pulaski, Ada Lovelace , … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Ada Lovelace, AIDS Memorial Quilt, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Frideric Handel, International Day of the Girl Child, Meriweather Lewis, Saturday Night Live
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