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ON THIS DAY: April 5, 2019
April 5th is Caramel Day Read A Road Map Day Gold Star Spouses Day * Deep Dish Pizza Day * Go For Broke Day * Star Trek First Contact Day * __________________________________ MORE! A. P. Mda, Miet Smet and Jomo … Continue reading
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Tagged A. P. Mda, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Caitlin Moran, Janet D. Rowley, Jomo Kenyatta, Miet Smet, Sadao Munemori
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ON THIS DAY: April 4, 2019
April 4th is School Librarian Day * Chicken Cordon Bleu Day Vitamin C Day * International Carrot Day * World Rat Day * International Day for Mine Awareness & Action * ____________________________________ MORE! Philip Astley, Mary Colter and Hugh Masekela, … Continue reading
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Tagged Hugh Masekela, Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin, Mary Colter, Orunamamu, Philip Astley, Philippa Fawcett, Shing-Tung Yau
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ON THIS DAY: April 3, 2019
April 3rd is Chocolate Mousse Day Film Score Day * Pony Express Day * National Tweed Day * Weed Out Hate Day World Party Day * ______________________________________ MORE! Oscar Wilde, Sandra Boynton and Allen Ginsberg, click
ON THIS DAY: April 2, 2019
April 2nd is World Autism Day National Ferret Day Peanut Butter and Jelly Day National Reconciliation Day * International Children’s Book Day ___________________________________ MORE! Francisco Balagtas, Anne Waldman and Charlie Chaplin, click
ON THIS DAY: April 1, 2019
April 1st is April Fools/All Fools Day Atheist Day * National Poetry Month * Edible Book Day * Fossil Fools Day * Reading is Funny Day US Air Force Academy Day * International Tatting (lace-making) Day ______________________________________ MORE! Jonathan Swift, … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: March 31, 2019
March 31st is Bunsen Burner Day * Cesar Chavez Day * Crayola Crayon Day * Eiffel Tower Day * World Backup Day International Hug A Medievalist Day * International Transgender Day of Visibility * _______________________________________ MORE! Bianca Visconti, Kamala Suraiyya … Continue reading
A Poem for Women’s History Month
Ada Limón (1976- ) is the author of Lucky Wreck, The Carrying, Bright Dead Things, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Sharks in the Rivers. _________________________ To read her poem, How to Triumph Like a Girl, click
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Tagged Ada Limón, How to Triumph Like a Girl, March is Women's History Month, Women's History Month
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ON THIS DAY: March 30, 2019
March 30th is Earth Hour * ‘I Am in Control’ Day * National Doctor’s Day * National Pencil Day * Take a Walk in the Park Day Virtual Vacation Day _________________________________________ MORE! Anna Sewell, Shahka Sherkat and Jill Carroll, click
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Tagged Anna Sewell, Charlotte Johnson Baker, Jill Carroll, Mary Whiton Calkins, Melanie Klein, Norah Jones, Shahka Sherkat
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ON THIS DAY: March 28, 2019
March 28th is Barnum & Bailey Day * Black Forest Cake Day National Triglycerides Day * Something on a Stick Day Weed Appreciation Day * _______________________________________ MORE! Clara Lemlich, Laura Chinchilla and Iris Chang, click
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Tagged Ángela Ruiz Robles, Clara Lemlich, Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, Iris Chang, Laura Chinchilla, Vina Mazumdar, Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova
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