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Category Archives: History
ON THIS DAY: August 30, 2018
August 30th is U.N. International Day of the Disappeared * Frankenstein Day * Grief Awareness Day * Slinky Day * International Whale Shark Day * Toasted Marshmallow Day _________________________________________ MORE! Anita Garibaldi, John Gunther and Sylvia Earle, … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Garibaldi, Jacques-Louis David, John Gunther, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Nancy Wake, Sylvia Earle, Thurgood Marshall
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ON THIS DAY: August 29, 2018
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, Ishi, and Jehan Sadat, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Edmond Hoyle, Helene Glykatzi-Ahrweiler, Ingrid Bergman, Ishi, Jehan Sadat, John Locke, Temple Grandin
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ON THIS DAY: August 28, 2018
August 28th is Radio Commercials Day * Cherry Turnover Day National Bow Tie Day National Red Wine Day Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day _________________________________________ MORE! Ayyankali, Janet Frame, and Emmett Till, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Ayyankali, Bruno Bettelheim, Emmett Till, Janet Frame, Robertson Davies, Tasha Tudor, Wendy E. Davies
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ON THIS DAY: August 27, 2018
August 27th is Just Because Day National Pots de Creme Day The Duchess Who Wasn’t Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Rhazes, Norah Lofts and William Least Heat-Moon, click
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Tagged Katharine McCormick, Margarethe Meyer Schurz, Mary Anderson, Norah Lofts, Rhazes, Theodore Dreiser, William Least Heat-Moon
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ON THIS DAY: August 26, 2018
August 26th is National Women’s Equality Day * National Toilet Paper Day National Cherry Popsicle Day National Dog Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Zona Gale, Katherine Goble and Bella Abzug, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Bella Abzug, Benjamin Bradlee, Geraldine Ferraro, Katherine Goble Johnson, Nikky Finney, Robert Walpole, Zona Gale
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ON THIS DAY: August 25, 2018
August 25th is Banana Split Day * Kiss and Make Up Day Park Service Founders Day * Whisky Sour Day _________________________________________ MORE! Walt Kelly, Taslima Nasrin and Arthur Ashe, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Arthur Ashe, Kitasato Shibasaburō, Leonard Bernstein, Taslima Nasrin, Thea Astley, Virginia Euwer Wolff, Walt Kelly
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ON THIS DAY: August 24, 2018
August 24th is Pluto Demoted Day * Sack Like a Visigoth Day * Strange Music Day * Vesuvius Day * William Willberforce Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Sophie Brahe, Stephen Fry and Ava DuVernay, click
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Tagged Alexander McCall Smith, Ava DuVernay, Jean Rhys, Nancy Spero, Sophie Brahe, Stephen Fry, William Wilberforce
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If the Cohen allegations are true, POTUS* conspired to violate federal campaign law and to hide it from the American people
By ann summers Neal Katyal’s op-ed in the NY Times spells it out clearly. Trump has been so used to working without accountability as a private citizen especially with respect to covering up his numerous dalliances, that he … Continue reading
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Tagged Campaign Finance, Donald Trump, Media, Politics, Rule of Law, trumprussia
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ON THIS DAY: August 23, 2018
August 23rd is International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition * Ride the Wind Day * Spongecake Day Valentino Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Arnold Toynbee, Malvina Reynolds and Rudolf Valentino, click
ON THIS DAY: August 22, 2018
August 22nd is Be an Angel Day * Eat a Peach Day Pecan Torte Day Tooth Fairy Day Take Your Cat to the Vet Day _________________________________________ MORE! Claude Debussy, Dorothy Parker and Edvard Munch, click
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Tagged Althea Gibson, Ann Smith Franklin, Claude Debussy, Diane Setterfield, Dorothy Parker, Edvard Munch, Ray Bradbury
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