Category Archives: History

ON THIS DAY: April 6, 2018

Posted on April 6, 2018 by wordcloud9

April 6th is Army Day * Twinkie Day * New Beers Eve * National Tartan Day * National Teflon Day * National Student Athlete Day * International Day of Sport for Development and Peace * _________________________________________ MORE! Raphael, Celestina Cordero and René Lalique, … Continue reading →

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More Train Stories

Posted on April 5, 2018 by Terry Welshans

My career on the railroad started 20 years after the last SP/ATSF/UP steam-powered train left town. I watched the workforce dry up from more than 200,000 employees down to 20,000 nation wide. I watched double track get torn up and … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: April 5, 2018

Posted on April 5, 2018 by wordcloud9

April 5th is Caramel Day Go For Broke Day * Gold Star Spouses Day * Deep Dish Pizza Day * Read A Road Map Day Star Trek First Contact Day * _________________________________________ MORE! Thomas Hobbes, Bette Davis and Sadao Munemori, click

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ON THIS DAY: April 4, 2018

Posted on April 4, 2018 by wordcloud9

April 4th is Chicken Cordon Bleu Day School Librarian Day * Vitamin C Day * World Rat Day * International Carrot Day * International Day for Mine Awareness & Action * _________________________________________ MORE! Francis Drake, Dorothea Dix and Muddy Waters, click

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ON THIS DAY: April 3, 2018

Posted on April 3, 2018 by wordcloud9

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, Jane Goodall and Allen Ginsberg, click

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American Railroading

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Terry Welshans

As steam came to a close in America there were still a few wooden cars running in backwater railroads. All wood passenger car ‘Royal Blue’ B&O RR, 1890 (Wikipedia)

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ON THIS DAY: April 2, 2018

Posted on April 2, 2018 by wordcloud9

April 2nd is World Autism Day National Ferret Day Peanut Butter & Jelly Day National Reconciliation Day International Children’s Book Day _________________________________________ MORE! Beethoven, Jeannette Rankin and Haile Selassie, click

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Trump’s southern border wall seems more like Nehemiah’s Dung Gate

Posted on April 1, 2018 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The travails of Prexy Nehemiah Dennison are many, but his minions certainly built enough roads to Moscow during the election, and his golf-day yesterday with Sean Hannity brought perhaps more advice about spinning more southern border wall … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: April 1, 2018

Posted on April 1, 2018 by wordcloud9

April 1st is Atheists Day * April Fools/All Fools Day Reading is Funny Day US Air Force Academy Day * International Tatting Day (lace-making) National Poetry Month 22nd Anniversary * _________________________________________ MORE! Etta Palm, Anne McCaffrey and Rachel Maddow, click

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Organ meats taste irony, because Zombie Irony is back

Posted on March 31, 2018 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Movement leader Richard Spencer popularized the phrase “alt-right” to make his ideals more palatable to mainstream journalists, but the term itself actually comprises several disparate groups. In a study of the far right’s manipulation of the … Continue reading →

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