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TCS: Birthplace of Phantoms – a Prelude to Halloween

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TCS: Bicycle Day – Only Moving Does It Have a Soul

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ON THIS DAY: January 19, 2020

January 19th is Edgar Allan Poe’s Birthday * National Neon Patent Day * National Popcorn Day National Tin Can Day * __________________________________________ MORE! Pulcheria, George Claude and Elizabeth Warren, click

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Word Cloud: EERIE

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD What a lot of words we have in English for the things that give us that unsettling tingly feeling! eer-ie – adjective uncanny, sinister, ghostly, unnatural, unearthly, odd, supernatural, otherworldly, strange, abnormal, weird, freakish, creepy, scary, spooky, freaky, frightening, bone-chilling, spine-chilling, hair-raising, blood-curdling . . . Middle English, originally of northern English-Scots origin, … Continue reading

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TCS: Hinges On Our Heads – Poems for Wonderful Weirdos Day

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ON THIS DAY: January 19, 2019

January 19th is Edgar Allan Poe’s Birthday * National Neon Patent Day * National Popcorn Day National Tin Can Day * __________________________________________ MORE! Pulcheria, Edgar Allan Poe and Thit Jensen, click

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ON THIS DAY: January 29, 2018

January 29th is Corn Chip Day Curmudgeons Day Freethinkers Day * National Puzzle Day * Seeing Eye Dog Day * __________________________________________ MORE! Anton Chekov, Muna Lee and Paddy Chayefsky, click

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ON THIS DAY: January 19, 2018

January 19th is National Neon Day * National Popcorn Day Tin Can Day * __________________________________________ MORE! Edgar Allan Poe, Janis Joplin and Robert Palmer, click

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Word Cloud: EERIE

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD What a lot of words we have in English for the things that give us that unsettling tingly feeling! eer-ie – adjective uncanny, sinister, ghostly, unnatural, unearthly, odd, supernatural, otherworldly, strange, abnormal, weird, freakish, creepy, scary, spooky, freaky, frightening, bone-chilling, spine-chilling, hair-raising, blood-curdling . . . Middle English, originally of northern English-Scots … Continue reading

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ON THIS DAY: January 29, 2017

January 29th is Corn Chip Day Curmudgeons Day Freethinkers Day * National Puzzle Day * Seeing Eye Dog Day * World Leprosy Day * ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Thomas Paine, Edgar Allan Poe and Robin Morgan, click

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