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Tag Archives: Thomas Edison
ON THIS DAY: November 21, 2018
November 21st is Alaska Alascattalo Day * National Gingerbread Cookie Day World Hello Day * World Television Day * _______________________________________ MORE! Mollie Steimer, Rene Magritte and Milka Planinc, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Dame Beryl Bainbridge, Milka Planinc, Mollie Steimer, Rene Magritte, Thomas Edison, Voltaire, Yolande James
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ON THIS DAY: October 11, 2017
October 11th is International Day of the Girl Child * General Pulaski Memorial Day * National Coming Out Day * National Food Truck Day * Sausage Pizza Day ____________________________________________________________ MORE! Thomas Edison, Eleanor Roosevelt and Elmore Leonard, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Eleanor Roosevelt, Jerome Robbins, Joseph Alsop, Merieme Chadid, Patty Murray, Teddy Roosevelt, Thomas Edison
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ON THIS DAY: August 14, 2017
August 14th is Creamsicle Day Rosé (wine) Day Social Security Day * World Lizard Day National V-J Day * National Navajo Code Talkers Day * ________________________________________________________________ MORE! John Galsworthy, Lina Wertmüller and David Crosby, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Alfred Alessandrescu, Bon Jovi, David Crosby, John Galsworthy, Lina Wertmüller, Thomas Edison, Winifred Stanley
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ON THIS DAY: February 11, 2017
February 11th is Get Out Your Guitar Day Make a Friend Day Peppermint Patty Day Shut-in Visitation Day Stress Awareness Day White Shirt Day * ___________________________________________________________ MORE! Thomas Edison, Emma Goldman and John Dingell, click
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Else Lasker-Schüler, Emma Goldman, Gerry-Mander, John Dingell, Lydia Maria Child, Paul Bocuse, Thomas Edison
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ON THIS DAY: October 21, 2016
October 21th is Apple Day * Babbling Day Back to the Future Day * Celebration of the Mind Day * Count Your Buttons Day Mammography Day * Pumpkin Cheesecake Day Reptile Awareness Day ____________________________________________________________ MORE! Tokugawa Ieyasu, Florence Nightingale, and … Continue reading
ON THIS DAY: August 8, 2016
August 8th is Bowling Day Dalek Day Earth Over Shoot Day Happiness Happens Day International Cat Day ___________________________________________________________ WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS Cambodia – Kazantip Republic Fest Canada – (last day) Salmo BC: Shambhala Music Festival France – Lorient, … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy/Astrophysics, History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Airship, Cat Day, Dalek Day, Olympics, Thomas Edison, Ulysses S Grant, United Nations Charter
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ON THIS DAY: July 18, 2016
July 18th is National Ice Cream Day! Hug Your Kid Day World Listening Day Nelson Mandela International Day World Festivals & National Holidays Botswana – Presidents’ Day Japan – Umi No Hi (Sea Day) Laos – Boun Khao Phansa Myanmar … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day
Tagged Adolf Hitler, Elvis Presley, Nadia Comăneci, Nelson Mandela, President Harry Truman, Senator Ted Kennedy, The Grateful Dead, Thomas Edison
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First Heard: ‘Water Music’
I don’t envy Royalty very often – I’ve never had a lust for power, and most of the job just looks tedious and stuffy to me. But I would love to be able to say, “I’m going to be boating … Continue reading
Posted in Classical Music
Tagged First Heard: 'Water Music', George Frideric Handel, Handel's Water Music, July 17 1717, King George I of England, Thomas Edison, William Shakespeare
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ON THIS DAY: July 3, 2016
July 3rd is: Disobedience Day Stay Out of the Sun Day Plastic Bag Free Day National Chocolate Wafer Day National Holidays Around the World Armenia – Vardavar Belarus – Independence Day Myanmar – Women’s Day U.S. Virgin Islands – Emancipation … Continue reading
Posted in History, Holidays, On This Day, Rock and Roll, Scotland
Tagged Franz Kafka, Jim Morrison, Quebec, The Doors - Light My Fire, Thomas Edison, Women's Rights
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