Monday, October 25, 2004
Bizet, Helen Reddy, and Julia Roberts
For expanded information on today's people and events, go to: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Witchflower9358/188244 Births on this day: 1825 Johann Strauss (the younger) composer (Waltz King) 1838 Georges Bizet France, composer (Carmen) 1854 Charge of the Light Brigade 1869 John Heisman...
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Thursday, October 21, 2004
Coleridge, Typing 170 wpm, and the First Eclipse
For expanded information on today's people and events, go to: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Witchflower9358/188244 Births on October 21: 1772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, England, poet (Rime of the Ancient Mariner) 1808 Samuel Francis Smith, American Baptist clergyman 1833 Alfred Bernhard Nobel,...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Jim Thorpe, Grandpa Jones, and Rolling Stones Riot
For expanded information on today's people and events, go to: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Witchflower9358/188244 Birth Dates: 1632 Sir Christopher Wren, England, astronomer/great architect 1812 Austin Flint, 19th century heart research pioneer 1823 Thomas Hughes, England, author (Tom...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Births, Deaths, and the DeLorean
For expanded information on today's people and events, go to: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Witchflower9358/188244 Birth Dates: 1605 Sir Thomas Browne British writer (Garden of Cyrus) 1784 John McLoughlin Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country 1868 Bertha Landes 1st woman elected mayor of...
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Monday, October 18, 2004
Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Rolls-Royce
For expanded information on today's people and events, go to: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Witchflower9358/188244 Birthday of: 1904 A. J. [Abbott Joseph] Liebling 1926 Chuck Berry 1950 Wendy Wasserstein 1951 Terry McMillan 1961 Rick Moody Events: 1469 Ferdinand and Isabella marry 1860...
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Friday, October 15, 2004
Victorio, Mata Hari, and I Love Lucy!
For expanded information on today's people and events, go to: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Witchflower9358/188244 Birthdays: 1844 Friedrich Nietzsche 1881 PG Wodehouse 1920 Mario Puzo Events: 1863 C.S.S. Hunley, the first successful submarine, sinks during tests 1880 Chiricahua Apache...
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Thursday, October 14, 2004
Today: Hastings, Pickford, The Desert Fox
For expanded information on today's people and events, go to: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Witchflower9358/188244 Birthday of: 1857, Elwood Haynes 1888, Katherine Mansfield 1890, Dwight D. Eisenhower 1949, Katha Pollitt 1894, e. e. cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings) Events: 1066, The Battle...
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Lenny Bruce, Brock saves Canada, Artmobile Tours
For expanded information on today's people and events, go to: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Witchflower9358/188244 Birthday of: Conrad Richter (1890) Arna[ud] Wendell Bontemps (1902) Lenny Bruce (1925) Paul Simon (1941) Marie Osmond (1959) Events: 1792, cornerstone laid for the White House...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004
The Good, the Evil, and the Unusual
For expanded information on today's people and events, go to: http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Witchflower9358/188244 Birthday of: Author and occultist Aleister Crowley (1875). Poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald (1910). Actress, playwright, and novelist Alice Childress (1916). Novelist...
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Monday, October 11, 2004
Today: Columbus, Apollo 7, Get Shorty
Today is Columbus Day, which commemorates Christopher Columbus and his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. He's often called the man who discovered America, but people were living in North and South America for thousands of years before Columbus arrived. There are legends of Celtic and...
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