and it’s all gone!
October 10 has a strange list of holidays including the following feast days of Catholic Saints, Arbor Day in Poland, World National Mental Health Day, and World Porridge Day. The Old Farmer’s Almanac says that today is a good day to go camping or straighten hair…
August 22nd is the Full Sturgeon Moon. It’s also a blue moon. The Old Farmers Almanac says that this month’s moon was named as such because it was observed that the fish in the Great Lakes were more plentiful this time of year. …
She’s like the wind.
And the greatest British adventurer you’ve never heard of. To Alexander Woollcott, for reasons that are nobody’s business.
Photographer Gene Stratton-Porter was born on August 17, 1863.
Shakespearean actress Julia Marlowe was born on August 17, 1866, in England.
The Modern Prometheus
Actress Mae Clark was born on August 16, 1910.
Writer and fiction editor at The New Yorker from 1936 to 1975, William Keepers Maxwell Jr. was born on August 16, 1908.
The “father of experimental psychology”, Wilhelm Wundt was born on August 16, 1832. …
The frog asks to be allowed to enter the castle
Born on August 15th:
Civil engineer John Metcalf, also known as Blind Jack, was born on August 15, 1717. …
Now begone, before someone drops a house on you too.
Hungarian aristocrat and serial killer Elizabeth Báthory was born on August 7, 1560.
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