Today's Heroes:
Benazir Bhutto
Jessica Valenti
Today in History:
1840: Claude Monet is born.
1889: Journalist Nellie Bly launches her attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days, which she accomplishes in 72.
1906: Actress, dancer and movie historian, Louise Brooks is born.
1918: Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
1922: The BBC begins radio broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
1954: Condoleeza Rice and Yanni are born.
1967: In Colombia, the 150th anniversary of La Pola's death is declared "Day of the Colombian Woman".
1979: In response to the hostage crisis, President Jimmy Carter issues an order that freezes Iranian assets in the U.S.
Today is World Diabetes Day...
rainy day Šumava
fall
summer in the unitas
summer
spring in praha
spring
winter
the sky immediately before the first storm of 2007
east
the view out my back door in mid-October
Guernica
Pablo Picasso
2 comments:
I wonder what the cosmic significance could be of Yanni and Condi being born on the same day.
In honor of National Diabetes Day, I pledge to lay off the extraordinarily yummy toffee from the Garden Gate Candy Cottage.
It is a gorgeous night! My porch is lonely.
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