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Giuseppe Garibaldi
Yes, March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day.
And a happy St. Patrick’s Day to all, especially my Irish friends!
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Viola Liuzzo died on March 25, 1965.
She was murdered by the Klan in Selma, Alabama.
I wrote about her on International Women’s Day several ..
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Everyone knows of Lenin. His body is still on display in the great Kremlin square, once known as Red Square, for those with a bit of ghoulishness in..
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Fanya Kaplan was a poor peasant girl born in Tsarist Russia on February 10,1890. She never went to school; what education she received she got at ho..
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One step for a man I watched
when I was only 26
and knew I’d live to see the day
Magellan set a foot on Mars.
I would be a lucky one
to s..
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Core Members of theWhiteRose - Munich 1942 - (l to r) Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst. Arrested by the Gestapo and guillotinedon Feb..
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“You get away cheap onValentine’sDay!” she would quip with a smile.
Carnations were her favorite flower. Not roses. Car..
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Rome will always be here
eternal, imperishable
unlike fresh fruit or cheeses
or the days of our lives.
The dank catacombs
the Colosseum, Appian..
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Toritto, channeling Buddy Holly, soon to be Eliza Doolittle with a cup O’joe - 1959
Toritto graduated from Lafayette High School in Brooklyn ..
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It was the first half of the 1970s, I was in my early thirties and was an up and coming young “executive” working for the Great American..
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