Author Birthdays!
Answers.com says in their “Spotlight:” It’s a red-letter day for the world of literature. Novelists Charles Dickens (1812-1870), Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957), and Sinclair Lewis …
Americana
Yesterday (Feb 5th) In Film History
From Answers.com: Ninety years ago today, three of Hollywood’s leading actors, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., joined up with influential director D.W. …
Happy Birthday, Ayn Rand
At MSN Encarta, they say: Ayn Rand (1905-1982), American novelist and philosopher, whose championing of the gifted individual established her as a controversial figure in …
Happy Birthday, Thomas Paine
We know Paine as the writer of Common Sense. (Or we should.) But there is more. “While Paine was pre-eminently a publicist — and in …
Americana: Music of the ’20s and ’30s
Whether for educational study (history/America) or personal enjoyment, you can listen to “Vintage Popular Music and Jazz, 1925-1935,” via the Internet on Radio Dismuke. The …
On the Radio
Right now I’m enjoying listening to The Kingdom of Swing station on Live365.com. The station plays swing, big band and jazz from the 1930s, 1940s, …
Ben Again 2
In a letter to Mary Stevenson (written, it is thought, in November 1760, or sometime in 1761), Mr. Franklin said: My Experiment was this. I …
Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe
“Depend upon it, after all, Thomas, Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. …
Ben Again
It looks like he might have been involved in coming up with the “Don’t Tread On Me” flag and idea. Or was he only involved …
Happy Birthday Ben Franklin!!
At PBS.org they have an apt description of Mr. Franklin: He was one of the most extraordinary human beings the world has ever known. Born …