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Seize the Monday

I am big. It’s the pictures that got small. Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard American actress and producer, Gloria Swanson, was born on this day in 1899 (died 1983). We wrote about her as one of the People We Love on this day back in 2013. I’ve seen the movie Sunset Boulevard. …

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Beginnings

On this day in 1607, English colonists made landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia. The crew didn’t actually come ashore until April 29, but when the did, the Reverend Robert Hunt offered this prayer: We do hereby dedicate this Land, and ourselves, to reach the People within these shores with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and …

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