Category: Life

How Shall We then Respond?

On this day in 1587, Virginia Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony of Roanoke, becomes the first English child born in the Americas. We didn’t make it to Roanoke Island this summer, so I can’t really tell you what happened to The Lost Colony. But the history, both real and speculative, is …

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YOLO, She said

  You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. American actress, playwright, and screenwriter, Mae West, was born on this day in 1893 (died 1980) Oh, Mae, I never did get up to see ya. But no regrets if you do it right the first time…I mean right? No matter …

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