Category: History and Culture

It’s the story

When I was six years old, a children’s agent moved in next door to us, sent me out on a commercial audition, and I got the job. – American actress and singer Eve Plumb, a.k.a. Jan Brady, was born on this day in 1958 Alternatively: Marcia, Marcia, Marcia You may have noticed I didn’t post …

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Today needs a soundtrack

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. – Ulysses S. Grant, American general and 18th President of the United States was born on this day in 1885. Virginia, and much of the rest of the …

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