Tag: Monday

The Tomb Where it Happened

“But Christ’s lore and his apostles twelve, He taught and first he followed it himself.” – Geoffrey Chaucer On this day in 1387, Geoffrey Chaucer tells The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as the start of the book’s pilgrimage …

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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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