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To laugh…

If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it. American journalist and author, Erma Bombeck, was born on this day in 1927 (died 1996). Erma Bombeck was a master at making us laugh about the absurdities, and the trials, of life. A one-woman play Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, largely pulled from Bombeck’s …

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Thanks, Tom

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. American lawyer, politician, third President of the United States, and Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, was born on this day in 1743. …

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