Archive for the ‘On this day in history’ Category
How UNICEF sees refugees
Graphic created with images and posts compiled from UNICEF’s Twitter feed. All images copyright UNICEF. Read more about UNICEF’s work with refugees.
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Tags: refugee children, refugee crisis, refugee statistics, UNICEF
Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.
Image copyright Pete Souza / White House
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Tags: Martin Luther King Jr.
That’s how the light gets in
In memory of Leonard Cohen, 9/21/1934 – 11/10/2016
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Tags: Leonard Cohen
Remembering Douglas Albert Munro
Today is Memorial Day in the U.S. — a day to remember and honor those we’ve lost to the senseless tragedy that is war. Here’s one story, about a distant relative, I first published in 2014. May Doug and his sacrifice never be forgotten. On September 27 1942, Douglas Albert Munro sacrificed his life in […]
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Tags: Battle of Matanikau, Douglas Albert Munro, Douglas Munro, Guadalcanal, Medal of Honor
Looking back at 2015 — and ahead
I would love to hear your end-of-year reflections: 1. What was your greatest accomplishment? (Tell me so I can cheer for you!) 2. If you could do one thing over, what would it be? 3. What are you most looking forward to in 2016? I had to think hard when I read my friend Carolyn’s […]
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Tags: 2015, einstein, happy new year, new year resolutions, New year's day
My Christmas wish for you all
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Tags: Christmas, fontplay, night sky, Photography
Honoring the man who saved Paris
This post is dedicated to my friend Gilles Thomas, for his tireless devotion to preserving the work — and honoring the memory — of Charles-Axel Guillaumot. Suppose you’ve been hired to oversee a vast and vital railroad network. Now imagine that, on the very first day of your new job, one of the trains on […]
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Tags: Carrière Cochin, catacombes de Paris, cataphiles, Charles-Axel Guillaumot, Cochin quarry, Gilles Thomas, Graham Robb, La sauveur de Paris, Paris catacombs, rue d'Enfer
What the hail?!
“In Minnesota it’s not May 3rd today; it’s the 54th of February.” I was pretty winter-weary when I posted that on Facebook two years ago. The winter of 2013 was rough. But what a difference two years make! Today was glorious — sunny and 81 (27C) degrees — so I spent a few hours gardening. […]
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Tags: hail, Minnesota, Minnesota weather, thunderstorm
Today is the third annual United Nations International Day of Happiness. I was going to write about a U.N. study’s findings that Social isolation is as potent a cause of early death as smoking, and the epidemic of loneliness is twice as deadly as obesity.” But that seemed a bit too depressing and scholarly. So […]
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Tags: International Day of Happiness, U.N., United Nations
Stumbling stones into the past
During my first visit to Freiburg, Germany, one of the things that most impressed me was the meticulously cobbled streets. So precisely cut are the stones that you can walk on them for hours without tiring — and the mosaics are as much of a feast for the eyes as the shop windows above them. […]
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Tags: Alice Berta Günzburger, Freiburg, Gunter Demnig, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Leslie Maitland, Samuel Sigmar Günzburger, Stolpersteine
