April 2021
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This is going to be a short blog. There really isn’t that much I can say about the musical genius that was Prince. The picture at the top is a ticket of Prince’s first performance with his band in January 1979. The title of the blog is from the ballad “Sometimes it Snows in April”
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Reached the age of 3 it says in some places. Reached the age of 3, that is me .Reached the age of 3, but that is not only me. For I am so much more them just the age of 3. I am a child whose only ambition it…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The last week the football world was shocked by the set up of this so called European Super League, consisting of Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea ,Tottenham Hotspurs, AC Milan, Arsenal, Atletico Madrid, Chelsea, Barcelona, Inter Milan, and instigator Juventus. I don’t see why so many were…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On August 4,1944 a tip from a Dutch informer led the Gestapo to the now so well known secret annex in Amsterdam. Anne Frank, her family and all the other occupants would be arrested. Via her diary Anne Frank became one of the symbols of the Holocaust. I often read…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: As the title might suggest I was trying to find some poetic sentences to describe this picture. But I couldn’t,because the more I looked at the picture the less sense it made. In fact it made no sense to me at all. What is the sense of keeping all…
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Happy Earth Day everybody. Although I am a bit confused about the date. Earth day really should be held on October 23. Everyone knows that the earth was created on 23 October 4004 BC at 6 pm to be precise. Well at least according to Archbishop James Ussher. He was born in Dublin on January
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is a small deviation from my usual more dramatic historical blogs, but since today is marked as Record Store day I felt compelled to do a blog celebrating this day. Record Store day is a bi-annual event inaugurated in 2008 and held on one Saturday every April and…
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Originally posted on Cupcakes & Tea with Elizabeth: I miss traveling, and the feeling of being free and having new experiences! I am looking forward to traveling again, once it’s safe to do so. Here’s a throwback to one of my favorite experiences, visiting the ICEBAR in Stockholm. In general, Sweden has an excellent public…
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By Miriam M. Brysk and Joanne D. Gilbert Would you believe it’s been 70 years since I walked across the stage to receive my eighth-grade diploma in January of 1949?? Funny how even though I’ve never talked about it with anyone, I still remember it as if it were yesterday . . . Wearing my…
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