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This Day in Quotes
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This edu-tainment blog discusses the famous quotations, words and phrases associated with each day of the year. Every day, it has a new post about a quote, word or phrase that was created on or is somehow linked to that date.
- Added on: Aug 27th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Bob Deis
- Listed in: Cultural Entertainment
- Tags: quotes history This Day in History Quotations today in history movie quotes
Recent Posts
“For every creature of God is good.”
This year, Thanksgiving Day falls on Thursday, November 26th – which happens to be its anniversary. Two-hundred and twenty years ago, President George Washington declared Thursday, November 26, 1789 to be our country’s first official nation...
The “pearl of great price”: an allegory for people who don’t want to win the lottery
Every once in a while, there’s a news story about somebody who won millions in a lottery and ended up being miserable as a result. I remember one from a few years ago that sounded like a Shakespearean tragedy. It was about a Pennsylvania ma...
“He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.”
In the 1630s, England’s infamous “Star Chamber” – sort of a British version of the Spanish Inquisition – banned the printing or sale of “any seditious, scismaticall, or offensive Bookes or Pamphlets.” The Star Chamber was abolishe...
Beatles Quiz: “You say you want a revolution?” Should you count John Lennon (a) out, (b) in, or (c) both?
If you answered (a) to the question in the header of this post, you would have been right – but only for the period between August 11, 1968 and November 22, 1968. The famous Beatles song “Revolution” was written by John Lennon, after he...
The great “Coffee, Tea or Me?” hoax
Back in the 1960s, when air travel was more pleasant and our culture was less politically correct, airline stewardesses were hot – at least in terms of their cultural image. Most stewardesses were young and single. In the media, they were oft...
Before Marilyn Monroe, “The Seven Year Itch” was a skin disease
On November 20, 1952, the play The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod debuted on Broadway at the Fulton Theatre. The play starred Tom Ewell, as a married man attracted to a gorgeous young neighbor, played by Vanessa Brown. Ewell was also in th...
