May 2, 2024, Newsletter
Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday Eve. Robert’s Rules of Order Day. May 2, 1611: King James Bible first published. May 2, 1989: The Iron Curtain begins to crumble as Hungary dismantles its border fence. 1932: Pearl S. Buck wins the […]
May 1st, 2024, Newsletter
Dear Friends, Tangents: May Day. May 1, 1961: Fidel Castro declares Cuba a socialist nation and bans elections. On May 1, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, was killed by […]
April 30, 2024, Newsletter
Dear Friends, Tangents: Beltane, Wicca. Walpurgisnacht, Witch’s Night, Europe. Beltane – the ancient Celtic union of goddess and god, water and light. All fires are extinguished at sunset on Beltane Eve, the midpoint between the spring equinox and the summer […]
April 29, 2024, Newsletter
Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Monday. On April 29, 1992, deadly rioting that claimed 54 lives and caused $1 billion in damage erupted in Los Angeles after a jury in Simi Valley acquitted four Los Angeles police officers of almost all […]
April 26, 2024, Newsletter
Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday. Richter Scale Day. April 26, 1937: Massacre, Guernica, Spain. On April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire in the No. 4 […]