30 years ago...

Wednesday, May 1, 1991, Kingston, NH

Happy May Day. May Day in Moscow was pretty dismal this year. Everyone's depressed. Communism is out. Gorbachev is not liked. Lines are long.

Bangladesh had a big cyclone. 1,000 people died. Bangladesh is accident prone.

Paul Tsongas announced his candidacy for president. The first Democrat (or ( Read more... )

I want to add a recording artist to my DRAHoF (D's recording artist hall of Fame) list.... And today it is Ravi Shankar.


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For the Song HoF.....  "Beware of Darkness" by George HarrisonWow... I love this song so much. It envelopes me. Probably my favourite of many great George songs ( Read more... )

Know your diasporas !     Here are just a few of my favorites (from Wikipedia):

• The Acadian diaspora - the Great Expulsion (Grand Dérangement) occurred when the British expelled about 10,000 Acadians (over three-fourths of the Acadian population of Nova Scotia) between 1755 and 1764. The British split the Acadians between different colonies to ( Read more... )

These are excerpts from an article in the Christian Science Monitor a few years ago:

Slavery is not dead, just less recognizable.

Today, 27 million people are enslaved, more than at the height of the transatlantic slave trade.

By Susan Llewelyn Leach | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Slaves are cheap these days. Their price is the ( Read more... )