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Friday, April 30, 2021
Z is for Zero,

Some of my favorite Electric Company segments
Thursday, April 29, 2021
Doctor Knows Best

Wednesday, April 28, 2021
X= X eX WhitesoX

X is a very versatile letter. It also sidelines as a Roman Numeral. So for todays installment I give you 10 White Sox Players from the 1919 World Series. The owner of the White Sox was Charles Comiskey and his nick name was the Old Roman. So if you're the kind who needs the X justified, I believe I just did.
In 1919 several White Sox players conspired to throw the World Series. In 1921 These players were acquitted in a Chicago court room of any wrong doing. However Judge Kennesaw "Mountain" Landis imposed a lifetime ban on 8 of the players. Infamously referred to as the Black Sox or the 8 Men Out.
Why Sidewalks should have Spell Check.
This is part of Wordless Wednesday. I'll Be back a little later today for my 1921 X in this years A to Z Challenge. Click here to see whose lives we've already looked at this April.
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
W is for Waltons

Monday, April 26, 2021
V is for Venn

Saturday, April 24, 2021
Dave Out Loud Podcast #2
The 2nd edition of the Dave Out Loud Podcast has just dropped. My wife Amy and myself talk movies just in time for the Academy Awards.
Peter Ustinov on Disney Plus

Friday, April 23, 2021
T is for Thomas and Tesla

Thursday, April 22, 2021
S is for Stewart

Years lived before 1921: Seven
A To Z Easter Eggs
A to Z Archives: S is for Stewart at HSD. We go back 6 years ago today when I wrote about Mr. Stewart in my 2nd go round of the a to z challenge. For more of the 2021 rendition of the challenge click here.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
3 R's of Racial Reconciliation

"Pursuit of equal partnership in relationships"
By that definition my 3 R's who were living in 1921 epitomized that definition in their greatest achievements. Those 3 people are Branch Rickey, Jackie Robinson and Rosa Parks. Each of these people in their own way pursued an equal partnership in relationships and in doing so they shaped 20th century America.
Branch Rickey
1921 Index In Progress
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Q is for Queens Consort

Monday, April 19, 2021
P is for Prokofiev

My Theme will be Capitals. Due to the random nature of my blog, and specifically my mind, each entry may only be somewhat related to the capital mentioned. For example, it is entirely possible that Friday April third's entry will feature the Krispy Kreme themed love song I wrote in 1995 because I wrote it while living in Columbia, South Carolina where I encountered my first Krispy Kreme.
I mention that here. because today's post about Sergei Prokofiev will tell you probably a lot more about me than Prokofiev. But let's at least start with Prokofiev.
Sergei Prokofiev
Saturday, April 17, 2021
O is for Oskar.

I don't know a lot about cancel culture, but I seem to hear and read a lot about it. My best understanding of it is that with cancel culture people can be reduced to the worst thing (or most recent bad thing) that you've done and other positive achievements are overlooked or forgotten in light of the bad.
Oskar Schindler was not a product of cancel culture. He seemed to be more of the opposite. Nazi, serial philanderer, spy, war profiteer are labels that could easily mar any good you could otherwise accomplish. But in Schindler we find an extremely flawed man remembered and revered for his greatest accomplishment.
I personally was raised thinking that life was like a moral bank ledger where you hoped your black ink outweighed your red. I no longer feel that way. In some ways like the hundreds of Jews that Schindler saved from death in concentration camps I was saved by a conscious choice not of a flawed man but by a perfect God.
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Friday, April 16, 2021
N is for Nevins: Guest Post

My youngest daughter when she heard about my a to z challenge theme this year asked if she could write about one of the Radium girls. Since I don't know very much about the radium girls I asked her if she's be willing to write a guest post about one of them. She chose Charlotte Nevins Purcell who she will be portraying in her high schools spring play, These Shining Lives.
Radium Girl
Charlotte Nevins Purcell was one of the dial painters who worked at the now infamous Radium Dial company in Ottawa, Illinois. She was one of the many women working at the company (now known as the 'Radium Girls') who painted watch faces with radium powder, which wasn't widely known to be harmful at the time. Because of this, she was also one of the many women who suffered from radium poisoning as a result of their work. Charlotte had to have her arm amputated because of the radium, which allowed her to live longer than many of the other women whos poisoning had taken effect in more vital areas.
" A relative said: ‘She was pretty outspoken. She told people what she thought about things ... she spoke her mind about a lot of things.’ That perhaps explains why Charlotte played such an important role in the Illinois lawsuits. She and Catherine Donohue were ‘spokesmen for the other women’." - Kate Moore, author of The Radium Girls, wrote about Purcell
Charlotte Purcell was evidently the kind of person who would not give up and would not stand for injustice. According to family members, she once tied one end of a jump rope to a fence in order to be able to jump rope with only one arm, because of her amputation. This shows how she never let anything stop her, which is truly inspiring.
Thanks daughter! For more A to Z challenge click here.
Thursday, April 15, 2021
M is for Merman

A TO Z Easter Eggs
These Blogs are so last year
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year9 months ago