https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=13&v=hNtC-uKv_fQ Come explore the art of hustle with leading innovators from the black market economy. Former traffickers, drug dealers, smugglers and gang leaders will share their entrepreneurial lessons in conversation with leading start-up founders. This event is the book launch for THE MISFIT ECONOMY, a book by Alexa Clay and Kyra Maya Phillips that explores underground … Continue reading THE MISFIT ECONOMY
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Donald Trump Is the President America Deserves
Donald Trump Is the President America Deserves by Dan Ozzi https://medium.com/@danozzi/donald-trump-is-the-president-america-deserves-180fcfb22c8d Donald J. Trump will be the next President of the United States. That is going to happen come November 2016. Once elected, he will install 30-foot-tall gold-plated letters spelling his name on the front of the White House. He will be asked about foreign … Continue reading Donald Trump Is the President America Deserves
Eugene Field
The Writer's Almanac for September 2, 2015 National broadcasts of The Writer's Almanac are supported by The Poetry Foundation. American humorist and newspaperman Eugene Field (books by this author), was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1850. Field claimed two birthdays, September 2 and September 3, telling friends if they forgot him on the first date, they could … Continue reading Eugene Field
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MATA HARI
It's the birthday of the Dutch dancer and spy Mata Hari, born Margaretha Zelle in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands (1876). She attended a teachers college and then married an army officer, Captain Rudolph MacLeod, in 1895. They lived in Java and Sumatra for a few years, and that's where she picked up her eventual byname. "Mata Hari" is … Continue reading MATA HARI
BOB DYLAN WENT ELECTRIC 50 YEARS AGO
http://www.npr.org/2015/07/25/424977355/50-years-ago-bob-dylan-electrified-a-decade-with-one-concert?ft=nprml&f=1002 50 Years Ago, Bob Dylan Electrified A Decade With One Concert In the early 1960s, burgeoning folk music scenes were burbling up all over the country, and the Newport Folk Festival was their confluence. By the middle of the decade, the reigning king was a young Bob Dylan, the man who gave them the now-standards … Continue reading BOB DYLAN WENT ELECTRIC 50 YEARS AGO
DID YOU KNOW HUNTER S. THOMPSON?
Today, July 18 2015, is the birthday of Hunter S. Thompson (books by this author), born in Louisville, Kentucky (1937). When he was in high school, his father died of myasthenia gravis, leaving the family impoverished. Thompson's mother had to take a job as a librarian to support the family, and she turned to the bottle to cope … Continue reading DID YOU KNOW HUNTER S. THOMPSON?
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