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On This Day in History:Mar, 20th
Vernal Equinox
1852: Harriet Beecher-Stowe's anti-slavery book, Uncle Tom's Cabin,
published
1904: Behavioural psychologist and author, B.F. Skinner born in Susquehanna
County, Pennsylvania
1956: Independence Day in Tunsia
1957: Film actor, producer, writer and director, Spike Lee born in Atlanta,
Georgia
1980: Radio
Caroline, the seagoing pirate radio station, founders and sinks
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Quote of the Day:
If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help
those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution
to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans. - Marian Wright
Edelman
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Today's fortune:
The man who procrastinates struggles with ruin.
Hesiod (B.C. 800?)
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