Happy Birthday, Lon Chaney
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Grow Zone Action: Habitat Restoration in Austin, Texas
Walk the streets of Austin, Texas and you’ll notice an abundance of colorful bushes and flowers, to include Fern Leaf Lavender, Texas Lantana, Mother-of-Thyme, Autumn Sage, Whirling Butterfly Bush, and Fall Aster, all of which are indigenous to the state. The parks are equally lush. River and creek banks are thick with greenery and foliage.
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John Ruskin and Turner’s The Slave Ship
But, I think, the noblest sea that Turner has ever painted, and, if so, the noblest certainly ever painted by man, is that of the Slave Ship, the chief Academy picture of the Exhibition of 1840. It is a sunset on the Atlantic after prolonged storm; but the storm is partially lulled, and the torn
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Happy Birthday, François Truffaut
*** Scene from The 400 Blows
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Happy Birthday, William S. Burroughs
Most of the trouble in the world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. Now your virus is an obligate cellular parasite, and my contention is that evil is quite literally a virus parasite
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Happy Birthday, Rosa Parks
“Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.” Rosa Parks
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