Stevie Nicks – the American singer best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac – was born on this day – May 26, 1948 – in Phoenix, Arizona.
She is a alumnus of San Jose State University.
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Monthly Archives: May 2024
Stevie Nicks was born
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A conspiracy theory offers its devotees a way of inserting themselves into a cosmic battle pitting good against evil. This sense of vocation that makes it dangerous is also precisely what makes it attractive in our era of isolated, alienated consumerism.
~ Ben Sasse via The Atlantic
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Civilization is an enormous device for economizing on knowledge.
~ Thomas Sowell
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Google Street View was launched
on this day in 2007
Google Streetview was launched on this day – May 25, 2007.
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Columbia University turns 270 today
Columbia University was founded on this day – May 25 – in 1754.
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There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence.
~ Franz Kafka
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Tate Liverpool Gallery
turns 36 today
The Tate Liverpool Gallery in Liverpool, England was opened on this day – May 24 – in 1988.
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What’s at stake, when we ask what college is for, is nothing less than our ability to remain fully human.
~ William Deresiewicz
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Campus Life at
Minnesota State Mankato
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Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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