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Happy 75th Birthday Bob Ross
Today is the 75th birthday of the artist and public television personality Bob Ross. There is a generation of people that watched The Joy of Painting sincerely (not ironically) and sincerely loved it....
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Happy 90th Birthday Fred McFeely Rogers
Today is the 90th birthday of Mr. Rogers. He was the kindest, most gentle adult that kids my age ever knew. He spoke to us as people and inspired us to think about our feelings. He taught us empathy...
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Happy 78th Birthday Barney Frank
Today is the 78th birthday of the congressman Barney Frank. The world is a better place because he is in it. NAME: Barney Frank OCCUPATION: U.S. Representative BIRTH DATE: March 31, 1940 EDUCATION:...
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Happy 102nd Birthday Dick Proenneke
Today is the 102nd birthday of Dick Proenneke. Who doesn’t love a recluse? Especially one that is not writing a manifesto and sending letter bombs, but is simply building a log cabin in the Alaska...
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Happy 109th Birthday Vivian Vance
Today is the 108th birthday of the actress Vivian Vance. She didn’t make Lucy funny, she made her funnier. She was the point of reference, the voice of reason, the control group with which we were...
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Happy 106th Birthday Julia Child
Today is the 106th birthday of chef, author, OSS international operative and television personality Julia Child. I loved to watch her show on PBS when I was a kid. If Meryl Streep plays you in a film...
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Happy 67th Birthday Richard Hunt
Today is the 67th birthday of the man responsible for the voices of my favorite Muppets characters: Richard Hunt. The world is a better place because he was in it and still feels the loss that he has...
View ArticleGoogle Doodle: Celebrating Mister Rogers
Through television we have a great chance to show and tell our children that they really matter, even when they’re very little…We have a chance to communicate the fact that childhood lies at the very...
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Happy 82nd Birthday Jim Henson
Today is the 82nd birthday of the father of the Muppets: Jim Henson. I do not have a time in my life when his brilliance was not in it. I was raised on Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, there was...
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Sesame Street – Not So Secret Obsession
On this day in 1969, the pioneering children’s television program Sesame Street made its broadcast debut. Two years earlier, television producer Joan Ganz Cooney teamed up with the Carnegie Foundation...
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Happy Birthday Edward Gorey
Today is the birthday of the illustrator Edward Gorey. I was first introduced to his work via PBS Mystery! and then fell in love with the rest of his work. The world is a better place because he was in...
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Sesame Street (1969)
Fifty years ago today, the television show Sesame Street aired for the very first time and we are all better for it. Sesame Street has produced nearly 5,000 episodes, won 193 Emmy awards, 10 Grammy...
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Happy 95th Birthday Edward Gorey
Today is the 95th birthday of the illustrator Edward Gorey. I was first introduced to his work via PBS Mystery! and then fell in love with the rest of his work. The world is a better place because he...
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Happy 90th Birthday Fred McFeely Rogers
Today is the 90th birthday of Mr. Rogers. He was the kindest, most gentle adult that kids my age ever knew. He spoke to us as people and inspired us to think about our feelings. He taught us empathy...
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Happy 78th Birthday Barney Frank
Today is the 78th birthday of the congressman Barney Frank. The world is a better place because he is in it. NAME: Barney Frank OCCUPATION: U.S. Representative BIRTH DATE: March 31, 1940 EDUCATION:...
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Happy 96th Birthday Edward Gorey
Today is the 96th birthday of the illustrator Edward Gorey. I was first introduced to his work via PBS Mystery! and then fell in love with the rest of his work. The world is a better place because he...
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Happy 97th Birthday Edward Gorey
Today is the 97th birthday of the illustrator Edward Gorey. I was first introduced to his work via PBS Mystery! and then fell in love with the rest of his work. The world is a better place because he...
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Happy 98th Birthday Edward Gorey
Today is the 98th birthday of the illustrator Edward Gorey. I was first introduced to his work via PBS Mystery! and then fell in love with the rest of his work. The world is a better place because he...
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