October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
753 pages
63h 57m
English
DAY 121 |
244 REMAINING |
ADDISON, JOSEPH: BIRTH ANNIVERSARY. May 1, 1672. (Old Style date.) English essayist born at Milston, Wiltshire, England. Died at London, June 17, 1719 (OS). “We are,” he wrote in The Spectator, “always doing something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.”
AMTRAK: ANNIVERSARY. May 1, 1971. Amtrak, the national rail service that combined the operations of 18 passenger railroads, went into service.
ARTHRITIS AWARENESS MONTH. May 1–31. This observance seeks to focus attention ...