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Saturday, March 9, 2024

WOMEN IN WARTIME: THE CODEBREAKER by Yvonne Saxon


June 1916, Chicago, Illinois: After a week of searching, twenty-three year old Elizebeth Smith remains jobless, with no prospects. Elizebeth (spelled with an "e" because her mother didn't want her called "Liza") graduated from Hillsdale College in 1915 with a major in English Literature and had also studied Latin, Greek, and German. But she's quit her teaching job after a year because it was "uninspired." Now she has no choice but to return home to Indiana, defeated. It's her last day in the city, so she goes to the Newberry Library for a special treat-- a look at Shakespeare's First Folio, printed in 1623. A librarian sees her interest, talks to her, and makes a phone call. One hour later Elizebeth is being offered a job by George Fabyan, a wealthy industrialist!

Happy Birthday Mark Twain: November 30, 1835 by Michael Rigg

Samuel L. Clemens a/k/a Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known to most people by his pen name, Mark Twain, was born on November 3...