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 Catcher in the Rye by The Ovi Team
16 July 2022
July 16th; J.D. Salinger's only novel, The Catcher in the Rye, is published by Little, Brown on this day in 1951. The book, about a confused teenager disillusioned by the adult world... (Add a comment) |  The execution of the Romanovs by The Ovi Team
16 July 2022
July 16th 1918 In Yekaterinburg, Russia, Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed by the Bolsheviks, bringing an end to the three-century-old Romanov dynasty. Crowned in 1896... (Add a comment) |  Rembrandt by The Ovi Team
16 July 2022
The great Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is born in Leiden on July 15, 1606, the son of a miller. His humble origins may help account for the uncommon depth of compassion given to the human subjects of his art. (1 comment) |  Ma-Siri & Alexa #36 by Thanos Kalamidas
14 July 2022
Ma-Siri is a mother and a grandmother with a mechanical companion searching for the meaning of life. (Add a comment) |  Woody Guthrie: This land is my land and I won't let them take it away by Rene Wadlow
14 July 2022
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (1912-1967) whose birth anniversary we note on 14 July, was the voice of the marginalized, especially those hit by the drought in the west of the U.S.A. during the late 1920s-early 1930s (Add a comment) |  Everything Red for the Queen by Michael Lee Johnson
14 July 2022
Everything is red
in the kingdom of the queen.
Matador hat with barnacles,
witch white hair to the shoulders,
tickling the breast. (Add a comment) |  Terms of Condescension: The Language of Australia's "Pacific Family" by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
14 July 2022
When will this nonsense on familial connection between Australia and the Pacific end? In 2018, Australia's then Pentecostal Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, drew upon a term that his predecessors had not. (Add a comment) |  Screws & Chips #36 by Thanos Kalamidas
14 July 2022
In a galaxy far, far away, intelligence demonstrated by screws and chips, boldly gone where no robot has gone before! (Add a comment) |  French revolutionaries storm Bastille by The Ovi Team
14 July 2022
July 14th 1789; Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops storm and dismantle the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs. This dramatic action signaled the beginning of the French Revolution, a decade (Add a comment) |  La Marseillaise by The Ovi Team
14 July 2022
14th July 1795; "La Marseillaise" - "The song of Marseille" becomes the national anthem of France. It was written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792 and adopted in 1795 as the nation's first anthem. (Add a comment) |  When travel died by Nikos Laios
13 July 2022
Is 2022 the year that travel died? I ponder this question as I take a run after work around the northern foreshore of Sydney Harbour. The first days of July, and it's winter here... (Add a comment) |  The We by Jan Sand
13 July 2022
I doubt the me is singular
The sense is multilingualar
The I is sky and fingertips,
It's tears and years and smiling lips, (Add a comment) |  One Man's Quest to Treat Chronic Bronchitis, a Type of COPD by Ovi Magazine Guest
13 July 2022
Over a number of years, 65-year-old Donald Summers went from having an occasional cough and clearing his throat, to increasingly frequent coughing attacks that produced mucus and exhaustion. (Add a comment) |  Sceptic feathers #40 by Thanos Kalamidas
13 July 2022
Cynicism with feathers on thin wires (Add a comment) | | newer 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 older |
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