I shared a 'cabine' with friends at La Lanterna di Vittorio in Manhattan's Greenwich Village three years ago yesterday; these were a great way of addressing the COVID pandemic & it's only too bad that the restaurant has dismantled these cabines (10.29.22)

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Johannes (Jan) Vermeer (1632), #JohnKeats (1795), Jiang Kaishek (1887), Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia (1922), Dan Rather (1931), Jane Pauley (1950), Reza Pahlavi, crown prince of Iran (1960), Peter Jackson (1961) & Dermot Mulroney (1963) were born #OnThisDay...

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I woke up from a dream five years ago today (10.31.20) in which I was singing "Di rigori armato" in Italian from the opera "DerRosenkavalier" of Richard Strauß; this is the Big P singing the Italian tenor's aria: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-UQ... www.mariolanzatenor.com/di-rigori-ar...

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"#Samhain means 'Summer’s End' in various Celtic languages" & is the #pagan basis for #Halloween; #Álfablót is the Nordic equivalent, the Scandinavian sacrifice to the #elves; #SamhainBlessings & #HappyHalloween2021 to all~! wildhunt.org/2019/10/samh...

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#MartinLuther nailed his #95Theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg #OnThisDay in 1517, inadvertently launching the Protestant Reformation & changing the course of the history of Germany & Europe... #Reformationstag www.history.com/this-day-in-...

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