Austrian playwright/novelist Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in #Literature for her "for her musical flow of voices & counter-voices in novels & plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés & their subjugating power." Born #OTD in 1946. #BookSky

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Four brothers went to war against Hitler. Three were killed. The fourth survived, and his grandson, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is the president of Ukraine. Zelensky comes from a family that fought tyrants: Trump negotiates with them while demanding concessions from their victims.

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On this day in 2022, a fat faced tabby was caught in a trap. Scared, hungry, and sick with pneumonia, he spent some time in the ICU. The rest is history, but I like to consider today, his shelter intake date, Fishtopher's "birthday."

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Musician playing a lute-like musical instrument a barbat or an early qanbus from an ornamental dish in the British Museum. Originated in Tabaristan, Iran in the 7th or 8th century A.D.

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