#BirthAnniversary

Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-10-12

He left school in 1881, at the age of 15, and began work on a nearby farm, although less than a year later he’d taken a job as a teacher at his old school. Ten things you might not know about Ramsay McDonald, the first Labour prime minister.

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-10-08

"The best advice I can give you about falling is to never land." Take a Fall Day is celebrated on the birthday of actor-comedian Chevy Chase. Chase was born as Cornelius Crane on this day in the year 1943. 10 quotes from him:

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-10-06

"In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds." 10 Thor Heyerdahl Quotes:

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-10-04

"It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer; it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations."

On his birth anniversary, 10 quotes from Rutherford B Hayes:

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-10-01

"The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens."
10 quotes from Jimmy Carter, who would have been 101 today.

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-09-27

Meat Loaf was an actor as well as a singer and appeared in over 30 films, his first being State Fair in 1962, uncredited as a boy in the stands.

10 things you didn't know about Meat Loaf.

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-09-24

"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over." 10 F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes:

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-09-15

"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win."
10 quotes from Francois duc de la Rochefoucald, French classical author of maxims and memoirs.

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-09-10

Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.

On his birthday, 10 quotes from Franz Werfel:

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-09-08

When he wasn’t composing or playing music, Dvořák was a bit of a train nerd. When he was travelling to Prague and Vienna, he would meticulously record the details of all his train journeys.

10 things you might not know about Antonin Dvořák.

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-08-31

Entertainer Roy Castle was introduced to his wife, Fiona Dickson, by Eric Morecambe. Harry Secombe was the best man at their wedding in 1963.
10 things you might not know about the presenter of Record Breakers.

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-08-30

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting." 10 quotes from scientist Ernest Rutherford.

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-08-23

When he was eight, Gene Kelly's mother enrolled him and his brother James in dance classes. They both hated it. Looking back, Kelly said: "We didn't like it much and were continually involved in fistfights with the neighbourhood boys who called us sissies...I didn't dance again until I was fifteen."

On his birthday, 10 things you might not know about Gene Kelly:

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-08-20

One of his aunts got him a job as a teacher. He didn’t enjoy teaching, a job he saw as “holding in check a room full of incipient gangsters,” but he did enjoy marking and grading their homework

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-08-12

DeMille was one of the first to use sound in his films, and was also a trailblazer in the use of Technicolor.

10 things you might not know about Cecil B deMille:

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Julie HowlinJulieHowlin
2025-08-11

"Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power." Ten quotes from Robert Green Ingersoll, US author, lawyer, politician and orator, known as "the great agnostic". He was born on this date in 1833.

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