OTD: Thur. 13APR2023

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Coming to you live from Deeping St. Magma, County Gloamshire ...

Today is:
International Plant Appreciation Day, National Scrabble Day, & National Peach Cobbler Day !!!

Classical B-Days:
1830 Eduard Lassen, Belgian-Danish composer
1919 [Harold] Howard Keel, American actor/singer/president of the SAG

Rock/Folk B-days:
1950 Riff West, American rock bassist [ group(s): Molly Hatchet ]
1954 Jimmy Destri, American rock keyboardist/songwriter [ group(s): Blondie ]

WRR 101.1 FM ― MotD:
George Gershwin: "Strike Up the Band" march

WWotD:
xenization ― (n) fact of travelling as a stranger.

QotD:
“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” ― excerpt from “The Greatest Show On Earth” from the album Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Nightwish