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Claire Windsor was born in Phillips County, Kansas, to Scandinavian parents on April 14, 1892 .......... She was married twice and well known for her love affairs ........... “Love” she said, “shouldn’t be about rules ......... When you meet that person, everything will be calm .......

In three decades as a midwife,I never tired of the beauty of mums. "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Just look. In wonder.

Maria Tallchief, of the Osage Indian Nation, died on this date in 2013. She had revolutionised ballet in America with her athleticism, commitment and skill. She was known for “dazzling audiences with her speed, energy and fire” and an “electrifying passion.” In Maria’s America, freedom, family and disciplined effort worked out fine. To see how beautiful she was in action click the link above or below in red ........

Mrs Patrick Campbell, died on this date in 1940. A Grand Dame of English and American Theater. Mrs Pat had a physically unconsummated love affair by letter with George Bernard Shaw. She wrote to him: “Oh dear me — it’s too late to do anything but accept you and love you — but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said “HUSH” just once!” She co-starred with Norma Shearer in “Riptide” and with Peter Lorre in “Crime And Punishment”. What a woman !

Mary Pickford was America’s Sweetheart in the silent movies of a distant departed world. Mary was famous as The Girl With The Curls ....... In 1912, Mary Pickford starred in a movie called “Just Like A Woman” again long before Bob Dylan wrote his strangely passionate, haunting 1966 song: "Nobody feels any pain Tonight as I stand inside the rain Ev’rybody knows That Baby’s got new clothes But lately I see her ribbons and her bows Have fallen from her curls ……" Perhaps, like Dylan in 1966, we still yearn for the type of woman that Mary Pickford, The Girl...

Eleanor of Aquitaine died on the 1st of April 1204, 819 years ago. She was said to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. (Perhaps Melania Trump is hotter.) I call Her a Woman For Freedom because of her wonderful effort in what she did to get her reproductive rights. (NB I define reproductive rights as the right to reproduce not the twisted modern perversion of that phrase where reproductive rights are considered the right to abortion i.e. the right not to reproduce.) Fellow Freepers, based on the image, which you can see by clicking the following link, I rate...

Elizabeth Warren's ludicrous claims to being Indian deserve the ridicule they get. Western Social Culture is so badly damaged by powerful woke idiots like Warren, that Warren's pretense to Red Indian identity might be seen as an attempt to escape from her own liberal sicknesses. Let me stress I am proud to have in my male ancestry in the mid 1900's a professor of Philosophy, the national leader of the Presbyterian church and a Lord Mayor of a capital city who served in that position for 9 years. I am no Pocahontas. But my ancestry may be a racially mixed...

"Live Life...Ditch The Mask...Choose Love"... Tammy Bruce offers us the latest on how Republicans rig votes in the House to keep spending too much money... Lets hearken back to El Rushbo with an "Update" the British Prime Minister's real name is: "Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson" So you can call Boris Johnson "Al" The Boris Johnson Update Theme Dut Dah.... The Toxicity Of Holocaust Nudity And How A Congressman Got Caught Up In The Issue... It seems to me as I see the attitudes of the vaxx and mask crowd a racist speech comes to mind about: "segregation forever" Reminds...

Well welcome to Stalag Covid 19 for this weekend's adventure..... Hey the one and only "Rnaround Sue" Dion with a song he recorded in the days when he was part of the Contemporary Christian Music scene in the early 1980's. I was around and saw him beret and all in person. Idols and idolatry right out of the Good Book but what about today..... Resistance In Idaho: The Latest This week a woman arrested for asking too many questions, Sara Brady, as a group of mothers and children entered a closed down park in Meridian, Idaho engaging in civil disobedience....

In northern California 29 are dead and hundred are reported missing because of the "Camp Fire" that started last Thursday and consumed the town of Paradise on Friday, burning over 6,700 structures in the town of 26,000. 228 people are reported missing according to the Butte County Sheriff...... President Trump was in France yesterday at an American cemetery..... The President was in attendance earlier at a ceremony in Paris along with the leaders of more than 60 nations.... Polling data for the European Parliament elections next May shows Marine Le Pen's National Rally Party, formerly the National Front..... Two-hundred thousand...

President Trump has approved an emergency declaration because of wildfires in California. Its been a brutal week of wildfires affecting northern California with nine deaths in the town of Paradise, 6,700 structures were destroyed there in the town of 26,000 when the fire suddenly swept through causing confusion and traffic jams in the midst of the raging inferno. 35 PEOPLE ARE REPORTED MISSING THERE..... Yesterday, a new fire spread rapidly in southern California..... President Trump tweeted about the situation at around 3am this morning: "There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that...

There's been a Friday afternoon stabbing attack in the city center of Melbourne, Australia with one dead and two injured. Police are now saying the attacker was known to police and Australia's intelligence service..... The man who killed 12 people at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California late Wednesday night has been identified as Ian David Long. Long, 28, served in the US Marine Corps and was in Afghanistan..... There's been a new rule announced giving President Trump authority to declare migrants entering the US illegally not eligible for asylum...... Election 2018 will continue with the recounts of the US...

The Saudi government came out with its version of what happened to Jamal Khashoggi overnight. The Saudi government media reports that a fight took place inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2nd..... A man who is called a "Muslim hate preacher" and a supporter of ISIS, Anjem Choudry, has been released from prison in the UK halfway through his sentence.... In London at within the last hour (7AM Eastern US) Leicester Square was the scene of a rally by the "#IAmSoliderX" Movement..... The Justice Department is accusing a woman from St. Petersburg, Russia of interfering in the 2018...

The Turkish police conducting the murder investigation involving Saudi write Jamal Khashoggi have searched a forested area. They believe the pieces of his body were taken there or perhaps to farmland after his murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul October 2nd. President Trump has said it appears that Khashoggi was murdered but the US would like to have any audio or video evidence the Turks have...... What is Turkey's end game for the Khashoggi matter? A commentary in the pro-government "Yeni Safak" newspaper says the matter provides an opportunity for Saudi Arabia to align itself with the Turkish regime......