January 8, 2010
Socrates was the first philosopher to postulate that media technologies were not of this world. Bill Bixby (a.k.a Tim O’Hara) unwittingly becomes, after Plato, his second amanuensis on the matter. In time he learns to love the alien.
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January 6, 2010
Secretary Dag Hammarskjold receives his last call prior to embarking on his ill-fated flight to Africa, September, 1961. Secretary Hammarskjold was due to meet for talks with President Moise Tshombe of Katanga Province. Twelve other people died in the fatal crash.
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January 6, 2010
The urgency of this anti-Vietnam war “sit-in” fails to hold the attention of at least one student. His interlocutor was apparently “doing nothing” at the time.
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January 6, 2010
“Tell them to deliver the coal on time, Dad”
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January 4, 2010
Mrs Nan Albinski of Glen Iris is the first to alert the world to “The Shrimp’s” couture outrage. “Not fit for decent society”, Nan was overheard to say by one titillated eavesdropper.
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