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  1. Sep 2022
    1. Poe’s dark and macabre work reflected his own tumultuous and difficult life

      On this day of January 29th, I was born 160 years later after "The Raven," one of my favorite poems of Edgar Allan Poe. My birthday was not often celebrated due to religious reasons, and it resulted in feeling distraught and unimportant. Edgar Allan Poe was my comfort poet to seek if I ever felt negative about my life.

  2. Jan 2022
    1. With a spectacular victory at the Belmont Stakes, Secretariat becomes the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win America’s coveted Triple Crown: the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes.

      This is the day my beautiful niece was born!!

  3. Feb 2021
    1. On the evening of February 13, 1945, a series of Allied firebombing raids begins against the German city of Dresden, reducing the “Florence of the Elbe” to rubble and flames, and killing roughly 25,000 people. Despite the horrendous scale of destruction, it arguably accomplished little strategically, since the Germans were already on the verge of surrender.

      This is my Birthday, It's also the day the the fire rire bombing happened that ended WWII