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  • On This Day in History

    1455: The Gutenberg Bible, the first book printed in movable type, was published 1954: The first mass polio vaccination was administered at Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. According to a few sites on the internet (and we all know how reliable the internet is for facts and news) these two events happened on this day in Read more

  • Cozy Mystery a sub-genre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur offstage, the detective is usually an amateur sleuth, and the crime and detection take place in a small, socially intimate community  Even though I am a big reader of mysteries, somehow I managed to get to the age of 64 without having read a single Agatha Christie novel. Read more