On this date in 1884, the cornerstone for the base of the Statue of Liberty was placed, on Bedloe's Island.
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- Gene Kleppinger
- See my page on Facebook. I track daily historical events and celebrations primarily through Wikipedia and sites like On This Day, Holiday Insights, Brownielocks, Checkiday and BrainyHistory.
Here's a Web site that tracks social media postings about "National Days."
The Eastern Progress featured my tie collection in September 2010.
In 2015 I began learning how to tie all sorts of knots.
Here's a Web page that reviews the argument that neckties are obsolete.
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- EKU tartan (6)
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- Ellie knot (2)
- Empire State Building (8)
- Escher Another World II (15)
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- eye chart (13)
- eyeglasses on green (5)
- falling leaves (R. Day) (1)
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- flags of many nations (17)
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- globe and music score (2)
- gold ropes on navy (4)
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- gray wool plaid (7)
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- Independence Express train RFW-ML (1)
- Indiana Jones (3)
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- Jerry Garcia Paris in the Rain (1)
- Jerry Garcia Snail Garden (9)
- Jerry Garcia Snail Garden swirls (6)
- jockey silks (1)
- kiss me I'm Irish (9)
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- knitted zigzag (8)
- Korean alphabet (16)
- lab equipment and periodic table (27)
- Larry's Lagoon (20)
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- Looney Tunes Web addresses (15)
- love dogs (17)
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- Mallie-Nate-Paul cascade (8)
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- Methodist cross-and-flame (CDB) (1)
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- mouse (1)
- mouse at keyboard with cheese on monitor (10)
- multicolor rings on black (4)
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- Munch Scream (26)
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- music brass-drums-strings on black (20)
- music keyboards and instruments on beige (21)
- Musical angels on black (12)
- musical eighth notes (16)
- navy with color flecks (13)
- necktie T-shirt (1)
- New York City jumble (10)
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- New York City taxi (16)
- Newton equations (5)
- Nguyen (5)
- Norton (22)
- nutritious foods (14)
- O! exclamation point (5)
- ocean fish on navy (8)
- Old Boston map (5)
- one black sheep (8)
- one-fish-two-fish-large-scale (11)
- one-fish-two-fish-ocean-scene (12)
- one-fish-two-fish-small-scale (10)
- orange diagonal plaid (11)
- orange paisleys on bright blue (8)
- orcas (8)
- paisleys in gold on green (12)
- paisleys on navy (13)
- pale green stripes with dots (2)
- pandas (14)
- Papa Seeds and Mallie (9)
- paper bag tie (1)
- patchwork quilt (11)
- Peace cross (33)
- peace symbol with dove (6)
- Peanuts baseball team (13)
- Peanuts characters in cartoon frames (ADS) (5)
- Peanuts Snoopy baseball (15)
- Peanuts Snoopy checkerboard (11)
- Peanuts telephones (23)
- Pennsylvania (6)
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- periodic table (23)
- pi symbol (7)
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- pink with tiny blue boxes (10)
- Pirate skull and crossbones (18)
- planets and galaxies (9)
- play money (7)
- Poinsettias (13)
- polar bears (18)
- Polka Bob the Tomato (19)
- Pooh and Piglet picnic (ADS) (4)
- Pooh Christmas (ADS) (6)
- Pooh Eeyore (15)
- Pooh on black and white (14)
- Pooh-characters-on-paisleys (6)
- popcorn (7)
- popsicles - R. Day (1)
- Portland Head Light (4)
- Postage-stamp snowmen (12)
- Prince Gino red-green-gold-brown (14)
- Psalm 150:6 (9)
- purple and fine silver stripes (12)
- purple and gray stripes (9)
- purple and silver plaid (9)
- purple boxes pattern (12)
- purple with many paisleys (1)
- QR code (4)
- radar map in Missouri (3)
- rainbow dots (5)
- rainbow stripes (9)
- red and black paisley (1)
- red and silver diagonal stripes (2)
- red and white circles on black (19)
- red tartan plaid (8)
- retired freedom (1)
- ribbon loop (4)
- Rodin Thinker (31)
- roses on light blue (5)
- Rosetta stone hieroglyphs (3)
- royal flair in red and lime (3)
- rubber ducky bow tie (7)
- sailboats (4)
- Santa and reindeer games (13)
- Santa on skis (13)
- Saturn rocket (19)
- Save Our Earth (3)
- Sea You Soon (4)
- sharks (5)
- shiny blue (17)
- Silly Songs with Larry (14)
- Singin' in the Rain (ADS) (7)
- singing penguins (ADS) (6)
- Slice of Life mice on computers (15)
- sloth (3)
- small airplanes (Gary Kearns) (2)
- smiley faces (24)
- Smoky Mountains topographic map (3)
- Snoopy Joe Preppy (22)
- snowman with music button (13)
- snowman with sparkling lights (7)
- snowmen and birds on red (7)
- snowmen and trees on green (10)
- snowmen with signs on green (4)
- soccer ball (3)
- solar bursts with calendar cycles (18)
- solid beige (10)
- solid black (2)
- Solid brown woolen (10)
- Solid brown YSL (9)
- solid chartreuse (6)
- solid dark red woolen (7)
- solid gray wool (5)
- solid midnight blue woolen (7)
- solid red (11)
- solid wide dark navy linen (3)
- solid yellow-gold (14)
- Space Dog (Bb) (1)
- Space Jam basketball (14)
- SpongeBob NerdyPants (9)
- spy code (18)
- Star Wars Millennium Falcon (7)
- Star Wars starfighters (12)
- steam locomotives (9)
- steaming coffee (ADS) (5)
- Stephens (17)
- tape measure (2)
- teal flowers (8)
- tennis racket (5)
- tessellated animals (21)
- Texas longhorn cattle (18)
- The Cat in the Hat (13)
- tie rack cascade (15)
- tie-handbag (2)
- Tiffany dragonflies (15)
- Tiffany window (Hinds) (1)
- tiny flowers on red (4)
- too sexy (15)
- Tools for learning (1)
- tossed salad (6)
- tractors (6)
- Trinity knot (8)
- turquoise and silvery boxes (10)
- U. S. Capitol (16)
- UK Wildcats with diagonal stripes (6)
- University of Kentucky Wildcat (13)
- Van Gogh Bedroom in Arles (17)
- Van Gogh Starry Night (23)
- Van Gogh Street Cafe at Night (8)
- Van Gogh sunflowers (18)
- Van Wijk knot (1)
- Veggie Tales (91)
- violin and harp and keyboard on red and blue (17)
- Water Furnace (9)
- watering can (12)
- Web text and icons (15)
- Where's Waldo? (1)
- white tigers (4)
- wood bow tie (6)
- woodland birds (4)
- Wright Brothers Flyer (2)
- Zambia animals (18)
- Zambia animals pink-gray (6)
- Zambia script letters (15)
- zipper tie (6)
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