News; birthdays/events; in the quest to be live in a more non-digital world, 1 rock band is going "old school"; word of the day.
News; what was your favorite/happiest childhood memory of your family vacation?; game: Batman trivia; is one of your 5 senses supercharged? (story about a blind man that can tell vehicles by their touch)
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News; funny story of the day; game: movies trivia; goodbye/fun facts....Mother Goose Day--History.com says: according to local legend, it was the widowed Isaac Goose's second wife, Elizabeth Foster Goose, who entertained her numerous grandchildren and other youngsters with songs and rhymes that were purportedly published by her son-in-law in 1719. Fairy tales and nursery rhymes endlessly entertained us as kids whilst providing us with important life lessons. Some national favorites are: Humpty Dumpty, 3 Little Pigs, Pinnochio...just to name a few. Charles Perrault, a French author, is thought to have been the first writer to establish fairy tales as a separate genre in 1695. Fast-forward a little further into the future, the Grimm fairy tales, which were published during the 19th century, have now become quite famous worldwide. Many famous authors of the modern age, like C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, credit fairy tales and nursery rhymes with influencing their thinking and work. In fact, Charles Dickens said that fairy tales kept him ever young!