Dennis
@DennisWhittle
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I am a founder of GlobalGiving, Feedback Labs, Normal Next, and the World Bank Development Marketplace. Development economist by training. Have worked/lived in Indonesia, Russia, Philippines, and France. Kentucky-born. Tarheel. Played two bit parts in Chuck Norris's Missing in Action.
Dorothea Lange
Jon BlackwellJan. 2, 1923: Margaret Sanger opens the first legal clinic for birth control in the U.S., the Clinical Research Bureau in Manhattan. Operated by women physicians, it dispenses contraceptives and advice only to married women and couples.
Jan. 3, 1923: French aviator Henri Thoret sets a gliding record over Biskret, Algeria, by soaring for 7 hours, 3 minutes in a Hanriot HD-14 biplane with the engine off. Hillside air currents keep his craft aloft.
Jan. 3, 1923: Mabel Hubbard Bell, wife of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell, dies at 65 in Chevy Chase, Md., 5 months after his death. Deaf since childhood, she was Bell’s pupil in signing and speech classes when they met. She helped found his company, which became AT&T.
Jan. 5, 1923: A bootlegger's jacket comes with enough pockets to conceal a dozen bottles of whiskey. This gear was worn by three passengers on the liner Majestic when it docked in New York, arousing the suspicion of customs even when it was further hidden by bulky winter coats.
Jan. 5, 1923: White invaders destroy the rural Black settlement of Rosewood, Fla., systematically burning houses, churches and businesses as the residents flee to swamps and woods. Hundreds take part in the riot that leaves an undetermined number of victims dead.
Beth KanterLearning, simplicity, joyfulness
https://bethkanter.org/new-years-rituals-for-nonprofit-professionals-2023/
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Michele BanksLatest in the shop: A gel electrophoresis watercolor in greens and blues, and a cosmic brain watercolor https://www.etsy.com/shop/artologica/
