Laughter is our consolation prize for consciousness.
Louise Erdrich
There is absolutely no innovation without failure.
Only when diverse perspectives are included, respected, and valued can we start to get a full picture of the world.
Brene Brown,
writer, researcher, lecturer, motivational speaker
It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams.
Don DeLillo,
writer, playwright, screenwriter
All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.
Louise Erdrich,
writer, poet
We didn’t have a chance to form the world we were born into. Now we have the opportunity to make a new one.
Jane Roberts,
writer, poet
“Give freely of yourself always to your family, your friends, your community, and your country. The world will pay you back many times over.”
Sandra Day O’Connor
“Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.”
George Lucas
Reminder:
“One man can make a difference and every man should try.”
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
“Anyone who thinks they’re too small to make a difference has never met the honeybee.”
Popular saying, unknown attribution
1833 – Noongar Australian aboriginal warrior Yagan, wanted for the murder of white colonists in Western Australia, is killed.
Yagan (/ˈjeɪɡən/; c. 1795 – 11 July 1833) was an Aboriginal Australian warrior from the Noongar people. Yagan was pursued by the local authorities after he killed Erin Entwhistle, a servant of farmer Archibald Butler. It was an act of retaliation after Thomas Smedley, another of Butler’s servants, shot at a group of Noongar people stealing potatoes and fowls, killing one of them.[1][2][3] The government offered a bounty for Yagan’s capture, dead or alive, and a young settler, William Keats, shot and killed him. Yagan is considered a legendary figure by the Noongar.[4][5]
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1459 – Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, German nobleman (died 1527)
Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and Veldenz (11 July 1459 – c. Summer 1527) was Duke of Zweibrücken from 1489 to 1490.
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Welcome to the Stump the Bookseller blog!
Stump the Bookseller is a service offered by Loganberry Books to reconnect people to the books they love but can’t quite remember. In brief (for more detailed information see our About page), people can post their memories here, and the hivemind goes to work. After all, the collective mind of bibliophiles, readers, parents and librarians around the world is much better than just a few of us thinking. Together with these wonderful Stumper Magicians, we have a nearly 50% success rate in finding these long lost but treasured books. The more concrete the book description, the better the success rate, of course. It is a labor of love to keep it going, and there is a modest fee. Please see the How To page to find price information and details on how to submit your Book Stumper and payment.
Thanks to everyone involved to keep this forum going: our blogging team, the well-read Stumper Magicians, the many referrals, and of course to everyone who fondly remembers the wonder of books from their childhood and wants to share or revisit that wonder. Isn’t it amazing, the magic of a book?
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The Alaska justice system has finally made Martin J. Richards pay for killing 65-year-old Redzebije Imeri.
The cost? $200.
Alaska State Court records reflect that this was the penalty imposed on the now 70-year-old, unlicensed driver whose sport-utility vehicle slammed into Imeri at the intersection of Minnesota Drive and Benson Boulevard in Anchorage’s Midtown on July 1, 2023.
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Alaskan novelist Matthew Gilbert’s five-part Indigenous Futurism series, “The Wilkes Chronicles,” was initially completed in 2023. This spring, he published a new edition of book one, “Chandera,” and is making a pointed effort to get his series into the hands of a broader audience, including the readers of Bristol Bay.
“The most striking thing I have seen throughout my almost four years of service are the NCOs who are willing to do anything for their soldiers. … It’s amazing to have and know people who are willing to go out of their way for you.”
Stephanie Schneider, Afghanistan veteran
“The sergeant is the Army.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“My answer is bring ’em on.”
President George W. Bush, talking about insurgents attacking U.S. military members in July 2003
“I’m very happy with how it all played. I was very blessed. That was my idea, to go to enlist, do one tour and fight and get out.”
David Kaefring, U.S. Army veteran of Afghanistan
“So far, I’ve spent my entire adult life fighting.”
James Coleman, U.S. Army sergeant
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
“Lead from the front.”
Audie Murphy, most decorated U.S. soldier in World War II
It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Norman Schwarzkopf
“What can we do to support the troops? Give them a nation that is worthy of protection.”
Two-tour Army veteran who emailed me when I was writing an article for The Atlantic in 2007
1386 – The Old Swiss Confederacy makes great strides in establishing control over its territory by soundly defeating the Duchy of Austria in the Battle of Sempach.
The Battle of Sempach was fought on 9 July 1386, between Leopold III, Duke of Austria and the Old Swiss Confederacy. The battle was a decisive Swiss victory in which Duke Leopold and numerous Austrian nobles died. The victory helped turn the loosely allied Swiss Confederation into a more unified nation and is seen as a turning point in the growth of Switzerland.
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1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king’s Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton.
The Battle of Northampton was fought on 10 July 1460[2] near the River Nene, Northamptonshire. It was a major battle of the Wars of the Roses. The opposing forces were an army led by nobles loyal to King Henry VI of the House of Lancaster, his Queen Margaret of Anjou and their six-year-old son Edward, Prince of Wales, on one side, and the army of Edward, Earl of March, and Warwick the Kingmaker on the other. The battle was the first in which artillery was used in England.[3]
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1526 – Elizabeth of Austria, Polish noble (died 1545)
Elizabeth of Austria (Polish: Elżbieta Habsburżanka, Lithuanian: Elžbieta Habsburgaitė; 9 July 1526 – 15 June 1545) was Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania by marriage. She was the eldest of fifteen children of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife Anne of Bohemia and Hungary.[1] A member of the House of Habsburg, she was married to Sigismund II Augustus, who was already crowned as King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania even though both of his parents were still alive and well. The marriage was short and unhappy. Elizabeth was of frail health, experiencing epileptic seizures, and died at age 18.
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1501 – Cho Shik, Korean poet and scholar (died 1572)
Jo Sik (Korean: 조식; Hanja: 曺植; July 10, 1501 – February 21, 1572) was a Korean philosopher, poet, and politician during the Joseon period. He was a Neo-Confucian scholar who had a major influence on the Easterners and the Northerners.
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Welcome to the Stump the Bookseller blog!
Stump the Bookseller is a service offered by Loganberry Books to reconnect people to the books they love but can’t quite remember. In brief (for more detailed information see our About page), people can post their memories here, and the hivemind goes to work. After all, the collective mind of bibliophiles, readers, parents and librarians around the world is much better than just a few of us thinking. Together with these wonderful Stumper Magicians, we have a nearly 50% success rate in finding these long lost but treasured books. The more concrete the book description, the better the success rate, of course. It is a labor of love to keep it going, and there is a modest fee. Please see the How To page to find price information and details on how to submit your Book Stumper and payment.
Thanks to everyone involved to keep this forum going: our blogging team, the well-read Stumper Magicians, the many referrals, and of course to everyone who fondly remembers the wonder of books from their childhood and wants to share or revisit that wonder. Isn’t it amazing, the magic of a book?
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Terry Tempest Williams
“Living in the moment is learning how to live between the big moments. It is learning how to make the most of the in-betweens and having the audacity to make those moments just as exciting.”
Morgan Harper Nichols
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.”
Anaïs Nin
“It’s okay to let go of those who couldn’t love you. Those who didn’t know how to. Those who failed to even try. It’s okay to outgrow them, because that means you filled the empty space in you with self-love instead. You’re outgrowing them because you’re growing into you. And that’s more than okay; that’s something to celebrate.”
Angelica Moone
“Until you make peace with who you are, you will never be content with what you have.”
Doris Mortman
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